Otonari Complex

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A charming love story that explores identity and romance, whilst seeing how the two interact with each other. If you're into love stories or reading about identity in anyway, I'd recommend it.

Mild spoilers.
Although Akira's ignorance can come off as annoying to the reader, I think this story does a good job of not going into that trope. She's content with how things are, she's never really realized how much Makoto means to her as she's always just had him around. She's also never really explored who she is, her identity is in a way, molded by her environment and others opinions on her.

Makoto on the ... other hand is brimming with so much identity that it can be overwhelming and confusing. He knows it's not what's considered "normal" and hides it while also trying to hide his feelings for Akira.

I've only read up to chapter 14 and I can say I really like it so far. The story is really funny, light and cute. I didn't read the summary when I read it so I had no idea what it was about. From the cover, I thought it's about a shy boy and an aggressive girl love story but I read the inner cover pages first and from there, I was able to tell that, "Ah, the one who looks like a guy is probably the girl and the one who looks like a girl is probably the guy" and I was right!

While ... the idea is not that original, it still feels kind of unique and refreshing if I compare it to other shoujo manga so I really enjoyed it a lot.

The art is really beautiful too and the characters are likable (not that they've shown a lot of characters yet) but the main characters are really likable!!! The girl is just tomboyish and the guy likes to cross-dress as a hobby (it will be explained why he started to cross-dress in an extra chapter).

If you're up for a childhood friend and gender bender love story, then you should definitely try this out!