Boku Girl

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Japanese: ボクガール

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 11

Chapters: 107

Status: Finished

Published: Dec 12, 2013 to May 12, 2016

Genres: Comedy, Ecchi, Romance, School, Supernatural, Seinen, Gender Bender

Authors: Sugito, Akira (Story & Art)

Serialization: Young Jump

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Score: 7.54¹ (scored by 13859 users)

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Ranked: #3432²

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Popularity: #249

Members: 30,293

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MangaYoung JumpSugito, Akira (Story & Art)

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Synopsis

Suzushiro Mizuki is a 1st year high school student who has the difficulty of constantly being mistaken for a girl. It's so bad that he's endlessly rebuffing the confessions of many men. Even the girl he has a crush on seems to think of him more as one of the girls rather than as a potential love interest.

Meanwhile, the trickster god Loki has grown bored with playing her tricks on her fellow gods. Turning her attention to the mortal world, she targets Mizuki for her next round of fun. The result: Mizuki wakes up with budding breasts and a missing part of his anatomy.

What else is in store for Mizuki and how will he deal with it?

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Characters

Suzushiro, Mizuki

Main

Ichimonji, Takeru

Main

Loki

Main

Fujiwara, Yumeko

Main

Ichimonji, Mei

Supporting

V. Nanatarou, Yamada

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Asao, Reiji

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Ide

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Sano, Maria

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Reia, Asou

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Nov 27, 2016

103 of 107 chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

Kuiny (All reviews)

33 people found this review helpful

I wanted to right this review before I was able to finish the series. The reason for this is so that I don't have a biased opinion due to having an ending I liked or due to it having an ending I did not like so let me begin.

First I would like to state I absolutely LOVE this series. Although there are quite a few issues I see being the cynic I am. So when it comes to the story of Boku Girl there is a pureness to it with a VERY lovable cast that makes this manga exceeds others like it and with a read more

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May 26, 2016

107 of 107 chapters read

Overall Rating: 6

izzisempai (All reviews)

25 people found this review helpful

This is written after reading (more or less) all 107 chapters, either through full scanlations, live TL threads, or reading raws with my extremely rudimentary Japanese skills.

Recognize that this entire manga is very cisnormative and heteronormative (aka there would be no conflict whatsoever if characters weren't straight and also weren't polarized as strictly masculine and feminine). I'm not a huge fan of the gender binary, personally, but I can put that aside to read some silly manga with nicely drawn boobs.

When I first started this manga it was silly, fun, had really nice art, didn't drag things out for too long, and I gave it a 9 rating. Sugito Akira's storytelling style always includes some kind of misunderstanding, distraction, or interruption right before or in the middle of a major event (like a confession, realization of feelings, etc). At first it's funny, but after 107 chapters it gets tiring.

Story: [6/10]
The main plot is far-fetched to begin with. Loki (in the form of a /very/ young-looking girl) decides to mess with a feminine-looking guy and give him a vagina, hijinks ensue. There are small story arcs that are basically either character introductions or the introduction of some problem that someone has to deal with. It seems like some things are brushed off or handled weirdly for the sake of moving the story along, but the kicker is that there isn't much plot progression at all when you step back and look at it. Let's all be honest with each other though, we aren't reading ecchi for the plot anyway.

Art: [8/10]
Soft! Boku Girl is so soft and nice looking. Personally, I'm more of a fan of the art towards the beginning. Boobs sag more realistically than most manga boobs, and I appreciate that a lot. Sugito is a pro at drawing expressions. At the beginning, each important character design is very different from the others. If you only saw the silhouettes of most of them, you would be able to tell them apart. If you're looking for cute things that look really soft, nice looking lips, or a ruggedly handsome male lead (luv u takeru), this is a good manga for it.

Character: [6/10]
This score mostly reflects my feelings on each of the characters by the end of the story. Everyone got a little more bland by the end. At the beginning, everyone had their own distinct personalities that made them unique. At one point or another, they all started feeling more generic. Certain characters had little quirks or secrets that gave them flavor, but basically all of those things ended up being irrelevant. Kind of disappointing, really.

Enjoyment: [6/10]
The first 55 chapters were an absolute delight, and I would have given them a 9. After that point, all the little storytelling quirks that used to be sort of funny started getting really annoying. Things like the sudden interruption during an event that would have otherwise moved the plot along, comic relief characters overstaying their welcome, pointless "antagonist" and "rival" characters being introduced. If you're patiently waiting for new scanlations to be released, don't think about them too much. They've already hit the best part.

Overall: [6/10]
I won't spoil the ending, but I will say that I was genuinely disappointed by how vanilla and boring the last like 20 or so chapters were. Hate to sound hipster again or whatever, but early Boku Girl was the best. Chapter 55 was the peak. I'm not into super moe stuff, and BG wasn't /super/ moe, but Mizuki came pretty close. This series would have been better if it was half the amount of chapters that it was, I think.

The reason I was all about this manga at first was because it felt a lot like a BL but with boobs. What could be better than that? Over time, it lost the BL feeling, but I still hung on. When it started to get basic was when I started getting sad.

I know some people definitely like this manga, and I won't say that I dislike it, but I would have preferred for it to go in a different direction than it did. It's still a fun read, but if you aren't rearing to read it, just wait for the scanlations to finish and blow through it all at once.

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Dec 4, 2016

103 of 107 chapters read

Overall Rating: 3

Gilbert_Kelly (All reviews)

14 people found this review helpful

Methodology:
I'm am going to write a mostly spoiler free review of this series as most of its faults can be detailed without given away any plot specifics (nothing you can't guess without having ever cracked the cover) aside from character names. Warning, this series is ecchi and carries all such related warnings. All of pronouns referring to Mizuki will be male because I'm lazy and don't feel like writing his/her and he/she etc. and I have no clue how the author intended for us to see the character.

Summary 3/10 :
In certain sporting communities the word potential is used as an insult. With that read more

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Mar 9, 2017

107 of 107 chapters read

Overall Rating: 5

rapo1 (All reviews)

7 people found this review helpful

This is really one of a kind. Even if at the same time it is an
amalgam of almost everything thats wrong in manga and anime today, it still managed to give me a fun time, so I will give it that. There's no significant character development whatsoever through all the course of the story (even the guy to girl development seemed a bit off and in times, artificial (very, very artificial)), but this time it didn't really matter much. I will talk about the wrong things I mentioned before, and focus my review on that.

First and foremost, this is an ecchi manga, so I believe fanservice doesn't apply here - however, it has just the same problem as bad fanservice goes: IT MAKES NO GODDAMN SENSE! Most of the time it was obscenity for the sake of it, and it just popped out of nowhere and went for about many pages just because, even sacrificing any kind of character traces it had built until now. Yeah, its clearly an ecchi manga, but I think even ecchi mangas should, I dunno, respect whatever kind of inteligence readers of the genre still have.

And this brings out the next problem: the nonsensical, sometimes utterly stupid humour and character actions. Yeah, a guy riding a trident into the sunset and exploding into a massive mushroom might sound credible in a Uncle Grandpa episode, but all this kind of crude humour through all the manga felt really tiring and boresome. The ecchi stuff enters greatly at this category as well.

The bizarre sense of pace: it may be just me, but almost all shoujo manga feels the same thing with a different story. This is not so bad, because the diversity fills this void, however it always goes like this:
*close at the handsome fella*
~shocking, foreseen catchphrase with sometimes a little bit of nihilism~
*sparkles flies, now both are blushed and the camera focus on both guy and girl, this second with a troubled face*
~actually unimportant character that just comes out of nowhere to create a false sense of choice for the protagonist and a drilling feeling of rage for all readers who were actually cheering for this second because the main's interest was actually boring, annoying, offensively retarded or even a serial rapist~
And yeah, Boku Girl follows this path, however, the problem with following a formula is that, if you screw up, it's more of a crime if you did create your own way of telling a story. The pace here felt off, but I can't really explain why (not a pro in this), however, reading Masamune-kun no Revenge, I can tell that at least Boku Girl didn't screw up THAT badly.

So yeah. As for the general rates MAL provides, the story, apart from being a transgender story, doesn't really have anything to offer so meh. I really, really liked the art though (apart from those bizarre eyelashes the girls all have - and for some reason even Mizuki before turning into a girl), even though the first chapters had one of the most bizarre senses of anatomy I've ever seen. The characters, too, hadn't much to offer, although I liked them, all of them are really bidimensionals and not that worth mentioning. But, welp, I really liked it overall.

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