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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Ranked: #2677²

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Popularity: #278

Members: 36,430

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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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Boku Girl: Boku no Arbeit

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Characters

Suzushiro, Mizuki

Main

Ichimonji, Takeru

Main

Loki

Main

Fujiwara, Yumeko

Main

Ichimonji, Mei

Supporting

V. Nanatarou, Yamada

Supporting

Asao, Reiji

Supporting

Ide

Supporting

Sano, Maria

Supporting

Reia, Asou

Supporting

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Nov 27, 2016

103 of 107 chapters read

Overall Rating: 9

Kuiny (All reviews)

46 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)

38 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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Apr 9, 2020

107 of 107 chapters read

Overall Rating: 10

fringe_reviewer (All reviews)

11 people found this review helpful

CONTENT WARNING: This manga, first off, portrays the LGBTQ community in a controversial light, and thus I do not recommend reading this title if you are prone to these kinds of opinions. There are already so many posts calling Boku Girl "transphobic", "homophobic" and "bigoted" and this needs to stop being the basis of the series. While people are allowed to have their own tastes the toxicity I've seen in these reviews is in a league of its own. I'm not going to talk about any of that stuff in my review, because honestly I don't really care and like to enjoy things without involving about my political agenda, and I ask you to do the same if you can.

Story: 9/10
Boku Girl starts out as a seemingly cliché genderbender, but soon proves to be anything but. The story emphasizes the psychological aftereffects of having your Y chromosome replaced with an X very convincingly from the perspectives of Mizuki, the supposed "victim" whose fundamental values make the gender change ever more uncomfortable, and Takeru, the childhood friend who undergoes a constant struggle, attempting to decide whether to respect his friend's wish to be viewed as masculine or trust in his newfound feelings for Mizuki. In my opinion, the story of Boku Girl is incredibly well-thought-out, with its only weakness being its emphasis on the main four characters, with little development for the side characters who often serve as no more than "observers" to the events in the main plot, becoming plot devices when needed. I'll continue on this point in the Character section.

Art: 10/10
Akira Sugito's artwork is incredibly refined and clean. Again, the emphasis here is on the characters, so it's made pretty clear that a lot more effort was put into them compared to the backdrops, although Sugito manages to create vivid environments when they're needed. Good examples of this are seen mostly when plot is taking center stage, almost to tell you that what happens next is important. The thing that I admire most about Sugito's art, though, is the choice he made with Mizuki's character design. In most genderbend fantasies, the main character is obviously male, and when he becomes a woman you can easily tell, as the character spontaneously grows giant breasts, shrinks at least half a foot and sometimes even grows long hair. With Mizuki, though, his design at the start was androgynous, leaning towards female, and there is no actually visible change when he becomes female, besides the fact that his "willy" disappears. This is an extremely daring move, as later in the series when he begins to switch back and forth more erratically the only way you can tell what gender Mizuki is at the moment is through implication and/or internal monologue. This attribute, though, works in the series' favor, as it shows that the mere implication of Mizuki being male or female can change the reader's perception; when Mizuki is male, your brain somehow perceives him as more male, and the same tends to happen the other way around, even though there are no changes to the actual base design. This decision on the author's part really brings Mizuki as a character to another level, as implication and speech patterns are the only way to discern one gender from another.

Character: 10/10
As I was saying earlier, the characters are really the selling point of the series, and this is made clear time and time again across all 107 chapters. But this isn't necessarily a bad thing. While the side characters do only serve as observers to the main story, this can actually serve to the benefit of the series, adding more viewpoints to the events transpiring in Mizuki's life. The best-written character in the series, though, actually isn't Mizuki; it's Takeru by a long shot. The struggle he undergoes over the course of Boku Girl takes center stage at some points, and this struggle is about as realistic as you can get in a gender-bender fantasy like this one.

Enjoyment: 10/10
When it comes to enjoyability, it should have been made clear by now that I very much enjoy this series. Out of the almost 100 anime or manga I've watched or read, Boku Girl would be somewhere in my top 20. One of the biggest factors of enjoyability that has given the series many controversial opinions is the ending of the series. This ending has been shown to be extremely hit or miss, with some saying it was excellent and others saying it was abysmal. While I won't delve into the specifics about the ending for spoiler reasons I will say I loved the ending. It was exactly what I was looking for and hoping for, and it did what similar series like Idol Pretender could not. While I know I don't speak for everyone in the community, this is simply my take so you may read the series and hate the ending yourself. It is completely based on your personal interests and as much as I'd like to try to sway everyone into loving every part of this series I am incapable of doing that. I can encourage you, though, to try the series out for everything it's worth and form your own opinions of the show, and I also ask you to please put your political opinions aside while reading for the reasons I discussed in the disclaimer.

Overall Score: 10/10

If you have any questions or concerns about this review, want to recommend a fringe manga to me, or even simply want to chat about this title, please contact me at thefringereviewer@gmail.com for any and all inquiries. My door is always open.

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Dec 4, 2016

103 of 107 chapters read

Overall Rating: 3

Gilbert_Kelly (All reviews)

26 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.

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