Osananajimi wa Onnanoko ni Naare

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This manga is about a guy that is forcibly transformed into a girl multiple times every day.

What should you expect?
1. Light humor
2. Little to no drama
3. Lots of blushing for all you blushing connoisseurs

What not to expect?
1. Deep plot (or any plot really)
2. Character development
... 3. Drama
4. Good friends

There are no plot beats about feminism and/or transgender issues. If you want trans content, they exist in other manga.

My problem with this manga is how it didn't really explore the psychology behind being randomly and without warning transformed. Drama for the sake of drama is insulting, but realistically speaking there should be drama here for pete's sake. The whole premise is like a ball teetering on the edge of a slide. You're waiting for that ball to roll so that the characters can finally get fleshed out. But this never happens. This lack of drama is what leads to the lack of sufficient character development in the MC and his friend.

In the end, it was a missed opportunity.

That being said, there is still a lot of blushing and embarrassing moments if you happen to be into those things.

Just enjoy it for what it is; a gender bend comedy with lots of blushing.


7/10

The story is of a boy Osakabe who saved a fairy and as a way of saying thank you gets a wish granted. The wish he takes is "cute childhood girlfriend". He gets his wish granted with the fairy transforming his male childhood friend Iori Osanai into a girl.

But Iori doesn't really feel like being a woman so he manages to turn back into a man by proclaiming "I am a man". This works unless he is consciously reminded that he's a girl.

That's the whole story.

The same schtick of Iori turns into a girl, something happens, he can't transform back, manages to transform back and ... transforming into a girl in the last panel again happens every of the 40 chapters with only the last few ones not. The real joy of reading a chapter wasn't actually the chapter, but the hilarious meta-commentary of the scanlation group after it.

This is why I feel like this is such a missed opportunity. The premise is there, the manga even explored at the end what it could achieve, where it could go, with Iori being forced to live in a world where he is and always was a girl. That lasted for exactly 3 chapters before the manga reverted back to the normal programme.

You could have him accept being a girl, being so muscle pumped he cannot become one, get ultra gender dysphoria from the transformations etc, etc..., but the manga does nothing of the sort and just rehashes the same thing over and over ad nauseam.

The art is pretty cute tho

Osananajimi wa Onnanoko ni Naare has a one-note premise, and it repeats the same joke for the entire story. It's not that it's really bad, but it lasts for a mere 40 chapters and, even then, overstays its novelty. It's an unimaginative story, through and through.

The most accurate review of this manga comes about the end of chapter 17. At the end of each chapter, a scene is redone with a different, self-referential joke. In this case, a boy is depicted as saying, "haha! Bullying and sexual harassment! Classic!" This is, in essence, the humour of the entire story, and it wears thin very quickly.

Lastly, ... this manga failed to distract me from something I'm actually very good at ignoring: feminist concerns. Generally, I'm happy with, "live and let live". However, my first concern was that there was a man who was being forced to be a woman. Gender dysphoria instantly came to mind.
It's obvious none of the concerns of feminism are alive or well inside the mind of this manga's author. Trans concerns are just as inconsequential as bodily autonomy and sexual stereotypes.

Overall, the manga was boring and problematic. Nothing to write home about, no huge complaints. Just give it a pass, unless you have an hour or two you'd be happy wasting.