Ookami Shounen wa Kyou mo Uso wo Kasaneru
The boy who cried wolf tells a lie today also

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Simple story, excellent execution. I really love how the characters were written, honestly I hated most of them (the first time they got introduced to the story) but I was amazed at their character development throughout the end. When they introduced Miyama for example, I thought he would be the douche of the story but he actually became one of my favorite side characters in all the mangas I've read. Also I was really pleased with the ending, I thought Itsuki would choose Aoi at the end (coz i thought she was the "main" girl) but he ended up choosing Botan, which I 100% agree ... on. In conclusion, read this story if you want to a lethal dose of glucose.

Ookami Shounen, or its English title "The boy who cried wolf tells another lie today", doesn't break out of the mold it conveniently settled in, but in spite of its simple plot and incredibly simple characters, I never stopped reading until I was finished.

The situation that the protagonist, Itsuki, gets himself into is intriguing. The premise of a character getting closer to someone through a gender-bend has been done many times before, and this manga doesn't do anything remotely different, but that wasn't much of a problem for me. The artwork is fluffy and nice. The whole cast of characters are enjoyable to read ... about. In summary, Ookami Shounen is a fun romance.

I decided to write this review on the same day I finished the manga, but the honeymoon period will wear off, and I will grow to be more honest. Ookami Shounen does not inspire. The crossdressing aspect only pertains to the main theme of honesty, and honestly, I want more from this genre. It's an easy read, but it's hard to think that it will change me in any way. It's too safe, and thankfully it's not a very long read.

This manga is utter garbage. I cannot for the life of me understand what the other reviews are talking about. It feels like alot came in with low expectations in the first place and were satisfied with this utter garbage of a love triangle story.

Slight spoilers ahead*

Keitarou is a shit protagonist, for a while at the end I thought he finally had potential but NOPE. He's generic as can get, other than the cross dressing gimmick he has nothing worth talking about,

Aoi started off boring and later on remained as such, I warmed up to her but still find her to be heavily one note ... and not that enjoyable to follow without someone carrying her through the chapter. (character wise.) And due to my dislike of Keitarou I found myself not enjoying her or their interactions with eachother,

Botan, jesus fucking christ, Botan. She is so stupid, so overly cutesy that it's annoying, so one note that I wanted to reach into the screen and dump her into trash where she belongs.

"Oh it's so cute" "Oh it's so harmless." "It's not groundbreaking but soooo cute"

When you have nothing genuinely good to say other than the art style being good, it usually means everything else either sucks or had nothing interesting about it in the slightest. Which, yeah, pretty much.

The characters, suck.
The story, sucks.
The romantic development, kind of neat but ultimately not redeeming enough.

Everything about this story is beyond dissapointing, especially since I like the art style too.

Maybe, MAYBE, m a y b e, I would be just as forgiving as the others and leave this story with 5 where it not for the utter horseshit that was the ending.

Do I reccomend it? Well, if you have any standards beyond just "I wanna read something cute and short" no, absolutely not.