- I'm a guy
- But as a kid I used to crossdress
- Also my family has this weird "condition" that makes the guys slowly turn into girls if they're kissed before they're adults and the only way to counteract this sorcery is if the person that they kissed keep kissing them and making them hot and bothered, which in turn increases the level of testosterone but not enough to fully turn them back into guys
- ?????? uuuuhhhhh... I lost my train of thought
This is the basic (LOL "BASIC") premise of this manga. Since I read this in the middle of the night, I couldn't be bothered to remember their names, so let's just call them: "Lesbian" and "Transperson".
What interested me in this manga is because Lesbian is afraid of men and yet her crush IS one, even though he looks like a girl. Then I found out that he was BECOMING a girl and he needed her help to be in an in-between state: basically, a girl with no boobs and a penis.
And the way the manga treats this is that the thing between your legs is what dictates your gender.
Look. Transperson was a cisboy and still identifies as a boy, so I let that slide. But that was the first problematic signal I caught from the manga.
The second one was that the manga treats girls as fragile beings (physically speaking). **Look**, it's true that guys *tend* to be stronger (physically) than girls, but that doesn't mean that it's a "rule". There are many guys that are weak, there are many girls that are strong and there are many people with roughly around the same strength. But in this manga, **EVERY GIRL** is automatically weak, even Transperson (!).
Also, let's backtrack a bit: remember the premise, about that weird family disease? Not that this is problematic per se, but it's SO BADLY WRITTEN that it's actually laughable lmao
This could easily be explained by a curse or some supernatural/paranormal explanation. But no, this is "normal" for his family (and ONLY his family, no other human being goes through that). Also, the "fix" is very specific: it HAS to be the first person they kissed and it HAS to happen every day or else by midnight he'll turn into a "full" girl forever (basically, a cis girl).
It's obvious that the author wanted Lesbian and Transperson to have an excuse to make out every day and nearly every chapter. And that's fine by my book, that's pretty much why I read it anyway! BUT. If you're gonna try to introduce plot into the mix, would it kill you to come up with a believable scenario?
Every plot point in this manga is crazier than the one before, AND YET.
**AND YET**.
I liked it. It was easy for me to ship Lesbian and Transperson. The tension moments made me keep reading, my eyes glued to my phone, wanting to know how this could possibly end. The kissing scenes were very hot and if I was rating this based ONLY on that, I'd give it a 9 (not a 10 though, 10 would be if there was a sex scene :P). The drama parts made me feel bad for the characters, so I suppose they weren't just stereotypical figures with cute faces, they actually had some layer of depth.
And I absolutely adored the art, it's very much a 10/10 to my tastes.
In the end, if the story was:
- longer (it has just 12 chapters, which I personally think that were not enough to properly develop... what needed to be developed)
- not problematic at all (the things I pointed out in this review)
- and better-written plot-wise (i.e: a better explanation about the "boy turns into girl" thing, among other things)
This could've been SO MUCH BETTER. But even as it was, I enjoyed it.
