The mangaka is confused with his own sexuality, as he states in the bonus chapter 4.5, and that's exactly what you can expect from this manga. Just a confused man with very problematic and vivid sexual fantasies.
He has not grasped the concept of transgender and non-binary people, so he's trying to cover it up with lots of masturbation scenes and other sexual fantasies. His characters are so painfully one-dimensional that it physically hurts while reading.
Everyone is horny and confused – that's it. That's literally all there is to it. There is no other dimension to these characters other than "I'm so horny!! Oh, who's this new guy?"
A lil boundary overstepping here, a lil sexual assault there – Okaeri Alice reads like a textbook on "How to sexually molest and assault for Dummies". What's worse is that he depicts all these things as just innocent explorations among young, troubled teens. In the real world, anyone with social intelligence would probably steer clear of things like randomly tongue kissing your friends.
Read this manga at your own cost. (The main form of payment is healthy, active brain cells.)
If you are looking for a tasteful manga about gender, teen troubles and romantic/sexual exploration, I recommend you the manga "The Gender of Mona Lisa".
