Very cute but we didn't get to see the kouhai fuck the senpai into the ground so 7/10 I have faith in Mitsumoto Hiyori though so maybe we'll get a sequel

Just noticed the "dubious consent" tag. Nothing dubious about that, pretty sure that was rape. The thought she has on page 32 is kind of fucked up, as she really doesn't mind taking advantage of drunk women and implies she's done it before. Kind of surprised how chill everyone else is about this.

I mean, morally, all "dubious consent" is rape. The purpose of tags though are to indicate what type of story the work is; according to the tag description, the difference is:

What does NOT apply is when a character actually refuses, either physically and/or by emphatically saying "no", but they eventually engage in the act anyway due to further coercion in the scene. That is rape.

Since this does not happen, the chapter meets the site's definition for the Dubious consent tag. It does not meet the moral definition because, again, morally there is no difference between "dubious consent" and rape.

Anyway, overall this was a strong first chapter, the art's great and the writing is fluid and gives us a good sense of the characters' basic personalities. I think how good the manga ends up being will depend on how much complexity the author provides for what are currently pretty straightforward characters. I would especially like to see the prof's darker sides because if she just ends up as a basically good person who gets seduced by the evil grad student, that might be fun but unsatisfying. Looking forward to more!

my favorite part of a friends-to-lovers dynamic is the transition from feelings of friendship to feelings of love, and this oneshot did a great job of depicting that. I really liked it!

Magic genderbend manga explicitly stating the character is turning into a girl due to hormones, we've entered a new frontier everyone

I'm enjoying this manga, but tbh so far it feels a little...tame? That's not a critique I normally have, but with how self-consciously sexual the entire setup to this manga is -- going to an older girl's room alone at night and literally sleeping with her on the same bed -- it honestly feels a little off to me that all they've done so far is snuggle, especially with how overtly senpai is seducing the MC. Maybe this will change as the manga proceeds, but for now the PG-ness feels out of step with the manga's presentation, premise, and themes.

Regardless, it's a very atmospheric read and the art is great, so I'm definitely looking forward to more.

Kae did nothing wrong

Hotaru pulling Houka down into the darkness with her is perfect. Love this pair and this comic.

I ship it!

wish it was twice as long

That's what Yachiyo said about hers.

lmao

wish it was twice as long

Was there a reason that she had to be reincarnated as a middle-schooler?

I think the reason was probably nothing more complicated than "the author likes age gaps" lol

The fiance is out of the loop though, feel a bit bad for her.

It is pretty funny that the characters are a master manipulator mermaid, a somewhat-less-master manipulator prince, a would-be murderer mermaid, and a princess who lied one time.

anyway, this manga was really good. it definitely shows signs of being the author's first longform work, the exposition and pacing get choppy at points, but it's still so good. looking to their future career with interest!

making a female robot body for myself in a totally cis way

really funny and cute!

When does Kouyou frame it as a "significant drawback"? I don't get that impression at all, especially considering how much fun being Momiji and doing girly things clearly is for them. It's not like they're out there suffering every moment and only bearing the pain due to being with Konno.

I'm thinking of moments around when Konno questions him on it during the first date
"But like, are you really okay with this?!" "Yes. I'm fine. If doing this allows me to have even the slightest chance... Then I'm fine with it."
and his thoughts before the second
"If only I hadn't say something like '********' maybe I wouldn't have had to become a girl."
There's genuine hesitation and regret in these even if for a moment.

Then during the 2nd date she starts getting more into it internally, correcting Konno in calling her a girl, etc. It's mainly just framed as a drawback going in. And so it just set my understanding of where I thought he was at from the start. Clearly we're going places

I guess this is splitting hairs but I don't perceive those lines as indicating significant hesitation. Obviously Kouyou felt some hesitation crossdressing and going full makeup (as just about anyone would, even someone who knows they have dysphoria), but as you say it didn't take long for them to dive in head-first lol.

When questioned on if he is okay with the gender transgressing he's doing, he frames it as a significant drawback and something he wouldn't do if he felt there was another way to connect to Konno.

When does Kouyou frame it as a "significant drawback"? I don't get that impression at all, especially considering how much fun being Momiji and doing girly things clearly is for them. It's not like they're out there suffering every moment and only bearing the pain due to being with Konno.

this is going to become toxic yuri when Ao demands that Momiji get the surgery

I know it's not exactly the same. But I've always wanted a story, where the MC was in a supposedly loving same sex relationship.Suddenly their partner breaks up with them to pursue a "normal" life, with a traditional family. The MC goes through heartache and pain then meets someone new. They fall in love, settle down, and have family of their own. The story would end with the MC out with their happy family. They would run into the MC's ex, who is trapped in a horrible marriage, still childless and miserable.

Check out Beloved L.

As for this manga, I thought it was pretty good. I mostly agree with the criticisms here; I don't mind that the teacher was portrayed as a complex individual but she did get pretty whitewashed by the end, and it would've been nice to get more time with the main couple instead of spending most of chapters 3-4 dealing with the teacher drama. I still enjoyed it overall though.

Sitara x Toregene content?? did my birthday come early????

I don't like how that link now leads to a post from me, but I'm glad the one it originally linked to is gone.

Lmao

Extremely strange comment here, even if the user is being sarcastic their comment history paints them as a clear troll imo.

cakeslop

can't we just appreciate that there's better options on this website than this?

I mean, who cares? Yeah Run Away With Me Girl is better, obviously, but I already read it.

the intention of a lot of these works is to look beyond a character's "assigned sex" in the first place, i.e. if someone believes "trans" is too "concrete" a label this is also true for "cis gnc" being too "concrete" a label. Ambiguous gender makes ambiguous sex/gender itself and captures all of these experiences. It can also operate alongside Cross-dressing and Transgender tags rather than being replacements for them.

Yes, I completely agree. Much like yuri itself often deliberately plays around in the vague space both between and beyond "friendship" and "romance," works such as these are often consciously playing around with gender/sex to make a point about how vague the boundaries between "male" and "female" really are. See also for example Prunus Girl, another manga that probably deserves the Ambiguous gender tag come to think of it.

A lot of the strife being caused is from the word choice people decide to use. I see a lot of "this is X" instead of "this feels like X to me." I also see a lot of responses to people who say how they feel that are completely unnecessary and trying to undermine their interpretation. Neither is productive and both lead to pointless arguments.

Well, again, that's not too dissimilar from the fights people have gotten into over Yuri vs Subtext. Certainly I got into some passionate arguments about green yuri back in the day lol. Now I do think the trans interpretation debates tend to be more intense than the yuri vs subtext debates, and I don't think establishing a usage for the Ambiguous gender tag will totally fix that, but I do think it would help by framing the terms of the debate: that gender identity is ambiguous in the work in question, so it's a matter of discussing competing interpretations.

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I've been thinking about the recent debates on this site over whether to interpret certain manga as being about transness when the manga isn't explicit about it. I agree with this post by @Wiwaxia that these arguments are quite similar to arguments about whether a work is Yuri or Subtext. I think part of the problem here (though certainly not the entirety of it) is that there isn't a widely-agreed upon "Trans Subtext" tag like there is for yuri subtext.

I propose that the recently created Ambiguous gender tag be used for this purpose. Essentially, we should use it for manga where a major character can be plausibly interpreted as trans but this isn't explicitly stated in the narrative, such as Momiji and Kouyou or The Guy She Likes is a #CrossdressingBoy. This is a subjective judgment, of course, but whether or not a work is Yuri or Subtext is also fairly subjective so that's only to be expected. In cases where the manga contains a romance with a clearly female character (like in the above two), I propose that we include neither the Het nor the Yuri tag but just the Romance one. I believe this is a compromise that most users of this site can at least live with.

this is getting more and more trans with each chapter lol

Edit: Konno's friends encouraging the feminization is also really funny

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