who's the girl with the split dyed hair, yamabuki on a day off?

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/momiji_and_kouyou_ch03#2

Momiji/Kouyou sister.

waiting for the boob groping next chapter

waiting for the boob groping next chapter

momiji's boobs hehehehe

(this has been getting more pointedly ecchi tbh. its still toeing that damnable line where i can't QUITE tell where its going to commit though)

I'm not sure who would see two classmates hidden away together in a locker, one of them in underwear, and then conclude "clearly they must have been crossdressing".

Also, Ao trying to cause an ow... meh. Frankly a deplorable veer into the sort of ecchi comedy we should have abandoned long ago.

(this has been getting more pointedly ecchi tbh. its still toeing that damnable line where i can't QUITE tell where its going to commit though)

I'm afraid the ecchi (even of side-/background characters like the sister) is strongly correlated with what I feel is a decline in quality, but I think the possible outcomes are worth discussing:

1. Keeps this level, excludes Momiji
2. Keeps this level, includes Momiji (arguably already the case)
3. Becomes more ecchi, excluding Momiji
4. Becomes more ecchi, including Momiji

I genuinely don't know whether I prefer 1. or 2.

It kinda reads like the author wanted to keep a more introspective tone for Kouyou/Momiji but an editor said "we need to get those numbers up!!!" after a couple chapters.

Dear Translator-chan I just want to say f the people who dont like it "I love it" Sincerely Daz-kun your fan

Yes it is peak.love it so much

Yeah, these kind of manga tend to generate a lot of projecting/wishful thinking that it frankly doesn't deserve. The good news is that there are manga that actually deal with gender identity and non-conformity seriously. Maybe not many, but we don't need to settle for this kind of manga anymore.

If I just wanted to see Serious Trans Representation, I wouldn't be reading this. And I think it's essential to the type of story being offered here that (1) it's a comedy, (2) the "crossdressing boy" might be a repressed transfeminine person (insert "meet potential man" meme here) and (3) the cis lead is a girl so there's also yuri bait. Serious Trans Representation in anime/manga tends to be pretty depressing and to stay far away from lesbianism.

As usual, any expectations that such a story will stop beating around the bush about anything gender-related (besides settling for the default "let boys be cute" option), are extremely unlikely to pay off. But it can still be worth it, considering that "a trans girl/woman realizes she's a girl" is an especially rare type of trans narrative, especially in long form media. Also, these stories can still be interesting sometimes, even if unintentionally.

My go-to recommendation for a manga series with a trans girl protagonist who doesn't immediately know she's a girl would be 'Ore ga Watashi ni Naru made', and even that one uses a speculative gender-bender mechanic as an excuse to breach the apparently taboo idea that most trans girls/women do not just spawn into the world already understanding who they are and what they need.

Maybe this type of narrative arc is so under-explored outside of indie projects because trans representation is so scary and confusing to cis audiences to begin with that it requires a warning in advance, and then it immediately needs to justify itself as representation by being as blatant as possible, which makes any longer and nuanced trans self-discovery arc virtually impossible, especially for a protagonist. Fortunately I can (and do) just read books written by and for trans women, but sometimes I still want to read manga and something like this series can be at least good for a laugh.

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