Akira-kun Kamo Shirenaishi Akira-chan Kamo Shirenai

[MangaDex]

 

[stocxt]

praying this doesn't have a bunch of transphobia in it

 

[Forfirith]

I still don't think it's possible to NOT be able to tell the genre of a person. No matter how pretty a guy is, it's never the same as a girl features and viceversa. I'm talking of standard binary genres. Don't care about the others.

 

[Cherriya]

@forforith ; Yo I've been called boy many times while I didn't even try to look like a boy (sad, well it was grannies tho so I'll just convince myself that they were blind af). It can especially happen for childs or teens, since they aren't fully developped.

A boy can be buffy or can be little and "puny" (I've got some asians friends between 19 and 21 who are "puny" (two of them actually cosplayed as maid traps for the Otakuthon and dude it was so funny, they shaved themself all and I used makeup on them and I swear they looked like girls lmfaooo (tho something was a little weird but they did look like girls), they were 17 at that time)

Plus, it's just a manga story. Doesn't have to be the truth so well just enjoy the story

 

[BLANCAKE]

@Cherriya Couldn't say it better! Thank you for reading ♥

 

[Theonecrazyweeb]

@Forfirith since I cut my hair I get asked my gender all the time and not only by old people even young people with functioning eyes. I'm not non binary, completely female just have short hair🤷🏻‍♀️

 

[SocialButterfly]

Love the bit where he said the gender didnt matter. Super cute I won't mind whichever gender Akira is 😋
Probably female though because its a Shoujo.

 

[Cherriya]

@BLANCAKE ; Thanks to you and your team for the amazing translation ! 😘

 

[sohilsayed]

Well akira is definitely a girl because the can't publish a bl in a shoujo manga

 

[BLANCAKE]

@sohilsayed This is no completely true. They've been shounen-ai and series that are about these matters, serialized in shoujo magazines. One recent example is Kieta Hatsukoi, where the ML is bisexual. This is serialized in Betsuma, same as Io Sakisaka's series.

 

[Kuroku2]

@sohilsayed

The terms "shoujo" "shounen" "seinen" "josei" etc refers to the demographics audience that the material is targeted to, not a genre.

BL can be in any of these depending on the target audience. For example there's been the seinen manga kamisama no iutoori with definite BL in the second season, and it's just one of many.

It also depends on the publisher magazine the manga gets published in, as @blancake has pointed out.

 

[pinkeree]

@BLANCAKE did Io Sakisaka ever make a BL?

 

[BLANCAKE]

@pinkeree No, I was explaining that Kieta Hatsukoi, being a shounen-ai, is serialized in a shoujo magazine, Betsuma. Io Sakisaka's series are published on that mag.

 

[pinkeree]

@BLANCAKE oh lol I got pretty excited there bc ur comment got me to read Kieta Hatsukoi and that was real cute.

 

[Nasuro]

Tomboy?

 

[SilverSupreme]

I’m pleasantly surprised by how good this has ended up being. It’s been 3 months since the penultimate chapter was uploaded though. Here’s to hoping I get to read the end of this in English one day.

 

[notcishet]

What I like about this story is that it's constantly drawing attention to gender roles and expectations arising from that. Fortunately in the West things are a bit more flexible than what they are in the East, still a long way to go however.

As for whether Haruna is male or female, who cares? Being bisexual is a totally valid choice, although I'm sure homophobes will disagree with that

 

[NotActuallyThere]

Feels like a bait and switch. They make such a big deal out of the mystery of Haruna's gender and then never resolve it. Thematically, it makes sense, but as a story it's very unsatisfying.

 

[Gargamelocoton]

I love stories about learning to love yourself. And I must say, I LOVED this story about not figuring out for yourself, but finding someone who will accept you as you are. It is so shojou. Girls should not accept to be categorized, and boys should decide for themselves who they want to be in a love relationship and what they want to bring to their love interest, how they want to treat the other.

The aim of the author is a bit too obvious at sometimes, but at the same time, I find it refreshing that the guy questions himself because he is in love (not really seen that in real life yet though haha sadly)

I’m glad they did not share the gender. The characters are nice that way. People, including me, will most certainly read Akira’s action differently just because they know they’re a girl or a male. And that’s what the character and the author want to avoid.
It proves the point: gender roles are in the culture. It is a way for other to pressure people into a role, sometimes out of character.
It will take us long to stand on our own and learn to de things because we like it and not because we are expected to.

 

[Cholland]

Incredible, everyone except the two protagonists and maybe the grandmother get the most half assed surface level characterization. This manga is like a motivational poster. It looks really compelling, seems like its telling you a good message, but is ultimately shallow and ham fisted.