Daily Life In TS School - Vol. 5 Ch. 21 - Final Chapter: And Daily Life Continues

[Monstrengo]

This ending is horrible!
SHE CUT HER HAIR!
KOUTA CUT HER HAIR!! 😭
Why? Why would you do that Kouta? You looked great with your hair all arranged when you were wearing that wedding dress. You ruined yourself Kouta!

😐 Oh and this ending is immoral 😐 - yadda yadda - 😐 a stain on society 😐 - yadda yadda - 😐 will someone think of the children? 😐 - yadda yadda - 😐 your mother would be sad 😐 - yadda yadda - 😐 who will make the sandwiches? 😐- yadda yadda - 😐 what about my grandchildren? 😐 - yadda yadda - 😐 who's on first? 😐 - yadda yadda - 😈 Oh, and dildos cost money 😈

Have fun you dirty, dirty girls...

 

[RedEco]

We got the yuri ending. This is truly a good day in the world!

 

[Mido-mi]

Finally, a new TS manga with an explicit yuri ending. Non of that "yuri subtext" bullshit. They are so rare that I was beginning to think no Japanese publisher would ever let any go in that direction without heavily pressuring the author to "appeal to a wider audience" or some bullshit like that.

 

[Maxoball]

DAMN IT AAAAAAHHH I THOUGHT I GET TO SEE TS PREG THIS TIME

 

[qwsfdgh]

When they started fighting over which one gets to stay as the girl, both of them becoming girls was pretty obvious.

 

[GambierBay]

This manga actually went and said AND ITS GIRLS LOVE COMING IN WITH A CHAAAAIIIIRR!!!!!

 

[MidnighTea]

When they started fighting over which one gets to stay as the girl, both of them becoming girls was pretty obvious.

In that light, yeah.

Though it's not as "obvious" to older, jaded yuri fans who have been used to exhausted sorrow and disappointment for decades. At some point you learn to not have hope, even if the story is heavily hinting it. "The Law of Pairs" misdirect did a good job of keeping us from hoping. In retrospect, it actually did a good job of putting us in Nagisa's headspace of melancholic resignation as well.

Which is why, yeah, so many of us are so intensely reacting to the ending. The author played us and I think I can speak for all of us when I say I couldn't be happier to hear the resulting TS yuri song. Kaneko Naoya is one to keep an eye on and I'm looking forward to reading "Vignette Witch".

 

[Veruschka]

Four fucking years for 21 chapter

 

[qwsfdgh]

In that light, yeah.

Though it's not as "obvious" to older, jaded yuri fans who have been used to exhausted sorrow and disappointment for decades. At some point you learn to not have hope, even if the story is heavily hinting it. "The Law of Pairs" misdirect did a good job of keeping us from hoping. In retrospect, it actually did a good job of putting us in Nagisa's headspace of melancholic resignation as well.

Which is why, yeah, so many of us are so intensely reacting to the ending. The author played us and I think I can speak for all of us when I say I couldn't be happier to hear the resulting TS yuri song. Kaneko Naoya is one to keep an eye on and I'm looking forward to reading "Vignette Witch".

Maybe if you're reading for yuri you might've been anticipating some disappointment.

I was reading for GB and its rarer for the swapped character to swap back, and in Naoya's other works the characters tend to stay swapped. 12 people have walked on the Moon, I doubt there are that many characters in GB manga who have swapped back, I certainly haven't counted that many, its a club more exclusive than the Moon.

 

[Presetta]

In the end, yuri prevails.
Honestly the slow release schedule warped my brain into thinking that these last few chapters went too quickly until I binged the entire thing again.

 

[MidnighTea]

Maybe if you're reading for yuri you might've been anticipating some disappointment.

I was reading for GB and its rarer for the swapped character to swap back, and in Naoya's other works the characters tend to stay swapped. 12 people have walked on the Moon, I doubt there are that many characters in GB manga who have swapped back, I certainly haven't counted that many, its a club more exclusive than the Moon.

I follow GB works too, mostly, and have done since about 1997 or so. ("Maze Mega-Burst Space" being my first) I can tell you that with a bit over 25 years of being all about this genre, yuri was actually rarely a thing for about 2/3rds of it. Especially any work prior to the 2010's. It was to the point that if you were to visit a forum in the early to mid 2000's on the topic, it was shockingly heteronormative. On rare occasions I'd even see homophobic works that treat the genderswap as fixing a problem. I'm pretty sure even today that a significant portion of GB works end with a straight couple, with a bland guy who isn't nearly as interesting.

(of course, exceptions existed even back then -- "Aoi & Mutsuki: A Pair of Queens" was definitely TS yuri, as was "Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~")

With that said, your point about Kaneko Naoya is ironclad. They do NOT like leaving any guy unzapped. In that light, this ending isn't a surprise. Even like that government official guy who got like two appearances over video chat got a whole page devoted to him theoretically getting induced OTMS. It really reminds me of Major Kerina's original writing from back in the day, in some ways.
I don't think an ending where someone swaps back is actually as rare as you say, though. I can name at least four examples just off the top of my head without even drilling down, with "Kampfer" being the most notable of those. Some more include "Ichinensei ni Nacchattara", "Vampire Doll Guilt Na Zan", "My Lolita Brother" etc. Though it's true that the protagonist not swapping back is much more common. And almost ubiquitously so in western works.

Though you're right that I probably should've expected Naoya's work to go "it's just girls all the way down". I'm pretty sure Vignette Witch is going to result in quite a few transformed besides the protagonist.

 

[PvtRyan96]

Maybe if you're reading for yuri you might've been anticipating some disappointment.

I was reading for GB and its rarer for the swapped character to swap back, and in Naoya's other works the characters tend to stay swapped. 12 people have walked on the Moon, I doubt there are that many characters in GB manga who have swapped back, I certainly haven't counted that many, its a club more exclusive than the Moon.

It's more than that. A lot of manga will sort of keep the swapped as a girl for reasons other than the author "simply wanting them to be a girl and also dating a girl -- ergo yuri." It's more like, if they could figure out a way to make them both "a straight couple" while also "keeping the swapped swapped" and also not turning the girl into a boy (because that's icky, to some), they probably would. So, a number of TS manga will end on a very ambiguous note of "the boy might swap back to being a boy one day, either temporarily or permanently, for any number of reasons, including possibly so that he might father a child with his lover." Tensei Pandemic did this (though don't get me wrong -- it still ended yuri enough for my tastes and I was happy with it overall -- but it still could've ended even more to my tastes). Ayakashi Triangle did this (I think? I haven't finished reading it but I seem to recall hearing about it). It's very rarely ever okay in the eyes of TS manga for a swapped boy to just be a girl and love a girl and have that simply be the end-all-be-all of it. There's always some nagging downside to it or implication that some further gender rearrangement might be "necessary" for the couple's happiness or future plans or whatever. In other words, the yuri is often incidental, "functional," or simply "how it has to be," rather than the author specifically liking it.

 

[qwsfdgh]

It's more than that. A lot of manga will sort of keep the swapped as a girl for reasons other than the author "simply wanting them to be a girl and also dating a girl -- ergo yuri." It's more like, if they could figure out a way to make them both "a straight couple" while also "keeping the swapped swapped" and also not turning the girl into a boy (because that's icky, to some), they probably would. So, a number of TS manga will end on a very ambiguous note of "the boy might swap back to being a boy one day, either temporarily or permanently, for any number of reasons, including possibly so that he might father a child with his lover." Tensei Pandemic did this (though don't get me wrong -- it still ended yuri enough for my tastes and I was happy with it overall -- but it still could've ended even more to my tastes). Ayakashi Triangle did this (I think? I haven't finished reading it but I seem to recall hearing about it). It's very rarely ever okay in the eyes of TS manga for a swapped boy to just be a girl and love a girl and have that simply be the end-all-be-all of it. There's always some nagging downside to it or implication that some further gender rearrangement might be "necessary" for the couple's happiness or future plans or whatever. In other words, the yuri is often incidental, "functional," or simply "how it has to be," rather than the author specifically liking it.

Righto, there's also a number that suggest the MC might turn back into a man after having children as a woman or will just stay as one. Tensei Pandemic, I like enough but it the secret experiment reveal, similar to this, is something I don't really like (I like Onimai and that's a secret experiment but not a secret to the audience as a plot reveal).

It's very rarely ever okay in the eyes of TS manga for a swapped boy to just be a girl and love a girl and have that simply be the end-all-be-all of it.

I'm going to have to read more.

 

[qwsfdgh]

I follow GB works too, mostly, and have done since about 1997 or so. ("Maze Mega-Burst Space" being my first) I can tell you that with a bit over 25 years of being all about this genre, yuri was actually rarely a thing for about 2/3rds of it. Especially any work prior to the 2010's. It was to the point that if you were to visit a forum in the early to mid 2000's on the topic, it was shockingly heteronormative. On rare occasions I'd even see homophobic works that treat the genderswap as fixing a problem. I'm pretty sure even today that a significant portion of GB works end with a straight couple, with a bland guy who isn't nearly as interesting.

(of course, exceptions existed even back then -- "Aoi & Mutsuki: A Pair of Queens" was definitely TS yuri, as was "Kashimashi ~Girl Meets Girl~")

With that said, your point about Kaneko Naoya is ironclad. They do NOT like leaving any guy unzapped. In that light, this ending isn't a surprise. Even like that government official guy who got like two appearances over video chat got a whole page devoted to him theoretically getting induced OTMS. It really reminds me of Major Kerina's original writing from back in the day, in some ways.
I don't think an ending where someone swaps back is actually as rare as you say, though. I can name at least four examples just off the top of my head without even drilling down, with "Kampfer" being the most notable of those. Some more include "Ichinensei ni Nacchattara", "Vampire Doll Guilt Na Zan", "My Lolita Brother" etc. Though it's true that the protagonist not swapping back is much more common. And almost ubiquitously so in western works.

Though you're right that I probably should've expected Naoya's work to go "it's just girls all the way down". I'm pretty sure Vignette Witch is going to result in quite a few transformed besides the protagonist.

One I can think of that fits into the category you first describe is 'Osananajimi wa Onnanoko ni Naare' but that got abandoned seemingly because the mangaka didn't want to commit to either path they set up for ending it. The first I encountered in the genre was 'Bill's New Frock' but the main character's only swapped for the day. More classical GB might be something like Tiresias blind prophet of Apollo.

Kaneko Naoya does definetly seem to be part of the GB authors of once swapped, always swapped and more get swapped. Kampfer is on my list of to watch/read, have read Ichinensei, haven't heard of Vampire, and I don't really read Chinese/South Korean works because I struggle to read the longstrip/infinite phone scroll format that they use. Though clearly there is a lot more of the genre for me to read and explore.

 

[kyrex]

On the one hand: yay yuri ending
On the other: Damn this shit came out of fucking nowhere, but I guess it's over so who cares?

 

[stavekoff]

BASED BASED BASED BASED

 

[college]

Most confusing story ever.

 

[bosswoman]

I'm glad everyone had a happy ending. I hope one day this becomes an anime series. I would love to watch it when it does.

 

[Wolvenworks]

It’s been a ride lads and lasses

 

[Julian117]

... have you met any lesbians before?

I've known so many who just go "Wow... girls though ❤️ " . Like their whole social media feed practically just awed wonder at female bodies existing at all. And I'm not even talking transbians, I'm talking ones who were born in a female body and knows how human it is. Just utterly lost in the romance of it.

They're fun to be around, honestly. Loving female bodies is peak.

What I meant is that boys in this manga showed absolutely no interested in other female bodies. They only cared about how they looked in the mirror and to look as feminine as possible to other women.

If you looked at pictures on their phones, it would be only of themselves.