For You, I’ll Dress up in a Lie - Ch. 6

[MangaDex]

 

[JumboWheat01]

A father shown in manga? Shenanigans!
A full on accepting pair of parents? Shenanigans!

The fact that our fine MC can keep on keeping on? Perfection.

 

[Narehate]

For anyone who might want it for assuredly normal reasons, here's the original Japanese text:

"女の子になりたい"

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/116730902

Take from this information what you will.

 

[0ri]

is it just me or is the father shown pretty ominously? what's up with that?

 

[kinayas]

Dub on the parental front, nice

"What are they gonna do, expell you?" Lmao

 

[maggimor]

is it just me or is the father shown pretty ominously? what's up with that?

The parents both are shown pretty ominously, I mean even the MC is pretty ominous...

 

[Tesset]

Huh. A crossdessing manga where the protag actually admits she's a girl? That's an exciting development. I'm... cautiously optimistic lol

 

[Jhonathan45]

For anyone who might want it for assuredly normal reasons, here's the original Japanese text:

"女の子になりたい"

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/116730902

Take from this information what you will.

By the way the meeting is framed, this doesn't look like something positive or that represents the whole truth.

 

[Jhonathan45]

Huh. A crossdessing manga where the protag actually admits she's a girl? That's an exciting development. I'm... cautiously optimistic lol

It doesn't see like the protagonist is saying that they want to be a girl, see how the meeting is framed. Also, in the sequel of this series the protagonist says that they don't want to be a girl

 

[Saleri]

Huh. A crossdessing manga where the protag actually admits she's a girl? That's an exciting development. I'm... cautiously optimistic lol

For anyone who might want it for assuredly normal reasons, here's the original Japanese text:

"女の子になりたい"

https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/116730902

Take from this information what you will.

Think it's painfully obvious that the point is that he's ought to accept that being an effeminate boy means he's not a girl. That's what the manga is about after all.

 

[Playerbase]

It doesn't see like the protagonist is saying that they want to be a girl, see how the meeting is framed. Also, in the sequel of this series the protagonist says that they don't want to be a girl

Sorry, can you read Japanese?

 

[Narehate]

It doesn't see like the protagonist is saying that they want to be a girl, see how the meeting is framed. Also, in the sequel of this series the protagonist says that they don't want to be a girl

I went and read the sequel and it opens with Kokuyou praying at a shrine to become a girl, getting upset that Shiro becomes a girl instead, and repeatedly states that they wish they were a girl throughout the currently translated 3 chapters.

You could probably point out that they refer to themselves as a boy when rejecting someone else but I take that more as a statement of “I’m a biological male, are you okay with that,” rather than just “I’m a boy.”

I dunno, it’s just how many times does a character need to say “I wish I was a girl” before we start questioning things anyways.

 

[UnvalidUserName]

I don't know why you people think the parents are being ominous. They are trying to be as supportive as they can, which obviously comes off as awkward or annoying like the MC put it. If anything the one thing about his parents is that Dad has the most unsightly haircut I've seen in years

 

[HaxtonFale]

I don't know why you people think the parents are being ominous. They are trying to be as supportive as they can, which obviously comes off as awkward or annoying like the MC put it. If anything the one thing about his parents is that Dad has the most unsightly haircut I've seen in years

Perhaps for some the very idea of a trans person is ominous, so if parents accept it that must be ominous too...

 

[Jhonathan45]

I went and read the sequel and it opens with Kokuyou praying at a shrine to become a girl, getting upset that Shiro becomes a girl instead, and repeatedly states that they wish they were a girl throughout the currently translated 3 chapters.

You could probably point out that they refer to themselves as a boy when rejecting someone else but I take that more as a statement of “I’m a biological male, are you okay with that,” rather than just “I’m a boy.”

I dunno, it’s just how many times does a character need to say “I wish I was a girl” before we start questioning things anyways.

There are many reasons as to why someone would want to be a girl, one of them is gender dysphoria born out of Transsexuality, and I wouldn't judge those who read Kokuyou as such, but that isn't the only reason as to why someone would have those desires
As shown in the series, Kukoyou main wish is to be together with Kotarou, he can't do that while being a boy, because Koutarou isn't gay and others wouldn't accept his homosexuality. So Kukoyou, who's someone with a very different upbringing, lack of common sense, and is afflicted by depression and despair over the fact that their crush and best friend isn't able to be at their side anymore, decided to become a "girl", not in the sense of becoming a Woman in body, mind and soul, but in the sense of becoming a feminine figure, someone who can occupy the place given to women in society, that can perform the same actions and be perceived in the same way as them.
This isn't an uncommon fantasy, many homosexuals believe that life would be easier if they were the opposite gender, since this would allow them to be accepted and freely love those they want to love.
A character doesn't need to just want to be a girl to be trans, in my view, they need to have gender dysphoria or show a desire to change genders, for reasons unrelated to social expectations and/or the way they interact and want to be with others. You can question things, but I don't think it's right to cement that a character is trans and that this is the only possible view, just because they happen to interact with their gender in unusual ways.


Also, you have to remember that in the first chapters of the sequel is said two times that Kukoyou shouldn't become a girl for real, since this would kill his charm. So I don't think the work wants the audience to see Kukoyou as a girl or to want them to become one

 

[Jhonathan45]

I don't know why you people think the parents are being ominous. They are trying to be as supportive as they can, which obviously comes off as awkward or annoying like the MC put it. If anything the one thing about his parents is that Dad has the most unsightly haircut I've seen in years

The scene with the parents depicts the whole situation ominous and sad. See the parent's eyes being covered by shadows, Kukoyou getting sad when agreeing with their father over the idea of becoming a girl, the way the parents scare and neglect their younger child, etc. Everything in there is built in a way to lead the audience to believe that there's something wrong with the parents and that Kukoyou words don't tell the whole truth of their situation

 

[Jhonathan45]

Sorry, can you read Japanese?

I'm doing my best to be able to. I'm not fluent or even good enough yet, but I try to read many works in Japanese to improve my skills. Otokonoko stories are one of my main interests, alongside BL, Harem, Romcom, Shoujo and Shonen, so I try to read a lot of those works and to translate them using all tools available

 

[0ri]

I don't mean them being accepting is ominous, that's just based
I mean them being drawn like that

 

[Playerbase]

The scene with the parents depicts the whole situation ominous and sad. See the parent's eyes being covered by shadows, Kukoyou getting sad when agreeing with their father over the idea of becoming a girl, the way the parents scare and neglect their younger child, etc. Everything in there is built in a way to lead the audience to believe that there's something wrong with the parents and that Kukoyou words don't tell the whole truth of their situation

Nah I’m pretty sure Kokuyou was just getting weird out by their parents flirting

 

[Jhonathan45]

If it was this the author wouldn't have coveted Kokuyou's eyes in dramatic way when he agreed with them about wanting to be a girl