Shoujo Nyuumon - Vol. 2 Ch. 14.5 - Volume 2 Extras

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It should be noted that Uesugi isn't just any regular series, but by veteran shoujo mangaka that has been active for over 30 years, so it's not that surprising that it's doing well.
Most manga artists are one hit wonders and getting even two successful manga put them in the top 1% of manga artists. Doesn’t matter if someone has been doing manga for 30 years, there is no guarantee that their next manga is a success.
 
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Most manga artists are one hit wonders and getting even two successful manga put them in the top 1% of manga artists. Doesn’t matter if someone has been doing manga for 30 years, there is no guarantee that their next manga is a success.
She's got at least five that are really successful. Only one of them had sales numbers, and it did 6 million. A lot of them were just shorter series though, but she's still at the same publisher and seems to consistently putting out decently-to-very successful series.
 
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It should be noted that Uesugi isn't just any regular series, but by veteran shoujo mangaka that has been active for over 30 years, so it's not that surprising that it's doing well.
I was going to say this if you didn't. But I want to comment that it being attached to Yabuchi-sensei would only get its foot in the door. I think it's also doing well because it's damn good and eating up a lot of the entrees that most gender bending plots leave on the table (i.e. a great deal of focus on social role shifts, how sad it is we put up empathy walls based on gender, character dynamics brought about by both etc). It turns out Yabuchi-sensei is one of the greats for a reason. It's like she took some of the best parts of Onimai, Ayakashi Triangle and her own catalogue and made it an all-ages shoujo manga of it. I highly recommend it.

Compare "Watashi no Hatsukoi wa Hazukashisugite Darenimo Ienai" which also has a great pedigree, written by the Oreimo/Eromanga-sensei author Fushimi-sensei. It got pretty hyped when it was first announced I believe. But the actual content? It's... it's not good. It has very few unique ideas of its own and what well worn gender bend tropes it does use, it uses as clumsily as possible. To be honest it even has a reek of cynicism, to the point I wonder if the author actually likes gender subversion or is just prodding the genre with a stick. As quickly as it initially came onto radars because of Fushimi-sensei, it's dropped off them since.
 
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The last panel of this manga being a panel of them getting ready to get down and dirty is kind of 🔥
 
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I'm guessing the mangaka will stick to doing twitter shorts than to move on to doing another serialization.
 
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Ok this is too darn cute
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Oof between this and Vignette Witch I wonder if genderswap just has publisher issues.
This is making me think of Destiny Chain Online which apparently has a bit on gender and stuff due to the forcefem vampire stuff going on but the manga is taking forever to circle back to it.
Yeah it really feels like this. You can't get too gender without convoluted comphet gender logic unless you want to get axed. It's like the DCU mangaka just wants to focus on the game aspect before touching gender and getting potentially axed.
 
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I'm glad we got this epilogue, as I really liked this series. Hopefully the author starts something new that's in a similar vein to this. (And looking at the trends of their Twitter oneshots, they clearly still have plenty of ideas!)
 
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I was going to say this if you didn't. But I want to comment that it being attached to Yabuchi-sensei would only get its foot in the door. I think it's also doing well because it's damn good and eating up a lot of the entrees that most gender bending plots leave on the table (i.e. a great deal of focus on social role shifts, how sad it is we put up empathy walls based on gender, character dynamics brought about by both etc). It turns out Yabuchi-sensei is one of the greats for a reason. It's like she took some of the best parts of Onimai, Ayakashi Triangle and her own catalogue and made it an all-ages shoujo manga of it. I highly recommend it.

Compare "Watashi no Hatsukoi wa Hazukashisugite Darenimo Ienai" which also has a great pedigree, written by the Oreimo/Eromanga-sensei author Fushimi-sensei. It got pretty hyped when it was first announced I believe. But the actual content? It's... it's not good. It has very few unique ideas of its own and what well worn gender bend tropes it does use, it uses as clumsily as possible. To be honest it even has a reek of cynicism, to the point I wonder if the author actually likes gender subversion or is just prodding the genre with a stick. As quickly as it initially came onto radars because of Fushimi-sensei, it's dropped off them since.
Ayakashi Triangle I know struggled to really hit the tg yuri route until it hopped over to MangaPlus instead where it could breath enough for it.

Hatsukoi seems like it cares about prepping for incest than anything.

I think the biggest gb manga on the scene right now is TG Gyaru but I'm concerned with the last few chapters' direction toward excessive horny.

All in all we need more genderswap and we need it so aggressively in your face publishers don't even blink at it.
 
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Another interesting genderbender that ended prematurely, we get so few of them which makes the fact even sadder
 

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