The Gender of Mona Lisa - Vol. 1 Ch. 1 - The Eighteenth Spring

[KayBeeJay]

Probably the most selfish two people i've ever seen in manga, what the heck is wrong with them

 

[FuyukoHikari]

The storyline is interesting but his two 'friends' are sooooo selfish, like wth??? How can they just easily tell hinase to become one gender for them???

 

[Grimmycoffee]

I really like this kind of manga, where only the eye and few others are colored. Something about it feels really beautiful.

Indirect reply:
Selfish? I'm not really sure about that.

Polygamy is 100% fail and always end in a divorce? Where did you even get that percentage?

 

[SolitaryGray]

Go for someone who doesn't ask you to 'become' x or y..

 

[StarMaker]

The art style is great and i like the premise alot. It's romance drama in a new way. But fuck, i feel like this is one of those manga that an anime adaptation will far exceed the manga just due to how they animate it.

So i'ma wait and hope for an anime.

 

[IsabellaBellio]

very interesting premise, though i feel only heterosexuality is being counted in... well, let's see how it goes and how much selfish these bffs can get

 

[FloatyBee]

"For me"? Bit presumptuous the two of you

 

[blurgh123]

Do people in this universe pee from their ass before they turn 12?

 

[wewedamdam]

@blurgh123 my thought exactly

@IsabellaBellio maybe that's the norm. or maybe not, since choosing to become a girl or a boy doesn't mean they choose to like the opposite gender

 

[Loksel]

If these childhood friends truly liked everything about the MC, they wouldn’t ask the MC to become something just for their sakes.

 

[feliciasneck]

so who we rooting for...?

 

[Domojestic]

I was REALLY hoping that the author would use this to make anything other than a boring romance manga, but it looks like it won't .

Maybe it'll actually go the "psychological complications of the situation" route, but it's so blatantly obvious that this probably won't happen. Shame, it was a pretty interesting concept, too.

 

[NGOtaku]

i almost want to puke da fuq is this

 

[MushuTrueG]

Lmao they pee from there fingers dead ass ....ahh I’m cracking lol. Well if the Mc is cute as F, then if there’s a whole, there’s a goal. But meh.

 

[-Kyle-]

current prediction: they become both genders simultaneously and confuse the fuck out of everyone
or they do the classic "become a girl, fall for a guy, lose all of your characterization"

hopefully it'll be something interesting instead of the stock M->F + childhood guy friend... please i'm sick of it

that translation note at the end makes me hopeful, at least.
it's like how most people go into highschool knowing what they want to be, but some people have to take the entirety of highschool and more to truly figure their shit out. I just really hope they don't make it into a subpar romance manga with a shitty gimmick.

 

[notcishet]

It seems strange to me that none of the commentators before me have noticed that what this appears to be about is the changed that happen to our bodies during puberty. Pre-puberty male and female bodies are astonishingly similar, which is probably why different clothes, hair lengths and gender roles are encouraged or insisted upon us. Post puberty is a different matter, we're now fully functional adults and are expected to continue the species.

The question being asked is what would happen if instead of going through puberty you just got older? Which it has to be said is a good question.