Uesugi-kun wa Onnanoko wo Yametai - Ch. 8

[AhaHare]

If I was the store clerk, the only thing I'll be thinking after he said that is "alright let's help ur girl out", ain't no way the first thing anyone start thinking about is how handsome bro look.

 

[JunHector]

That email address

What is your profile picture from?

 

[miraclebunny]

What is your profile picture from?

Was art from in-between chapters of Hope You're Happy, Lemon

 

[spauldo]

What's refreshing to me is that the author didn't do the whole "OMG, I'm bleeding, what's going on!!?!?!?" thing that so many of these stories do, even with high school students. Japan has sex ed. Middle schoolers know about periods.

Please dont turn this into gay stuff 😭

That's a strange desire for someone reading genderbender manga. Any romance at all at this point would be gay in one form or another.

 

[HornyboyTranslations]

What's refreshing to me is that the author didn't do the whole "OMG, I'm bleeding, what's going on!!?!?!?" thing that so many of these stories do, even with high school students. Japan has sex ed. Middle schoolers know about periods.

That's a strange desire for someone reading genderbender manga. Any romance at all at this point would be gay in one form or another.

Yuri is acceptable. But I did not come here for 2 Dudes making out

 

[Kampfarsch]

Eito hit em with the

He doesn't want their friendship to change... there were all these romance flags and all the blushing and awkwardness. I feel like the text box for that final message is oversized deliberately, but is it saying "Hi, this is me the author spelling it out for you, this is not the end-game." or is it saying "The mc is putting a lot of emphasis on trying to smother their new feelings in the cradle."

Once again, this series is tagged GL(on the source site), but they sure are putting a looooot of focus on the relationship between Uesugi and Eito. The girl Uesugi was stated to be into initially hasn't really had any progress. Is this an eventual double-swap situation where Eito also becomes a girl? Is it just a bait-and-switch? I don't understand what's going on tbh.

Maybe it's just too early. Idk, I'm down whether the series goes one way or the other. Poly unlikely since Eito seems to dislike whats-her-name.

Tags dont really mean much with running series like this they change all the time

It's nice just by the fact that it's a little different, but it makes sense that those things may feel distressing or even dysphoric for somebody suddenly forced into a foreign body. It never happens the other way because ftm is a near completely untapped market in genderbenders, but imagine suddenly having an awkward erection when you didn't have a penis before. Or hurting your friend because you can't control your strength. Or suddenly discovering your penchant for theater when you develop a minor cold (lol). Or realizing you absolutely positively reek after any moderate physical activity. Or discovering you have to shave daily unless you want weird itchy shit on your face.

There are a lot of changes either way (though tbh most of this stuff can affect any gender, shaving or BO or whatever, it's just more common on one end of the spectrum), I can't fault other protags for being frustrated, confused, etc. It makes perfect sense.

AGP is a pretty uniquely male fetish after all

Somehow I don't think their friendship has ever been quite how Uesugi sees it. Boy or girl, Eito probably always felt a little more than friendship there.

Yaoi readers will look at any 2 men having a friendship and conclude one of the must be gay

It's funny you should say that. I know a fujoshi acquaintance on twitter (we use machine translation to talk) and she's utterly obsessed with TSF/gender bender precisely because she perceives it as gay. She says it's still her beloved BL, but now at least one of the two boys has the charm of a female body. She even wants that to be a new genre -- "female body mental BL".

If that sort of story hits BL mental nutrition, it suddenly makes a LOT of sense this particular manga is a shoujo work published by Ciao. Particularly so if Keisuke/Eito remains a focus.

Its futa for the soul, think about it

 

[Norman_claws]

I Just realised keisuk on the first chapter said if she was girl she would like eito which means she believes girls like eito so?? You what that means

 

[TempestFox]

Yeah its obvious what direction this is going it this is gonna be adorable. As for how they became a girl if only it were that easy in real life 😭

 

[Thrembs]

Shoujo ai (i.e. "Girl's Love") is actually kind of a depreciated term in Japan, since it linguistically evolved to mean something decidedly closer to Epstein in nature. So "yuri" is the term you'd probably see tagged, if it's going to have girls kissing.

Confusingly, BL (short for "boy's love") is now what's used for tagging guy-on-guy fiction in Japan. "Yaoi" is now almost exclusively used by English speakers. I'm pretty sure "yaoi" had a negative context to begin with (back when it was still commonly used) where BL is an upgade to something more neutral, but I'm not an expert there.

It's BEEN BL in Asia.
I am super glad that no one uses "shoinen ai" anymore in The West.
No idea where that even started, but... yeah. That sounds SO SUSS and shady in Japanese...

 

[Thrembs]

It's funny you should say that. I know a fujoshi acquaintance on twitter (we use machine translation to talk) and she's utterly obsessed with TSF/gender bender precisely because she perceives it as gay. She says it's still her beloved BL, but now at least one of the two boys has the charm of a female body. She even wants that to be a new genre -- "female body mental BL".

...I would not be friends with this person.

None of that is anything. That's just... word salad.

if they're a teenager or something? Sure.

But it reminds me of that subgenre with the Greek letters, but instead of "it's totally gay, despite this clearly being a different species with alien biological and moral laws" when if you want to write about pregnant men... that literally happens all the time. You can tell that story without rape and mind control. So cursed. At least it seems to have shunted all the "raped into love" stuff that was EVERYWHERE back in the day.

So wild. It's this focus on biology while also acknowledging that there is a difference, then saying the difference doesn't matter, despite remaining different when it doesn't need to...
Is she big into "I'm straight, but" BL? Glad THAT is going away over time. I am so tired of all the stories out there where two guys somehow invent gayness in the 21St century.

Sorry, I am a queer trans woman and this complete warping of what gender, sex, sexuality, orientation... no thanks. Shit like that massed with my head growing up and I didn't transition until 35

I need THC. I havent had good sleep in a week, and remembered how much kashimashii pissed me off and it has put me in a mood. It had a happy ending. It was right there, then diabolus ex machina it got worse because...? The three of them were too happy?

So many things that were formative for me (that, hourou musuko eighths depression and unlikable characters in retrospect, Chrono Trigger was my fav game for decades and Frog was my fav character but he is just randomly transphobic for no reason... bunch of shit) just piss me off in retrospect...

Excuse my typos. I am using an epaper tablet and typing is not fun at 3fps