百合な私と悪魔な彼女(?)

YURI NA WATASHI TO AKUMA NA KANOJO (?)

MANGA

STATUS
COMPLETE
VOLUMES
2
RELEASE
May 2, 2016
CHAPTERS
11

DESCRIPTION

As a child, Yashiro Nonoyama developed an intense fear of men due to boys constantly bullying her. Now in high school, she dreams of being reunited with her first love: a girl who protected her one day from her bullies. Yashiro is in disbelief when a transfer student named Mikoto Saionji arrives who looks a lot like her first love, but she later discovers that Mikoto is actually a guy, and that he was her first love. Yashiro learns that Mikoto is rapidly turning into a girl, and the only way to counteract this change is for them to passionately make out with each other every day.

(Source: Kiss Manga)

CHAPTERS

REVIEWS

isahbellah
70/100
Very problematic manga (feat. misoginy and transphobia, to name a few) AND YET I STILL ENJOYED IT?????
What if I told you that
- I'm a guy
- But as a kid I used to crossdress
- Also my family has this weird "condition" that makes the guys slowly turn into girls if they're kissed before they're adults and the only way to counteract this sorcery is if the person that they kissed keep kissing them and making them hot and bothered, which in turn increases the level of testosterone but not enough to fully turn them back into guys
- ?????? uuuuhhhhh... I lost my train of thought
This is the basic (LOL "BASIC") premise of this manga. Since I read this in the middle of the night, I couldn't be bothered to remember their names, so let's just call them: "Lesbian" and "Transperson".

What interested me in this manga is because Lesbian is afraid of men and yet her crush IS one, even though he looks like a girl. Then I found out that he was BECOMING a girl and he needed her help to be in an in-between state: basically, a girl with no boobs and a penis.

And the way the manga treats this is that the thing between your legs is what dictates your gender.

Look. Transperson was a cisboy and still identifies as a boy, so I let that slide. But that was the first problematic signal I caught from the manga.

The second one was that the manga treats girls as fragile beings (physically speaking). Look, it's true that guys tend to be stronger (physically) than girls, but that doesn't mean that it's a "rule". There are many guys that are weak, there are many girls that are strong and there are many people with roughly around the same strength. But in this manga, EVERY GIRL is automatically weak, even Transperson (!).

Also, let's backtrack a bit: remember the premise, about that weird family disease? Not that this is problematic per se, but it's SO BADLY WRITTEN that it's actually laughable lmao

This could easily be explained by a curse or some supernatural/paranormal explanation. But no, this is "normal" for his family (and ONLY his family, no other human being goes through that). Also, the "fix" is very specific: it HAS to be the first person they kissed and it HAS to happen every day or else by midnight he'll turn into a "full" girl forever (basically, a cis girl).

It's obvious that the author wanted Lesbian and Transperson to have an excuse to make out every day and nearly every chapter. And that's fine by my book, that's pretty much why I read it anyway! BUT. If you're gonna try to introduce plot into the mix, would it kill you to come up with a believable scenario?

Every plot point in this manga is crazier than the one before, AND YET.

AND YET.

I liked it. It was easy for me to ship Lesbian and Transperson. The tension moments made me keep reading, my eyes glued to my phone, wanting to know how this could possibly end. The kissing scenes were very hot and if I was rating this based ONLY on that, I'd give it a 9 (not a 10 though, 10 would be if there was a sex scene :P). The drama parts made me feel bad for the characters, so I suppose they weren't just stereotypical figures with cute faces, they actually had some layer of depth.

And I absolutely adored the art, it's very much a 10/10 to my tastes.

In the end, if the story was:
- longer (it has just 12 chapters, which I personally think that were not enough to properly develop... what needed to be developed)
- not problematic at all (the things I pointed out in this review)
- and better-written plot-wise (i.e: a better explanation about the "boy turns into girl" thing, among other things)
This could've been SO MUCH BETTER. But even as it was, I enjoyed it.
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Namifui
1/100
A simply disgusting manga glorifying sexual assault
This review will run through the story from beginning until end so it will contain spoilers for a lot of the content, including the ending. Trigger warning: Sexual assault

The manga starts off with an interesting premise that could've had a lot of potential having the main character, Yashiro, who really struggles around men, unable to attend a girl's only school. The reason for her fear is shown through a flashback reminiscing about her first love with a "girl" , Mikoto, who saved her while going through a traumatic experience. As with any cliched flashback, Mikoto turns out to also be the new transfer student at her school. They get paired up so Yashiro can show them around the school. After an accidental kiss straight out of a harem anime, it is revealed that Mikoto is actually a boy suffering from an absurd disease turning him into a girl that requires for him to be kissed daily by Yashiro in order to not fully become a girl.

After this moment the series gets worse and worse by the chapter. Yashiro is brought to a hospital where a perverted doctor explains Mikoto's condition more in detail. His entire character serves as nothing but to make Yashiro (and personally, the reader) uncomfortable. After Yashiro refuses to comply, Mikoto chases after her and forces himself onto her. Instead of this being seen for what it is, the series calls it a "First Love Spell", justifying it by saying he was her first love and downplaying the lack of consent.

The series 'attempts' to have cute slice of life moments in spite of the blatant sexual assault present in every chapter. A side character, Eris, who initially wants to expose what is happening is introduced, however, she is also quickly swept up by Mikoto's plans and just becomes used as fanservice for the audience.

Volume 2 continues the downwards spiral as Mikoto's step-sister, Maria, is introduced. She is used to create tension between Mikoto and Yashiro. The series pretends to address how Yashiro is being used for a few pages, but this changes nothing in the story and everything continues as if these pages did not exist. After the main duo run into Maria, she starts tailing Yashiro around so that the author can include more fanservice of Eris and Yashiro kissing "as friends do" and having Maria be incredibly turned on by it, of course.

In the final arc of the manga, Yashiro is raped by Mikoto during one of their regular sessions of Mikoto forcing himself onto her and she runs away only for her and Eris to be kidnapped by Maria. All of this is an insane plot by Maria to aquire a harem of girls consisting of Eris, Yashiro and Mikoto once his feminisation is complete. Maria forces herself onto Yashiro while explaining this plan. The author tries somehow to portray Mikoto in a heroic light as he tries to save himself from being transformed by kissing the kidnapped Yashiro, but ultimately fails before the clock strikes midnight.

After his transformation, Mikoto is used for more fanservice. The series attempts to 'redeem' Mikoto by having him go through a fraction of the harassment Yashiro initially goes through, of course all of this being caused by Mikoto's newly developed large breasts. Mikoto runs away in shame after becoming unable to """protect""" Yashiro from some of their male classmates.

Yashiro chases after him, however, she finds Mikoto almost being raped by a random man. She tries to save him, but is hindered by her fear of men. After Mikoto strikes him in the back knocking him out, he for some reason goes on a """romantic""" speech about being unable to protect her now that he is a girl. They end up kissing and """miraculously""", Mikoto returns to being a man and learns absolutely nothing.

The entire series changes nothing about the characters and is only a way for the author to depict a man that looks like a girl forcing himself onto innocent girls alongside adding much unnecessary fanservice and multiple scenes of sexual assault. I genuinely regret reading this manga and am disgusted by what I read. I urge any of you reading this to downvote the yuri tag on this series as it is a clear mislabel and upvote the correctly placed crossdressing tag.
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