Gender Bend

Migawari Hakushaku no Bouken

Migawari Hakushaku no Bouken

Name: Migawari Hakushaku no Bouken
Mangaka: Seiki, Mimori

Volumes: 6 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.06 Ch.28 (Complete)
Scanlator: Crystallis Translations and Transcendence
Type: Manga
Genre: Historical/Drama/Comedy/Gender Bend
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Mireille is the daughter of a bakery owner and her twin brother Fred was adopted into another family when they were kids. One day a letter from her brother arrived, saying he was in love with another man’s woman. She replied, challenging him to be a man and claim the woman as his.

Two months later, a beautiful young man named Richard, claiming to be a messenger from Fred, visits and tells her “I’ve come for you.” When the bewildered Mireille resists, he proceeds to kidnap her! It turns out that Fred has eloped with the crown prince’s fiance, and it is now her responsibility to impersonate Fred – the former Count of Bernhardt!

–Mangaupdates

Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Yeonmo: Love

Name: Yeonmo (Love)
Mangaka: Lee, So-Young

Volumes: 10 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.10 Ch.44 (Complete)
Scanlator: Suras Place
Type: Manhwa
Genre: Drama/Josei/Historic/Gender Bender
Age Group: Teen

Summary: The impossible happens in 15th century Korea.

A princess who was disguised as her dead twin brother by her mother became king. Once her true gender is found out, the female king is sentenced to death by drinking a lethal dose of poison.

This story details the events of that forgotten king’s life.

–Mangaupdates

Graphics Rating: 5/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Yukarism

Name: Yukarism
Manga-ka: Shiomi, Chika

Volumes: 4 (Complete)
Licensed: Viz (4 Complete)
Type: Manga
Genre: Historic/Supernatural/Gender Bender/Comedy/Drama
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: “Yukarism” is the story of a young man named Yukari who is born with the memories of his past life, and so at the tender age of 17, he is an Edo period novelist.
Yukari “meets cute” with Mahoro on the first day of the new school term and even though they’ve never met before, he has the sense that he knows her…
From there our story of the past and the present begins!

–Mangaupdates

Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Orange Chocolate

Name: Orange Chocolate
Manga-ka: Yamada, Nanpei

Volumes: 11 (complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.08 Ch.31 (Hiatus – Feb 2021)
Scanlator: Omari’s Sister
Type: Manga
Genre: Supernatural/Gender Bender/Comedy
Age Group: Everyone

Summary: A romantic comedy with a distinctly Japanese flavor. Next-door neighbors Chiro and Ritsu have been best friends since childhood. Ritsu, the eldest son of a family of traditional nichibu dancers, is thrust into the public eye as his career takes off, and his growing fame begins to test the pair’s friendship. And now the twist: when a wish made at a shrine actually comes true, Chiro and Ritsu find themselves inhabiting each others’ bodies. A further complication arises because Ritsu is not just a dancer, he is a famous onnagata, or female impersonator, popularly known as the “Courtesan Prince.”

-From Mangaupdates

Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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