Secret Identity

Shoujo and Josei manga reviews where the female or male lead has a secret identity.

Kanchigai Hime to Usotsuki Shimobe manga by Takamiya Satoru

Kanchigai Hime to Usotsuki Shimobe

Name: Kanchigai Hime to Usotsuki Shimobe
Mangaka: Takamiya, Satoru

Volumes: 1 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.01 Ch.04 (Complete)
Scanlator: Shoujo Crusade
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Mayuri, a girl who wanted to be acknowledged as herself shares the same room with her senpai, Akira who is the student council president and a beautiful person envied by others. But, Akira has a big secret…?
Somehow, her real self is a “boy”!?
Moreover, he makes a petition of wanting to be Mayuri’s servant…?

Thus, the wonderful room sharing life of the domineering (!) beautiful girl, Mayuri and a boy wearing girl’s clothes who’s also a bit of a trickster (?) Akira starts.

–Mangaupdates

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

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Liar x Liar screenshot from manga

Liar x Liar

Name: Liar x Liar
Mangaka: Kindaichi, Renjuurou

Volumes: 10 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.09 Ch.64 (Hiatus)
Scanlator: Mystic Iris
Type: Manga
Genre: Drama/Slice of Life/Josei
Age Group: Mature

Summary: One day, on a whim, 20-year-old Minato dresses up in her friend’s cute high school uniform and goes out briefly into the city. To her horror, she ends up running into her stepbrother, Tooru, who is actually only months younger than her. Since he’s cute, and a notorious player, Minato has had to deal with constant jealousy and suspicion from other girls all through their school days.

Amazingly, she manages to convince Tooru that she’s actually someone who just happens to look a lot like his sister. He is so convinced that he starts trying to date her and, for various reasons, she goes along with it. What started as a simple joke is now evolving into the biggest lie Minato has ever told!

–Mangaupdates

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

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Himitsu no Ai-chan

Name: Himitsu no Ai-chan
Manga-ka: Kaori

Volumes: 15 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.05 Ch.19 (Hiatus – Feb 2021)
Scanlator: Jshoujo Scans
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Drama/Smut
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Reo is tomboy Aiko’s rival, and Ai strives to beat him in everything – like basketball and popularity – but her efforts always fail with Reo always coming out on top. Then one day, she sees her break come through: her brother offers her a job at his maid cafe! But how will tomboy Ai ever be able to pass off as a cute maid? With a wig and a bit of makeup, this becomes possible. She’s so much of a different person, even Reo doesn’t recognize her! But things start becoming strange when Reo shows interest in her, asking out “Mai” on a date. Ai agrees, with plans in mind to get him to fall in love with her so she can later dump him. Will Ai finally win over Reo, or will her plan backfire just like her many others?

-From Mangaupdates

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

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Watashi ni XX Shinasai!: Do xx to Me!

Name: Watashi ni XX Shinasai! (Do xx to Me!) (Love Mission)
Mangaka: Tooyama, Ema

Volumes: 19 (Complete)
Licensed: Kodansha
Type: Manga
Genre: High School
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Himuro Yukina, known as the “Absolute Zero Snow-woman” is a cold and observant girl. In addition, she is actually a popular cell phone novelist who goes by the name of Yupina. Sadly, with no other human contact than her cousin, Yukina is unable to express more romance in her novels. Kitami Shigure, your so-called “typical bishounen”, who is really a womanizer, has fallen into Yukina’s trap when she blackmails him, and they end up “love-acting” for the sake of their secrets.

-From Manga Updates

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

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Switch Girl

Name: Switch Girl
Mangaka: Aida, Natsumi

Volumes: 25 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.13 Ch.77 (Ongoing)
Scanlator: Many, Currently Transcendence
Type: Manga
Genre: High School/Comedy
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Nika is like any other girl her age, sorta. At school she is in “on” mode. On mode consists of flawless makeup, hair and clothes, but when at home Nika switches “off”. The true Nika is just some old man who eats gross food, enjoys wearing granny panties and track suits with her hair in a bun. Nika is trying her best when some new guy realizes Nika’s “off” self. And it turns out this guy is the opposite, he wears glasses to pretend he is ugly when he is actually gorgeous. Both promise to keep each others secrets, but find themselves getting more and more tangled up together.

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

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