Gender bender

Gender-Bender Shoujo and Josei Manga titles with Cross Dressing and Body Swaps!

Kuragehime

Name: Kuragehime (Jellyfish Princess)
Manga-ka: Higshimura, Akiko (D’aww she’s so cute!)

Volumes: 17 (Complete)
Licensed: YenPress
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Josei/Gender Bender
Age Group: Mature

Summary: Kurashita Tsukimi is a “kurage (jelly fish) otaku” girl who wants to be an illustrator. She went to Tokyo and started to live in a girl-only apartment Amamizukan. One day she met a fashionable lady, who saved a jelly fish. But she turns out to be a man in drag.

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

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Usotsuki Lily: Liar Lily

Name: Usotsuki Lily (Liar Lily)
Manga-ka: Komura, Ayumi

Volumes: 17 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.17 Ch.105 (Complete)
Scanlator: Hachimitsu Scans
Type: Manga
Genre: Comedy/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Hinata Saotome is suddenly asked out by En Shinohara, a gorgeous boy in her grade. What she doesn’t know, though, is that his hobby is cross-dressing! En has always hated men, and whenever he sees his own reflection, he punches out whatever is doing the reflecting (windows, mirrors…). To combat this hatred, he dresses up as a girl. Hinata decides to go out with him anyway, despite his weird hobby.

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

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Magnolia

Name: Magnolia
Manga-ka: Naked Ape (Not kidding)

Volumes: 7 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.07 Ch.38 (Complete)
Scanlator: Omari’s Sister
Type: Manga
Genre: Action/Drama/Comedy/Gender Bender/Fantasy
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Crown “Prince” Ayato has neither the body of a boy nor the body of a girl. What Ayato does have is a pair on “wings” located on “his” back, that he’ll lose when he falls in love.

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

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Hana no Kishi: Flower Knight

Name: Hana no Kishi (Flower Knight)
Manga-ka: Nishikata, Mai

Volumes: 5 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.05 Ch.29 (Finished)
Scanlator: Taciturnity Scans
Type: Manga
Genre: Gender Bender/Fantasy
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Ever since the day Ran Kurono’s older brother was killed while protecting Sei Ohtori, she has dedicated her skills and life to one day becoming the First Knight of the next head of the Ohtori family, even concealing the fact that she’s a woman forever. For generations the Kurono family has served the Ohtori family as their First Knight, but 11 other lower knights with ill intentions of using the Ohtori family’s authority vie for that title. Not only that, but Sei is being tested for being suitable for the title of head of the family. Upon entering Saint Locks Academy, the days of both Ran and Sei’s trials begin, all the while being helped by Sei’s untidy and unrefined fiance, Ibara Tennou.
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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.”

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

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