Boku Girl

I really do like this manga. It's sexual tension is done really well, (although I can't really say much about anything else) and its premise is pretty interesting.

Story (5/10)
Definitely drops off after I'd say chapter 55. It doesn't become unbearable, but the sexual tension never reaches the same point after that. I think after that they shifted the focus on the female romantic lead to please the people that may have been routing for that, but ultimately it was poorly done, and the entire time I just wanted the mc to go back to the romantic male lead. I think it was important for the author to distinguish that both leads wouldn't care if mc was a boy or a girl, but I feel like there really wasn't any point in making the last chapters fluff for this purpose.

Art(9/10)
Big fan of the artstyle. Takeru and Mizuki's character designs were right up my alley, and it kind of made me start hating basic bishounen boys.

Character (4/10)
Author brings in shitty side characters that don't really get any development or likeable qualities. Characters are added purely for story purposes, and after that author pretty much forgets about them until the end, where he's obligated to give these character some type of ending. I didn't care about Loki, I didn't care about pantsu boi, didn't care about his fiance, didn't care about that guy that started liking Mizuki near the end, and I didn't even care about Fujiwara. Literally the only characters I cared about were Mizuki and Takeru, and I really think that the author should've considered giving me something more to care about with these characters.

Enjoyment(9/10)
Basically everything said above

Overall(9/10)
Basically everything said above

Boku girl is a manga series that reminds me of Ranma 1/2. If you know ranma 1/2 then you know that this story fits in the "gender bender" category. The similarities between Ranma 1/2 and Boku girl are uncanny but there are certain things that really make Boku Girl its own thing.

Mizuki and Ranma were raised to be fighters. (this is downplayed in Boku Girl). They both can disguise as a boy or girl when necessary. (ranma can do this cause he can physically switch back and forth while Mizuki can do this cause he was androgynous to begin with.) Both of them identify as male even in female forms and both of them are trying to get this whole thing that happend to them "undone" (They more or less forget about it for dumb reasons. Eh, we'll figure that out later... its not important ).

And to top all of this the formula for Ranma 1/2 is seemingly cloned here as well. Mizuki is turned into a girl. There is a very select crowd that knows about his secret. Mizuki is placed in some position (often very hilarious) where his issue might be revealed and finds some way to get out of trouble. The fighting aspect from Ranma was removed but the rest of the elements are still there.

But what sets Boku Girl apart from a direct rip-off (like the likes of Kampfer) to Ranma 1/2 is how deep they go into the characters of our protagonist and his friends also how Boku Girl can seemingly turn the formula on its head.

[this next parts may contain light character spoilers if you want to call them that tons of them can be pulled from the first two volumes its mostly just expounded on through out the story]

Mizuki has always been androgynous and has always been into "girly" things even from a young age. He was raised under strict guidance to always be manly. All of this stems from his father who is trying to raise him to be a true man. (i won't spoil too much about the father.) But he's always had an affinity towards feminine things despite how he was raised. He denies this. He fights against this. but in the end when he's now a girl he more or less finds himself more comfortable expressing a more feminine attitude and starts dressing up like a girl more often. The best equivalent i could think of he's tsundere to the idea of being a girl. Which is an accurate depiction to those who have not come to terms with their gender identity. (i should know wink wink)

On the other hand Mizuki has not come to terms with his sexuality as well. This may have been there as part of the magic aspect of the story because Mizuki has shown no signs of liking the male gender before his switch to female. The only reason Mizuki likes boys now is the fact that he's a girl now. "so its okay. Right?" This may have been expounded on in some part of his past when expounding on his friendship with his best friend Takeru. My guess its mostly just fan service but i'm glad they didn't rule it out like it was in Ranma 1/2. Well even though it may never be expounded on, its a nice aspect to the character and to his friend (Takeru) as well who also has conflicting feelings about the whole thing. this creates a little love triangle or love octagon or what ever. because there are a tone of characters thrown into the mix but don't worry the three main get most of the attention.

final note while Boku Girl pulls a lot of Ranma's formula it also plays on the formula and kind of turns it on its head at some points i don't want to go into too much detail on what i mean by that because you know actual spoilers. but the plot seems centered mostly around its 3 main characters and other characters don't get caught up into the mix that often but often will have their own subplots. so we have a story about 3 characters. Mizuki Takeru and Fujiwara. Fujiwara is best girl and that's all you need to know going into this one.

Methodology:
I'm am going to write a mostly spoiler free review of this series as most of its faults can be detailed without given away any plot specifics (nothing you can't guess without having ever cracked the cover) aside from character names. Warning, this series is ecchi and carries all such related warnings. All of pronouns referring to Mizuki will be male because I'm lazy and don't feel like writing his/her and he/she etc. and I have no clue how the author intended for us to see the character.

Summary 3/10 :
In certain sporting communities the word potential is used as an insult. With that in mind, I can only say that Boku Girl had potential. It had the foundations of a generally good gender bent series; but due to a phenomenal lack of a structured story, character development, sense of urgency, and consequences for actions taken, it failed to leave any positive lasting impression and left me asking what the purpose of the manga was by the end.

Story 2/10:
This is the most baffling part of the series. Boku Girl by all measures appears to be a tale of ecchi romance, and perhaps part harem; but, it fails to develop believable organic romantic relationships between Mizuki and any of his love interests.

The story begins with the expected gender transformation in our protagonist and the author writes a good twenty or so genuinely enjoyable chapters that deal with how Mizuki must proceed if he wishes to hide it from the girl he's interested in and the school at large. Unfortunately, once his secret is revealed the plot becomes muddled and rapidly devolves into a standard American romantic comedy filled with misunderstandings and a general lack of honesty between the characters. This causes the story to stall out and prevents the characters from developing proper relationship with each other.

This is because there is almost no causality in the story. Various characters will make attempts to court Mizuki but their actions don't result in any consequences. For example, a great number of characters try to rape him but it never changes the way Mizuki feels about them. If they were creepy before hand, they still are, but if they were a close friend Mizuki doesn't show any signs of emotional turmoil that his trust has been betrayed. This may be written off as generally ecchi behavior because the story never recognizes it as anything other than normal, but this would have been a strong opportunity to force much needed character development and offered a chance to escape the character and plot stagnation that was occurring.

Art 6/10:
Credit is due for the art. I'll quickly let it be known that the scenery and the general quality of the art work was slightly above average and never left me wanting or confused. Furthermore, some of the characters like Mei and Mizuki has designs which fit the characters well.

Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for Yumeko, the female love interest. Her design was bland. It had no distinctive characteristics and made it very hard to see her as anything other than another pointless harem shipping.

While I can't complain about this specifically from a critical perspective, I thought the author should not have allowed the characters' designs to to so obviously explain their role in the story. E.g. random high school male is drawn like a creep so naturally he's going to hit on Mizuki and be a pest. Variety is the spice of life and although the author has plenty here, he isn't willing to break out of the mold and try anything daring and new. (Also, is it too much to ask that Thor be drawn with a bit more maturity?)

Characters 2/10:
Show don't tell: that's the best bit of advice for any character development that I can give. Boku Girl puts forth a rather impressive amount of effort to explain how the characters feel about each other. Unfortunately it never goes anywhere thanks to this series utter lack of causality. The author mainly develops the characters through introspection and acts of physical contact that will not be expounded upon properly.

I touched on this a bit in the story section, but the development of Mizuki and Takeru does progress nicely for the first twenty or so chapters. Unfortunately, across the board the author leaves the character arcs unfinished for essentially all of the characters. Minor characters get undue time in the spotlight for character development but then they turn out to be tertiary to the main plot and only distract from cementing the primary characters as their own discrete entities. In general, all of the characters are too passive and unwilling to express themselves constructively to the ones they love.

Mizuki: While initially his struggles to pass himself off as a boy define him as a character; once his secret is revealed, his defining characteristics become so difficult to see that you could say that the character by the end is a totally different character. This is very problematic because there is no natural progression from point A to B that you might expect from a gender bender. The character is so passive in accepting roles from others, that I'm not quite sure how the character will behave on his own. I would preferred to see Mizuki take a dominant role in relationships so that we could better have seen how his behavior changed due to his transformation and societal influences. Also, Mizuki's passivity is one of the main causes of roughly fourty chapters of filler material that leads nowhere. I suppose as a study for how social pressures affects humans it's not the worst effort I've seen, but I'm here to watch a story about how a kid deals with a gender transformation and how that affects his love life and not about how wearing a dress prevents a person from behaving assertively.

Yumeko: Honestly, I can't say very much about this character beyond that she's a generic female love interest. She's in enough of the story to develop her own character but the author didn't seem to want her to be anything else. (He even has another character make fun of how stereotypical she is)

Takeru: In general I'd say he was the most believable character. His initial relationship with Mizuki makes sense, but as the story progresses he begins to behave erratically. I can only presume that he was the intended romantic partner for Mizuki, but his relationship with him bizarrely flip flops between best friends and love interests in a manner that I can only describe as manic.

Loki: A generally fun character that sets the plot into action. Unfortunately, her antics, past the initial transformation, don't really contribute to the story and it feels weaker as a result of all of the page time she receives in the final 60 chapters.

Depiction of Men 3/10 | Women 3/10 :
Unpopular opinion, but I feel that it is necessary to look at how a gender bender portrays the difference between the sexes.

Men: Simply put, just because a man likes a women doesn't mean that he's going to violate her personal space and take any opportunity presented to molest her. Numerous times throughout this manga we see various men plan to and actively molest Mizuki for no other reason than he's cute and available. I understand that this is an ecchi piece but rape/incest leaves a bad taste in my mouth and it wasn't called for in this series. How is it that the specifically creepy character Yamada is more respectful of Mizuki than his childhood friend?

Women: Honestly speaking, it's a mixed bag. Some individuals like Loki and Mei stand on their own and I have no complaints about them. But for crying out loud, Yumeko is nothing more than a cardboard cutout that I've seen many times before whenever someone needs a generic female love interest for the man to fall for. Mizuki's female form is even worse. From the start of the manga Mizuki is objectified by BOTH genders as an object of attraction. Only Yumeko and Loki have an explicit interest in Mizuki for a reason other than his appearance.

Overall 3/10:
I can't say I would ever recommend this series to anyone as anything other than a textbook on how not to write a romance. I can't say that I wasn't enjoying the series while I was reading it. It presented enough comedy to keep me going, but that's probably the only major draw the manga has. To say I was disappointed by the ending is needless, because no ending presented would have satisfied me. The characters were simply too flat and dull to become invested in. That is quite the marvel in fact when you consider the length of the series. Manga such as Pluto have made me care for characters more in the course of two chapters than this manga did in the course of its entire length.

CONTENT WARNING: This manga, first off, portrays the LGBTQ community in a controversial light, and thus I do not recommend reading this title if you are prone to these kinds of opinions. There are already so many posts calling Boku Girl "transphobic", "homophobic" and "bigoted" and this needs to stop being the basis of the series. While people are allowed to have their own tastes the toxicity I've seen in these reviews is in a league of its own. I'm not going to talk about any of that stuff in my review, because honestly I don't really care and like to enjoy things without involving about my political agenda, and I ask you to do the same if you can.

Story: 9/10
Boku Girl starts out as a seemingly cliché genderbender, but soon proves to be anything but. The story emphasizes the psychological aftereffects of having your Y chromosome replaced with an X very convincingly from the perspectives of Mizuki, the supposed "victim" whose fundamental values make the gender change ever more uncomfortable, and Takeru, the childhood friend who undergoes a constant struggle, attempting to decide whether to respect his friend's wish to be viewed as masculine or trust in his newfound feelings for Mizuki. In my opinion, the story of Boku Girl is incredibly well-thought-out, with its only weakness being its emphasis on the main four characters, with little development for the side characters who often serve as no more than "observers" to the events in the main plot, becoming plot devices when needed. I'll continue on this point in the Character section.

Art: 10/10
Akira Sugito's artwork is incredibly refined and clean. Again, the emphasis here is on the characters, so it's made pretty clear that a lot more effort was put into them compared to the backdrops, although Sugito manages to create vivid environments when they're needed. Good examples of this are seen mostly when plot is taking center stage, almost to tell you that what happens next is important. The thing that I admire most about Sugito's art, though, is the choice he made with Mizuki's character design. In most genderbend fantasies, the main character is obviously male, and when he becomes a woman you can easily tell, as the character spontaneously grows giant breasts, shrinks at least half a foot and sometimes even grows long hair. With Mizuki, though, his design at the start was androgynous, leaning towards female, and there is no actually visible change when he becomes female, besides the fact that his "willy" disappears. This is an extremely daring move, as later in the series when he begins to switch back and forth more erratically the only way you can tell what gender Mizuki is at the moment is through implication and/or internal monologue. This attribute, though, works in the series' favor, as it shows that the mere implication of Mizuki being male or female can change the reader's perception; when Mizuki is male, your brain somehow perceives him as more male, and the same tends to happen the other way around, even though there are no changes to the actual base design. This decision on the author's part really brings Mizuki as a character to another level, as implication and speech patterns are the only way to discern one gender from another.

Character: 10/10
As I was saying earlier, the characters are really the selling point of the series, and this is made clear time and time again across all 107 chapters. But this isn't necessarily a bad thing. While the side characters do only serve as observers to the main story, this can actually serve to the benefit of the series, adding more viewpoints to the events transpiring in Mizuki's life. The best-written character in the series, though, actually isn't Mizuki; it's Takeru by a long shot. The struggle he undergoes over the course of Boku Girl takes center stage at some points, and this struggle is about as realistic as you can get in a gender-bender fantasy like this one.

Enjoyment: 10/10
When it comes to enjoyability, it should have been made clear by now that I very much enjoy this series. Out of the almost 100 anime or manga I've watched or read, Boku Girl would be somewhere in my top 20. One of the biggest factors of enjoyability that has given the series many controversial opinions is the ending of the series. This ending has been shown to be extremely hit or miss, with some saying it was excellent and others saying it was abysmal. While I won't delve into the specifics about the ending for spoiler reasons I will say I loved the ending. It was exactly what I was looking for and hoping for, and it did what similar series like Idol Pretender could not. While I know I don't speak for everyone in the community, this is simply my take so you may read the series and hate the ending yourself. It is completely based on your personal interests and as much as I'd like to try to sway everyone into loving every part of this series I am incapable of doing that. I can encourage you, though, to try the series out for everything it's worth and form your own opinions of the show, and I also ask you to please put your political opinions aside while reading for the reasons I discussed in the disclaimer.

Overall Score: 10/10

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i really enjoyed reading this manga, and it left a hole when i had finished.
the main characters are easy to like, especially Mizuke who gets more developed as the story progresses.
there were some good comedy moments, where i laughed out loud and some feel good moments.
In reality this is an ecchi comedy romance, with quite a few lewd scenes. Although there wasnt so many lewd scenes that it becomes unreadable in public.
The depictions of Mizuke in outfits etc are really nice, and even make me like her character more.

My only real criticism of this manga would be the quick ending. It took over 100 chapters to flesh out the story, but it was ended very quickly. I was left wondering what would happen to their future, and there was no ending for most of the other characters. They showed a term into the future, which wasnt really enough. Also what happened when Mizuke's dad found out about the relationship? there were no reactions from classmates about the couples relationship.
just a few untied strings at the end.

But apart from that, a solid read well worth it.

this manga is great. heres the reason its great

- its fun
- its adorable
- the characters are good
- the story is fun
- it triggers normalfags that should get out of my hobby and kys
- i enjoyed it
- i really enjoyed it
- its a good manga

heres the reasons its not great

- needs more volumes.

why do you need to write a 50 million page thesis for reviewing work. its stupid. who reads this shit past the 30th line. not me. thats for sure. here's a short story, the review is over because I'm not a pretentious retard with a thesaurus fetish:

Dropped.

Was actually a good story for the first 30 or so chapters (if you ignore the downright awful portrayals of homosexuals and crossdressers), progressively became more ecchi than plot, and then went rapidly downhill roughly at the 50 chapter mark. Final straw for me was when the protagonist's dad was revealed to have wanted to fuck his son since he was a toddler and it's played exclusively for laughs.

This story is hard to rate, considering just how massive the quality gap between the beginning and up to where I read is. However, I will try my best.

Story: 4 out of 10
Starts off on a decent note, albeit a little tropey. The main character, Mizuki, is a boy with feminine looks and a desire to be more manly. Unfortunately for him, he soon becomes a Norse god's plaything. He wakes up one day only to find that, oh no, his willy's gone, and he started growing boobs! The next 30 chapters focus on him - with the help of his childhood best friend - trying to hide his sex change and find a way to turn back into a man so that he can confess his feelings to his crush. Near the 30 chapter mark, he finally decides to tell his crush about his sex change. A few chapters after that focus more on the relationships between the characters.
This manga has a love dodecahedron. Mizuki has two pursuers - one of whom has a fiancee - and has two main love interests: Yumeko - a cute girl Mizuki has liked since he was male, and Takeru - Mizuki's childhood best friend, whom he gradually started developing feelings for only after the sex change. Yumeko has a crush on Takeru. Takeru has a crush on Mizuki. Mizuki has a crush on Yumeko, and later Takeru. Mizuki is convinced, however, that he should help Yumeko and Takeru get together. From my understanding, an another character later joins in on the fun; it's after the part where I dropped the manga, so I can't comment on that.
[SPOILER WARNING!!!!! I feel like I have to mention this, since it's my primary reason for dropping]
Chapter 50. It's time to meet Mizuki's dad. So far, the story has been setting him up as this emotionally distant, intimidating, and arguably abusive figure; to get a sense of how bad it is, Mizuki is shown to be genuinely afraid that his dad will get angry at him for the sex change, despite it not being his fault in any sense of the word. At this point, I was genuinely expecting this manga to try its best to tackle the subject of parental abuse, and how forcing a child into strict gender roles may harm their psyche. Unfortunately, this isn't a good manga; would you like to know what I got instead? Apparently, Mizuki's father was so bent on making him as masculine as possible because he got a boner from how closely Mizuki resembles his dead wife! Just to give context, this has been going on since Mizuki was a very, very, young child. Mizuki's dad is confirmed to be a pedophile with incestuous tendencies, and it's treated with about as much nuance as you'd expect from an ecchi manga; it seems that he was only written as a pedophile so that there could be jokes about how overprotective and overly concerned with his child's sex live he is.
[SPOILER WARNING: END.]
After the introduction of Mizuki's father, the manga loses its focus, and is overly padded out with ecchi for the sake of ecchi.

Art: 8 out of 10
The art is very good. I particularly like how the author draws faces. The backgrounds could use a little more work.

Characters: 3 out of 10
Mizuki, Yumeko, and Takeru are good characters in the beginning of the manga; unfortunately, as the manga goes on, Mizuki and Yumeko seem to lose their individual personality traits, becoming blander than flour. Takeru gets to keep his personality, but, and some other reviewers have pointed out, is treated as unquestionably good despite having attempted to rape Mizuki multiple times; although the manga itself does not call it rape, there are quite a few situations in which Takeru tries to do things to Mizuki while Mizuki either hasn't given consent or is clearly in no state to give consent (for example, while Mizuki is drunk).
Loki, with her "I am going to cause problems on purpose" personality, is a bit of a hit or miss; personally, I wasn't a fan. I liked Mei's upbeat, carefree, and blunt attitude.
The other side characters, however, are just awful. Ide is the "buff gay pervert" stereotype; still have no idea why the author decided to make him a reoccurring character. Yamada's whole shtick is that he hopes to become a lingerie designer just like his father, so he really likes female lingerie and wears it everywhere. His two other personality traits include not understanding that "no" means "no" and misgendering Mizuki. Mizuki's father should be locked away in a jail cell. All three have their creepy, pushy behavior played for laughs.

Enjoyment: 3 out of 10
7 or 8 for the first 30 chapters; a solid 1 for chapters 50-58. This manga was genuinely fun to read at the beginning, but I had to force myself to read chapters 50-58 until, ultimately, I decided to drop it.

Overall, a 3 out of 10.

A sound premise and well done for the early chapters. But becomes swamped with needless angst and melodrama once you start to reach a certain point. Most of which is based around the two main characters who quite obviously like eachother romantically, have made it basically 100% undeniable to eachother through body language and their actions, but refuse to say anything about it.

It becomes so riddle with fallacies and senseless drama that in the later chapters the author took the cheapest and dirtiest possible route to making EVEN MORE NEEDLESS DRAMA... By having Average McCoolguy forcefully inserted so he can flirt and try to get with the gender-swapped protagonist which turns this Manga into a complete Trainwreck of confusion on the characters behalf.

Story 4/10: It starts out with a solid premise, annoying but mostly funny gags, interesting side stories for some minor characters that have meaningful impact, and smooth flow with continuity.

I suppose the only notable thing is that it focuses more on important instances that happened in their daily lives, instead of just choosing to follow them everyday or randomly follow them an entire day because this one thing happens at some point.

Then it turns into the aforementioned melodrama overdose with stupid and predictable gags in contrary to the early-on relative comedy and fluidity. The characters were believable early on, they started to realize their feelings at some point, then derailed themselves with complete flips in personality and story tone.

Art 7/10: Good, to the point, and better than some other questionable quality mangas out there.

Characters 5/10: Started out well-rounded and believable. Turned into a complete mess when they reached the apex of their character development, of which it went from it's height to a straightforward 90 degree fall.

Mizuki - Protagonist that gets gender swapped. Has feelings for Takeru, but won't admit it because her friend Yumeko has a crush on Takeru and is aiding her advances. Had feelings for Yumeko as well, which leads to the two of them realizing how they properly feel about one-another.

Takeru - Second protagonist which the series frequently follows to understand him and his point of view. Likes Mizuki and has made it blatantly obvious(no spoilers), but they both refuse to see each other romantically despite well-knowing how they feel... Has no feelings towards Yumeko whatsoever.

Yumeko - Typical good at everything and has large breasts female who has feelings for Takeru and confusing friend feelings towards Mizuki.

Loki - Supposed to be a son of Odin and younger brother of Thor, but they decided to portay this god as a Generic Blond Loli a la Shinobu from Bakemonogatari.

One has to wonder how the Norse gods haven't noticed Loki missing, local gods haven't noticed Loki in their influential area, have no idea what he's doing, and haven't done anything to rectify these problems. Also why is there a Norse God sociopathically tormenting random Japanese highschool students?

Yamada - Legitimately scary, albeit funny comic relief. Has a good sidestory and reasonable influence on the story for being just a side character. It might as well follow him, or hell make a spin-off comic, and it would be an 8/10 comedy series.

Asou - Average McCoolguy that has upstanding morals, is good at everything, and of course was forced into the story so he can flirt with Mizuki. He also hates to lie which leads to unfunny. Loki of course capitalizes on this and becomes recklessly unfunny and predictable as it sets up what Loki is going to do literally pages or entire chapters ahead of time.

Every character except Asou has good potential for a good story. Once Asou came into play it just derailed every other character except Yamada, of which took a sad backseat.

Enjoyment 5/10: It would be rated lower if it were not for the early-mid chapters being actually enjoyable and well paced. Easily an 8/10. A 5/10 is being generous as it is.

Overall 5/10: Until the full story is done and released, aka undetermined, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone at all. Wait a few years to see if it's done by then or discontinued, the release schedule is awkward and slow like that. Provided it finishes you can probably wade through the needless drama with balls of steel to get to the happy ending that is pretty easy to see from the very beginning onward.

If this gets discontinued it won't be that much of a loss either way since the story has introduced the "We're out of ideas" plot device and it doesn't know how to go onward without reaching the end too suddenly.

TL;DR - Do not recommend until it is completely finished so the end is actually in sight, rather than wading through trash and being stuck at where the author stopped. Would not recommend at all if it gets cancelled as it will just leave you standing there in bad plot devices and character derailment incapable of moving forward.

Boku Girl 6/7/7/6/7

First things first. My "reviews" system is explained on a blog entry. Which can be found through my profile.
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✦Story
First things first. I define "gender benders" in two ways. One would be where a guy get's a females body, but soul/heart/mind/personality stays male. And other kind I would kind a full conversion. Where a man gets females body and as well instantly or slowly has/will have also a females mind/soul/heart and eventually personality and way of thinking and feeling.

This manga, though. Is essentially a gender tweak. A very feminine boy with girlish looks and girlish personality happens to get females body. Which doesn't change much aside giving a very weak moral barrier. So for me to categorize it as "gender bender" is incorrect. Whilst technically it is obviously. But as whole I wouldn't say so.

Nevertheless, if ignoring that little part. We essentially get a cute little romance story with some triangles, one sided feelings and rather self-aware progression and final pairing. For the most part I enjoyed it, found it cute with some added lewdness to it. So our MC got somewhat sexually harassed no matter what gender he/she would be. We also get few bits and bobs of drama, while getting rather good enough progression of romance. As well few quirks and turns, make the story as well fairly enjoyable.

So it's definitely not a bad premise and story/setting. But it didn't really impress me that much. I did like the very cute and girlish main character, setting sounds like tomboy, but it obviously isn't. Thus fair enough.

✦Art
Pretty solid art. Fairly nice character design and some other stuff. Didn't impress me enough to considering that good. We got mostly fanservice lewds about the lead character to an more intimate extent than some other characters that did as well offer some of fanservice. But main character service was rather lewd, especially with blatant revealed upper body parts. Got a bit awkward to read it at work now and then. Since some chapters are rather borderline.

✦Character
Good enough. A very girlish lead character. A beautiful second female main character. And plenty of other type of characters. So for the most type stereotype and character variation was large enough.

Probably most noticeable parts are the character progression, relationship discovery development and rather pleasant outcome.

✦Enjoyment & Overall
This time around I somewhat explained enjoyment and whole picture on every paragraph. If there's anything to add. Then it would be that it simply wasn't my cup of tea. Good enough read, but not tailored to my tastes.

I somehow wish she would gotten a bit less harassed and that she would used her brain a bit more rather than forcing herself a moral barrier and ending up doing some rather stupid things.

Want a cute romance Manga with some lewd aspects and give it an excuse of being a "gender bender" somehow. Then sure, it's definitely a good read.

Boku Girl

Story (6): It's about a feminine boy who turned into a girl by the hands of the God, for some reason who is a ecchi loli, Loki. It was a good premise to start out with and it caught my attention on the very first chapter, but it slowly deteriorated into mediocre and should've ended ten to twenty chapters earlier. The only reason it got a 6 was because the first half of the story was hilarious but after that it was just too much and I didn't even read the final chapter (probably because I wanted a Yuri at the end... possible spoiler.)

Art (8): The art style is unique, it stays consistent to the beginning to end.

Character (6): Every character in this story is very unique... It's nice to be unique but most of them weren't very likable. A few of them started out very nice and promising but as soon as the next chapter passes by, they start to feel way too much and uncomfortable. Again, I gave this a 6 because they are a three good characters out of bad bunch, like Loki, Mitsuki, and Fujiwara, but rest started out with so much potential but ended up asking yourself to the author, why? If this three characters I've mentioned weren't in the manga the, it would've gotten a (2).

Enjoyment (6): My enjoyment in the beginning started out as a (10), but as soon as the manga progress, it's boring, tries too much, feels like it's being prolonged, and ended abruptly to really ruin it. I never once feel like Mitsuki was truly a girl, probably because he acted the same exact same girlish way when he was a boy. I didn't even read the final chapter because the shipping at the end just feels way too force, creepy, gross, and just too much once again. I would give it this, in the beginning it made me laugh so hard so many times, but I feel like the author tried too hard towards the end.

Overall (6): I'm sorry to anybody that likes this manga, but to me it's crap covered with sprinkles. It was so so so good at the beginning, and had so much potential to be a great manga, but it just keeps shooting itself on the foot. I read this manga because it was recommended it to me once I've finished Good Luck Girl, which is way beyond better and I recommend it. I don't wanna say don't read it but I'm not stopping anybody from doing so either, maybe you'll have a better time reading this golden covered garbage more than I had. One more before I end this off, I didn't read the final chapter because this manga pissed me off with the forced and creepy shipping I've mentioned above, but I do wanna mention that shipping didn't alter any of my scores for this manga, if the shipping were to go another way, it still would've been a 6.

Have fun reading or skipping this golden covered turd.