Ookami Shounen wa Kyou mo Uso wo Kasaneru

‘The boy who cried wolf tells a lie today also’ that’s a mouthful for its English title. Keitarou is an ordinary student, only dilemma is sinister appearance. Thus leaving him with not many female friends or friends at all. One day making his way to the library, Keitarou notices a girl nodding off in the corner of his eye. Her name is Aoi. As she’s sound asleep, Keitarou approaches her only to be thrown off by her uproar. Aoi has an instant dislike for him even rejecting his proposal to go out with him.

Keitarou is left in shambles, only having his older ‘sister’ to discuss the events that had just transpired to him. Unknowingly, his sister plays dress up with Keitarou doing a complete makeover. Now he’s indistinguishable to the naked eye. Keitarou is cross-dressing as a female and he just goes with the flow. Heading into town until stumbling with Aoi, but their conversation differs this time due to the unforeseen circumstances, Aoi doesn’t know that’s even Keitariou. That’s a small synopsis of the beginning.

The story is really straight to the point, frankly only running 34 chapters in total. The art style is incredibly delightful. I love how it looks and the kawaii faces from certain characters like Botan make it all the more enjoyable. Later on a love triangle develops, which ever side your cheering for you can't go wrong. It’s nothing new story-wise but it excels at the romance of things.

Hoping reading this review helps you decide if you want to pick this one up into your list. Stumbling upon this manga and finding if its worthy of your time, you'll be the judge of that.


The illustration of this manga is an eye catcher and that's the reason why I started reading this manga. The Art style is handle pretty well in all 5 volume's. The Character Design I find it simple but nice to look at because it was set on a school life theme. The background scenery is simple but that doesn't matter because half of the time you are looking at the character's dialog and the adorable character designs, don't forget the meme material on every panel. You can find gold in them hills.

The Character Development of the three Main Character is really interesting, reels you in real good. Not that intense geometrical relationship, calm and puffy. The three Main Character's is quick to grasp the situation and fast to mend the root of the problem. This manga can mislead the reader and the reader will start thinking who is the girl that will end up with the Male Protagonist in the end. This is the good part of the manga when the reader start thinking who is the best girl. Grabbing the attention of the reader like that is a good way to please the one who is reading this manga.

The Plot of the manga easy to grasp because of the dialog's of the first chapter lays the foundation of the overall destination of the main plot. I was happy reading all the way to the last chapter because of my expectation was meet graciously. I thought the author will start to use some kind of "Uno reverse card" in the end and I was starting to brace my self for the inevitable end, but I was wrong. It was a satisfying end indeed.


Overall thoughts. I have mixed feeling before reading this Manga because of the Gender Bender genre but it's not, It's just cross dressing. I thought it was a full blown gender bender type of manga but I was wrong, It's just a guy who cross dress for the sake of girl he had once like. I do recommend this manga for the new reader's and has good Romance and Comedy that can heal your stone heart that has been locked away for a long time.

(SPOILER AT THE BOTTOM)

First of all, it's not homo bro,

When you are truly in-love with someone, you will do all effort you can be a cross-dressing boy or kill someone, though there's no slaughtering here, the manga it's self is so satisfying the i want to kill myself.

The MC is great guy, coz he's not dense at all like other MC's, and he's not a natural born kind guy where any of the girls will fall for him he's just being considerate which is more realistic and you will not find a plothole.

i don't know why the mangaka is not popular, but i think he's stubborn guy and follows his own story and listen to the feedbacks of his fans other than listening to his editor just to gain profits.











SPOILER ALERT!!!!!



WHO SAY BEST GIRL NEVER WINS?


BOTAN-CHAN FOR THE WIN!!!!!

I absolutely adore this manga. It has been in the back of my mind for almost a year now and I can't stop coming back to it.
Never has there been a manga to pull me in like this one. Everything from the art style to the characters to the story sits just right and I wish I could read it forever. The visual style is fantastic and the overall story is pretty good and unexpected. Like all works of art, it has it's moments where it makes you raise an eyebrow, but I feel like it is acceptable in the context of lengthening the story. I'm sure the writer didn't want to end it so fast, but was running out of ideas towards the end so they had to close it off. This allowed it to finish strong without being watered down with filler.
I hope the mangaka comes out with more original stories like this one because, to me, this is a masterpiece.

SPOILER FREE REVIEW

Ok so to start my review, i'll tell you all that I was not the least bit thrilled to read a manga about a guy crossdressing.
After getting a few chapters into it, my prejudice was completely blown away. Found this to be one of the cutest manga i have read and finished it in one go.

~~Story~~ (9/10)
The story, as i have mentioned previously, came of as too gay to me from just the synopsis. However, I stuck with it since I wanted to reach the screenshot of a panel from it i saw in a meme. Boy was that a good decision. Tired of reading the typical shoujo manga that have stale drama stretching across hundreds of chapters, I needed a good read and Ookami Shounen delivered. The story was well paced in my opinion and was much more realistic than falling in love after a few hundred chapters and then taking another 50 or so to confess *cough* Nisekoi *cough*. However it should be noted that towards the end, the story feels a bit rushed so it loses a point for that.

~~Art~~ (9/10)
In simple terms, the art was great. It wasn't anything too detailed, but the art perfectly matched the story. Not too flowery, nor too detailed. Perfectly balanced (as all things should be).

~~Character~~ (8/10)
Ok so I had mixed feelings about the characters. Some characters i loved and wanted to love and protect them. They had a great story line and past. However, there wasn't a huge focus on the background characters, which was great since that'd necessarily stretch the manga. Other than that, some character tropes felt overused. Even so, I got attached to these wonderful fictional beings and have grown way too attached.

~~Overall~~ (10/10)
In conclusion, even if you feel your heterosexuality being questioned from reading the synopsis, give it a try. It's a great manga with a nice setting, good art and had my heart clenching and had me squealing like a little girl towards the end.

[FREE SPOILER]
You are not gay but want to read lesbian shit without getting any weird sensation? here's the manga for you guys!

It is basically a guy who wants to date a girl, but turns out she's manphobic (fear of men). The story is decent to me but the art and characters are really high classes. Btw, this story is not suitable for you who don't like a cross-dressing dude since this thing is a huge plot machine in the story.

Since the story is already finished, imma make a review on this underdog manga.

Story (7): I think it is quite decent, there are not many sub-plot in the story. It is basically a straight to the point manga. Of course there's a love triangle inside the plot, but to be honest, it's not that annoying and the girls are really likable for me.

Art (8): Oh boy, the art is really cute. the characters design is making you melt into lava. You can get a powerful waifu material, guaranteed by me. Of course it is good in moe genre, not in general art design. For general, I would say (7).

Character (9): Like I said, the characters are likable, even side characters are really interesting to be relief characters. All MCs are high classes. They are all smart with powerful development in each chapter.

Enjoyment (9): It's a fun ride for me.

Overall (8): I want to give it (9), but I re-consider it since not all characters are explored by the author. This manga has crazy potential in the future if the author wants to make a sequel to it, but it is also fine if he finished it the way now.

Ookami Shounen wa Kyou mo Uso wo Kasaneru or, for short, Ookami Shounen is a harmless romantic drama. It almost feels refreshing with the lack of harem shenanigans and. especially, ecchi elements that pervade the romance manga landscape today. Unfortunately, it does nothing special outside of its unique synopsis. Keitarou's gender bending possess no significance except as facilitator for drama. Remove that unique plot point and it turns into your vanilla romance drama. But Ookami Shounen is an entertaining read nonetheless, it has cute moments and flashes of rapport between characters.

The highest praise I could give to this manga is that treats its characters as real human beings and give them agency that adds complexity. It enables great interactions between Keitarou, Botan, and Aoi. Unfortunately, its drama is hackneyed and superficial. It does everything competently but nothing great, making it perhaps the poster child of the inoffensive romantic drama (which I feel like is a genre that is almost non-existent). Ookami Shounen is short and it does not drag for long, making it a worthy read for any savvy romance manga fan.

I've only lately been starting to read manga, and I don't know about you guys, but this manga, in my opinion, is very damn wholesome, and very, very cute.

For the story, I think that the plot is pretty simple, but that doesn't get in the way of how the entire story was presented. I can not tell you what the plot is about, but one thing I am certain, that it is going to definitely leave at least a smirk on your face.

For the characters, I simply love each and one of their personality, through the entire manga, I could barely come to dislike or hate even one character.

In my opinion, the art is brilliant. I loved every single panel drawn, the art style makes everything so adorable and cute that I wanted to hug the hell out of all of them.

I really enjoyed the entire thing, it's just so fun to read and everything is so enjoyable.

Great manga. 9/10. Would definitely recommend

This was a short and fun read. I definitely recommend picking it up. The characters were all interesting, the art was pretty good, and the premise felt new and intriguing.

This manga features cross-dressing as one of its plot elements. It didn't have some brilliant statement to make about cross-dressing and gender identity, like "Hourou Musuko" (but I mean seriously, after that read, nothing can really compare). However, it didn't present it in a pervy, titillating way, which I really appreciated. In a way, maybe it is normalizing it, in that the entire focus of the manga isn't on the fact that they cross-dress, it is just a plot element, but it also isn't overly disrespectful (and I mean in comparison to other manga dealing with cross-dressing). That's just what I think.

This was just a really solid, and cute love story, there isn't much else to say. I really enjoyed reading it. It wasn't a mind blowing, life changing, experience, but I would recommend anyone who likes SOL/romance to give it a try.

Itsuki is best girl, and anyone who disagrees is a chump.
JK team Botan all the way.

====SPOILERS FOLLOW====



I just wanted to talk about some stuff that will spoil the story. This is mostly for myself when I look back at the manga I have read, so if you aren't me, stop reading.

Hey me, what was with those unexpected feels? The whole story felt pretty light and cheery, with the only drama being what you would expect in a love story (love triangles and misunderstanding). Sure, Tokujira was scared of men, but that was like, "Oh she'll get over it, its more of a quirk". Then, Blim-Blam-Blow, its hits you harder then her father hit her, and her only friend betrays her to save face. Ouch. My little heart was not prepared for those feels. Also, I am so so so so so so glad that he ends up with Botan. I really thought the story was gearing towards Aoi, despite me cheering for Botan the entire time. It feels like it happens every time, where you get the well rounded, cute girl that likes the protagonist, being shot down for the quirky, barely functioning, weird girl that the protagonist falls for. SO ANNOYING. But best girl got what she deserved this time, and for that, I will bump my score up from an 8 to a 9. I'm also realizing that I front loaded my manga scores, so that almost everything I have read is between a 7 and a 10. I might go back and adjust some scores, or maybe I will try scoring things properly from now on. Anyway, if you read this far, why? And bye.

---The review contains spoilers---

Story /9
Art /8
Character /9
Enjoy /8
Overall / 8.5

The main thing that I love about this manga is that it doesn't really do anything wrong. I can find almost no faults with the presentation, plot, art, pacing or characters. Everything that needs to be there is, and anything that serves no purpose is cut out. The plot follows our MC, who has a scary face so no girls will want to talk to him. He soon falls in love with a girl at his school that doesn't find him scary, but gets flat out rejected when he confesses. After becoming depressed, his brother makes him crossdress and go around town where he saves the girl he likes from a few thugs, and ends up trying to help the girl get over her fear of guys. Later, the girl's friend falls in love with the MC while the girl falls in love with the crossdressed form of the MC, leading to tension and serves as the main crux of the plot. Now, while crossdressing does play a major role in the plot, it is not the focus of it, but rather just a tool to set up the main conflict. So for those worried that the story turns into some weird territory, don't worry about it, it's totally tame.

While I'm on the topic of plot, I might as well go over the pacing as well. This manga is a perfect example of what good pacing should look like. Nothing that is introduced doesn't serve a purpose in the story: sometimes it's to show the growing relationship between the MC and the two main girls, sometimes it's to forward the plot, sometimes it's to help the MC reach a conclusion, but all of it is pretty much needed for the story to run as well as it does. Most people tend to hate fillers and the like in romance type stories since a lot of them take forever for developments to occur. This trend is prevalent in shoujo and harem style manga, but it's not something you have to worry about here.