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Hime Sakuragaike has secretly been in love with her childhood friend Akira Yonezawa since they were kids, but Hime only recently found out that Akira identifies as female. Although surprised, Hime offers her full , and this is initially kept secret between them for a few years, but Akira decides to start living as a girl full-time upon starting high school with Hime. However, since Akira garners a certain amount of attention, Hime takes it upon herself to aggressively stick up for Akira whenever necessary. Not wanting Akira to be singled out as an object of ridicule, Hime decides that her only option is to put herself in Akira's shoes. 5z6nn

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Manga

Related Series

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Associated Names

I Wanna Be Your Girl

The Woman You Are and Me

カノジョになりたい君と僕

想成为她的你和我

Groups Scanlating

Hachimitsu Scans

Latest Release(s)

v.4 c.50 (end) by Hachimitsu Scans 5 years ago

v.4 c.49 by Hachimitsu Scans 5 years ago

v.4 c.48 by Hachimitsu Scans 5 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

4 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

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Rating

Average: 7.3 / 10.0 (89 votes)

Bayesian Average: 7.04 / 10.0

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Last Updated

November 15th, 2024 6:33pm PST - 6 months ago

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Recommendations

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Author(s)

TAKASE Umi

Artist(s)

TAKASE Umi

Year

2018

Original Publisher

ComicSmart

Serialized In (magazine)

Ganma! (ComicSmart)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Mangamo (2020; Digital)

Random House Graphic [Add] (Ink Pop imprint July 2025; print)

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Good story but not enough downtime

by DCHShadow
5 months ago

Rating: 9.0 / 10.0

I loved the writing of this story, but its pacing is through the roof. There's no downtime to let things sit. It goes from one heavy convo to the next basically every chapter after the first few. It's especially really bad in the last few chapters. However, that's like my only complaint with this manga. The way it handles akira and her feelings and dysphoria and all of that is amazing. Great protagonist and amazing writing about the struggles a kid would go through trying to transition in school. It's a bit unrealistic cause there's like the smallest chance ever that a japanese school would even let her wear a girl's uniform let alone actually be treated as a girl. But it is an amazing manga if you just kinda don't think about that.

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Hard to rate

by obstinateRixatrix
2 years ago

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On one hand, if I were rating this based on the first 48 chapters, I’d give it an 8 or a 9. It’s very charming, I enjoy the characters and the main character’s clumsy exploration of ing a friend and crush while trying navigate her own feelings. There’s a very comforting acceptance and kindness from the ing cast. If I were rating based on the last 2 chapters, I’d give it a 0. Extremely disappointed by the way the artist resolves the main character’s own explorations of attraction and gender expression.

Honestly, I would’ve accepted an ending where Hime and Akira didn’t get together even though I was rooting for them. I would’ve accepted Hime not having a partner, or having a woman as a partner that was completely unrelated to what went on in high school. But to have her with that guy feels really weird considering she literally bursts into tears after his friend compliments her when she presents more femininely. She comes across as so. Clueless baby butch who hasn’t figured out the same gender attraction and the gender presentation stuff. It really felt like it wasn’t written as ‘this specific guy in this specific situation is making me feel uncomfortable’, but more ‘being attractive to guys in a traditionally feminine way is incompatible with my comfort.’ So the timeskip that has her married to a guy just felt like a baffling note to end on.

... Last updated 2 years ago

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Ok, wait...

by HoshiSama
5 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

There’s just...a little TOO much going on here. I love Akira-chan. Her own feelings and the way she’s treated are probably the most accurate portrayal of a trans experience I’ve ever seen in manga. But all the secondary characters are just too much. It’s a little hard to accept that one of the first friends they make (because of circumstances, not choice) is another LGBT person, but I can suspend disbelief for that. It happens. We end up on the fringes. But the Sempai character is where it all ceases to make sense. The rest of the character motivations were realistic. Even Hime-chan’s bizarre and not well thought out cross-dressing is the type of mistake I could see a well-meaning cis friend making. But this Sempai’s cross-dressing? No. This whole plot-line is what could best be described as “jumping the shark.” And somehow this becomes the main plot-line! And the trans character who this story is ostensibly about barely features and ends up being used as a plot-device more than anything else. Still decent as far as Japanese portrayals go, but disappointing.

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Really Fantastic

by Suxinn
5 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I... I think this is it. I think this is the best fictional manga that stars a trans protagonist. Or, actually, that stars a queer protagonist, full stop. Nothing else really compares. (Unless you include autobiographies.)

Oh man, what can I say about Kanojo ni Naritai Kimi to Boku other than that it's really, really excellent? (It's really, really excellent, everyone!!) It's about a bunch of high schoolers exploring their gender and sexuality, essentially, but it's able to be so kind to its characters, to the point that it seems effortless. The manga itself never questions or invalidates their identities, and while it's understanding of others' unfamiliarity, it also refuses to stand for any hurt that these people, in their ignorance, may inflict. It's uncompromising in its while also being incredibly comionate.

This manga is so good. It makes things like Blue Flag seem like a joke. This has to be an inside job; only a queer person could write a story about queer people that feel so genuine yet hopeful.

Gosh, I don't know what to say to Takase Umi, other than thanks for writing this absolute gem.

... Last updated 5 years ago

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by Tsuppi
6 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

kc of "A TAVERN FOR TEA" (a game) retweeted this and her games seem cool so hopefully this is alright too. will report back. as a trans person i hope its ... able at least!

... Last updated 6 years ago

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this has potential

by solitarygray
6 years ago

Rating: 7.0 / 10.0

I've read some really good manga on some of the themes that this manga attempts to address, so my expectations are high 🙂

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