close
You've Earned Badges!
you have earned more badges → see all badges
don't want a popup? edit settings here
view your badges any time in your profile
Shuichi Nitori is about to start middle school with a terrible secret: he wishes he were a girl and likes wearing their clothes. With the right outfit and his cute, effeminate looks, he is often able to convince people that he is someone else - or even something else. Unfortunately, although his best friend and object of affection, Takatsuki, accepts him as he is, she does not return Shuichi’s feelings. Moreover, school is an unforgiving place and Shuichi walks a fine line between liberating his true self and being labelled a freak by all his peers...
click the 
button above
Shy, crybaby Fumi has just transferred into Matsuoka Girl’s High School, in the city of Kamakura. It’s been ten years since she moved away, leaving her dear friend Akira behind; and soon, the two are reunited once more. Akira is now attending Fujigaya Girls’ Academy, though she and Fumi still manage to see each other regardless. Between classes and social engagements, the two will experience love, the struggle to admit one’s true feelings, and the joy of companionship.
If you like Aoi Hana or Hourou Musko you're sure to enjoy the other as well. Besides being written by the same manga-ka, both of them deal with growing up and falling in love when you aren't quite sure who you are or who to fall in love with.
Are similar series, same writer, similar plot, but viewed from different view points. If you liked one, the other likes too. Both are interesting concepts, worth seeing.
Stylistically, both Aoi Hana and Hourou Musuko share similar feeling.
Similarities:
Both are very slow-paced, slice-of-life anime that don't have a particularly straight-forward plot. If you're going into this expecting a specific love interest, or a harem of any sort, you're in for a disappointment. However, if you're looking for a mellow slice-of-life anime and have watched one or the other, I would recommend them both ways.
Of course, it certainly helps that both were written by the same author.
Common themes include: Unorthodox love, maturation, and school life drama.
Biggest difference? Hourou Musuko covers a more broad scope of LGBT issues, while Aoi Hana focuses specifically on love between girls. Even though Aoi Hana is set in an all-girls academy, there are male love interests present, which does set it apart from your typical shoujo-ai series.
If you liked one, I'm quite sure you'll like the other one, and if you didn't like one, it's doubtful that you'll like the other one.
Both anime have a very similar, high stylized art to them. Very dreamy use of over exposure with a water wash of color to pop.
If life teaches us anything, it is that love sometimes happens in the most unlikely of places, with the most unlikely of people. Koshiro is a run-of-the-mill salaryman who has recently been dumped by his partner. With his heart broken and hope lost, he soon comes to realize that he can love again, once he sets eyes on a beautiful young schoolgirl riding the train. However, there is one catch -- this girl named Nanoka is his sister, who he has not seen in years. Knowing that their forbidden love will always be scrutinized by society; will Koushirou and Nanoka be able to resist the temptation?
If you enjoyed Koi Kaze or Hourou Musuko, I think you'd like the other as well. What struck me about them was how deftly and realistically both series handled a common core; the process of coming to accept a personal identity that other people reject as wrong or immoral.
Koi Kaze did this with love between siblings, and Hourou Musuko is doing it with a boy who feels like he should be a girl, and a girl who feels like she should be a boy.
These two series capture both the internal and the external conflicts the characters experience in a very believable way, focusing on their development and resolution.
Both anime tackle different taboo subjects (incest and gender identity) in a realistic and delicate way. They focus on the characters' lives and their emotional struggle to accept themselves and get others to accept them. In both series the animation/art is soft and beautiful, and the writing is subtle and complex at the same time.
Slow-paced, thoughtful, and a little angst from taboo situations - with a subdued animation style; if you found these elements pleasing in one of these shows then the other might be right up your alley.
Being another slow-burning drama about sexuality, Koi Kaze is a natural step up from Hourou Musuko. It deals with incest as opposed to transgender, but its sensitive, quietly tortured characters and gentle development will feel very similar. Koi Kaze is arguably a much more accomplished show because, while Hourou Musuko wavers and waffles through its middle, Koi Kaze confidently builds towards its emotional climax.
Tsukimi is an otaku and jellyfish enthusiast whose only means of coping with the world is to reject it: she and her friends live in a house they declare a man-free zone, generally avoid 'stylish people', and spend their days blissfully bonding over geeky rituals. As misfortune would have it, their convenient existence is about to be turned on its head by the arrival of Kuranosuke, a seemingly beautiful young woman who is actually a beautiful young man. While he may be strange even by their standards, Kuranosuke embodies everything Tsukimi secretly dreams of being - a princess as ethereal as a floating jellyfish - and promises the kind of mind-boggling adventures only possible when geek meets chic!
Both are oddball comedies featuring a slice-of-lifey look on a hetero crossdressers relationship and daily life.
to be honest i dont know, but hourou musuko and kuragehime were 2 of my favorite shows, and though the plot, and the situations they face are both completely diffrent, they are both shows about cross dressers you dont want to end.
Although Hourou Musuko is about transgendered characters and Kuragehime about a crossdresser, both are enjoyable and share a somewhat similar story.
Both anime have a very similar, high stylized art to them. Very dreamy use of over exposure with a water wash of color to pop.
Hourou Musuko and AnoHana both have different aritistic styles that fit their series perfectly. They are both soft, subtle animes that deliver their message through the details and through the character interaction - not to mention they both have a fantastic cast.
Due to his upbringing with a wrestler mother and an equally-as-strong sister who beat him up constantly, Kinjirou Sakamachi would rather die than be touched by the opposite sex. So when the boy accidentally discovers that the dreamy school idol (and butler of the wealthy Kanade) Subaru is actually a girl in disguise, Kinjirou finds his life becomes far more complicated. For in exchange for keeping Subaru's gender a secret, Kanade is determined to cure Kinjirou of his gynophobia, with Subaru's help, once and for all...
Hourou Musuko is some what like Mayo chiki, but besides a girl being like a boy. In Hourou Musuko it's a boy dressing as a gril... more like a trap.
