Hana-Kimi
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Mizuki Ashiya is a teen Japanese girl growing up in the USA. After seeing Japanese track star Izumi Sano on TV one day, she became instantly enamored with his grace and style, and became determined to find him and confess her love. She's able to transfer to his all-boys school by hiding her feminine identity, and finds herself as his roommate in the process. However, while the rest of her classmates simply suspect she's a very girly boy, Sano sees through her façade in time, and together they must try to keep Ashiya's true gender a secret. Now, Ashiya must not only try to confess to the man she loves, but also help him work through his personal issues and keep her secret safe from the school in the process!
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Girl Got Game
Alt titles: Power!!
Kyo Aizawa, an ordinary girl, is excited to learn that she has been accepted to Seisyu Academy. However, her excitement is turned to mortification as she looks at her school uniform for the first time and realizes that it's a boy's uniform! It turns out that her father, an ex-basketball player, enrolled Kyo as a boy in order for her to play on Seisyu Academy's famous boys' basketball team. And as if things couldn't get worse, Kyo discovers that not only does she have to play on the boys' team, but she also has to live in the team dorms. Can Kyo keep her secret safe?
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add recBoth of these mangas are about a girl who disguises herself as a guy for personal reasons. Both of the girls fall in love with a boy who does sports. They both have their funny moments and serious moments and they're both awesome.
if you enjoyed the gender-bending, dorm life genre of hana kimi (or vice-versa); you'll surely love the other! both have sports as a theme (although one is more prominent than the other) and it's definitely SHOUJO!
these two mangas have practically the same essence, it's so hard not to compare each to the other!
while there may be some differences in their plot line, when it comes right down to it, both have a way of satisfying your inner Shoujo-seeking self!
When I first read Girl got game i though 'Hana-kimi no. 2'.
The story is different, but the idea's resemble each other a lot. Both story's have a girl cross-dressing as a guy, being roommates with the guy she loves, and both girls like sports.
If you like one, you'll like the other, because it's the same idea but with another storyline and different characters.
Ouran High School Host Club
- Vol: 13+; Ch: 75+
- 2003 - ?
Ouran High School is a prestigious private academy where money and status count for everything. Haruhi Fujioka is a scholarship student at the elite school, and is appalled by the lazy attitude of the rich and powerful students towards their studies. The Host Club is a clear example of this: a group of six attractive and wealthy boys spend their time entertaining the female pupils for a profit. When Haruhi accidentally breaks a ¥8,000,000 vase belonging to the club, they force her to work off her debt as one of the club's members; and to do so, she must masquerade as a boy! Can Haruhi keep her gender a secret from the club's exclusive clients?
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add rec'Host Club' fans would like 'Hana-Kimi' because these two manga have a lot in common. Though their plots are a kind of different, the main characters are girls, pretending to be boys. And they get trough lots of funny - and sometimes not - adventures.
Both of these long-running romantic comedies explore the same themes in different ways; both of the female protagonists have to dress as males and trick classmates in order to achieve a goal. They also explore homosexuality and cross-dressing to some extent.
Hana-Kimi is slightly more serious and to-the-point but still has elements of comedy. The romantic elements are done in quite the same way and the art style of both series are of very similar tastes.
Mint na Bokura
- Vol: 6; Ch: 16
- 1997
Ever since they were born, the twins Maria and Noel have always been together at school and home. But when Maria falls in love with a boy and transfers to Morinomiya Junior High Boarding School without telling him, Noel is angered that another guy could come between them and decides to follow his sister and enroll at Morinomiya himself. However, there's a catch: with only one vacancy remaining, Noel will have to live life as a girl and stay in the female dorm! Now Noel is living as Maria's twin sister, much to her disgust and annoyance, and is making her life as difficult as possible. Between his friendship with the most popular sophomore in the basketball club and worrying about his roommate Miyu, will Noel still be able to achieve his goal and bring Maria back home?
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add recI think that you'll like this manga as well since it's also gender bender, and has a lot of funny and fluffy moments as well. Also, both principal character are kind of similar (stubborn, and sometimes don't realise that they're posing as a girl/boy).
Hana-Kimi and Mint Na Bokura are two very funny gender bender mangas. Though Hana-Kimi is a bit more serious, and though the main Hana-Kimi's character is a girl and Mint Na Bokura's a boy, they're pretty similar.
Here is Greenwood
Hasukawa Kazuya has absolutely no luck. The woman he loves has just married his older brother, and in order to avoid the lovey dovey couple, Hasukawa decides to enter the dorm of a prestigious high school. However this dorm, named Greenwood , seems to be home to the school's strangest students and thanks to Hasukawa's bad luck he ends up as the roommate and neighbor of the three strangest students of all! It seems Hasukawa's dreams of a quiet life are all but doomed as he gets swept up in the antics of Greenwood 's residents!
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add recHana-Kimi and Here is Greenwood both have set-ups and eccentric casts of characters. Greenwood's storytelling has a more contemplative touch: The humor is often more subtle and the "romantic" bits are less squealy than those in Hana-Kimi. Both series have well-developed characters and (to my eye at least) solid artwork.
Otomen
- Vol: 7+
- 2006 - ?
Asuka Masamune is a manly man who's the complete opposite deep down - he loves sewing, cooking and all things girly! As his father left when he was a child to live as a woman, Asuka was raised to be the boy he is, but he can't forget his true nature. Now, as a teen, Asuka finds himself in the company of Ryou, a boyish girl he's fallen head over heels for; Juuta, a secret writer of shoujo manga who's modeled a character after Asuka; and a variety of others such as his self-proclaimed apprentice Yamato. Can Asuka learn how to balance his two sides and finally get the girl he loves?
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add recBoth series have the "gender bender" theme, albeit presented in different ways. Also, both are romantic comedies with school and slice of life themes.
