Hourou Musuko - Recommendations

• Vol: 4; Ch: 23
• 2015 - 2018

Not only is high schooler Tasuku Kaname the new kid in town, he's also terrified that he's been outed as gay. Just as he's contemplating doing the unthinkable, Tasuku meets a mysterious woman who leads him to a group of people dealing with problems not so different from his own. In this realistic, heartfelt depiction of LGBT+ characters from different backgrounds finding their place in the world, a search for inner peace proves to be the most universal experience of all.

• Ch: 3
• 2018

"Mom, Dad... I'm transgender." Unwelcome even in my own home, my life was a hellscape of discrimination and prejudice. That is, until I met him...

• Vol: 2; Ch: 13
• 2022

Family, friends, himself... Rika is frustrated by his inability to gain understanding of the gender difference between his body and mind, and one day he gets into a fight with his mother and runs away from home. There he meets Satsuki, a boy who can share his feelings of not being understood... The two meet and confront the issues they have been running away from... 

• Vol: 10; Ch: 41
• 2018 - 2022

In this world, when a person reaches 12 years of age, their body begins to change depending on the gender they wish to become. By 14, they'll complete their transition. And yet I alone, without any gender, approach my 18th spring…

• Vol: 2; Ch: 20
• 2006

"I've always felt this discomfort with my own body. I wondered why my penis never grew on my body even though I always hanged out with the boys in the class. I was scolded for asking Santa for a penis. In elementary school, boys teased my by undressing me. I never wore the uniform, but only the school jersey. I never made a friend. When I had my first period, the shock was excruciating. My mind lied to my own body, and I just wanted to die. I began to worry if I was a freak... But when I found out that I was not the only one through the internet, my world opened up. Even so, my own freedom was nowhere to be found at home."

• Vol: 1
• 2020

• Vol: 4; Ch: 50
• 2018 - 2020

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 support, 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.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 27
• 2022 - 2023

Some 10 years or so ago, a high school student from a regional town named Rino Tachi went to an all-girls school, studied here and there, and enjoyed talking with his female friends. He was an "ordinary" girl, except for his pervasive feeling of unease within his body. A story of "love" set in a time that demanded even more conformity than now, about living one's fullest life while hiding the discontent. A story about searching for oneself.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 3
• 1998

On the way home from work, male-to-female transsexual Maho meets Fujiko, the estranged daughter of a well-to-do family. After realizing they live in the same apartment and both work night shifts, the pair soon becomes inseparable, due to their mutual jaded personalities and detachment from normal society. Between drinking tea and gardening, the two women discuss gender and the frames that society imposes on people.

• Vol: 4; Ch: 37
• 2020

A transgender teen named Ryuu finds an escape from the expectations and anxieties of his daily life in the world of street fashion.