Just Like Mona Lisa - Recommendations

• Vol: 10; Ch: 39
• 2004 - 2008

Ichijou Mashiro seems to have it all - he's popular, good looking and attends a prestigious prep school. But Mashiro has a secret - he's neither male nor female. So far, Mashiro's been able to live his life as a boy, but all this changes when he's informed of a new class he must take in order to graduate. Mashiro is told to find the Key to graduate, and the only way to do so is to enter a nightmarish world with several other anonymous students in a twisted group therapy session. These terrifying after school classes will challenge Mashiro's notions of friend and foe as his body and soul are put at the mercy of the worst kind of enemies: his classmates!

• Ch: 15+
• 2024 - ?

Prince Osora is destined to rule over the Calaveras Kingdom in a life planned out by his family since birth, when his father presented him to the kingdom as male. However, the magic-wielding race called Sergos has a different plan for Osora: to use him as collateral in war with the humans. Bound by what others force him to be and trapped in a love triangle between a promised fiancée and his childhood best friend, Osora must recreate his own story.

• 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: 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: 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

• Ch: 9
• 2017 - 2019

A boy and girl share a secret they can't tell others.

• Vol: 3; Ch: 14
• 2019 - 2020

A boy and a girl who are childhood friends fell in love with the same guy.

• Vol: 15; Ch: 123
• 2002 - 2013

Shuichi Nitori is an elementary school boy with a 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 labeled a freak by all his peers...

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2004

Nikotama Souhei is transferring to a new school and vows to enjoy a new life, living a lifestyle true to herself. Adopting the name Sara, she, a transgender girl, heads to school in a girls' uniform, ready to grab life by the nads and twist. Sara's no pushover: bright, hyper and kind. She is like nothing anyone at the school has ever encountered, and faces hardships regarding her gender identity. But she also finds the sweet, upstanding classmate Naruse Kaito who finds himself knee-deep in Sara's "Brave New World".