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I wish I could review this as the story of an hermaphrodite. Too bad this isn't. Or, you believe this is, until the weird nonsense ridicolous ending reveal. Let's start without spoilers. The story is weird and intriguing. Of course it's also a shoujo, so there's love drama too, mostly around Mashiro that's hermaphrodite and grew as a boy, but now he has period (his lower is female) and he has identity crisis. We can say he's more a female (regarding the byology/reproduction side), but grew as a boy because that's how he looked mostly with clothes on and in the upper part. The dream classes were intriguing and there were some mysteries, like what happens when a student "graduate", or why Ohara disappears after stopping attending the dream classes. The premises were captivating, but the explanation is so ridicolous I think I wasted my time here. So now I start with the spoilers.

This whole thing is a pre-life experience out of time, where people in the dream classes need to face their own identity and find the way to go across the mistery door to be born in real life. It's revealed that Mashiro is actually two people: his mother in fact is pregnant of twins, but because of a complicate labour and a fire only one kid has a chance to survive, that's why Mashiro is both male and female: the reason only the female twin survives is that Mashiro choses his female identity at the end. So the whole story, that lasts for weeks, is all a struggle between the twins during the labour hours, fighting for wich one of them should survive. I have so many promblems with this I don't know where to start.

Why is Mashiro just one character with two souls, and not twins equally protagonists of the story? What about twins that both survives labour? What about triplets and real hermaphrodites? If Ohara caused her own miscarriage by choosing not to attend the dream classes, why is the responsability of how and if you are born given to the newborn's soul, but the author felt anyway the need to have a fire compromising the survival of one of the twins? So without complications Mashiro wouldn't be an hermaphrodite in pre-life, but we'd have two characters? Or twins in pre-life have one body anyway but you won't notice with twin females or twin boys?

And on wich basis they have any kind of backstory or family in the pre-life? If that's based on the life they'll have after being born, does this mean they'll have to struggle again with the same issues? Wouldn't that make the whole manga pointless? Is Kureha going to be abused anyway, or was that just the way she was conceived? Why Sou and Kureha have families and childood memories while Mashiro has no memory before her period? If the teacher for every student has the face of the future mother, who's Sou pre-life mother? Why he has such a detailed family and Mashiro has nothing? And what's the point of being at peace with your identity to graduate, when basically you have no identity yet and real life could turn you in a lot of other ways? Graduating means you'll handle it, but in real life you don't remember any of that and often you don't handle anything. So pre-life is pointless, as the whole plot. You know the dreaded trope "it was all a dream"? It wears a cool mask here, but this is it. All character development in the garbage. And I wouldn't mind if this wasn't poorly planned and wasted potential.