Kanojo ni Naru Hi by Akane Ogura

            I'd like to mention real fast that I'm changing my posting schedule from two posts a week down to one. I'd always meant to after a while and the last couple of weeks I've had to scrabble to get two manga read, plus, since I'm sick this week I figured it was as good a time as any to make the change. I'm not sure yet if I'll post on any particular day, but for now I'll aim for Saturdays. Hopefully this will allow me to have better quality in my posts and allow me to read longer manga easier. So this week is:



Kanojo ni Naru Hi by Akane Ogura

Art and story (c) Akane Ogura

Genre: Shojo
Length: One Volume - 5 Chapters





            Art is fairly generic, but its well drawn with modern style. All the faces are the exact same shape and there isn't much variation in the eyes, either. Hair and clothes have the same description, there is variety but there isn't really much extra to them. The backgrounds are mostly drawn in, or tones, though there were sections of just white, too. There wasn't awkwardness in the body poses or the like, there is a lot of blush lines, like furiously blushing. Over all in just about all areas it is lacking definition.
            The world likes to stay balanced, so, when the male population starts to overwhelm the female, it is not uncommon for young boys to go through "emergence" and be female for the rest of their lives. When Miyoshi's best friend collapses one day, he is very shocked to find that Mamiya who was once a boy is now a girl! Can a friendship last such a strange turn of events? Miyoshi's fear of women puts more strain on their relationship, as well, but Mamiya has a plan to use his new body to cure Miyoshi's phobia.
            Kanojo ni Naru Hi (translated as Becoming a Girl Day), is not only a strange concept, its enacted strangely, too. I don't know if its supposed to be a comment on society or just a 'what if' type of plot, but its, frankly, done in a creepy manner. Posing the question of love blooming in such a situation has been seen before, usually, though, through a freak accident gender swap instead of the scientifically acceptable (?) reason given here. Still, its not an impossible love, except, how this manga goes about it doesn't feel...right, for lack of a better word. Its almost instantaneous that the two like one another, but then the two of them don't act on it or if it is mentioned the other person ignores it. The ending was just one of those random time jumps you often see when an author can't figure out what else to do to explain what happens next. The couple is kind of cute together but it just doesn't make up for the rest of the read. If it had been more silly or a little more like a sweet shojo instead of a neither one will tell the other type I think it would have improved the overall feeling of the story. As it is, its kind of ecchi and weird. (There is another manga in this universe called Kanojo ni Naru Hi Another, but since I had no interest in this one I did not read it.)




2/5 Original kind of hook, but doesn't go anywhere but generic-town