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December 04, 2004
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Gender confusion appears to be the shoujo flavor of the week over at Viz-ya. Hana Kimi has a girl disguising as a boy to sneak into the all-boys' school her idol attends. Here is Greenwood has the beguilingly femme-from-the-neck-up Shun. There is of course the granddaddy of all cross-gender confusion comedy, Ranma 1/2, and possibly the first yuri series to gain attention in the West, Revolutionary Girl Utena. And then there is W Juliet, which I picked up yesterday, which turns the genre on its head by having a girl who looks like a boy discovering that her pretty new classmate is actually a boy who has to dress like a girl in order to prove a point to his domineering father. (Yes. Scorecards recommended.) It's hard not to notice a trend.
Posted by Innocent Sidekick of Evil at December 4, 2004 10:03 PM | Posted to Manga Manga
