A compilation of TSF Showcases released on Natalie.TF from July to October 2023!

Throughout 2023, I frequently discussed TSF throughout my weekly Natalie.TF Rundowns through a recurring segment dubbed TSF Showcase. This segment is meant to highlight a wide spectrum of TSF materials I encountered throughout my travels and works recommended by Natalie.TF readers. These showcases are evergreen writings buried in a topical post, so I decided to start compiling them into super-sized recycled posts for easy reading.

TSF Showcases are not meant to highlight the best TSF materials, but rather anything that I came across and found interesting or otherwise noteworthy. Meaning while there are some high quality works featured here, there are also more than a few oddities, relics, and miscellaneous monstrosities.

This post collects 18 segments originally published from July to October 2023. These segments have received some light editing to make them more in line with what TSF Showcases became throughout 2023 and remove more topical references.

For those who don’t know what TSF is… first off, how did you get here? And second off, I would recommend checking out my 2022 article, Natalie Rambles About TSF, where I define TSF as the following:

“TSF is a genre of fiction wherein a character undergoes a change in sex through fictitious or fantastical means. With the ensuing narrative, assuming there is one beyond the initial transformation, following how they adapt to these changes. [The name] TSF is an abbreviation of Trans-Sexual Fiction or Trans-Sexual Fantasy, and the term has several different variants. This includes TG, Gender Bender, Gender Swap and so forth.”
Natalie Neumann, Natalie Rambles About TSF

This is when I finally committed to doing TSF Showcases on the regular, but I was still figuring out what I wanted from these segments. So, let’s dive in, because we had some hella rad stuff this time around!

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TS o Suru. Seidorei ni Naru [Change Sex and Become a Sex Slave] by Tansan Protein no kai

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (7/23/2023) Dude, Whatever, It’s Summer!

…At this point, I barely even look at titles before I start reading a TSF comic, because I know from experience that they have basically no relation to the quality of the work. Just look at Kouji’s Turned into a Breast Milk Fountain by a Beautiful Vampire! And despite Change Sex and Become a Sex Slave seeming like yet another typical cum fiesta, this one is… actually trying to say something unique.

The story centers around a disgruntled young man named Saotome, who receives a mysterious offer from a university promising to genetically transform him into a woman. It’s a fairly typical concept that starts just as typically, complete with passing transphobic microaggressions. But then we get into the fact that Saotome is also signing up to be a sex slave for the next year, and he reflects on why he signed up for this procedure in the first place. It’s not for extra cash (which is a super common theme for this subgenre), but rather, to fulfill a dream of his.

Prior to this, Saotome was in a relationship with a beautiful girl, and while he loved her at first, this love soon morphed into a form of envy. While he had a beautiful girlfriend, he would never have what she had. He would never have her feminine beauty, and, as a man, he would need to dedicate his life to forever chasing that. Competing for the ability to be close to such beauty while competing with other men. Younger, wealthier, and more handsome men who his ex, or any girlfriend he had, could easily choose over him. No matter how much he spent on her, how much he complimented her, that would always stay the same, and this relationship would never be truly secure.

All he had, all he would ever truly have, is himself. And there was one thing he simply lacked. The beauty of his girlfriend, her “true feminine beauty.” A trait— a value— that came to consume Saotome was his key desire, and one that became a downright obsession. One so strong that he would sell a year of his life to sexual servitude, and all that comes with it, just to make this dream come true.

Now, there are some problems with Saotome’s worldview. But there’s more than a kernel of truth in his interpretation of things, and this background does a lot to make him a compelling protagonist for a TSF story like this. And after his off-screen transformation, the story steadily has the protagonist realize what he did. Changed his bodily chemistry on a fundamental level, signed away every right he had, and allowed some pervert to violate his body before he had the opportunity to truly see it for himself. He is simultaneously experiencing something horrifying on a level he never had to confront until now— a horror he was shielded from as a man— and has the opportunity to fulfill a long-term dream.

It’s something that this 72 page comic has ample time to delve into, giving the protagonist some much appreciated time and space to emote and work through these complex feelings… But then he is auctioned over by a bunch of fat ugly bastards. In a lesser work, this is where the protagonist would get mind broken and become what I (un)affectionately dub ‘sexual toilets.’ But no. Tansan has Saotome go through a spectrum of emotions as his body is used and abused by this man, but most of all… fear.

Saotome is left with dead empty eyes, but comes back to life as he is comforted and praised for his efforts by his handler. One who shows him a level of affection he had not experienced since he was a child. Saotome definitely has things to be afraid of, and reason to be miserable. But as he is laying down in his cell, all he can think of is how… desired he was. People paid a lot of money to be with him, he was pampered and cared for when he was done, and after being seen as replaceable or expendable for so long… he is valued. He gave up his rights… but he got his greatest desire in return. Or, as he so succinctly puts it, “With all this love, I won’t need freedom anymore!”

This would be a great ending to this story, but you know what the best part is? That’s just the end of part one! They made a sequel to it, and based on the raws (both parts cost $7, and that’s basically a sandwich), it’s got oodles of potential. So… get on that Gender.tf!

That all being said, I should probably comment on the art, as it’s not the most polished or refined, with certain characters looking more like rough cartoon sketches, and backgrounds being pretty minimal. It’s definitely by someone still honing their craft, but as someone who has seen a LOT of amateur art, they have some serious potential, and I love seeing them blossom. Plus, artists like this tend to have a lot of personality in their works, either intentionally or unintentionally.

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JK Kuricha ni Sareta Otoko [High Schooler Who Got Turned Into a Creature] by Marialite

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (7/23/2023) Dude, Whatever, It’s Summer!

…Oh FUCK YEAH!!!

While I don’t consider myself to be a true transformation fan, there is one form of non-TSF transformation that I just love, and it’s flesh monster TF! I just adore the idea of something human becoming this unruly and untenable amalgamation of flesh, with a structure that should not exist in accordance with the laws of nature. Something that could only be formed by a physical manifestation of utter evil, or by humankind trying to play god and just making something terrible! Hell, I love these things so much it’s amazing that I only ever included them in one of my novels.

Why haven’t I used them more? Same reason why I rarely do fusion. Because this stuff is pretty rare. To the point where I had to resort to stuff like the back half of Inside (2016), Pupa by Sayaka Mogi, and Carrion (2020), and the legendary Saya no Uta (2003). And if I don’t have inspiration to do something, I typically don’t do it. Creativity needs to be sparked by something.

So, you can imagine the look on my face when I reached the second page of this comic and saw a JK getting gobbled up by a phallic flesh monster. Who then morphs into a vagina and gives birth to itself, now in the form of the girl it just gobbled up. It’s a sick (in more ways than one) goopy TF sequence, and that’s only page 4! The comic gets a bit sidetracked from there, spending a good ten pages showing a pretty plain sex scene between the male protagonist and the titular JK/Creature. There’s some text to remind you of what’s going on, but the visual language is just that of two people having sex. I was expecting the worst at this point, but come page 16, things pick up… and it goes hard.

The protagonist, enlightened by post-coital clarity, realized he just fucked a flesh monster, and runs like mad, tumbling as he feels the residual effects of his actions claim his body. Shirtless and tattered, he’s approached by a female peer, looks at her through a viscous filter, and as he feels the inevitable, he tells her to run while she still can, but already it’s too late. His head then springs open, transformed into an aimless mass of flesh and muscle, tearing away from their confines in a form that should not exist. The girl screams as the rules of reality are broken before her, only for her to be silenced as the flesh lays claim to her, wrapping itself around her head. She is swallowed within seconds, her mind grows dim, and her final thought is the revelation that… this is her end.

…And that is barely the halfway point of this comic. It keeps going, moves at a positively rapid pace, and before you can even process what the HELL you just saw, it takes it to the next level. We’ve got rapid onset births. Biological mind breaks. And even more flesh monsters eating women alive! It just keeps going, and reaches a glorious high at the end… but what really cinches this comic has to be its artwork.

I like a nice anime art style that goes against the default and makes use of thicker linework and shadows— you could even call it my preference. So I was into things from the first panel. But then we get to everything else, and it’s a gosh darn master class. The stellar framing of each panel conveys a consistently unsetting mood. The creature is presented as this truly formidable thing, moving with such (implied) speed and weightlessness despite being so large. The sense of motion that oozes from each transformation. And of course the way it conveys emotions, managing to capture a full spectrum within its narrow scope, and doing a lot to make these characters feel like people. Marialite is a commissioner as far as I can tell, and I don’t know how much they spent on this comic, but whatever it was, it was well worth it.

If you just like TSF… then there’s barely anything for you, I’m sorry. But if you like flesh monsters, you’re in for one WILD ride.

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Slow Conversion by Onihidden

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (7/23/2023) Dude, Whatever, It’s Summer!

YEAH! We’re covering the good shit, the hood shit, and the wood shit. And this most defo is the wood shit!

Slow Conversion is a gag western Pokémon porn comic that’s about 25% shitpost, 25% introspection on a community that probably exists, and 50% earnestly dedicated to what it’s doing. But it’s from an artist who knew what they were doing, has refined skills, and took this material just seriously enough.

The comic begins with the protagonist trying to become a Hypno with a fat hog by hi-jacking Bill’s transformation device. You know, something from the Gen I games that raised SO MANY questions that the series never bothered to ask. But— like most millennials— dyslexia got the better of him, he typed in Pokémon number 79 instead of 97, and became a Slowpoke with a slow-pussy.

From there… well, the comic just sort of writes itself. The protagonist gets sent to a daycare by an Abra who knows a sex pest when they see one. He gets raped by a Tangela, because they’re the tentacle rape Pokémon. …Which is weird because Tentacruel is right there! Dude even has cruel in his name! But rather than just stay there like a good little Pokémon, the protagonist ventures off into the city, and gets captured by the cops for breaking and entering. The punishment? Being the Super Head Honcho for a real fat ugly bastard who speaks in porn tags!

Afterwards, the protagonist learns his lesson. That rape is bad, his plan was bad, and he should needs to work on his porn addiction. But instead, he was fucked so hard his mind is forever broken, so he repeats his mistake, but this time becomes a Vaporeon with a vape-pussy. …I guess that means it’s like taking a hit of that cinnamon apple ish whenever a bro sticks it in. (That’s a joke about unregulated vape flavors and a dead podcast.)

If my colorful recounting of this wasn’t clear enough, the core appeal of this comic, at least for me, is just how brazen and ungiving of fucks this comic is. Despite only being 30 pages, it has personality for days, an adorable art style, and really impressive coloring for a pure black and white comic. The expressions are wonderful. The cartoonish look contrasts the erotic elements in a way that I find low-key hilarious.

The sex scenes are drawn with the same rigorous attention to detail hentai taught me to expect… but it’s applied to cartoon animals who look like they taste like candy. And the dialogue is strong enough that I had a smile on my face from start to finish. …Except for that 9 page sex scene. I get why it was that long, but the grotesque shit combined with the harsh lighting kinda bogged down the climax.

Still, stuff like this is why I keep coming back to TSF comics. Because for every forty blasé snoozefests, you get something positively ill like this. …And I just realized that I talked about two comics about people turning into Pokémon and getting railed within four months.

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Joshikousei Sennyuu Repo ~Hanzaisha ga Onnanoko ni Hyoui shite mita~ [Schoolgirl Infiltration Report] by Marialite

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (7/23/2023) Dude, Whatever, It’s Summer!

Yeah, we’re doing two Marialite with only some Pokémon porn in the middle, because that’s just how things worked out. Though, I have to say that Marialite’s works, for as good as they are, usually have a limited range. They tend to be these wild high school skinsuit or general body stealing stories about one character who amasses a lot of power over another. I guess you could call them ‘TSF takeover’ stories if you want a punchy name that only a niche among a niche understand. This is… one of those, but takes things to a level beyond. A level of power fantasy that just makes me go… who do you get your brainworms from, because I wanna hit that dude up for some of that good ish.

Schoolgirl Infiltration Report is what I call a God App transformation story, following an unnamed misanthropic young man with an app that lets him possess other people, and do a whole lot more. Change their sex, turn them into mind slaves, give them a percentage of their awareness as they are possessed, and transfer his consciousness just by touching their hands. It’s a level of sexual power fantasy so immense that you should stop thinking about morals, sit back, and bask at what this psycho will do next.

For the bulk of this story though, the protagonist’s mission statement is just to have fun and absolutely decimate a school girl named Ayami for… no reason. Dude just thinks Ayami looks like a cute stuck up brat, and wants to make her life terrible however he can. Stealing her body while keeping her aware of the fact she’s being possessed. Possessing her friends and abusing her trust. Turning her into a boy for, like two pages, before reverting her back to normal. And pulling out some incest in a way that… I have never thought of before, but is dope as hell.

It honestly reads more like a stream of consciousness, but is given enough form, structure, and pacing to feel like a cohesive story, with just enough escalation and progression for things to… work. And with two chapters of story to go through, it has plenty of time to roll up the erotic ideas into this hefty clump of nonsense that is sent rolling off into the finish line, reaching the conclusion. A conclusion where… this erotic hell is just Ayami’s life from now on. Being treated as a sexual object by someone who can control her body and mind using just an app on his phone. She didn’t have a chance for a moment, because when in this subgenre, No One Can Stop Possession Man!

Anything else I can add? Well, I do need to give this manga some kudos for featuring three female-to-male TSF transformations. And not just the boring ‘I’m gonna be a girl but also grow a dick, because dicks are the ultimate rape apparatus‘ shtick that comes up a lot. I’m talking about an honest to goodness MILF to DILF transformation. Unexpected left field stuff like that really gets my mind going…

All in all, it’s a good time, has a lot of great creative energy… but you could also say the same thing about most of Marialite’s other works.

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Sexaroid VS Tenbai Ya [Sexaroids vs. Reseller] by Kouji

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (7/23/2023) Dude, Whatever, It’s Summer!

Kouji is one of my favorite TSF comic creators, so whenever a new translation of their work comes onto my radar, you can (now) expect me to cover it.

The gimmick of this comic is in the title. A scuzzy sexbot scalper has been buying them in bulk in order to sell them at a mark up during the high demands of a launch period. Basically what those Christmas ruining scumwads were doing during the PS5 and Xbox Series launch, but with bigger boobs and boxes. The sexbots come to life as the scalper sleeps, and in order to teach him a lesson in disrupting the market, they decide to engage in some twinification. …How exactly does that work? Nanomachines, dude!

From there… the story goes through the motions. The sexaroids (who I keep wanting to call sexdroids) help the scalper grow accustomed to his female body by gang raping him. First as girls, then as futas. They overwhelm him with pleasure, accelerating his transformation, gaslighting him into thinking he was always a specialty sexaroid, and right as he is at the apex, they give him a choice.

Either give up his reselling ways and go back to normal. Or give up his humanity and live a life of endless erotic bliss as a premium quality sexaroid! And as the conversion reaches its apex, he chooses the latter, gets boxed up, carried into the night by a conga line of seven sexaroids, and the comic ends as he is being sold to a man in a suit.

…Yeah, going through it again, this is probably one of the weakest works I’ve seen from Kouji. Not because it does anything wrong, but because it doesn’t do enough. Kouji is at their best when they have the transformation carried out beyond just a sex scene. When they can show the character coming terms with their changes while outside of the throes of sex. When you can see their soul and identity change as they embrace something else. Like a tokusatsu villainess, tokusatsu lady grunt, or a bottom getting dommed by a cis lady. But this story… is pretty much just one long sex scene, mind break, and that’s it. Great idea, needed like ten more pages of straight up story.

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Professional Possession by Imp Underneath

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (7/23/2023) Dude, Whatever, It’s Summer!

Imp Underneath is a TSF artist who I happened across about two years ago, and has consistently impressed me with their works, and on pretty much all fronts.

Their stories have grown more detailed and elaborate over time, expanding from shorter one-off comics to longer, more elaborate series. Their artistic evolution has been so rapid, vast, and varied I originally thought they were a commissioner, when… no. Their art style evolved that quickly, and their range is that broad. And I’ve been consistently impressed by both their grasp of the subject matter and ability to tell detailed stories within just a few pages. Hell, I still think that their three page HIJAX possession comic is rich enough to be the basis of a novel. I could go on about a LOT of their works, but… let’s just do their most recent one.

Professional Possession follows a college professor, Mr. Moore, as he gets drunk and solicits a body hopper to help fulfill his sexual fantasies. First with his “ice queen” boss, then with a student “like something out of a fairy tale.” Conceptually, kind of a vanilla, or basic, sexual fantasy (regular-ass people want to have sex with people they see during work, especially if they’re not supposed to). However, the matter of perspective struck me as a… curious choice as I started reading things.

Typically, the point of view character in a TF story is the one who gets transformed. The shapeshifter, body hopper, possessor, etc. Here however, Moore is the protagonist, meaning that the story is exploring a fantasy different from being someone who becomes someone else. Instead, the comic is more about the thrill of being with someone who can become anyone, fulfilling just about any sexual fantasy, while still being part of a close relationship.

All of which has an extra level of spice due to the adaptability of the person Moore is with. They look like people Moore knows, and can effortlessly fall into the role. But they are also capable of breaking character at a moment’s notice. It’s a different spin on transformation, and one I’m sure has its fans and detractors, but I still find it to be a compelling change of roles.

Plus, Imp does a great job of interjecting little bits of character throughout the story. Practically every page offers some extra flair of personality, between the framing, expressions, dialogue, or just little background details. It adds a lot of humanity to this world, expanding Moore and the hopper beyond the usual confines of a 38 page comic. However, something that really caught me off guard with this comic was how it ended.

The story very well could have concluded after the first 21 pages. The typical length for a comic like this. Instead, their relationship grows into something greater than a paid fling. It expands upon the hopper’s versatility, feeds into the previously detailed fantasy of a girlfriend with a thousand faces. But just as it starts to get into a groove, it accelerates the story to its logical conclusion… before kicking things into OVERDRIVE with its final three pages.

It’s bonkers, more concept than substance, and leaves the door open for a sequel that… probably should never come. Because the version left lingering in your mind is better than any reality. Not because I don’t think Imp has the geopolitical smarts. Because you need to know where to let the story end and where to let the reader’s imagination begin.

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Mahou Shounen Majorian by Ishida Atsuko

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (7/30/2023) Hoarding Games I’ll Never Play!

Mahou Shounen Majorian ran from 2005 to 2008 and went largely untranslated for over a decade, before Natalie.TF mainstay and TSF historian, Chari Shal, translated it back in August 2020. …She didn’t actually post it anywhere until earlier this year, but she sent me a copy of it back then.

Honestly, I didn’t think too much of it back then, but the comic later went on to cause “damage” to my good friend Cassie, who recently bought physical copies of all three volumes. …Even though she’s on universal credit and cannot read Japanese. What can I say? She’s an ojou-sama kyuubi in the body of a poor trans girl.

The initial pitch for Mahou Shounen Majorian is that it’s a magical girl series where the protagonists are two elementary school boys. Iori, a timid, effeminate boy who has grown up quickly due to his family life and his single mother’s demanding career. And Masaru, a brash and sporty boy with a hectic family life, being the youngest in a family with three older sisters. Masaru is Iori’s bully, using him as a vessel to vent his frustrations and assert dominance, but their relationship quickly begins to change after they meet two alien bunnies who make them both magical girls.

Well, ‘magical girls’ is a bit of a misnomer. Rather than turn them into female versions of their 9-year-old selves, they’re aged up into fully grown women, who go by Lio and Lu Masa. Initially, I thought this was just an excuse for ecchi crap involving prepubescent boys with voluptuous bodies. But the story mostly uses it as a way for these two little boys to become adults, become girls, and also become… different people.

However, the story also is not truly about the two’s roles as magical girls, or their brief encounters with aliens. Instead, it is far more of a character driven story, where the hook is seeing Iori and Masaru’s relationship go from antagonistic to loving. In learning more about their backgrounds and troubles. In watching them grow and develop a stronger sense of self. And getting to know the characters more through a scattering of side characters.

Everything related to the magical girl hoopla is more of a tool to initiate this growth, which is clear just from the naming structures. They fight monsters and get keys that let them open more gates, which contain tools that let them fight bigger and more imposing monsters. Trade in gates for doors, or closets. Realize that the monster designs are often objects, exaggerated versions of something banal, or giant animals. And consider that keys can themselves have multiple interpretations, and you get the idea.

Now, this all sounds rather promising, and the story has no shortage of potential. It actively wants to explore its protagonists in a variety of ways, push who they are as a person, and tell a narrative with a strong emotional core and even stronger themes. It is a story filled with impactful moments, wonderful ideas, warm and soft vibes, and oodles of potential. If one were to find this story at an adolescent age— like I did with my beloved Girl in My Dream and Trans Venus— I could see it being a personal favorite of theirs.

However, I felt that the glue that held this story together— the through line, build-up, and payoff of what it was trying to do— was kind of weak when I first read this story. And now, three years later… I still think it leaves something to be desired. For all the ideas and drive from its writer, the end result just feels a little too scattered. It feels more like a first draft, or a story that was written without a detailed outline, leading to the introduction of a lot of superfluous elements that probably should have been expanded upon, or outright cut. …Which I say as a writer who has done exactly that.

For example, there are four female supporting characters in this story. Masaru’s three older sisters, and a female classmate of the protagonists. Each of these four have a love for Iori/Masaru or their Majorian counterpart, and from an outline perspective, are good characters to have. However, the story struggles to find things for them to do more often than not, while also insisting on using them as part of its climax. Making them all feel important… while also being pretty one note and tropey as characters.

As for the two bunny partners… I don’t even want to try to explain what their plan was supposed to be.

I should also note that this comic was drawn by Ishida Atsuko, a highly acclaimed animator who worked on a bunch of dope stuff from the 80s and 90s, and her experience shows here. There are times when the comic can be gorgeous, with lovingly detailed full body illustrations, excellent framing, and character expressions that hit extra hard. It looks great at times, but it also strikes me as a comic where the artist has to rush to get certain things done and meet a deadline. It has a lot of extreme closeups, sketch-like illustrations, and a few page layouts that don’t flow as well as they should. Generally high quality, but with a few blemishes.

However, my biggest criticism of this work has to be its ending, which is a one-two-punch of… what? The emotional climax of the manga sees its two 9-year-old protagonists have sex. Which… no. Just no. And despite being trans as heck, the comic keeps Iori and Masaru as boys, but implies that they get together and have kids as adults… sort of. It reads like an ending that had to work around an editorial mandate, or the work of a creator who didn’t want to commit to a queer ending.

With that all in mind, would I recommend Majorian? …Absolutely, yes. It’s rough around the edges and in the details, but it has a lot of ideas and concepts that I would love to see other creators explore, and offers a sweeter and more innocent take on TSF.

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Boku wa, Onnanoko [I am, a Girl] by Takako Shimura

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (8/06/2023) Nothing Like the First Time.

So, this is a comic that has been on my radar ever since Chari handed me a few articles on TSF manga back in February. I downloaded it shortly thereafter, but it has been sitting in my ‘mangadump’ folder for 5 months at this point. So I dug it out to read it for this Rundown and… son of a— I’ve been bamboozled! This isn’t a proper TSF manga, it’s just a one-shot as part of a short story collection, and the closest other thing to TSF in this tankobon is a story about a mildly perverted salaryman befriending a trans woman. Which, for the record, is pretty well done, especially for the late 90s. But I suppose that is kind of to be expected, as Takako Shimura is also the creator of Wandering Son. A name you might be familiar with, as it is the go-to realistic trans anime and manga.

However, I can squeeze a few paragraphs from the first story, also called Boku wa, Onnanoko, as its views on gender are… perplexing for a creator so comfortable with queer subject matter.

The story is set shortly after an unexplained phenomenon caused the entire human population to undergo a spontaneous change in sex. Men became women, boys became girls, and it affected everybody of all ages. The protagonist, Tsukaki, wakes up two months after these changes, and finds their body has transformed into that of a young woman. Shocked but not discouraged, they go to school, meet a few of their friends, and take in how people are adapting to this change. Afterwards, they have a bath with their only present family member, their former sister-in-law, Kyouko, and relax for the night, thinking about how they’ll become a “fantastic woman.”

Reading it as the first chapter of the story, it offers a lot of set-up and hints about future characters who either ran away after the change, or are still in a coma after their transformation. However, as a one-shot, it all feels eerie in a way that I don’t think the creator intended. What happened to these people is a dramatic change. Something that should send ripple effects for generations, and change the paradigm that society uses to judge gender and sex. …Instead, most people just sort of accept these changes. Tsukaki’s classmates might not like this, but they just sorta have to deal with it. Kyouko has cut his hair and grown his stubble. And rather than retaining their masculinity or even resisting a bit, Tsukaki is all ‘I guess I’m a girl now.‘ The comic does say that there is some resistance to this change, but it never meaningfully shows it.

I want to say that the story is simple or unambitious… but that would be a damn lie! There is way more than just some ambition here. It sets up and establishes an utterly fascinating setting. The comic tries to tell a parallel story, with Tsukaki reading a book written by a child as they go about their day. But before it can do more than make an introduction, it just ends! There are isolated moments, a few panels and lines, that feel like the writer is really trying to say something meaningful about gender. Instead, it just feels… kind of empty… while also looking empty as well.

I’m not sure if this was intentional or not, but the world of Boku wa, Onnanoko is an eerie one. The streets look half as full as they should. The school only has a handful of students in it. And it visually looks indistinguishable from a story where the majority of the population just disappeared one day. Everything is still clean and people are trying to behave as if things are normal, but it feels like they are just in denial over how society was just irreparably changed. This visual approach could definitely work for a story like this, but we spend so little time in this world that it just feels… hollow. For all of this eerie imagery and for this rich premise… Boku wa, Onnanoko doesn’t have much to say.

…Also, the manga goes out of its way to highlight how trans people were also affected by this phenomenon. But rather than showing them experiencing euphoria with their new bodies, it shows a trans woman, post bottom surgery, revealing that she went “back to being a man.” Which… just raises so many questions. It is acknowledging trans women as women… but in the one instance where trans women would not want to be acknowledged as a woman.

Now, if this were a more contemporary work, I would probably read into this and ask what was going through the head of the creator. But this is a comic from a twenty-something in 1997. Clearly, they wanted to do something, while not knowing how to do it, or deconstructing why they want to do it.

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Muri na Kanojo [Impossible Girlfriend] by Ura61318

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (8/13/2023) Enrolled Agent of Chaos.

As an interstitial reminder, TSF Showcase is pretty much just a platform for me to gab on and gab off about TSF works. Things I think are good, things that get me thinking about certain common elements of TSF, and things produced by some of my favorite TSF creators. And this next example is firmly in the middle camp, as it is the first work from a new skinsuit/bodysuit artist by the name of Ura. Or rather Ura61318, because all the simple usernames have been taken.

The premise is pretty simple. Ken is a young man, has a mysterious girlfriend named Rei, and after Ken makes a passing comment, Rei reveals that she is a… Hold on, is there a proper name for people who can be worn as skinsuits, but are also capable of living on their own, without someone inside them? Because that seems a bit too niche to warrant a recognizable term. Anyway, she’s one of those, lets Ken into her body, guiding him via a disembodied voice, and leads him to have sex with her friend who’s also a sex worker. After a return to normal and a teaser for the next part, the comic ends after 20 pages.

Overall, nothing too remarkable, but for an artist’s debut work, it’s more than solid. Everything’s well composed and has a nice visual flow, proportions pass my ‘smell test’ even when skinsuits are involved, and the characters are both cute and expressive enough to be appealing. Admittedly, it does look a bit sketch-like in some spots, you can tell Ura is a self-taught artist who learned from trying to imitate manga/anime, and backgrounds are kept simple. But, you can literally see them improve as you read this comic, with the last two pages looking considerably better than the first two.

However, I am highlighting it up here because it did three things that struck me as unique.

One, it is another example of the ‘transforming girlfriend who can help the self-insertable protagonist fulfill his sexual fantasy’ genre. A genre that does not seem to be the most compatible with TSF, which is often either a power fantasy given to the protagonist, or something that is forced upon the protagonist. Here, the protagonist transforms, but only through the girlfriend’s own transformation into a skinsuit, which lays the groundwork for a power dynamic that I find to be… unique. It is one where one party has the power to be controlled, and clearly gets off on it.

Two, the bodysuit/skinsuit genre is largely populated by stories with a darker tone and connotations. They often involve robbing people of their humanity, turning them into objects, and using their identities as masks before discarding them or casting them back to normal. Impossible Girlfriend is in many ways the opposite from that. Both Ken and Rei want to do this, and enjoy the experience of being a singular person. Neither’s consciousness fades away. And the only iffy thing about it is not telling a sex worker friend about this impossible feat.

Three, this comic made me realize that a lot of skinsuit TSF manga are really into the idea of a male character wearing a female body… but not using their vagina. They go to the trouble of transforming into a woman, only to then reach into their vagina and pull out their penis, turning them into a girl with a dick. This is something that Ken almost immediately does with Rei, and… strikes me as just a weird decision in what is extensively a TSF story.

To me, the gold star, nearly indisputable, signifier of a TSF work is the transformation of the genitals— the outie becoming an innie. But what we have here is… pretty much a denial of that, with Ken using his penis despite being someone else. Why exactly is that the case? The simple answer is that… girls with penises are a very common fetish, and the creator wanted to cater to it. But why is it a common fetish?

Natalie originally continued this with a tangent about the appeal and allure of girls with penises, but due to disagreements with some readers, and a lack of relevance to the subject of TSF, it was not included in this compilation.

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BlazBlue – Remix Heart by Deko Akao, Toshimichi Mori, and Sumeragi

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (8/20/2023) The Quest for Quantified Quality.

So, here’s something I wouldn’t be checking out without multiple recommendations from my dear friend Cassie. Remix Heart is a manga spin-off of Arc System Works’ BlazBlue fighting game series, and centers around Mai Natsume. A DLC character from one of the latter entries, who I learned about when scrounging for transgender characters and TG transformations in video games a few years back.

I remember doing some light research into her back then, and after looking at her in-game design, I pretty much brushed her backstory off as yet another trope in a trope-filled anime fighter. As such, I was a bit curious if the manga detailing her backstory would actually give her more depth, or if it would just be some ecchi school days fluff. …And it is just some ecchi school days fluff.

Remix Heart is what I call a magical fighting school days manga. A story set in a fantastical world where people have anime super powers, magic is a thing that exists, but the world still evokes the vibe of a Japanese high school. The school is ancient, has numerous secrets obscured to the students, and is chock full of kooky characters with big personalities, but not much. Conspiracies, mysteries, cameos, and details for fans of the source material are strewn about. Despite taking place in a school, classes are barely shown or detailed, even though that’s the actual point of school. And the comic is far more interested in depicting school events. The sports festival, the beach adventure, cleaning things up and discovering something, you get the idea.

So, where does Mai fit in as the protagonist of this story? Well, she is a girl with a special ability, that of ‘super taste,’ which is kind of like the ability of the protagonist from Chew. Despite seeming like an odd quirk initially, it gradually blossoms into something more significant, enough for her to warrant the spot as a main character. She’s sheltered, quick to frazzle, and while receptive to friendship, she is still coming to terms with how the world of female friendships function. Changing, bathing, getting touchy feely, having pajama parties, stuff that anime girls wanton do.

…Also, she used to live as a boy prior to the start of the story, when she had a chance encounter with some magical doodad that turned her into a girl. Despite this, she rarely ever acts like a boy who was suddenly transformed into a girl. She is more concerned about being rejected by her newfound female friends than being a girl for the rest of her life. And though she says she wants to turn back, that’s mostly because she does not want to disappoint her father. All of which… it reminds me of a quote from a Japanese writer who has been thinking up TSF concepts since the 1960s and writing TSF stories since I was a toddler.

“Personally, I don’t think it’s very interesting when the character is suddenly a girl right away. It might as well be a normal story about a girl after that.”
Tsukiyomin, Sex Change Diary

And that… that succinctly describes my problem with Mai as a character. She is technically a TSF protagonist, but takes to the life, body, and role of a girl so quickly she may as well just be a cis girl. Not even a trans girl, as she never seems euphoric about her situation. She’s just… herself. There are moments where Mai ponders her situation, such as her mild identity crisis at the start of chapter 20. But I’m convinced that you could easily edit out all of these instances with general gender insecurities about her sexuality, sociability, and general ability as a person.

However, this is still my friend’s favorite manga, so what does she see in it? Well, I asked her, and the core of the reason she resonated with the comic so much is because of… vibes.

Remix Heart is about a boy becoming a cute girl, going to a school, making female friends, doing female activities, and being seen as female. Mai has a menagerie of female friends with larger-than-life personas and cute looks, who love and accept her without question. Every part of her design screams feminine, from her voluminous hair, her stylish ribbon, and a slim busty appearance that manages to be both cute and sexy. She still goes to a school, but never has to study, attend lectures, or do any of the boring crap. This school is only home to the fun parts, and the disappointment of reality is replaced with chuunibyou coolness!

That is the fantasy of trans girls who don’t like school and watch too much anime in their teens. To just suddenly become an anime girl and do anime girl things at an anime school in anime world. A world where every day is fun and happy, instead of an interchangeable deluge of dawdling while waiting for things to change or get better.

…But as an alternative breed of a trans girl who also watched too much anime in her teens, this does not appeal to me, like, at all. My patience for high school settings dwindles with each passing year. I’m 28, I finished high school a decade ago, and I feel way, way too old for this stuff. And the tropes, story beats, lore, and general vibe of this manga is… pretty much the reason I stopped watching anime. Because I find it to be boring.

Now, that’s not to say that Remix Heart is a bad manga. The artwork is good, paneling is good, the characters are fun, there is some solid tension to its climax, and I cannot say the comic in any way fails to do what it’s setting out to do. But I had to force myself to get through. …Which I did, but by the halfway point, I was just enabling auto-scroll.

It does not capture what I personally like to see from a TSF story. (Which is a mixture of coolness and commitment.) And the more I read, the more painfully obvious it became that Remix Heart is a comic for BlazBlue fans, period. It is not meant to draw in new readers. So, as someone not interested in BlazBlue, I guess you could say it has an entropy effect on my brain, attention span, and capacity to care.

…Get it? Because while I was writing this and finishing Remix Heart, BlazBlue Entropy Effect just released? Which has Mai Natsume as one of its five playable characters? …Eh, it was funny when I wrote it anyway.

In conclusion, Remix Heart is for fans only. 6.3/10. Natalie period tee-fee.

Also, I got bored while reading this comic, and made this shitpost. It did not really fit in this showcase, but it still made me chuckle, so… here it is.

**One day I’ll learn how to make real memes… *one day*.**

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BlazBlue Remix Heart Gaiden by Arc System Works

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (8/27/2023) Trust The Rippers, Not The Crackers.

After my prior showcase of BlazBlue Remix Heart, I got together with my buddy Cassie to discuss the manga in detail, going back and forth as she tried to show me the light. We ultimately agreed to disagree, but she convinced me to check out a supplemental part of Remix Heart, Remix Heart Gaiden. A bonus story included in BlazBlue: Chronophantasma Extend.

She found all four parts of the story (1, 2, 3, 4) on YouTube, but I thought the video quality was kinda low. So I spent $5 on the game on Steam (the wheel of fate turned just so that the game would be on sale), downloaded a 100% save file, and I watched (most of it) with Cassie. My thoughts? Well, it was about 90 minutes, so let’s give it a little review-like segment.

Despite being part of a fighting game, Remix Heart Gaiden is a… visual novel side story to the manga side story. I’d call that confusing, but that’s just how Japanese multimedia franchises work. It follows Mai as she attends her magical school for special warriors, and is split between two episodes. Both of which… honestly feel like a better version of everything the manga attempted.

The character writing is stronger, giving every member of Remix Heart a more immediately identifiable personality and manner of speaking. The addition of English voice acting does a lot to add a new layer of personality to these characters, making it far easier to become invested in them. And the presentation, while not as robust or expressive as a fully illustrated manga, manages to shine in its own way. Despite just being one pose entities, the character expressions do a lot to sell them and make them endearing. The mouth flaps are a cheap but incredibly effective way of making the characters feel more realized. And I have a lot of respect for how it handles its asset use.

Characters only have a few expressions. Backgrounds are limited and look to be recycled from other storylines. There are only three CGs in the entire story. And you have a lot of budget conscious decisions. Like having characters pantomime objects that aren’t there, using simple visual effects in lieu of a new art piece, and lingering on a background when something else is described. It sounds cheap… but that’s before recognizing what this game does with its camerawork. Zoom-ins, tilting sprites and the background, and moving the sprites around to illustrate motion. It’s all stuff I’ve gushed about in visual novel reviews in the past, but Remix Heart Gaiden managed to do all that for a piece of side content, and back in 2015.

As for the actual story itself? Both parts are honestly pretty tropey and don’t push the envelope. The first one involves Mai and her roommate Kajun going out to gather ingredients so they can make dinner for their classmates. While the second one involves the Remix Heart posse going through the school to investigate one of the seven mysteries. Both of which… would fit in with the manga nicely, for whatever that’s worth.

However, I need to spotlight the first part, as Mai’s characterization is far different than it is in the main manga, as she’s undeniably a TSF protagonist. She flops onto her bed with her bra on without washing up. She exerts herself because she forgets her body is different. She gets hurt and brushes it off even when she needs help. She lacks the gatherer and cooking skills typically associated with women. She’s still super timid around female nudity. And she thinks herself to be a burden, even when she is surrounded by people who love her for who she is. Which isn’t technically a gendered thing… but I view it as a trait learned by most AMABs.

It touches on a lot of familiar, if not predictable, talking points for a TSF protagonist, while ultimately being a very TSF flavored story. It is ultimately about Mai coming to terms with the differences of her new body, confronting the femininity thrust on her, and learning skills she was never asked to develop before now. All of which makes for a more than welcomed chapter in the story of Mai’s transformation, and helped me see her character in a new light. So, yeah, full points from me. Good TSF theming, good characters, and spiffy presentation.

…Then we get to the second episode, which… just feels like a chapter of Remix Heart extended into a 45 minute visual novel. It follows the main group of five as they stay at school during a three day weekend, investigate a spooky building on campus to solve a mystery. It has some lovely interactions between the quintet of cuties, but also feels a bit… aimless by comparison. It does not have much of a goal or real purpose, and all that I could gather is that this may be related to the main storyline, somehow.

It also fails to really capitalize on Mai’s status as a TSF protagonist. There is some reference to her past, but at this point in this story, she has more or less accepted this body as her own. She has gained enough confidence and comfort with this body that she does not really think about it as much other than her body. Heck, she kisses something, and the fact that she kissed it is not seen as a big deal. Rather than capitalizing on her growth, she is just the final form of 90% of MTF TSF protagonists: Just some girl.

However, just viewing it as a filler episode of an anime episode— which is basically what the second episode is— it’s pretty good. Good characters, good bits, and it’s comfortably unambitious. Not really my thing, but just seeing these characters do their thang can sometimes be enough.

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Doutei Ikki [Brotherhood of Virgins] by DOM

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (8/27/2023) Trust The Rippers, Not The Crackers.

…Okay, now it’s time for the fuck shit! So, in my routine TSF sniffin’ sessions, I sometimes find these utterly deranged and beautifully ugly works of art. I’ve already talked about Inucreamice before, whose works are almost a guaranteed mindfuck on some level. but I would be spinning in my grave if I didn’t mention the indelible Jpg whose ‘uggo-fucko-baller-ass-shit’ has the power of drilling into my dark mind. But today, we’re talking about an artist who gave up the hood life, and a work from a decade ago that just got a translation! (Danke desudesu, ya degenerate dastard.)

So… the basic premise of Doutei Ikki is that a class of Japanese high schoolers undergo a spontaneous class-wide body swap. Every boy becomes a girl, every girl becomes a boy, and immediately the boys go hog wild. Flashing their panties, manhandling their boobs, stripping down, acting like ornery fools in heat, and making most of the girls in boys faint from embarrassment. It’s something that I have seen before, but the level of energy on display here is just amazing. So much so that I’m doing a disservice by only posting snippets.

Things just move, just keep happening, and all spiral toward an ending that honestly needs to be seen to be believed. Reality itself is a fickle concept, as the story keeps drifting into flashbacks and internal monologues as the characters attempt to comprehend this chaos. The visual depiction of events drifts between both the world of the living and the spirit world, where characters’ true selves are given a banana yellow soul aura. …And the sheer expressiveness and liveliness on display here has to be seen to be believed.

This is deliberately disgusting smut, and every panel has something that is in some way hideous… but it is also so insane that, ten pages in, I realized I needed to showcase it here. Just from the way things are drawn, I can tell that DOM has the skills necessary to draw something more in line with the general modern anime aesthetic. They could draw like any other professional mangaka. …But they deliberately choose to go against these rules, mutating these standards into something that veers into the big book of don’ts.

The faces are wrong. The perspective is wrong. The world morphs and mutates in accordance with whatever the artist felt like. But the paneling… is freaking amazing. Every page is gushing with personality and passion for whatever is going on at this exact moment. And it is brimming with pride and confidence! It knows what it is and… whatever-the-fuck that is, it’s a damn good one!

…Okay, but what is it doing with this premise? Is it pretty much just rampant sexual acts? Kind of! It is easy to get lost in the frenetic energy and imagery, but there is a narrative through line. That of… tainting an idol? There’s probably a more succinct term for that, but that one is good enough for me!

The protagonists of this story are the school’s idol, Takane Riho, and some rotund otaku caricature referred to as Three Heads, but named Shin Sato. Riho is a prideful girl, and not only does she have her everything stolen from her as she is planted into the least desirable person in her class. Recognizing this, and being a bit of a misnathrope, Sato uses this as an opportunity to bring Riho down to his level. Stripping, dancing like a horny monkey, and threatening to shatter the image she so delicately cultivated for herself. Her mind enters panic mode, she tries to justify that what he is doing isn’t that bad, but reaches the conclusion that she can only save her pride and cull this chaos by… fucking herself. Which leads to a 36 page sex scene.

How do you even do that? By digging deep into the mind of the protagonist as she is forced to do something she finds revolting, asserts that she is better than this, and just completely loses herself in the experience. Becoming a slave to her new body’s male lust, being led astray by her onlooking classmates, and just when she has the opportunity to stop… it stops being a TSF comic. And as that happens, all hope dies, and only despair remains. Riho’s mind goes into a freefall as she is powerless against the inevitable, forced to engage with the vile reality before her, and seeing her harebrained scheme backfire. Then, as her flower is cast down to the earth below, there is a glimmer of hope… that explodes into just the worst shit imaginable.

Even beyond the already gross concept, Doutei Ikki is putrid, sickening, and absolutely deserving of the yellow screen of danger. It is something I cannot recommend to anyone who isn’t 100% down for every breed of fucked up shit. …But it is also something that I consider downright beautiful in its utter lack of shit-giving and the skill that went into its composition. Even after reading it twice and skimming through it three times for this write-up… I am still in utter awe of it.

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An Older Guy’s VR First Love by Violence Tomoko

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (9/03/2023) Let’s Imagine… TSF Mecca.

Let’s talk about a comic Chari recommended to me a while back, but was only given a full and official release late last year. But first, a primer regarding the subject matter.

The concept of VR is one that I am very reclusive of. Partially because I have been burned by technological dead-ends and worry about software that requires non-standardized peripherals. Partially because I feel as if I lack the social ability to participate in VR due to my living conditions. Partially because I’m certain it would make me motion sick. And partially because it does not neatly conform with what I personally like and admire about video games. Which is a… complex concept that I cannot neatly articulate, but ‘immersion’ is not one of them.

In my opinion, the best use case for VR is not something akin to a traditional video game, but rather something closer to VRChat. A way for people to communicate, hang out, and explore a virtual world. A way for people to socialize with and around others in a climate where anyone can be anything, and people can explore anywhere. A digital reality that brings people together in ways impossible in the real world, and allows people from radically different places and walks of life to form powerful bonds. Sure, this is possible without a headset, but head-tracking and a first-person perspective do a lot to make it seem more ‘real’ within one’s brain. It’s something I respect… and a core idea of this manga.

An Older Guy’s VR First Love follows Naoki, the titular ‘older guy’ who spends much of his free time in a VR world, going through isolated environments with the avatar of a teenage girl. In his perusing of these digital realities that will be erased in a few months, he happens across a curious person with an ‘indecent’ avatar named Honami. From this chance encounter, the two quickly form a relationship, with Naoki taking Honami on a tour of a dying VR world before end of service, and the two growing closer through their journeys. Spending nights alone in scenic vistas long abandoned, sharing their true selves and feelings without any filter, and gradually forming a deep friendship that blossoms into something romantic.

That alone is a strong message about how digital worlds like this can bring unlikely people together, and help them form bonds that would otherwise be impossible. But An Older Guy’s VR First Love is far more than just that. If anything, I would say it is one of the most thematically dense and message-filled stories I have seen in a good while. To the point where I almost feel as if it warrants a chapter by chapter breakdown highlighting its morals, symbolism, and the overall beauty of this work. Because there are just so, so many things I downright adore about this story.

The obvious symbolism of venturing to someone to the edge of the universe during the twilight years of their life. The way digital worlds are presented as vast fully featured worlds capable of just as much, if not greater, beauty than the real world, yet, much like human beings, will die. The way the bonds and love of its protagonists transcend into the physical realm as they finally meet. The way the protagonists act in the real world versus the digital world, while still being the same people regardless of the active persona. The eggy as hell justifications the protagonists have for choosing their avatars.

And that’s just the first half of the comic, before getting into all the generational and societal expectation stuff that comes into play when Honami’s grandson, Aoi, is introduced. It sees the protagonists live as friends, as lovers, spending their days together in both worlds, while sharing it with someone else, opening his eyes to what is possible, while figuring it out for themselves. It is the passing of knowledge to another generation, giving them the tools needed to figure out who they are and what they want out of life sooner. And in a world where generational divides are becoming increasingly contested and used to stew division, there is something truly sweet about seeing these three come together.

**Yeah, this comic *freaking goes places*! But no on-screen sex or icky ish.**

Then we get to the artwork, which is as beautiful and adorable as the comic’s themes. The character designs and expressions are adorable, the virtual world is presented as something majestic, and the sheer mood evoked by the shading is truly impressive for a black and white comic. However, what I find most compelling about it is how it chooses to render both the digital world and real world.

Initially, it is easy to see a dramatic style shift between how Naoki and his humdrum world look. You are going from an adorable anime school girl in cute clothes to a fat bald old man in a t-shirt and sleep pants. Things are dark, dreary, and exist in dull rooms in the real world, while the virtual world is full of sunshine and natural beauty. But as Naoki ventures out into the real world to meet with Honami, things take on a different hue. The characters’s expressions grow more extreme, more real, as they feel they can be themselves around others, and the world becomes brighter both figuratively and literally. Even after this, the worlds remain distinct, but the contrast between them is nowhere near as intense, because they no longer feel so distant.

It is a truly gorgeous comic that hit hard enough to get me all teary eyed in the end. …But I probably should ask if it is TSF or not, since that might be a contentious classification. It’s part of TSF Showcase, so… naturally my answer is yes, absolutely.

While I define TSF as involving a physical transformation that changes one’s sex on a biological or at least ‘characteristic’ level, I keep the definition open for exceptions. And here, the protagonists are effectively occupying different bodies of their own creation. They are embodying something of a different sex, which in turn changes how they behave, view themselves, and view others. Functionally, it’s barely any different than someone being TG’d when they enter another world.

Now, does that mean VRChat is effectively a TSF, body swap, and TF simulator? Pretty much. It still has quite a way to go before it is even on the level of An Older Guy’s VR First Love, let alone on a level where it can stimulate more than sight and sound. But the foundation is there. And for the folks that do use VR platforms to achieve these things— or primarily live online— I’m sure you’ll find it relatable. I know my friend Cassie did!

“I’ve never related to an old man so much before.”
Cassandra Catherine Wright

Also, support the official release, but comics are a PITA to buy digitally, so once you bought it, find a CBZ and use Manga Reader to convert it into images stored in your temp AppData folder. If you have issues finding it, just install Everything. I just learned about it a few months ago, and it makes Windows Search look like even more of a disgrace.

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King’s Proposal by Tachibana Koushi and Kurio Nemo

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (9/10/2023) Money! Money! Money! Is What I Need!

Hmm… something I’m going to need to consider for TSF Showcase is how I should approach ongoing TSF stories. I’m typically not a huge fan of ongoing stories of this manner. Mostly because I do not trust other creators to continue or conclude their work, and I know I will be able to discuss a completed story better than I would an incomplete story. Sure, I make exceptions for Student Transfer scenario reviews, but… actually, screw it. This is already almost 300 pages of manga anyway. Cassie said I should wait until it was done before covering it but… she doesn’t pay my domain fees, so I can do whatever I want.

King’s Proposal is one of those manga where it seems like it was formulated by combining a series of tropes, tags, and premises, all bundled together, and thrown at a writer/artist duo. The story centers around high school boy Kuga Mushiki, who finds himself murdered by some unknown force, only to be reincarnated in the body of the most powerful magician in the entire world, Kuozaki Saika. Completely thrown for a loop, Mushiki is greeted by Saika’s maid, Karasume Kuroe, who explains the somewhat complicated premise of this manga.

In this world, magic is real, and magicians are a special group of people who protect it from transdimensional monster attacks that happen about every 300 hours. If the monsters are defeated, all signs they ever arrived in this world are erased, and while monsters run the gamut in terms of strength, some are fully capable of destroying the entire world. Saika is the go-to defeater of high class monsters, but in a bid to save her life, she fused her body and soul with Mushiki. Rather than be a Birdy the Mighty situation, this instead sees Mushiki trapped within Saika’s power, with zero idea on how to effectively use the power he now wields.

As such, Mushiki needs to be trained, and seeing as how Saika is the headmistress of a school for aspiring magicians, the course of action is obvious. Through Kuroe’s maidly planning and diligent arrangement, Mushiki is sent to attend magic school… which is where the bulk of the manga takes place in its current form. Making it firmly a school manga before anything else, because of course it is…

You have a quirky assortment of teachers and administrative staff with designs that scream their importance. A world that promises great conflict and danger while making the protagonist OP as god from minute one. A somewhat complex arrangement of lore and background that needs to be explained to the protagonist and, by extension, the reader. An MtF TSF protagonist who is on the more chivalrous end of things, wanting to swoon Saika like a regular dandy boy, and gets weak when he must witness an erotic female body. A painfully transparent romantic subplot involving Mushiki’s estranged sister, Ruri, who has a reverence for Saika, and is a total brocon. So, naturally she’ll get all creamy when she eventually learns the truth.

Just from those last few notes, you can probably picture what this comic has to offer. A lot of familiar comfortable elements, a good amount of lewdness without being proper ecchi, and some long-winded explanations that makes this seem like it was originally a light novel… because it was.

This might seem like I’m gearing up to dog on this comic for being blasé and unoriginal. And it kind of is, as there is little here that I haven’t seen in some other form. However, there is nothing wrong with a familiar idea, or doing something that has been done, if you can deliver on the execution. …And King’s Proposal does.

King’s Proposal is executed with a high level of confidence. As if the writer is fully aware of what this story is, that this is a big old genre slurry, but is wholly invested in this idea, and has the skills needed to make this idea work. So, naturally I looked up who Koushi Tachibana is, and learned he was the writer of Date A Live. A light novel series so successful it’s getting its fifth anime season, and its premise also reads like a genre slurry. Or in other words, this guy clearly knows what he’s doing.

This sense of experience also carries over to the artwork itself, which delivers on pretty much every category. You have flashy action scenes, adorable slice of life moments, hilariously exaggerated expressions, good paneling, and a few pieces of imagery that really just cause the entire comic to pop. Also, the characters were designed by Tsunako of Neptunia fame so… yes, the cast is full of well designed cuties who stand out even while being fairly basic on a conceptual level.

In other words, as an ongoing manga, I think it is pretty good, comes from experienced people, and from the first six chapters, it lays a solid foundation to be built upon. …But how does it fare as a TSF story?

I have grown to expect more mainstream friendly works like this to undersell the TSF element, and relegate it to part of a character’s backstory. Often, it’s barely questioned, is just part of the backstory, and is used to have a female lead who acts a certain way. Naturally, I can’t tell how things will turn out without… reading the light novel to skip ahead, but there are a few things here that I found promising.

One, the protagonist does have the ability to switch back to a male form, and the last chapter presents the opportunity for a dual identity subplot. A subplot that… I normally don’t care for, but when TSF is involved, I love it. Like in Ranma ½ or Ame Nochi Hare! …Shit, I should talk about Ame Nochi Hare sometime…

Two, the protagonist is comically timid about seeing female bodies in underwear, and shatters at the idea of female nudity. That was basically me at age 15, so… I relate. I also like this level of hesitation early on, as it gives characters an arc to overcome, a defect to correct, and keeps the reader engaged assuming there is any development.

Three, this is about a character transforming into someone else, not themself, but someone else with a vastly different personality, life, and abilities. I know that some TSF-likers prefer things to be vanilla with a straight Nyotai TF, but one of my favorite elements about TF is… becoming someone else. Not just becoming yourself but a girl/boy. The need to impersonate another person, act like them, talk like them, and walk like them has so many more angles to explore. And it avoids the whole ‘you just created a new person’ thing that often relies on reality warping to undo. …Or coming out as trans, I guess.

Here, Mushiki and Saika are vastly different people, Mushiki never properly met Saika, so he needs to act like a confident queen of this school. And the contrast between who he is and who he is trying to be is a lot more interesting than… this effeminate seeming guy acting like a girl.

So, in conclusion, would I recommend King’s Proposal? Yes. …But you also need to have a pretty good stomach for something with this many tropes and this much genre slurring. I feel like I’m too damn old for high school stories at this point, and I rolled my eyes more than a few times as I recognized familiar elements. But if you are a bit younger than this old broad, and feed off of anime cuteness, this could be a great time.

TSF Showcase 2023-28
Kikaishikake no Eve [Clockwork Eve] by Haruno Suzune

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (9/17/2023) Natalie is a TOS Violation.

For this segment, I dug into my collection of… maybe 400 TSF manga and pulled one random example. Hoping to just get 500 words out of it. …But then I realized its politics are really messed up, and has a lot of stuff going on. So this one kinda got away from me.

Let’s start with an overview before getting deep into the roots, because otherwise I’d get too distracted. Clockwork Eve begins with an 18-year-old man, Gorou, breaking and entering into the home of an unnamed woman. After raping her, he is arrested and subjected to an experimental reform procedure, the Ludovico Technique, which involves “gender optimization” and “personality adjustment.” More directly, sci-fi drugs turn his body into that of a biological woman, and mind control makes him nauseous whenever he tries to behave ‘violently.’

Once the physical changes are complete, Gorou is given a part-time job, forced to present themself as a woman named Yui and, like a TSF hentai protagonist, winds up getting raped in a public bathroom by their aniki. This traumatizes the protagonist, who is found and counseled by a man named Kyouji. A psychiatrist who immediately breaks several conflict or interest and ethical rules by letting the protagonist live with him while administering robust treatments. During this arrangement, the protagonist, who is now fully presenting as female, begins developing signs of androphobia, which Kyouji treats via a drug that comes with a side effect of memory loss.

Cutting ahead to months later, Yui has fully acclimated to her role of a housewife who spends most of her days in her new home, and proceeds to ’embrace her role as a woman.’ Getting measured for a bra, going to a salon for a haircut and makeover, and rewarding her male partner with sex as the day comes to a close. During this sex scene, Yui struggles to recall ever having sex as a man, let alone being a man, before accepting her role as Kyouji’s partner. A role that, as conveyed via the prologue, she maintained for at least two years.

…Well, that’s pretty dense for a 45 page comic, so let’s go through four things I want to say about the story, starting with its depiction of justice and the law.

In the comic, Gorou is established as an orphan who did not receive a full education, struggled to find career opportunities, housing, or money, and resorted to a life of rape and robbery. Depending on where you are on the political spectrum, Gorou was either a rotten kid who needed his life to be taken away from him. Or a victim who society failed to support and nurture with education, stability, housing, or a reliable job he could perform. But regardless of what should happen to him, he is immediately arrested after the act, tried harshly, and enters a program to rehabilitate him, while sacrificing his autonomous rights.

Whether this is a good or bad thing is presented in varying lights throughout the story. With Kyouji explicitly decrying the program for being inhumane. Gorou being inhibited by it repeatedly, while rendering him unable to harm others, but also leaving him unable to defend himself. And the broader society being presented in a way that implicitly makes it seem like a just punishment, due to how the law is presented throughout the story. In the two instances they are depicted, the police are hyper-competent, punish rapists right after they commit their crimes, and based on what happened to Gorou, they are not dealt a light hand. (When they are in many societies around the world.)

I find this all interesting, as I cannot tell quite where the politics of the Haruno Suzune are. If they believe the mechanisms of the law (in Japan) are used to unjustly harm people. Or if they are used to bring order into the world, and correct the ills of society. Because I truly think you can read it both ways.

Secondly, this story features one of the worst examples of unethical behavior from a doctor that I have ever seen in a work of fiction. Kyouji is presented as an honest upstanding man who simply wishes to help a hurt young woman, and throughout the story, there is never a hint that he acknowledges what he is doing is… wrong. He uses his credentials to grow closer to someone who just underwent a traumatic event, inviting them into his home, and insisting that it is not safe for them to leave. He distances Gorou from his facility— which should be against his parole— and becomes the center of Gorou’s world.

Kyouji is presented as altruistic, and Gorou/Yui, traumatized uneducated child that they are, never questions whether Kyouji is a good person. But just typing out what they do, and remembering they are a doctor who needs to adhere to the Japan Medical Association, makes them seem like a manipulative bastard who preyed upon a vulnerable person. Why would he do that? …Because he wanted a younger, hotter wife after his last one “passed away in an unfortunate accident.” Uh-huh. A likely story. And boy, it sure is convenient he kept all her stuff around and she had her own bedroom. You know, like most married couples.

It is sinister enough to keep the reader in suspense for the villainous pop off… But I actually like how it never confirms this incredibly reasonable suspicion. Sometimes, denying the truth is the sweetest truth of them all!

Thirdly, this story is an example of a ‘punished to become a woman for the good of society’ story. This is a complex subject that could warrant its own essay, going into long-standing ideas of sexism, gender roles, and the fertility and birth rates in Asian countries with declining populations. And as a TSF concept, people have been thinking of it ever since at least the 1960s (see Sex Change Diary by Tsukiyomin and Tsukiyono Marron).

It is an idea that openly disregards the gender identity of another in favor of authoritarian control, viewing people as mechanisms to fuel a society and government. It presents becoming a woman as becoming an inherent lesser, of being robbed of a natural privilege and power entitled to men. And is a punishment that utterly fails to address the myriad issues that can lead someone to do bad things.

However… it is also presents a world where if someone is so bad at being a man, then the government will make them transition. It is a form of state-sponsored transition, and that’s something basically every trans person wants. Because not only does it mean they don’t need to spend tens of thousands of dollars on getting surgeries, but it can be seen as a more thorough, socially accepted means of transitioning. So yes, this is an authoritarian nightmare… But ‘do crimes and get a full ticket to transition,’ is a pretty damn appealing idea to trans folks.

While the final element that stuck with me while reading this story is how it… both is and is not presented as a tragedy. This story can be read about a man who was robbed of his body, his autonomy, his memories, and his identity. By the end of the story, Gorou is fucking dead. Yui does not look like, act like, or remember being Gorou, and has more in common with the woman Gorou raped at the start of this story. Meaning they look almost exactly alike. Huh. Almost like that was intentional or something.

None of this was consensual. The entire serial rapist to loving housewife pipeline is screwed up. And the more I think about this comic, the more I flip through it, the more wrong this entire concept seems.

…However, it can also be seen as a story of rebirth, of blossoming into a new person, of being freed of one’s ills and being transformed into someone who fits into society, rather than harming it. Yui is a happier, more fulfilled person than Gorou ever was, and leads a life where she has a deep connection with another person, food, and shelter. Sure, she might not be educated, but who needs smarts when you’ve got happiness? Socialists, that’s who!

While reading, I also couldn’t help but be reminded of a certain fantasy I’ve been seeing crop up in the limited TSF flavored circles I check. There is a group of young trans women whose ideal fantasy is to forget their male lives and identities, and become a loving housewife. They just want to stay home, cook, clean, and spend time with their partner at the end of the day, possibly ending it with some lovemaking.

It is a lifestyle that, inarguably, has its appeal. It is low stakes, comfortable, and is punctuated with a deep connection with another person. …But is also surrounded by literally 70 years of just the worst discourse that I’m going to just end here. Because I don’t want to shit talk über radical feminists from the 70s, and left-leaning folks waste too much brain power on capital-C Conservatives.

In conclusion… I think Clockwork Eve is dope, actually. It’s a story with a messy underbelly that you could easily miss if you are reading through it quickly enough, or just looking at the raws. But the more I thought about it, the more meaning I saw in it. It is simultaneously a wicked story about the evils of humans and the systems they create. And a story about how a misguided youth found her true calling in life all thanks to an efficient government and a kind man who gave her a life with everything she lacked.

…And this is just something I pulled out semi-randomly, having just thought it was alright when I first checked it out. Huh. Either I’m getting too lenient with what I expect from a TSF comic and pulling blood out of a stone, or I’m getting better at this analysis game.

TSF Showcase 2023-29
Watashi no Karada, Okashi Shimasu [Rent My Body] by Fujiya (Nectar)

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (9/24/2023) Ai’s Time Warp and Premise Predicament.

Inspired by a fresh translation from the good folks at Gender.tf, let’s talk about a body swap anthology series that managed to, surprisingly, pass me by for a while. I do try to stay up and up with the more erotic end of TSF comics. But I don’t have the same thirst that kept me digging as a teen, so it’s easy for cool stuff to pass me by. Especially with how fragmented the catalog is on a lot of sites, as there is no one true repository. Personally, I think it makes more sense for every site to try and offer every one of these things but— No, no, I’m talking about five comics in an anthology series today, so I need to focus!

Rent My Body is an anthology series that follows pairs of young men and women as they happen across a magical body swap app titled… Rent My Body. But rather than be a transformation God app, this one is actually fairly limited. It only switches around male and female participants, requires some form of unspecified consent mechanism, and despite being an online app, it requires both parties to be in the same room together. Specifically, having them share two sets of earbuds, which I honestly think is just a wonderful bit of imagery and imagination. It’s shorthand for conveying a level of intimacy and comfort, is normal enough to not be seen as an ostentatious means of swapping, is silly in an almost childish way, and sorta has a cartoon logic to it. I like it! (Actually, upon re-viewing the series, it seems like that feature was dropped.)

Part one follows a pair of students who are really into opposite sex POV porn, and want to experience the real deal— the raw deal— with each other after being paired up. Part two follows an idol who wants to take a break from the ruthless rigor of idol-ing and just be an average boy, while the male protagonist wants to experience what it’s like to be a somebody. Part three sees a reclusive boy with self-insert protagonist eyes switch bodies with a gal/gyaru/gentrified ganguro who fucks old men for phat cash. Their arrangement has the gal acting as the boy’s pimp, getting all the cash while the boy gets wrapped up in the thrill of getting just… wrecked by hairy old man dick.

Part four centers around an otaku schmuck who switches bodies with a bunny girl in need of cash. Granting the man all access to a hot body during the off hours, while the woman gets to work high paying construction jobs so she can pay off her rising living expenses. While the latest part five is centered around a love quadrilateral where one man and woman want to be with the other’s best friend, only to realize that they like each other better. Namely being in each other’s body and having sex, which I would really like if it resulted in a lowkey permanent body swap, but at that point, it would just be Trade My Body.

Akumako: “Hello and welcome to BodyStop, where you can buy, sell, and trade new and used bodies. My name’s Akumako, how may I help you?”

Now, all of these are, in my mind, good premises for a body swap, as they all function as dual stories where both parties receive something they desire. They both have a reason to swap. They both gain something from the experience. While the focus is predictably always on the MTF party, it acknowledges that the FTM party is also having a blast in their new body.

There’s something amicable and strangely pleasant about the quid pro quo relationships these pairs enter. While their relationships are similar, there are always just enough differences to prevent them from feeling like true repeats of the same story, but with a different genre of anime girl. And it all represents a world where body swapping is used as a force of good. Something to help people by introducing them to new experiences. I mean, the worst thing any of the main TSF protagonists— a sect frothing with scumbags— do is a little unapproved masturbation. Which in terms of the awful things you can do with someone else’s body is… like a three on the ten scale?

There is a lot to love, a lot to look into with these comics… but they are also limited by the fact that they are 30 page hentai comics, and need to be centered around sex. The sex scenes do indeed play a role in the broader story, with both masturbation and traditional PIV penetrative sex being used to acclimate the main characters to their bodies. …But they go on for just a bit too long, and often hinder where the narrative can go.

This gives these works what I call a ‘sampler quality.’ As they offer enough ideas, follow through, and general flavor to satiate the reader’s palate, but not quite enough to feel like more than a morsel. Which, as a writer, is sometimes all I need or want, as if I want something to be extended, changed, or expanded, I could always write it. This applies to the entire anthology… Except for the fifth installment— Watashi no Karada, Okashi Shimasu. Jiraikei Joshi Hen or Rent My Body 5 Crazy Chick Edition— which is straight dope in my book.

Rent My Body 5 begins with a double date between two couples. Seina, Hina, Hayato, and Hiroki. Male protagonist Hiroki wants to be with the pure and pretty Hina, while the slightly brutish Hayato wants to be with the cute, yet crazy, Seina. The first drinking date goes well, Seina meets with Hiroki at the family restaurant… Family Restaurant, and the two make plans to help each other hook up with their desired partner. Seina takes the lead and, through the magic of storytelling, the two find the Rent A Body app on their phones.

With this, Seina initiates her plan to play matchmaker: Have her and Hiroki switch bodies and have sex so they can become better at sex. Which… makes some sense, I guess? And once the two are naked and in bed together, you get what has to be one of my favorite collection of panels from a TSF comic in a hot minute.

It starts with a first-person shot from Hiroki’s perspective, looking down at his original body’s penis as he is about to be penetrated. Then, when the penetration starts, things are shot into a third person perspective, showing both the insertion and the initial shock from the MTF protagonist as they feel every part of their new form. Things then go deeper, focusing on the action, on the joining of these two bodies, with an X-ray shot bordered by the look of shock, mirrored across both faces. Before jumping back again, showing the two, already lost in the throes of sex. Shock painted on their faces, still drifting from their minds, as the very world they exist within becomes filtered and warped with dark splotches and white specks.

From there, the two have sex, with both getting lost in pleasure, and greeting the morning coated in sweat and surrounded by tissues. Despite being… tired and sore as all heck, they decide to go on a date as each other. They use their knowledge of their respective friends to schmooze things over and get them primed for a second date fuck. Seina and Hiroki switch back to their original bodies as this happens, and as they begin their reaction is a resounding… “HUH?”

They realize that doing it as themselves pales in comparison to doing it as each other. So they return for a round two… or twelve depending on how you count these things. In the act, they confess to each other, deciding to become a couple instead of getting together with their friends, and effectively promising to always do it like this, because it feels so good.

If I was in charge of the story, it would end there with a one page conclusion establishing that they pretty much stayed this way, because why bother hopping back and forth? Instead, Nectar decided to play into the fact that the female protagonist is a ‘crazy chick’ and end with her displaying some obsessive tendencies. Which… works, but I think the most ‘crazy chick’ thing Seina could do would be ‘delete’ the app and keep them this way, because if they swap bodies, then they need to stay together, right? Right?!?!

On that note, let’s talk about Seina’s plan. From her introduction, it’s clear something is up with Seina. She fakes a shy demeanor in her introduction, but has these psycho eyes, a glare that could kill, and is clearly trying to get her pretty little hands on the Rent My Body app. Why? That’s… open to interpretation! It begs the question of how genuine Seina is with her actions. If she is truly getting lost in the act of having sex as a man, or if she is merely acting because she spotted her target and developed this harebrained scheme to become him. It’s not especially clear, and I think that works well here… even though part of me suspects that this might just be due to creative drift during this comic’s production. After all, comics like these take months to complete.

TSF Showcase 2023-30
sWitch Time by TSFSingularity & MassivePinkZombie

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (10/01/2023) How Are ‘Real’ Video Games Profitable?

TSFSingularity is a group that, conceptually, I adore, as it is fully dedicated to the production of original high-quality commissions of TSF comics. In fact, I supported them for several months back in the group’s earlier years, but stopped due to two reasons. One, every creator I like has started pivoting to Patreon, and my average bill is up to a frightening $125/month, even after some culling. I’m not made of dough, I’m made of meat, and there’s only so many kidneys I can sell!

Two, their works rarely impressed me. Not because the quality of the art was bad— they consistently commission good artists and there is a lot to appreciate on the visual end of things. But it’s harder to tell a story within a few pages, especially when several of them need to be devoted to sexual activities. I understand that’s what people generally want… but not me. I’m here for the plot, thanks.

Secondly, the World of Spirits single-player mode for Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is lowkey one of the coolest concepts for a grand TF story of all time. The premise for World of Spirits is, quite simply, about spirits of characters manifesting the physical form of another, altering them with attributes based on the spirit. Sometimes it sees female spirits manifest male forms, sometimes it sees male spirits manifest female forms, and sometimes it involves a change in species. Plus, the mechanical use of spirits, of equipping spirits to a physical character, just opens up so many avenues for possession and body swaps that it overwhelms my mind.

It’s such a good premise that, five years later, I’m still bummed nobody ever really tried to do it properly. There were some comics and artists who joined in on the fun, but it was a fad and, despite the success of Ultimate, nobody really stuck with the idea for that long. Hell, back in 2019, I actually thought about doing this overly ambitious project involving a 52 part epic featuring 50 unique swap pairs. But it never got past the spreadsheet phase. I gave up and wrote Psycho Shatter 1985 instead. Honestly, stuff like this makes me wish I was thrown in jail, given a computer, and told to write 5 million words before I was set free. (Which I could probably do in three years unless I had to deal with prison bullshit). Because with all that time, I would wind up writing something as insane as that.

…Anyway, let’s talk about sWitch Time!

sWitch Time is a comic series that started as a one-off Smash Bros. body swap comic, but gradually grew more complicated and elaborate as sequels got strapped on. With the comic just recently seeing its fourth installment. Meaning we’re going to have a lot to go over, and most of it is pretty dang DOPE!

The first part begins on Mario Galaxy, where Pit and Bayonetta are going at it on the side of a house, like a pair of dirty dogs. Samus wanders onto the stage, sees this, and gets swapped by Pit, who is revealed to actually be Bayonetta. With the swaps instigated and characters set as Bayonetta(Samus), Pit(Bayonetta), and Samus(Pit), things shift inside the house and evolve into a forced threesome. With Samus(Pit) pinned to the bed, Pit(Bayonetta) forced to obey his assertive witch mistress, and Bayonetta(Samus) enjoying the perks of a human-dinosaur-parasite-jellyfish hybrid. …Don’t @ me! The Chozo are dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are ancient birds, and Chozo are ancient space bird people. Ergo, Samus is part dinosaur!

Honestly part one is pretty whatever. It’s a somewhat convoluted three-way swap, has little story, and exists for a sex scene, more or less. Part two though? That’s where things get more going.

First, with substantially improved artwork, in pretty much every way. Expressions are more pronounced and varied. The action of the comic is more intense and dynamic. And the overall level of detail is a lot higher. While the premise shifts to the tried and true fat ugly bastard X ojou-sama swap, with Wario and Palutena. (A TSFSingularity regular if my archive is any indication.)

Wario(Palutena) immediately starts stripping and fondling himself, Palutena(Wario) implores him to stop to no avail, and the contrast of despair and relentless ‘unladylike’ perversion clash… for four pages. After which Wario(Paluneta) gets teleported, leaving Palutena(Wario) to get intimate with her new body with the help of the sWitch Time Fuck Crew. …Offsecreen, because there are more ambitious things in store.

Namely Wario(Paluneta) discovering that Palutena is not the pure goddess of light she appears to be, as she has arranged a sexual event with inexperienced Japanese maiden, Lucina. (I know she’s not actually Japanese, but long, straight dark hair and a slender body means Japanese in manga language.) Wario(Palutena) goes hog wild, poppin’ his titties out, slurpin’ up some “delicious maiden juice,” and wishing he has a dick to gobble this all up. …Only for Captain Falcon to show up, wearing everything but his suit and undies, with his nine inches rock hard.

Wario(Paluneta) tries to skirt out of this… but Cap is too determined to show off his moves, and things evolve into another threesome, but one that I appreciate because of how much stuff it does. The scene changes positions regularly, while playing into the idea of Wario(Paluneta) not acting like his perverted self, but like the secretly perverted Palutena. It’s still a well-established trope, the refined lady who is secretly a slut, but in a body swap like this, it’s a fun little addition. And I’d be lying if I said Captain Falcon’s inclusion didn’t spice things up a lot. Dude’s confidence and bravado work really well in the context of a hentai comic, and he manages to pull off the faceless protagonist design just by wearing his usual mask. It’s like he was born to play this role!

Then things get to part three, where the high quality is maintained and the focus is improved. The comic begins with Bowser and Pyra fighting, the sWitch Time crew enter the stage to spice things up, and leave with the swapped duo knocked out. Bowser(Pyra) is the first to wake up, because girl bodies just recover faster, and decides to have some fun. Namely chaining up his former monster body for his sexual pleasure, while promising to let Pyra(Bowser) go if she plays along.

This leads into two sex scenes that both follow what I call an FtMM (female-to-male-monster) dynamic. Where a swapped female character in the body of a male monster has basically three possible reactions they can have to their new form and seeing the male monster flaunt their body as a relentless pervert. They can A, be passively disgusted by the event, and choose to disengage from the situation, while remarking about how, despite the gross factor, the act of sex feels so good. B, use their newfound strength to just fuck the shit out of their body snatching partner, but not in a way the FtMM character finds pleasureable. In a way where she is trying to hurt her original body with her fat monster cock. Or C, lose herself in her newfound monstrous form, embracing her newfound lurid side, and becoming the perverted bestial monster she appears to be… at least for the duration of the sex session.

…As a note, I am not an expert on monster fuckin’! If you have more things to add to the spectrum, put me on blast in the comments below.

This comic provides us with the first two, featuring Pyra(Bowser) as someone begging for mercy as she is sexually pleasured/tormented by her true form. Before Bowser switches over to Mythra mode, and Mythra(Bowser) aims to get even with the help of her Giga Bowser Dick. This could be an instance where Bowser(Mythra) realizes that rape ain’t so great, but… he’s in the body of a busty blonde. So of course he’s straight loving it, even as he is stretched, pounded, and gouged with a spiked club and given a supa doopa Koopa creampie. …Thus leading to the ending, which takes a delightfully cartoonish bent. Perfectly appropriate way to end a story about a turtle dragon fucking a sword slave with honkin’ huge tits.

…But then there’s part four, and part four straight up doesn’t give an iota of a shit or a fuck, and is just pedophile gangbang bestiality bullshit.

More specifically, this part centers around Bowser Jr., who I guess is technically 13, but… he still wears a bib, so he’s coded to be, like, 6-years-old? Who switches bodies with Smash Ultimate Zelda. A rendition based off of the 16-year-old rendition of the character from A Link to the Past. Also, the Koopalings are involved and… they were originally believed to be Bowser’s children, but still look like children, so… I’m gonna say they’re teenagers.

Things open up on Bowser(Mythra), fully adjusted in his new body, dressing up basically a Bowsette outfit, stroking Zelda(Bowser Jr.)’s fully matured turtle boy dick, making her cum. Demoralized and crying, she is shown Bowser Jr.(Zelda) twerkin’ on the floor, and is told that she needs to fuck her body to get it back. Zelda(Boswer Jr.) chooses to believe in this body thief, and what follows is… just this utterly shameless escalation of wackadoo sexual antics. Something so wild, weird, and cartoonish that… it stops being porn and is just a spectacle.

You’ve got a little turtle boy squelching out princess pussy juices. You have a clown car with piranha plant tentacles that nom up clothes nipples alike, while fucking just as good as any dick. And then you have a full on eight person gangbang, which should be just too much, too many people trying to get something in, but it really isn’t. Everybody gets a turn, everybody gets their fun, and while they get their not-so-little turtle penises tuckered out, they get reenergized and come back for more and more. All of which is excellently demonstrated across two single angle pages that just really do a great job of capturing the character of the scene, with cute little interactions between the characters. They’re just having so much fun~!

But it also does not forget the emotional core of this chapter. Showing Zelda(Bowser Jr.) lose her way as she discards her pride, embraces her sexual urges, and sees her once pristine body become a sexual object. And seeing Bowser Jr.(Zelda) becomes a queen of cum, withstanding and taking dick after dick, tentacle after tentacle, like a gosh darn pro, until… he just wants a break. Because unless you’re a certified Black Gal Bitch, you’re gonna be begging for some sort of release after being the one piece of ass in an eight person gangbang.

…Okay, I’ll concede that it’s narrative end is a teensy bit weak. But the sheer sight of seeing this all play out, going on and evolving over 28 pages, is as wild as it is… just fucking disgusting on, like, every level. It has character for days, oodles of personality, and escalates things to such an extreme that… I don’t know where things could go from here, unless the fifth installment is just a full-on Everyone is Here orgy. Which would be a certified Black Gal Bitch to draw.

Overall, what I like most about sWitch Time is its sheer dedication to its premise. It interjects some cool and creative ideas to the story of these swaps, and offers an attention to detail that is, quite frankly, surprising considering what this comic is meant to be. It started pretty plain before shooting up to the goldarn stars. It delivers on an idea I’ve been carrying with me for almost five years, and in a way that’s… beyond anything I could have imagined.

TSF Showcase 2023-31
Crossed Signals by Cinnamon Switch

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (10/08/2023) If You Don’t Like ‘Em, Kill ‘Em!

Wait… this isn’t a TSF comic! This is a visual novel from the developers of Mice Tea!

After many delays, I reviewed Mice Tea in May of this year, and while I was not relentlessly gushing about it, I was incredibly pleased by the game. Its writing, characters, artwork, and general use of transformation, all made for a truly special experience that I would strongly recommend to anybody with a passing interest in TF.

Now, I am used to the more typical video game release cycle. Where a game comes out, the developers behind it go quiet, gesturing to the fact that they are working on something new, and waiting several months or years before revealing what comes next. But developer Cinnamon Switch wasted no time before announcing not one but two new titles.

They threw out a teaser image for the canonical sequel to Mice Tea, Coffee Buns, on May 30th. A title that aims to take everything Mice Tea introduced with its Kemono Tea, but take it to a new level while focusing on a cast of new characters. It made perfect sense, and seemed like something everybody who liked in Mice Tea would also be interested in. But then, on June 17th, less than a month later, they announced Crossed Signals. A body swap visual novel involving a cast of college students. …Okay, I’m not super keen on the fact that they are going back to students, when part of the reason I loved Mice Tea so much was that it involved real people. But screw it. This is exactly the type of shit I love, and coming from as much of a dream team as I could ask for. Even more than Dream Team Studio, because you can’t have a team of one.

Said dream team is led by Gunzil, a writer/programmer of Mice Tea, who I previously highlighted as a former Student Transfer dev, based on some Discord discussions I found when looking up Eliza Velasquez’s name. …But according to the Itch.io page for this game… Gunzil isn’t just someone who was just part of the dev team early on and left after making half a route. Oh no! Gunzil is freaking Luckysquid! As in MemSwap and Leona Swap lead writer Luckysquid. As in, the person who also made Strange Sunday, Gyara Ara~, and Yui-nduction. …And despite having announced their retirement from ST back in April, they are still working on Student Transfer. …Holy shit. It’s like they’re trying to get the first Natalie.TF Lifetime Achievement Award.

While the primary art duties are being handled by TheTransformistress, who’s been delivering TSF illustrations, pin-ups, and short comics since 2020. She has a habit of making boobs and asses look like they’re some combination of superballs and silly putty, and gives every girl a set of badonkers, but she’s a fantastic artist once you get over that. Her coloring is superb, her expressions are positively gushing with life, and her style is distinct enough to be immediately recognizable. I’m not going to do a TSF artist tier list (I could, but what would even be the point) but she’d definitely in A-tier, easily.

I am of course planning on reviewing Crossed Signals when it’s finished in… however many years. But for now, let’s take the super early initial release, containing an initial draft of the introduction route, before veering into the first day, or rather evening, of the Jennyswap route.

The game follows Sam Laine, a 21-year-old computer science major, trailing through life as he makes his way through young adulthood, yet feeling like he is missing something. Whether that be a wider circle of friends, a more structured life beyond the doldrums of classes and coursework, or possibly just a girlfriend. He’s very much a protagonist meant to be relatable to… the primary demographic of body swap enthusiasts. He’s a White dude who likes computers and video games, has undercooked social skills, and does well in school, but isn’t aiming for much beyond his degree. (Even though a 3.7 GPA looks real nice on a CV.)

After establishing the central cast of this story, it introduces the main body swap apparatus. An innocuous flip phone Sam’s friend gives him to replace his broken smartphone. After garnering enough courage to finally get the digits of the cute girl in his math class, Jenny, Sam inadvertently activates the body transfer feature. The two are left stuck in each other’s bodies while the device recharges, and because the thing is powered using a mini USB cable (based on the summary in-game) it will take days for it to recharge.

This forces the two to work together, collaborate, and impart the necessary information for the other party to assume their lives. Their schedules, their personalities, their intonation, their social circles, the works. This naturally leads to some lewdness during the prerequisite changing scene between the two, but puts a pin in this sexual tension, as the story has four more days to go through before its conclusion.

Broadly looking at the story… it’s just another body swap visual novel. Its premise is largely standard, involving a prerequisite body swapping techno doohickey. Its protagonists can be easily categorized into familiar archetypes. And the setting, while fortunately beyond the quagmire of high school, is still just about kids going to school.

However, even in just two hours (or three if you take notes like me), the game manages to instill upon this idea that it is coming from people who understand this material on an intimate level. Creators who interject bits of personality, twists, and evoke the idea that they get it, and have the skills and experience do make their own body swap VN from scratch.

The gradual first-person unveiling as Sam finds himself in Jenny’s body. The way the two stumble as they adapt to their considerably different body shapes. The way they acknowledge the difference between their voices, teaching each other how to speak while simultaneously learning more about each other. The adorable horniness on display as Sam and Jenny change clothes for the evening. The delicious tangent about how both characters became ambidextrous. The decision to throw in weight differences, glasses, and different course loads to add a greater contrast between the pair. While still giving them enough common ground for them to make sense as a couple. I mean… they’re both awkward dorks who like video games, and that’s a plus.

**It’s actually GameCube, just like how it’s PlayStation.**

While the artwork, even in this limited and unfinished form, really managed to impress me with how expressive and… fitting it was for a story like this. Transformistress has oodles of experience at drawing characters transforming and reacting to their new forms, and she channels all of that energy into here to wonderful results. Not only are the expressions great, but when characters swap bodies, they swap expressions. And not only do they swap expressions, they swap arm positions. This was one of the coolest parts of the sprites in Mice Tea, and here… it does so much to enhance the visual language of this story, to efficiently express the idea of who is who, and potentially mutate it.

In summary, my first impressions of Crossed Signals are very positive, and I’m sure that in… 3 to 5 years or however long it takes, it will be something amazing. Easily earning its place upon the TF visual novel pantheon. The team knows what they’re doing, and this sample rough draft confirms to me they are on the right track.

…That being said, there are three tangents that I could not help but go on while playing the game, so let’s go on those.

Crossed Signals Tangent #1: Soul Eyes:

When two characters swap bodies, I consider the best way to present their swap to be… no way at all. Sometimes cartoons like to keep the voices associated with their soul, but I strongly dislike that and consider it to be disrespectful to the voice actors. It denies them an opportunity to do their standard voice, while adopting the inflection of another character. However, I do have a particular soft spot for stories that convey a body swap by exchanging the eyes— or more likely, eye color— of two characters.. It is a visually obvious way to distinguish who is who without compromising the image of the character. Sure, it does not make sense, as people don’t change eye color, but it’s a minor enough feature to not rattle one’s suspension of disbelief. Also… I made heavy use of it in the Body of Raiyne trilogy I wrote a decade ago. (Don’t read them, they were shit.)

As you can tell by the included screenshots, this is something Crossed Signals does. And while I find it to be a nifty and great way to interject extra characters into the game, it’s also brushing up against the limitations of the real world. Over 70% of humans have brown eyes, and other available eye colors are just blue, green, amber, hazel, gray. Red and violet are possible, but they’re extremely rare.

If one is going for the ‘soul eyes’ approach to a body swap, they… should give every character different eye colors, and say to hell with statistics. Crossed Signals does the latter, but it also has overlap despite its small cast. Sam and Violet both have blue eyes. Miss Roberts and Eric both have brown/amber eyes (whatever it is, the color is near identical). While Jenny and Danny are part of the green eye gang. This could be circumvented by giving Miss Roberts red eyes, as that’s on brand for an authoritative math milf. Danny could have hazel eyes, being mostly brown but with traces of green. While Sam could have more protagonist-esque gray eyes, or Violet’s eyes could be a deeper shade of blue. Heck, maybe go for broke and make them indigo? That’s a super rare color if it’s real, but… I don’t think anyone would really care.

Crossed Signals Tangent #2: Swap Phone

There is a lot to say about how the medium of a TF affects the ensuing story, whether it is something controllable, replicable, or comprehensible. Ranging from the sudden act of the divines to the limitless power of god apps. A hi-tech remote control is seen as the de facto approach, as it is portable, innocuous, stealable, and a familiar piece of technology used to change things. But Crossed Signals, as conveyed by its spiffy shirt worthy icon, features body swaps initiated by phone call. A concept that I feel should be way, way more common than it is. Especially after phones became a personal object in the aughts. Phones typically have an incredible amount of personal data stored on them, as many people use it as their primary electronic device, and saying someone’s phone is their life… is kinda true. Especially with MFA and face ID.

…But rather than going along that angle, Crossed Signals involves a super phone that swaps bodies with the user and target after adding them to a contact list. I guess it captures their brainwaves and transfers them between different bodies. Kind of like the PhoneWave in Steins;Gate, but without the time travel. Right down to the fact that using it consumes a massive amount of power.

However, as a phone the device also has unique capabilities. It chooses targets based on contacts, not bodies, so it is possible that someone else could answer the target’s phone and bork things up. It is possible to swap bodies over long distances, or maybe even people on the other side of the world. (Which will not happen because that idea’s too hard on the art budget.) And its long 4 day recharge time is perfect for justifying predictable short-term swaps.

Swaps that last a few days, allowing someone to really sink into the life of someone else, and giving the two swappees the opportunity to develop a relationship. Have a predictable end time so the characters don’t dread the idea that this might be forever. And create a generally low stress environment. They aren’t hoping the inventor can repair the machine, waiting for parts to ship in with no reliable ETA, or searching for something they lost. They’re just waiting for their phone to charge, dreaming about how much faster it would be if this damn thing used USB-C.

The phone is also more than just a body swapper. Allowing memories to be swapped via text message attachments, and featuring a slight form of mind control by entering activities on a calendar. None of these features are shown in the Jennyswap route in its current form, but they show the creative team are on the right track. They allow for a sprinkle of memory swap, or MemSwap, and can force characters to act like the person they embody.

I actually really like this approach, as it’s powerful, but not too powerful. Mind slaves and true mental commands are off the table. But I can still imagine some nifty applications of a premise like this. Like having a character torment someone by giving them a booked calendar, robbing them of autonomy. Or using the memory attachments feature to exchange bits and pieces of their identity, becoming someone better by making others worse!

Crossed Signals Tangent #3: Party Like It’s 2014

Something that’s made clear during the intro of Crossed Signals is that the game is actually a period piece set during September 2014. It doesn’t explicitly drop the year but the dates line up, the culture fits, games and consoles are referenced by name… it’s 2014. …Just like Press-Switch! And Verde’s Doohickey! …And Student Transfer.

Edit 6/3/2024: Yeah, I don’t know what I was talking about here. Press-Switch begins on Wednesday, March 25, 2015. Not 2014. But I still think my shared universe theory is morally correct.

…Okay, that last one is a stretch, but it’s the only way the Dank Souls 2 demo at GameGo and the limited storage space of the PolyStation would make sense. It must be 2013 or 2014! And don’t go spitting that ‘alternate universes have different release dates’ crap at me! In the world of TF visual novels, there are no alternate universes, every one of them takes place in the same universe! …Including re:Dreamer. Which is just an alternate worldline.

**Dak Souls? Dank Souls? Tis merely a localization quirk of the AKR!**

I’m not sure why they decided to do this, instead of making something more… modern, but I always respect creators who choose to set a story sometime in the past. It allows them to reflect on the culture of an era, look back at it with the clarity of hindsight, and avoid any sort of modern bullcrap they don’t want to address.

However, when setting a story in an era, you need to make sure you capture it properly, you do it justice, and avoid anything that historically does not add up. There is a lot of debate to be had about how to do this properly, about what should or should not be represented. I tend to be more on the extreme end. I avoid more contemporary terminology when writing stories set in the past, and trying to make characters all feel like products of their time, based in a current era or upbringing. To do otherwise… would be cleansing history.

America in 2014 is a rather curious era, as while it is tempting for 2023-ers to look back at it as a purer and simpler time, it really wasn’t. It was an era where gay people still could not be married, and before terms like LGBT were widely used. Where the Obama administration put the White population into a neoliberal lull, thinking that society had reached a functional and safe state. Where social justice movements were on the rise… but the alt right also launched their public alpha with GamerGate.

…I’m sorry, I’m supposed to keep the politics out of TSF Showcases. But I’m bad about doing that… ever.

Anyway, Crossed Signals generally does a good job of avoiding inaccuracies, though there were a few that I found… odd. Jenny used the term ‘queer’ which was in the process of being reclaimed circa 2014, but had a different connotation than it does today.

The use of the term ‘farming sim’ reflects a more modern connotation of the genre, when in 2014 farming sim generally meant something to the tune of Farmville or Farming Simulator. Harvest Moon was still Harvest Moon, and was considered an RPG or life simulator, like The Sims.

There are some comments regarding the regular-ass-looking flip phone Sam gets that seem like they are remnants from an earlier draft, where this was set in a later year. Namely when Jenny is surprised by the form factor of the phone when… as a ~~twenty-something~~ 90s kid, she should still remember when flip phones were a luxury item.

Eric’s design strikes me as a touch too modern for 2014. He is a tall muscular Black man with a fade, locs, and bleached tips. Nothing too unusual in a more progressive or predominantly Black area, but… the story takes place in Michigan, and Eric, in addition to being an athlete, is pursuing a career in computer science. A field that was and is not kind to Black men in general, let alone ones who look like Eric. …But this is probably something that will be addressed at a later point in the game.

However, the big gripe I have with its setting is that, right out the gate… it kind of screws up the month the story is set in. Sam mentions that Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS just came out recently, and the Wii U version is coming out in November. Seeing as how the 3DS title came out on October 3, 2014 (a date I remember for not being summer) that means that this game should take place in October. …Instead, the story starts on September 15, 2014. Admittedly, two days after Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS came out in Japan on September 13th… but I don’t buy that Sam or Danny are big hackers or importers.

This could be addressed by… ignoring the inaccuracy, but the more I thought about this (and I thought about it way, way, too much) I think this story should actually take place in October. Mid-September is still very early into the semester, it is right when the real coursework begins, and based on what Sam is doing in his classes… It seems like he’s about halfway done. He just finished a big Python project (which sounds like a midterm to me). He is getting into more advanced material in Calculus. And he is starting his first college research paper with a group member. Which is nearly identical to the ENG 101 group research paper I started on… October 29, 2013! …Yes, I dug through my old college Google Docs from a decade and three Gmail accounts ago just to verify this.

So the point of this is that I think Crossed Signals should start on October 13, 2014. It just makes more sense, and everybody is dressed pretty autumnally anyway.

That’s the end of my tangent. Crossed Signals is good, and unlike a Student Transfer scenario, I know it will be finished!

That covers part 2 of 2023 TSF Showcases! But if you want more quality or interesting TSF stuff to look over, you can find part 3 here!

If you have any TSF comics, writings, or really any form of media you would like me to cover in a future TSF Showcase, please let me know in the comments below!

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Tasnica 01/02/2024 Reply

It’s really neat being reminded of the sheer variety of the TSF stories that you cover, as well as your ability to really delve into the context of their creation and the ways they appeal to their audience. Even if you don’t share those appeals yourself! This probably being one of the most condensed examples:

“That is the fantasy of trans girls who don’t like school and watch too much anime in their teens. To just suddenly become an anime girl and do anime girl things at an anime school in anime world. A world where every day is fun and happy, instead of an interchangeable deluge of dawdling while waiting for things to change or get better.”

Though I suppose that someone with a passion for TSF would be good at seeing things from other people’s perspectives, and exploring differing points of view.
1. Natalie Neumann 01/02/2024 Reply
  
  When I started committing to making TSF Showcases, I wanted to cover a diverse range of stories, and over my years of perusing TSF, I like to think that I found quite a few. Though, I always know that there are some out there that have simply slipped under my radar. It’s why I always ask for suggestions! Because everybody happens across different stuff!
  
  I always consider context to be one of the most important parts of… well, everything, really, but especially when viewing a piece of media. When was it made, where was it made, who was it made by, what was its main purpose, etc. It’s second nature for me to think over these things when engaging with any text. While I do not position TSF Showcases as a historical segment, as that would revolve digging around for dates and would lead to a lot of inconclusive dead ends unless I ASKED people for help, I do sometimes throw in a bit of history when it’s easier to find or I think it’s interesting.
  
  That condensed example is partially meant as a call out to a friend of mine, who has “anime girl dysphoria.” :P
  
  Oh yeah, of course! Different perspectives are one of the best things about TSF, and it’s a slight shame that so much of that exploration is limited to the written world, when comics offer an entirely different dimension to explore when it comes to different perspectives. But most TSF stories already have enough going on, and pursuing that approach would be an artistic challenge in and of itself…

TSF Showcase – 2023 Compilation Part 2

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TSF Showcase 2023-15
TS o Suru. Seidorei ni Naru [Change Sex and Become a Sex Slave] by Tansan Protein no kai

TSF Showcase 2023-16
JK Kuricha ni Sareta Otoko [High Schooler Who Got Turned Into a Creature] by Marialite

TSF Showcase 2023-17
Slow Conversion by Onihidden

TSF Showcase 2023-18
Joshikousei Sennyuu Repo ~Hanzaisha ga Onnanoko ni Hyoui shite mita~ [Schoolgirl Infiltration Report] by Marialite

TSF Showcase 2023-19
Sexaroid VS Tenbai Ya [Sexaroids vs. Reseller] by Kouji

TSF Showcase 2023-20
Professional Possession by Imp Underneath

TSF Showcase 2023-21
Mahou Shounen Majorian by Ishida Atsuko

TSF Showcase 2023-22
Boku wa, Onnanoko [I am, a Girl] by Takako Shimura

TSF Showcase 2023-23
Muri na Kanojo [Impossible Girlfriend] by Ura61318

TSF Showcase 2023-24
BlazBlue – Remix Heart by Deko Akao, Toshimichi Mori, and Sumeragi

TSF Showcase 2023-24.1
BlazBlue Remix Heart Gaiden by Arc System Works

TSF Showcase 2023-25
Doutei Ikki [Brotherhood of Virgins] by DOM

TSF Showcase 2023-26
An Older Guy’s VR First Love by Violence Tomoko

TSF Showcase 2023-27
King’s Proposal by Tachibana Koushi and Kurio Nemo

TSF Showcase 2023-28
Kikaishikake no Eve [Clockwork Eve] by Haruno Suzune

TSF Showcase 2023-29
Watashi no Karada, Okashi Shimasu [Rent My Body] by Fujiya (Nectar)

TSF Showcase 2023-30
sWitch Time by TSFSingularity & MassivePinkZombie

TSF Showcase 2023-31
Crossed Signals by Cinnamon Switch

Crossed Signals Tangent #1: Soul Eyes:

Crossed Signals Tangent #2: Swap Phone

Crossed Signals Tangent #3: Party Like It’s 2014

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Table of Contents

TSF Showcase 2023-15TS o Suru. Seidorei ni Naru [Change Sex and Become a Sex Slave] by Tansan Protein no kai

TSF Showcase 2023-16JK Kuricha ni Sareta Otoko [High Schooler Who Got Turned Into a Creature] by Marialite

TSF Showcase 2023-17Slow Conversion by Onihidden

TSF Showcase 2023-18Joshikousei Sennyuu Repo ~Hanzaisha ga Onnanoko ni Hyoui shite mita~ [Schoolgirl Infiltration Report] by Marialite

TSF Showcase 2023-19Sexaroid VS Tenbai Ya [Sexaroids vs. Reseller] by Kouji

TSF Showcase 2023-20Professional Possession by Imp Underneath

TSF Showcase 2023-21Mahou Shounen Majorian by Ishida Atsuko

TSF Showcase 2023-22Boku wa, Onnanoko [I am, a Girl] by Takako Shimura

TSF Showcase 2023-23Muri na Kanojo [Impossible Girlfriend] by Ura61318

TSF Showcase 2023-24BlazBlue – Remix Heart by Deko Akao, Toshimichi Mori, and Sumeragi

TSF Showcase 2023-24.1BlazBlue Remix Heart Gaiden by Arc System Works

TSF Showcase 2023-25Doutei Ikki [Brotherhood of Virgins] by DOM

TSF Showcase 2023-26An Older Guy’s VR First Love by Violence Tomoko

TSF Showcase 2023-27King’s Proposal by Tachibana Koushi and Kurio Nemo

TSF Showcase 2023-28Kikaishikake no Eve [Clockwork Eve] by Haruno Suzune

TSF Showcase 2023-29Watashi no Karada, Okashi Shimasu [Rent My Body] by Fujiya (Nectar)

TSF Showcase 2023-30sWitch Time by TSFSingularity & MassivePinkZombie

TSF Showcase 2023-31Crossed Signals by Cinnamon Switch

Crossed Signals Tangent #1: Soul Eyes:

Crossed Signals Tangent #2: Swap Phone

Crossed Signals Tangent #3: Party Like It’s 2014

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