A compilation of TSF Showcases released on Natalie.TF from October to December 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 16 segments originally published from October to December 2023. I expanded the section for the fourth chapter of P(ossession)-Party by Asagiri after the release of an unofficial English translation, but aside from that, these segments were left largely unchanged from when they were originally published.

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

We’ve got some great stuff this time around, so let’s get on with the showcase!

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What Happens When You Gender Bend Close Friends With A Magic App lol by Ue ni Aru Mikan

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (10/15/2023) Akumu Kojou: Tax Tax Panic!

Let’s see, I need something quick, easy, and that I can prepare in advance. To make up for it, next time I’ll cover some formative shit that I haven’t read since I was 13. Like, the first TSF story I actually searched for and read! But for now… Let’s talk about the comic that inspired the creation of re:Dreamer.

Magic App lol follows Kiriya, a young man who receives an invitation to a reality changing competitive sex app. Specifically, one capable of capturing people, or perhaps just women, and transforming them into the user’s slaves as they engage in harem-based warfare with other players. All with the implicit goal of becoming the top player and owning enough slaves to staff the most pristine brothel in all the land.

The story begins as Kiriya uses the app, Pocket Genesis, to capture his bratty menthol-loving sister, Tomomi, and uses the app to transform her body and mind into something more palatable to his preferences. Which is to say a lovey-dovey sister with big boobs, pink hair, and twintails. This would normally lead Kiriya to fuck his sister to erase whatever resistance still lingers in her mind, but… this is a work form a TSF circle, so they shuffle over to the TSF instead. With Kiriya capturing his ‘friend’ Haruma and transforming him into a woman. Haruma is naturally pissed about this, but pisses Kiriya off by calling him a “small-dicked phimotic virgin bastard.” Which is the kind of insult you only see from an official translation. Thus leading to further mental and physical alterations, along with a 15 page rape scene.

At this point… the story is pretty much whatever. Dude turns his friend into a girl, rape them, and leaves their mind all screwy thanks to mind control malarky. I’ve seen that so much that I don’t even try to count. But where the story gets interesting is with the introduction of Kiriya’s second friend, Subaru. A man with a girly face who is also part of the Pocket Genesis beta, but has actually read the manual, revealing the ‘real game’ of Pocket Genesis. A PvP battle mode where both players turn into girls and use various skills to rape the other one into submission. Afterwards, the lost player, and all their slaves, become the slaves of the winner.

Afterwards, the story moves ahead a month, showing Subaru having a foursome with Kiriya, Tomomi, and Haruma. All of whom have accepted their fate as sexual servants, and are left lusting over their self-imposed master’s dick, begging to be impregnated by him. Then… actually no, that’s pretty much it.

All in all… I don’t really like this comic. Kiriya and Subaru are deeply malicious figures but, due to the warm and cutesy artwork on display, they never get the opportunity to look like cuddly globules of human shaped custard. The god app’s dehumanization of characters is meant to come off as more jovial and flippant, a display of chaos used to initiate sex scenes while hitting multiple nebulous kinks. But upon re-reading it, it’s hard for me to not peg it as an incel power fantasy for young men who view women as ownable objects who exist for sexual pleasure. Which relates to a broader issue among a lot of TSF material. ‘Gender Transformation’ in general. TSF hentai. …And just regular hentai, really.

That being said…the story was onto something raw and captivating with its ‘reality-altering competitive sex game angle.’ The idea of a group of users going through a city, fulfilling challenges, and battling each other through the means of competitive sex is a genuinely great idea for a battle series. Because the act of sex is one so versatile, so deep, and home to countless alterations to keep things interesting. Doing all of that and throwing on an additional layer with transformation? …Well, now you’re thinking three-dimensionally, dude!

The addition of competition also gets around the most boring element of a god app story. Because while the protagonist might be able to do anything… they also need to content with people just as, if not more, powerful than them. While the inclusion of Arcane Crystals, a resource used to capture and transform slaves and perform skills in battle, adds yet another layer. It forces the player to balance the acquisition of new, better, or more versatile powers… with being able to actually use them.

In just a few pages, Magic App lol manages to create a genuinely compelling set of systems and mechanics for an in-universe game, or perhaps even a game in and of itself. …But everything before and after is pretty average conceptually, and its own execution of this golden idea is underbaked. Which isn’t the worst thing. If all a comic does is throw out a cool idea into the ether, and does something with it, that doesn’t mean the idea is bad and cannot be repurposed. That means someone else can pick it up, do it better, or put their own spin on it.

…Which Espeon did, as she originally wanted re:Dreamer to be more geared to wild competitive sex. An idea that had a lot of problems with the choice in setting and premise, which CaptainCaption spent most of the introduction trying to illustrate. Then most traces of this original inspiration were wiped away with later versions of the opening.

This means that the idea of a competitive reality-altering transformation sex app confined to a city is still up in the air for someone to grab. …I just hope they find a way to work around the slavery shit, because the fetishization of slavery is… no. I’m down for some twisted shit, but… Just no. ~~F****t/Genocide Order~~ Fate/Grand Order really fucked people up in that regard…

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Raiden Shogun Is My Wife?! by TadxSarah

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (10/15/2023) Akumu Kojou: Tax Tax Panic!

The creator of this comic delisted it sometime after I discussed it here. Fortunately, I backed up all 140 pages of the comic before it was removed. You can download an archive of this comic here. I love how I can just store stuff directly on my website…

Every now and then, I happen across a work that makes me rethink everything, that reminds me of what fiction, as a concept, can truly be. A work so marvelously crafted, so impactful, that it transcends all others and becomes something on a tier of the divines. This… is peak fiction!

…Okay, in all seriousness, Raiden Shogun Is My Wife?! is a modern webcomic by an aspiring creator. Someone who, due to a marvelous blend of incompetence and/or a form of unrefined brilliance, made some of the funniest and most absurd shit I have read in a long while. Something so good that, after reading it with Cassie, I simply HAD to include it here. Because the world needs to know ASAP!

The story follows Luke, a dark-skinned red-haired anime boy going to anime school who spends most of his free time playing Genshin Impact. Not necessarily because of the game, but because he’s a hardcore simp for Raiden Shogun. Claiming she’s his, that they are fated to be together, that sorta incel shit. He explains this to his friend, Gina, who is probably the most overt and obvious trans woman I have seen in anything to ever insist that ‘she’s still a boy.’ Girl’s got bright flowing hair that goes halfway down her back, has either HRT titties or falsies, wears a skirt and leggings, and even wears a choker— the accessory of choice for trans girls.

Normally, I find characters like this to be frustrating, especially because I’m pretty sure Eastern societies are more accepting of trans people, especially when they conform to gender roles this hard. So hard that I’m not even gonna respect their pronouns, because there’s no ambiguity here. Girl’s not even an egg, she’s a freaking bucket of fried chicken!

Anyway, Luke wants to be with his titular waifu, Gina wants to be attractive to girls. But rather than try to make their dreams come true on their own, they decide to follow a rumor on the street. That, in the local park, there’s a “strange old lady” who will grant people one wish, no matter how impossible, if they do her a favor. Seven hours later— which should probably be ten because this is (presumably) East Asia— they meet Miracle Grandma in the park. Who is sitting on a bench with a hunk of cardboard, all bundled up for winter, like the world’s greatest homeless woman. And she’s so psyched to be propositioned that she TGs a mime and turns a little boy into a squirrel… I don’t know how or why.

Miracle Grandma is a clairvoyant servant of a holy power who has the ability to rewrite reality, create parallel realities, and is also a downright fantastic character! She is a chaotic god who offers this story the bulk of its personality with her cartoonish antics. From her energetic and bossy attitude to the utterly deranged stuff she pulls in just a handful of panels. She is the one who understands EXACTLY what is going on in a world that stopped making sense long ago. Because she’s the one who made it stop making sense.

She is such a strong character that I simultaneously want to steal her for myself, and want to become her as I grow old. I know I said I wanted to become Computer Granny from Rintarou Panic, but Miracle Grandma… is just cooler. She does backflips, hits people in the face with an AK-47, gives away free houses, can teleport, and has the abilities to TF people and make them immortal. She’s like Computer Granny and Godzilla at the same damn time!

Tangent aside, Miracle Grandma explains her schtick, tells the two that they need to smooch if they want their dreams to come true. The fictional girl simp and trans lesbian don’t want to do it, but with their dreams on the line, they give into this crazy woman’s demands, and get sent… to the NEXT DIMENSION!

…More specifically an alternate reality where Luke is a hot ‘six-pack’ boy whose red hair is turning purple— which implies a twinning scenario at the very least. And where Gina is Raiden Shogun. That would be any sane trans girl’s dream come true, but she’s in denial about her whole gender identity shit stuff.

What follows is some absolute grade-A bickering between the parties. With Gina nailing the ‘pissed off TF victim’ reaction with no skipped beats. Miracle Grandma being a chaos gremlin who pulls out a gun to shoot at Luke to prove his immortality. And Luke being big-eyed-shocked-boy who just marvels at how cool this is. Because it is freaking cool. From there, the comic comes to an end, and whether or not it is continued… is up in the air.

Now, as a story, this is freaking nonsense and punctuated by some excellent Engrish that’s even better when read out loud. It is hilarious to go through, and carries itself with a conviction that you only find from young aspiring creators with little to lose and a willingness to throw themselves into the pits of passion. …But what really sells the story is the artwork.

TadxSarah is clearly an artist still learning their craft, still finding their style. You can clearly tell that the author is trying here. That they have a vision for every panel, and are doing whatever they can, to the best of their abilities, to bring this vision to life. It’s just that their technique is still pretty sloppy and their style is so loose and squishy that it fluctuates from panel to panel.

This is not helped by the vertical scrolling comic style, which eschews the standard paneling of traditional comics in favor of making each panel its own page. This is a perfectly good format, but for some artists, it can create some inconsistencies when it comes to style, lighting, and a general sense of place. Characters frequently morph from chibi moeblobs to real-sized anime people. The backgrounds frequently fade away to something more stylistic, or with far harsher lighting. While the paneling itself is… just kind of weird. It all breeds a level of discontinuity… that I actually think works here. The inconsistency helps to create this manic, cobbled together, and almost dreamlike environment that adds a lot to the more absurd elements of the story.

…I mean, that’s probably an unintentional effect, but art isn’t about intent, it’s about results. And the results on display here… are a thing of beauty. TadxSarah managed to capture a type of energy and chaos that I yearn for, and while it might seem weird to call a work like this inspiring, it is in my book. I see what this wacko is doing and think… yeah. I wanna do that too!

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Body Switched by Caleb Jones

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (10/22/2023) Natalie is a Homeowner.

Now this is what I call going back to the past! Like many TSF enthusiasts of my particular sub-generation, I was weaned on Fictionmania. A fiction hosting platform that was (probably) one of the first repositories of TSF media on the internet, and one of the few vestiges of Web 1.0 that remains active to this day. And by active, I mean it still gets dozens of new stories a week and still looks like it was made in 1995.

Honestly, I would LOVE to hear from an old school Fictionmania fan or writer, as I feel that a lot of the information on this site is just buried between layers of old conversations on derelict platforms. I personally only learned about this site in 2008, way past its ‘first era’ but I still view it as the ‘beginning’ because this was my first true exposure to the world of TSF.

For as much as I wish I was an avid reader of certain prolific writers, my reading abilities when I was 13 were… about as good as a 10-year-old. (They put me in remedial English for a reason, but they forgot to actually teach me things while I was there.) So I didn’t read much, and when I did read things, I often read shorter stories, stories with images, and Great Shift stories. I only read maybe 30 stories to completion, but the ones that I remembered liking the best was the Body Switched, or BodySwitched duology by Caleb Jones. Also known as the first person to ever compliment my skills as a writer, back when I tried my hand at writing fan fiction. Meaning that, more than anyone else, Caleb Jones is the reason why I’m a writer today.

Now that I’ve dropped that bombshell, let’s discuss our stories here today:1999’s Body Switched Book 1, 2003’s BodySwitched Book 2, and 2015’s Body Switched The Epilogue.

The premise behind the story is about as stock as you can get. 14-year-old Jason and 17-year-old Jennifer are a pair of feuding siblings. Their father is an ‘eccentric’ inventor who develops a mind transfer device. And after they both investigate the body swap pods he set up in the basement, they wind up unknowingly swapping bodies.

However, almost immediately, the story veers into a bizarre direction. The story skips ahead a few days, sees Jason use the swapping machine to switch his friend Tommy with Jenny’s friend Allison. Which, okay, twice the swap twice the fun. But that not being enough, the story then decides to introduce a body swap gun that the father (who does not have a name) just so happened to create. A gun that is stolen by the 6-year-old girl of the family, Lisa, who proceeds to go on a body swap rampage. Thus ending chapter 1 of Book 1.

The introduction is jumbled, but practically throbbing with ideas! Unfortunately, the story misses the mark with its execution… Except for when it doesn’t. …Yeah, that made no sense. Let me explain.

The writing in Body Switched is generally broken up into two flavors. A more typical dialogue-driven form of storytelling, with occasional bits of narration to bridge scenes. And sections that are closer to outlines than they are to an actual story. With the former, I actually think the writing is pretty alright. The dialogue flows, the characters are able to form a dynamic and lay out some tension, and there are a few ‘specks of excellence’ to be found in the banter between characters. While the latter… kind of sucks.

I have zero issues with long passages of a character describing their thought process or detailing a scene. If so, I would be a massive hypocrite. But when the story is describing body swapping chaos throughout a neighborhood or detailing a date prep scene, it all feels… simultaneously under-detailed and overly bloated. Like the writer had to squeeze the ideas into a strict word count. Or they wrote filler text that was supposed to be revised… but never was.

Now, all of this could potentially be circumvented if the story had good characters… and it doesn’t. It has a pretty sizable cast between Jason, Jenny, Dad, Allison, Tommy, Lisa, Frank, Ritchie, Kathy, Helen, Brad, Judy, Horace, and Susan Suzuki, but they are all archetypes. Not in the sense that they can be summarized as archetypes, in the sense that they are just archetypes.Jason is just some 14-year-old dude. Tommy is just his friend. Jenny is just a hot teenage girl. And Susan is just a responsible, tiny “Japanese American” math teacher.

The narration heavy scenes deprive the characters from an opportunity to expand past these roles or ever really feel like characters. While the snippets and factoids the reader can gather circle back to the archetypes of the characters. Jason likes ‘boy stuff,’ Jenny likes ‘girl stuff,’ and while this could work fine in a shorter form story, this is a two-part 35,000 word story. As a writer, I can safely say that’s more than enough room.

Instead, it wastes its word count on these large tangents, such as listing a series of things that happened as part of Lisa’s body swap rampage. Ideas that are literally ran past as the point of view character chases after the plot. Or a subplot that sees the prom king and queen swap bodies with a pair of nerds. It has creative energy, that’s without question, but it does not know what to do with this energy, or write the story in a way where it feels more substantial than a list of stuff that happens.

It’s all so frustrating because when looking at this story from afar, when breaking it down, it’s pretty solid.

Book 1 is effectively about two feuding siblings swap bodies, only for their father to keep them that way for ‘research purposes.’ During their time as each other, they decide that they like this new life more than their original life, leading them to make the swap permanent. This is paired with two parallel stories about their friends, who are less enthused about the swap, finding it interesting, but not really loving it. And also some mid-scale body swap chaos as people across suburbia are body swapped, causing mass confusion and a microcosm of mini-stories. Do these ideas seem jumbled in their published form? Yes. Are they all good ideas? Yes! And could they work well together? YES!

Book 1 is a solid story on its own, although I would argue it only gets super interesting near the end. Fortunately, Book 2 picks up a few hours later and explores the aftermath of this chaos.The swapped siblings take on their new lives, names, and genders, they proceed to make the most of their new lives, and just absolutely kill it on all fronts. They snag a partner, have sex, form a more friendly relationship where they help each other present as their new gender, and wind up loving their new lives, despite some hardships. It is a body swap story… about two people living their brand new lives and helping each other out. That sounds like such a basic idea, but you’d be surprised by how many body swap stories avoid that. …Not mine though! I’m straight up legit!

During the latter half of Book 2, it gets a bit more squiggly when the focus shifts to the father. The CIA bought his body swap machines for $10 million, making the family rich, but as a single scatterbrained father, he needs some help not getting bamboozled. So the siblings decide to hook him up with their math teacher… by switching their bodies. This winds up working, somehow, and the two, much like the siblings who arranged this for them, decide to stay this way forever and get married.

…Which is on top of a subplot involving a nerd/popular body swap, that is woefully underdeveloped in the main text, but could fill up its own spin-off with the narrative potential on display.

While the epilogue… is just insane, and I love it for that. I don’t want to give everything away, but I will say it takes place a decade later, and involves “Cabbage Neutralizer” that managed to “[ease] the hole in the Ozone and [slow] global warming.” Also, I have no idea how this epilogue took more than an afternoon to write, as it is only 2,300 words. That’s chump change!

Conceptually, I love what this story is trying to do. I am dead serious when I say that there are ‘specks of excellence’ to enjoy here. And when rereading it, I felt the vaguest memories percolate to the surface of my mind… while still being surprised by where it went and what it focused on.

Do I think it is a good story or particularly historically interesting work? …No, not really. I don’t like to compare myself to other writers, as that is the route to madness, but this? This is worse than my stuff by a considerable margin. Which, as someone who distinctly remembers reading this work 15 years ago— clenching my rock-hard dick between my thighs as I played out the events in my mind— is a bittersweet feeling.

Not only am I a better writer than one of my childhood idols, but my analytical skills are a world better than they were back when I was a teen.

…Also, don’t expect me to do more showcases of longform written works, as this took me an afternoon and evening to read and write up.

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Coffee Buns by Cinnamon Switch

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (10/29/2023) Horror Is Not Niche!

Oh, what do we have here? Yes, as I discussed in TSF Showcase 2023-31, the developers of the excellent Mice Tea are hard at work on two visual novels. I previously covered, and praised, the first release of Crossing Signals, their body swap VN, but their ‘primary’ project is a canonical sequel to Mice Tea, Coffee Buns.

Things kick off two years after the events of Mice Tea, and the introduction of Kemono Tea to the broader world. Long enough for word about the tea to spread far and wide, and for it to be fairly common to see people walking around in their anthro forms in furry Mecca New Greenshire. But not long enough for it to become widely available or for humanity/governments to make any decision about the ramifications of actual magic.

As a starting point… I actually think this is pretty smart. It is close enough to the original to feel familiar, but is also clearly set in a world that is currently undergoing its own transformation. It is easy to say that sweeping changes could happen in two years, but full-scale agricultural production of magical plants takes time, and governments tend to move like the giant world turtles they are.

Anyway, the actual content of this initial release follows the first… 1.75 days of the common route, representing a bit over an hour of reading. The story follows Leo Bianco, a 20-something working as a barista at one of New Greenshire’s many independent beverage shops. A status that is leading the shop to struggle financially, having a few regulars but not that many. So in order to spice things up, his boss— who is just named Boss— decides a makeover is in order. A furry one.

Using a connection to the cast of Mice Tea, Boss decides to have herself, Leo, and Leo’s coworker Ash, all undergo an anthro transformation to reinvent the business. This works well for the dominant and processional Boss, who becomes a wolf, and for the standoffish punk-aesthetic Ash, who becomes a skunk. But Leo winds up becoming a white rabbit, much to his dismay. He initially tries to explain his frustration as being simply emasculating, but this transformation also highlights his broader gender identity issues.

Leo is a self-described “normal” looking man in his twenties. He’s on the skinnier side, has platinum blonde hair that almost reaches his shoulder, but is not particularly strong, tall, or masculine. He considers himself a ‘blank slate’ but the fact that he spends the evening of the first night knitting while watching a cooking show, and has a strong interest in women’s fashion kind of throws out that theory.

Leo is someone at a crossroads as to his identity. Who he wants to be, who he thinks he can be, and who he actually is. He’s not socially inexperienced, and not a bitter person by any means, but struggles to outwardly present himself to others out of fear of rejection. However, this transformation— and the realization that his ‘magical otherkin’ is a freaking pink bunny— forces him to confront these things. First with an awkward day at work… and then by humping a train pole and growing some titties.

…But when I say that, I just mean breasts, as this is a… busty boy transformation, but not TSF by my own definition. However, I’m still including this here, because I know there will be ‘real’ TSF eventually.

This sudden public breast growth causes Leo to panic, run home, and try to return to normal. It works for the rabbit bits, but not the boob bits, leading Leo to hide away his boobs with the gender stable— a baggy hoodie— as he tries to hide this from his roommate. Afterwards, the current build comes to an end, lasting just long enough to provide a taste of what this game has to offer, and leave me confident that the developers absolutely know what they are doing.

Ultimately, Coffee Buns is a sequel to Mice Tea. One with a different cast, slightly different vibe accordingly, and a bunch of recycled elements (because this is an alpha). However, the same core competencies remain. The script, which I read as a first draft, gives a lot of character to its cast, and does a good job of immersing the player into Leo’s mind. The premise is strong, and what’s there left me plenty curious to see what the creative team has planned for its main character. Because, unlike Margaret, who generally had her shit together, Leo’s got places to grow, and those places are bound to be wild.

While unfinished, the art is still high quality, with cozy backgrounds, personality rich CG sketches, and expressive characters. It will take years for it to reach its final form but… yeah, I’m happy to keep paying the Patreon if Cinnamon Switch keeps delivering goods this sweet.

Also, I’m 90% sure they were referencing Dragalia Lost with the literal first words of dialogue in this game. …Unless there is another gacha game where players use a “cheese strat” involving a unit’s “unbalanced buff rate” to farm “high demon orbs” so they can buy “the new 6-star water sword.” Because when combined with the “consistent auto” with “an 80% clear rate,” it sure sounds like someone was farming the twins with Karina…

Completely unrelated tangent aside, I only have two criticisms with this snippet. One, there are a few instances where I thought the script was a bit wordy for the start of a VN, but that’s what rewrites are for, and rewrites are inevitable with a project like this. Number two… is the anthro designs of Boss and Ash.

When assembling a cast of characters, one of the easiest ways to distinguish them is to give them different color schemes. You want them to embody different primary colors so they are distinct beyond their silhouette, and it’s common to give each character a signature color. Shit, even I do this with my character designs, particularly with hair color. It can be subtle, but it’s there! However, you generally don’t want to design an entire character around a specific color unless you have a good reason for it. Like making a superhero team, or distinguishing a bunch of near clones in a sci-fi setting. Otherwise, you risk the character becoming this blob of a single color without anything else to break it up… which I’d say is happening with blue skunk and purple wolf here.

They aren’t even the colors of actual animals, and in making a quick mockup of what the characters would look like with… desaturated colors, I think they look better.

Though, Boss’s design would require more thought than what I gave, as she has the unnatural hair color of purple, and is supposed to turn into a “silver” wolf. …Wait, why do people have anime hair colors now? Like, I get having colored accents to hair color— I use them for characters with darker hair all the time— but why does this Turkish (I think) business lady have bright purple hair? Is this just some stylized approach? There is a standing tradition of darker skinned anime characters with purple hair, and I like that tradition, but… ah screw it, I’ll address that brain worm when the game’s done.

So, in conclusion, Coffee Buns is off to a very strong start. I look forward to seeing the game grow over the next few years, and to eventually reviewing it whenever it’s done.

Also, make sure to support the Cinnamon Switch Patreon if you want to get early access builds of this game and Crossed Signals.

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Shisutaabooi by Joe Six-Pack

**This is one bizarre transition timeline…**

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (11/05/2023) re:Dreamer Isekai Ver. Alternative/If…

So… one of my life goals is to eventually form a massive repertoire of written content, mostly meaning TSF short stories and novels, that I can look back on, point at, and eventually spread wherever I can. It’s kind of the goal behind all of my creative works. That and trying to make something good.

Now, even though that is a life goal, I still spend precious time working on these Rundowns. Why is that? Because I have a platform, damn it, and I want to champion and celebrate people who make dope shit, and have been making dope shit since 2001!

Joe Six-Pack is up there with Tira as being one of the most enduring and prolific TG/TSF creators I have ever seen, and the sheer library of their stuff is kind of insane to me. They have writings spanning two decades, dozens of comics written and illustrated by themself along with a bunch of collaborations. Archives of TG sites from two decades ago. A repository of links to TG sites that I… definitely used back in 2011.

But despite the fact that I should be familiar with their work… I mostly know Mr. Six-Pack as the guy who made some stuff on TGCaps and Shisutaabooi.

So, Shisutaabooi is a rather unconventional story, as it is told through a series of emails between two friends, each of which contains a picture of the main protagonist. Things progress in snippets over the span of 8 months, and the formatting alone gives the story a unique feel. Like the reader is investigating documents for some unknown purpose. It reminds me of digging through client emails for an IRS audit and digging through leaked FTC emails, but fun!

The emails tell the story of Chad Rivers, a 15-year-old American boy who goes to Japan as part of an exchange student program and treats the experience the way one would expect an American dude to circa 2001. Being very racist toward Japanese people, using terms like “japs” and “slanted eyes.” Fetishizing “Asian girls” as a thing of unique sexual value, and getting really excited about lower age of consent laws. All while being an ungrateful sonuvabitch who prefers to bitch about things for being different, instead of trying to understand why they are different.

Chad’s an ass—a realistic sort of ass who captures many prevailing attitudes among his era and demographic— and that makes him a prime candidate for a transformation story like this.

After about a month of this behavior, Chad’s host family, the Hosogawas (a likely misspelling of Hasegawa), have had enough of his behavior and decide that he needs to to begin his transformation. One fulfilled by eating Oreos that “smell like medicine” and playing a video game named Absorption. An addictive and difficult genre-shifting game that has psychological effects on the player. For the record, this was written about four years after the Polybius urban legend first appeared online.

With the influence of drugs, psychoactive conditioning, and a geisha makeover (because of course) Chad gradually starts acclimating to their new life, and the persona they express in their emails to Mike begins to change. His grammar becomes more proper and less casual. He stops cursing. He is more receptive to things that, just a few weeks/months ago, he would have hated. and is physically undergoing the effects of accelerated mid-pubescent HRT. (Side thought, if the brain controls hormone production, couldn’t mind control be used to induce a biologically driven HRT, or at least disable the production of certain hormones?)

During this time, Chad also loses the ability to read Mike’s replies, if he left any, leaving Chad alone as he continues to descend deeper and deeper, his body thinning and “swelling” as his mind becomes achy. As his clothing choices grow more feminine. As he begins confiding in his magical all-seeing bear, Kentaro. And as he begins doing ‘Japanese girl stuff’ like Comiket cosplay and hitting the streets of Tokyo as a ganguro girl. Well, okay, it’s “Yamamba” but that’s just a misspelled subset of the proud art of Japanese blackface fashion.

It initially seems as if the indoctrination is complete, that Chad will fully embrace this new persona, but he has a revelation, recognizes that he was abused, that his identity had been suffocating, and tries to escape. Wearing his old ill-fitting clothes as he sends his final message to Mike, ready to escape his capture. …Only for things to jump forward 7 weeks, with a ‘machine translated’ message from the email account of one Yuki Hosogawa.

The hero failed, the indoctrination was complete, and Yuki… sure seems plenty happy with her new life. Then, after her email reaches Mike’s email address, she gets a reply from Mika, explaining she was sent back to Japan from an exchange program in America, her favorite game is Absorption, and implying that she likes Oreos.

Gosh, this story is so freaking cool. The email and JPG attachment format is a wonderfully creative Web 1.0 way to tell a condensed narrative. The lore about these super HRT Oreos and this PlayStation game that can turn people into a Japanese girl is such a buck wild premise that I wish I came up with it first. But I was literally seven when this story was written. And I found the story to be pleasantly centrist in how it can be read as a horror-flavored identity death story, and an identity rebirth story. Because losing one’s sense of self, family, language, and country is kinda bad… Yuki and Mika sure seem peachy with their new lives.

Things like Shisutaabooi remind me of how easy it is for cool and interesting works to get lost to the doldrums of time. How easy it would have been for me to never find this story or forget about if I didn’t do a deep dive and save a PDF back in 2015. Actually, that is not only a problem with TSF media, but a lot of independently created media in general.

However, I suppose that that is the point of a showcase like this. To keep the word around, and spread something even decades after its release.

…And now I feel like I need to become a TG historian, even though I’m really not the best person for that, and don’t really want to be. I’d be happy to help someone— like Natalie.TF hall-of-famer Chari Shal. But I’ve got too many projects on my plate to be a lead on anything.

Header image comes from Joe Six-Pack’s DeviantArt page.

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The Legend of Zelda: Tale of the Fourth Goddess by Unknown Creator

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (11/12/2023) Dragalia Lost V3 Re;Works is Done!

Now this… is an artifact that I just happened across several years ago. I don’t remember when, I don’t remember where, and I don’t remember what I was doing to wind up with a copy of it. Just that within a zip file simply called “gam.zip” I found a bunch of files for what appeared to be a fangame based on The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, with the files having been created sometime in 2007. These files included midi files, sprites and maps from various SNES games, a bunch of sprite edits, HCGs that were traced from manga panels, but most importantly, a script! A 20,000 word script that tells the story of The Legend of Zelda: Tale of the Fourth Goddess.

Set 5 years after A Link to the Past, the story begins with Link venturing to Death Mountain to rescue a 10-year-old boy who was kidnapped by a group of wizards. They wish to use this child as the avatar for the fourth goddess of Hyrule, Agna, and by the time Link reaches the child, he is already too late. The power of Agna has entered the child’s body, transforming them into a… busty 10-year-old who calls herself Agna… despite not actually having Agna’s mind.

Link tries to banish Anga’s power from her body, but because Link decided to be a creep and look like the busty child’s bust boobs, he is promptly punished. Which is to say, he gets ka-girl’d and the only way to return to normal is to find Agna in three locations across Hyrule. That might sound simple, but Hyrule is currently being transformed by Agna’s power, becoming something more TF-y and horny.

With the initial chapter done, Link begins his TF tour across Hyrule, where he tries to find respite or aid as he embarks on his quest, but only finds TF troubles.

These start pretty tame, with a love potion, hypnosis, a skin softening TF, and… breastfeeding a Kilwala from Chrono Trigger. Though, they all congeal together into a greater narrative with a sense of escalation, as Link is gradually subjected to greater perverse actions over time. Actions that shift what he considers to be acceptable mentally, and further sexualize his form physically.

Things continue in this way for about the first half of the document, after which the transformations become more… extreme. Link becomes a horse girl— not a centaur, just a girl with horse features. A demoness with voices that fill his mind. A girly girl lesbian who must obey slutty Princess Zelda’s whims. An anthro fox who… can run faster, I guess. A Black fairy with dobonhonkeros. A bunny who gets impregnated by three blessings of the goddesses. And more!

If that all sounds like a lot of wild stuff to include in a 20,000 word story… that’s because it is. Tale of the Fourth Goddess is inarguably creative, filled with various hentai dynamics and scenarios that are lovingly rendered with the traced HCGs. However, the transformations just keep happening, one after another, and the continuity between them becomes muddled. It stops feeling like a story and more like a collection of scenes that the creator wanted to write out because they thought they were hot.

I actually love the ideas that this script introduces, the idea of gradually changing Link by giving him access to more optional transformations, and choosing to pursue events locked to particular transformations. Like how the bunny TF leads to the impregnation TF, or how the horse TF leads to the the horse beast fucking. Because you can’t have Zelda without horse fucking.

However, viewing what is here… it all kind of loses steam during the latter half, and concludes on a pretty lame note. Agna turns Link back to normal. Link removes Agna’s powers from her body, but she remains an adult woman (she got older every time Link found her), and claims to be Link’s girlfriend in a… rewritten timeline. With Agna’s mind no longer that of a child, Link kisses her, only for Zelda to barge in, and hit both of them with a bimbo TF spell, turning them into sluts with no memories of their past lives. …Yeah, it is not a reasonable progression of the preceding events. Maybe if locked behind a certain playthrough if this was a nonlinear game. But as the sole ending? It would be better if Zelda never showed up and Link and Agna just wound up as horny bimbos.

Moving onto the writing of the script itself, I would say that the writer behind this understands how to make sexual scenes feel spicy and is clearly invested in bringing these scenes to life. Their writing is honestly better than I expected, and if the creator kept it up for this many years, they’re probably doing great stuff now. However… opening the script in Word 365 literally underlines the 100+ typos and errors in this story. It has flickers of something great, but is ultimately a rough draft.

A rough draft with oodles of potential, and one that, circa 2007, was aiming to be something very ambitious. Sadly, ambition is one of the quickest ways to failure, Tale of the Fourth Goddess was left incomplete, and has fallen into such obscurity that I don’t think it can be found on the internet anymore. It is too generic of a title in too big of an IP for it to really turn up search results, and pairing it with something like gender bender doesn’t produce any relevant results. So… I uploaded the file, and you can download it here. I normally don’t like distributing porn, but this is history, yo.

And Tale of the Fourth Goddess is a particularly fascinating bit of history. It’s a glimpse into an alternate reality where TF ROM hacks of SNES games became all the rage, and an impressive work in its own right. Sure, you could highlight how some of the edits are a bit crude, but this is something that took weeks to produce, at a minimum. I just wish the creator did something more to preserve their work so more people could stumble upon it… or at least include their damn name in the files.

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P(ossession)-Party by Asagiri (ts-complex2nd)

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (11/19/2023) So Long Old Home! + The Big Verde’s Doohickey 2.0 Update.

Okay, let’s see… the TSF well has been pretty dry regarding hotness I want to talk about. Either it is too long for me to really justify going through for a segment in a Rundown, or I’m not finding new stuff that I want to talk about. Which is partially my fault, as I just have not been scouring for TSF comics, like, at all. So… let me dig into my vault again, try to avoid any of the standby artists for the time being, and— Ah drats, this is another oldie! It started in 2009, which is not that old, but I operate on the idea that something becomes retro after 10 years.

P(ossession)-Party is a 187 page four chapter series by Asagiri of the circle ts-complex2nd, which has been consistently releasing TSF comics, mostly possession and bodysuit works, for 15 years. I probably could do some sort of broader retrospect on them if I really wanted to, but not all of their works are translated, and this series alone is pretty bulky, so… let’s get started.

The comic follows a group of three high schoolers: Ryouta, Kazuma, and Shoutarou, who inexplicably have the ability to possess people, without the use of any fancy doohickeys or magics. But rather than use this power to amass riches and shape governments to their liking, they use it to go on weekly “P-Parties,” which simply stand for possession parties. As part of these parties, one friend acts as the ‘Hostess’ by preparing a meeting place for their sexual festivities. The other two act as guests, who are just along for the ride until it’s their turn. And everybody possesses a woman of their preferences, derogatorily referred to as a ‘dress.’

While possessing these women, they show zero regard for who they are, their reputation, or whatever their lives were. They flaunt their bodies as they see fit, use them for their own sexual gain, and spend all the cash they have in their purses on sex toys and fancy food. They aren’t necessarily malicious— they don’t try to ruin their lives— but they are inarguably a bunch of selfish and indulgent boys. Ones who only care about drunkening themselves on the wanton bliss of experiencing such highs in such a variety of bodies. And like a bunch of drunkards, once they are sufficiently satisfied, they take off their dresses, return home, and make plans for their next party.

This is seen in its more typical form in the first chapter, which sees the boys ‘capturing’ a couple of 20-something-year-old ladies they see walking down the streets in fly winter fashions. They banter about, scoping out bodies to their liking, and have a few cute interactions before reaching their destination, a private restaurant room— I think it’s called a koshitsu— and engage in sexual antics aplenty. It’s a good introduction of the concept, illustrates a night in these guys’ lives well, and has a strong, reckless energy to it, without ever feeling too gross.

This is partially due to the artwork, which I’m not entirely sure how to describe. To me, it looks like a combination of a more ‘standard’ manga art style, but combined with a blobbiness that became more common with the rise of digital art in the 2000s. It makes every character look a bit less real, a bit more cartoonish, and like if you were to touch them, they’d feel squishy. One of the most extreme versions of this can be found in the original ‘potato’ sprites for Higurashi. While Asagiri’s style is far from that example, I could see why the style might be a bit off putting or seem a bit… amateurish. And there are more than a few instances where the artwork does look rough. Faces distort and shift in style, proportions squish, the environment and general perspective of the world range from admirably ambitious to looking… sorta half-assed.

None of which is helped by the fact that the manga uses low resolution pages. Depending on the chapter, they’re 593 by 828 or 595 by 842, and in conforming to such a small canvas, certain details were lost or understated, which is before getting into the text… Thank goodness for Manga Reader.

However, that’s all just the first chapter. Chapter two begins by following the main, or at least the most emphasized, of the three boys, Ryouma, as he captures a female teacher’s body. He uses it to have sex with his unconscious original body— because that’s a normal thing to do— and to steal a few test answers, showing the boys aren’t just not just perverts, they’re cheaters too! Afterwards, the story cuts ahead to Ryouma getting lost on his way to the P-Party and possessing a ~~ganguro~~ gyaru for some train exhibitionism.

These scenes are fairly superfluous to the main story, but the flippant and careless way Ryouma uses his powers like this both gives him some character, and emphasizes the freedom and power that come with possession. The ability to command respect, to act without fear of consequences, to ignore so many social cues and standards, and be seen as someone else just by existing. They capture a sort of thrill unique to possession, as not only can Ryouma be anyone… he can just go ghost and bail on them whenever he feels like it.

20 pages in, we get to the main part of this chapter, where the possession boys— or P-boys as I’m gonna call them— invade a ‘pajama party’ of four girls from their class. As a group of three, they cannot possess everyone, but that means they can use this opportunity to tease the crap out of Yukiko. A brazen and playful girl who was curious about the P-boys’ ‘P(ajama) Party.’ And by ‘tease,’ I meant… basically just rape. They possess her girl friends, act lewd, kiss Yukiko on the lips, molest her for the lulz, and start fingering her while she tries to sleep. Then, at the height of her confusion, the P-boys reveal their powers and identities to her, shocking her… only for her to immediately give into the temptation and join the foursome.

Yukiko is wrapped in bliss, falls unconscious, but rather than just assume it was all a dream, P(ossession)-Party makes the inspired decision to… treat the possession power like an STI. By having sex with the P-boys in her normal body, Yukiko gained the power to possess others, and is positively hyped to join the P-boys on their next P-Party.

I absolutely adore this idea. Yukiko is just as wild and playful as any of the other P-boys, does not think possession is gross or indecent, and is excited to do things like possess a guy, which is super rare for a possession story. She is a gleaming beacon of potential in this story, and represents a promise to make future chapters a bit more daring and bold in the sexual havoc they render.

…Too bad the potential goes untapped.

Chapter 3 is largely themed around a hospital/nurse fetish, seeing Ryouma getting injured and hospitalized for some time, only for Shoutarou and Kazuma to possess some nurses. Wait, sorry, they possess some random women on the street, infiltrate the hospital, and then cosplay as nurses to fuck their friend while he’s recovering. Because that’s definitely something a sane person would do for a friend.

Now, I very much am not a fan of the hospital fetish. The only times I’ve ever gone to a hospital for anything more than an appointment were for a circumcision, and to ‘achieve an intersex state’ via bottom surgery. They simply are not a sexy place to me, and are filled with so many old and sick people that… it’s like the opposite of erotic.

As such, from a premise alone, I’m not feeling this chapter… and then they throw in an intersex child character with developed breasts and a penis who they call a “futanari.” Normally, I would just pass this off as culturally dumb hentai authors playing into tropes, but the hospital setting only makes this decision all the more uncomfortable. Intersex people (often) have more medical needs than, uh… endosex people, and seeing them fetishized as a feature of hospitals is… just gross.

There’s also the fact that Yukiko is barely in this chapter, abandoned by the P-boys and only coming in near the end, where Ryouma decides to steal her body. There is something to the ideas here, but the execution… sucks. She does not get to play a meaningful role in this chapter, and it almost feels like the creators didn’t want to include her in this story.

That would be the end of things… but then, in September 2021— almost 10 years after the release of chapter 3— a fourth chapter was released! When I originally covered this series, it was untranslated, but since then a translation has surfaced. Thanks Kuraudo, CaramelPopcorn, and Art Thor More Gainz.

This chapter sees Ryouma still in Yukiko’s body. Not because Ryouma wants to stay there, but Yukiko, in Ryouma’s injured body has assembled a harem at the hospital and doesn’t want to give up for obvious reasons. Girls make the best boys, because girls know how to get girls better than any boy.

attracts the attention of a new teacher at the school that moonlights as a miko/exorcist. She is really excited to exorcize the evil spirits out of Ryouma(Yukiko), but right as she celebrates, she gets possessed by Ryouma, who goes to join a P-Party with Kazuma and Shoutarou. …Who just so happen to be in familiar bodies from chapters 2 as a nifty callback.

They then decide to go out in cosplay, attracting a lot of attention, before heading to the new teacher’s apartment for some non-alcoholic beers and sex. The new teacher resists Ryouma as he starts masturbating in her body, but mocks her ability as an exorcist and forces her to join in the fun as the boys break things out into an orgy. An interesting idea, but the miko teacher does not have as potent of a personality and, after being scolded by Ryouma, we don’t get a glimpse into her mind. It feels like a repeat of chapter two with Yukiko, but without the same corrupting spice.

The chapter then ends with everybody back in their own bodies. The miko teacher glomps Yukiko for the night of wet and wild girl love, having gained the heart of a pervert, I guess. And we are treated to some brief epilogues showing that the gang is still a bunch of perverts.

The translation naturally helps give this story a more fitting send-off and wraps things up in a satisfying manner. But I still think the third and fourth chapter, while good in executing the concepts they set out, aren’t particularly noteworthy. Though, I do think the first two are. They are indulgent, shameless, prioritize antics and play more than sex, and as someone in the early stages of planning a possession story (that won’t be written for a long while) I found myself taking many mental notes.

P(ossession) Party captures and executes the idea of a… possession party about as well as I could expect a comic like this could. Its simplistic TF mechanics are a strength that keeps the story fixated on its fantasy. And while I wish the P-boys had more character to share between them, it’s still fun seeing them goof off like a bunch of teenage boys in a power fantasy. It’s an oldie, but a goodie.

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Electric-Exchanger [Dengeki Exchange] by Neriwasabi

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (11/26/2023) The Quest for a Dream TF Metroidvania.

I love Chari so much. They’re such a humble little translator and have done so much to help my understanding of the Japanese history of TSF that it’s kind of crazy. They translated Doron, To Joker…, Boku no Shotaiken (My First Time), Rintarou Panic, and Mahou Shounen Majorian just to name a few. …And I just realized I didn’t do a TSF Showcase on Gyakujo Jigokuen Kiwami.

I do these showcases of older TSF works, but Chari? Chari is the real TSF historian, and the gems they’ve uncovered over the years are gorgeous. They’re also a rather kind person who, as a birthday present, gave me early access to their latest translation, 1992’s Dengeki Exchange. Or if you want to use the English title used at the start of every chapter, Electric-Exchanger. Chari is going to wait a while to post it to MangaDex, fixing a few errors and such, but she generously gave me a public download link to share with you all.

The first two chapters of this manga were previously translated by a group called Exo Scans back in May 2021, and I thought they were the start of something incredible. A wonderfully self-indulgent hentai comedy comic that knew exactly what it was, and had energy for days. I actually mused about commissioning the translation of further chapters as, based on the raws, it seemed as if this comic went in some pretty wild directions. …But Chari went and did it for free!

Electric-Exchanger begins with horndog protagonist Rousuke Yanabe acting like the classically trained pervert he is by hiding in the girl’s changing room. After establishing just what kind of protagonist he is, he hears something amiss in the occult club room, where one of the members is summoning a demon— as you do. Rousuke awkwardly declares that the summoner is a woman and the Demon King of the bottle, Rhys Sicha Kzer, turns him into a girl. But not forever, as he can turn back into a boy if he has sex, and turns into a woman when he is ~~emerged in cold water~~ electrified, hence the title, Electric-Exchanger.

With this in mind, Rousuke decides he needs to get back to normal, and proceeds to rape the regular target of his perversions, Misao Nanase. With his body back to normal, Rousuke continues to be an S-tier pervert, spies on a girl bathing, sees her masturbating in the tub— and gets ka-girl’d again. Under the guise of a perverted girl, Rousuke blackmails her into sex— the other kid of wrestling— and flees to pervert and assault another day. Specifically tomorrow, where the demon summoning girl comes back, zaps Rousuke, and the two battle each other in the art of “lesbo sex.”

Describing the events can make this sound like just another sex-driven TSF comic, but unlike a lot of modern works, Electric-Exchanger is a comedy, and one far more interested in absurdity over titillation. Rousuke is a loud, abrasive, and utterly shameless protagonist who, despite his sex crimes, doesn’t really come off as a creep. He’s just a cartoon pervert doing his thing, and occasionally— often— getting punished for his lurid behavior. The story prioritizes comedic timing over much else, moving swiftly and throwing in regular jokes to keep the reader entertained, and adopting a light irreverent tone with a scattering of references.

I’d actually say the sex is the worst part of the comic, being pretty vanilla and low-detail by today’s standards, especially with the censoring, blank backgrounds, and disembodied faces that fill the scenes. They do their job, but it almost feels like the author wasn’t super into them, and just wanted to get through them, as they lack the same exaggeration and visual indulgences seen throughout the rest of the comic.

On that note, while I think the first three chapters of Electric-Exchanger are good… the story really comes into its own during its latter seven chapters, where it becomes a video game inspired fantasy isekai comic. If that sounds like a wild genre shift, that’s because it is.

It goes from a grounded setting of a Ranma parody to some amalgamation of Dragon Quest, Dragon Ball, and generalized early 90s fantasy anime. And you know what? I have zero complaints with that.

The Rhys Sicha Kzer, is revealed to be an actual king of a fantasy land, who needs Rousuke’s help in rescuing his wife from the God of Darkness and Destruction, Mijin Coppa Sama. With Mijin trying to fuck Ehysz’s wife for three days nonstop so she… releases a powerful jewel that will make him invincible. Does that make sense? Not really, but it’s good enough to make the story go vroom!

Rousuke is turned into his female form and given some armor straight out of Dragon Quest before he is sent into Mijin’s conspicuous lair, alone, as a rank 16 bishoujo. And from here… the comic just turns into a sex comedy action story. One part action, one part sex and lewd, and two parts comedy.

I write it off as being something simple, but it’s actually pretty tricky to find the right balance between these things. A creator needs to throw in enough action and intense moments for there to be a reasonable amount of stakes. The action needs to emulate and be reminiscent of the prevailing action that is being parodied— namely Dragon Ball. And the sex scenes need to feel like a natural extension of the perverted world the characters are in, and not like something arbitrary. It’s a balance I have tried to strike before— namely in Psycho Bullet Festival 2222— and Electric-Exchanger is so damn good at it that I’m kind of shocked that it even exists.

It can be hilarious, it can be dramatic, it is throbbing with an energy so immense that it warrants an electric pun, and it is most of all ruthlessly confident in what it is. Hell, the creator even left comments in between the margins making fun of the comic. And it all ends on a punchline that feels like the creator is dropping the mic, walking away from an explosion, and farting on their way out of the room, all at the same damn time. Everything this comic tries, it does.

Electric-Exchanger is… honestly, not that great of a TSF story. Rousuke does not seem too interested in lesbian sex over PIV sex. The whole perverted guy turning into a girl angle seems to be more driven around creating a perverted girl who acts like a guy. For half of the story, it’s easy to forget that the whole magical sex change thing is even there. And… I’m pretty sure the creator just got bored with the Ramna parody thing halfway through and wanted to make a completely different story. Creators are sometimes just like that.

But as a story, as a manga? This is a gosh darn treasure that I’m incredibly grateful to Chari for uncovering like this. It’s funny, throbbing with personality, unabashed in what it is, and overall a splendid time. It’s an inspiration to people who like to futz with genre bashing, and it makes me immensely curious about what Neriwasabi got up to over the… three decades since this work.

…And a lot of it is just Final Fantasy XI hentai. Huh. Well, I guess that makes sense. Dude’s gotta eat somehow.

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Gyakujō Jigokuhen Kiwami by Byuu

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (12/03/2023) Yo! NTF Cribz

Once again, I’m giving into the work of a creator who probably warrants their own sort of retrospective. Just from a cursory glance of their Pixiv, Byuu is a mangaka with a very specific niche. For over a decade, they have been creating comics that center around hot-blooded male delinquents getting transformed into women, and going on some manner of hot-blooded adventure involving their crew/rivals.

This is not all Byuu does, but it is the rough majority, and a concept that they have explored so many times that it’s a bit hard to gauge where one should begin. However, seeing as how I can’t read Japanese, I’m limited to the few of their works that have received translations, namely Gyakujō Jigokuhen Kiwami. A single volume 2017 manga translated by none other than the Natalie.TF top translator and TSF historian, Chari Shal!

The story of Gyakujō Jigokuhen Kiwami follows typical hot-blooded delinquent boy Daijiro Tozaki, who looks like a heavyweight champion despite just being a high schooler. Trapped within the hell (island?) school of Zekkai Gakuen, Rozaki spends most of his time skipping classes, hanging out with his buddy Ueshima, and training his brick-hard body. But in living his exaggerated bancho lifestyle, he makes an enemy out of the resident mad scientist, Dorozawa, who makes a drug that transforms Tozaki into a woman. In response, Tozaki instead leaves Dorozawa half-dead in a river, because this isn’t an H-comic!

Normally stories like this would then see Tozaki confide in Ueshima, but before he can do that, he winds up shooting him in the head with one of his uniform buttons, taking him out of the story. With Tozaki filled with rage and depression after this act, he becomes reclusive, disconnected from the hot-blooded world around him. In this stupor, he meets Kamio Yunosuke, a girl who was raised as a boy by her father, who didn’t want to lose a 2,000 yen bet. So she was sent to this prison hell school to… make a man out of her, I guess.

Yunosuke thinks Tozaki is a girl living as a man, as is the most logical assumption, and seeks kinship with him. While Tozaki is weak to girls and genuine kindness, so he quickly begins to fall for Yunosuke, agreeing to be her friend as they aim to survive in Zekkai Gakuen together. Which does not actually mean attending classes as much as it means just walking to school and sitting under a tree together, because classes are boring.

Following an encounter with Dorozawa— who is now a cyborg— Tozaki pushes Yunosuke away, because tough bancho guys like him have the emotional strength of a pocket of sand. But as he mopes, Dorozaka captures Yunosuke, calling Tozaki to dish out another prerequisite ass-whooping. After the encounter, Yunosuke and Tozaki are at the cusp of accepting their romantic feelings for each other when they are approached by Tozaki’s rival, the fiery-haired Notauchi.

Notauchi figured out Tozaki’s super obvious transformation, and believes he is entitled to claiming Tozaki as his girlfriend. Why? Dude logic, delinquent logic, grossly exaggerated sexism, brain rot from being isolated on an all-man island that others women to the point of being objects one can possess. Take your pick.

The two flee, but with Notauchi hot on their trail, Tozaki leaves Yunosuke behind to make a last stand to protect her from being claimed by him, or any other creep at this school. The two share a final heartfelt conversation, Yunosuke thanks Tozaki for giving her someone to be herself around, while Tozaki admits his true identity as a man and declares his love for her. Before this reveal can linger, Tozaki rushes out for his final battle… and realizes he lost a good 40 centimeters and 30 kilograms of muscle.

After making an underhanded escape, Tozaki uncovers Dorozawa’s laboratory, and injects himself with the serum that turns him back into a man, so he can fight Notauchi on equal footing. He uses the power of love to win in a desperate final strike, as one does, and is awakened by Yunosuke, who embraces our hero like any adequate leading lady.

But then, right as the story could end, Tozaki’s male transformation is undone in a single panel, and Dorozawa comes in as a last minute deus ex machina (emphasis on machina) to explain how this story will end. The last female-to-male drug was administered to Yunosuke, turning her into a man (but not making her as beefy as every other dude in this story), who’s actually fine with this. Which makes some sense, as despite having more feminine proclivities, Yunosuke has been presenting as male for their entire life. But right as the story seemingly ends, Dorozawa decides to fulfill his master plan. Using TSF juice to turn everyone on Zekkai Gakuen into a woman. Thereby making it a hell island for sukeban instead of bancho. Which, in all seriousness, is way cooler.

…Actually, wait a second, if the TSF juice turned every man on this island into a woman… then wouldn’t it turn Yunosuke back into a woman? Tozaki refers to her as ma’am on the last page, I don’t see any mention that the FtM TSF drug is irreversible. And if so… is this final ‘pivot to heterosexuality’ gotcha at the end kind of pointless?

I guess I didn’t notice that my first time reading this. I was probably distracted by the fact that Dorozawa transformed himself into a T-1000, capable of using his liquid metal alloy to transform into a cute blonde girl. Which, in all fairness, is probably the coolest thing this comic does.

Gyakujō Jigokuhen Kiwami is… a pretty wild ride. It does not take itself seriously, and is damn proud to be an entry in the coveted genre of TSF action romance comedy. But even without knowledge of the background of this comic, it very much feels like a sort of spin-off or side story of something more traditional. An alternate take on ideas the creator explored over the years, but wrapped up in a tight one volume package that manages to tell a complete and fulfilling story. Which definitely is not a bad thing.

Visually, I think the story is quite strong, clearly building upon years of experience using this generalized style, complete with the level of polish one would expect from a work released on more mainstream platforms.

Character proportions are often exaggerated, with most men having these oversized ogre-ish physiques, but they also don’t strictly adhere to a single body shape. Characters fluctuate between sizes and heights, and all feature a unique hairstyle or facial quirks to keep them looking distinct from one another.

Expressions are a highlight for me, as Byuu is not afraid to make his characters look ugly or unsightly, and often distorts reality itself when they indulge in their more extreme emotions. Which, seeing as how this is hothead island, happens a lot. And the few action sections sprinkled throughout the story carry with them the sense of weight and impact you would expect for someone with such proclivities toward hot-blooded shonen heroes.

I think Dorozawa is a wonderful antagonist, veering as deep into the mad scientist trope as one can, and no matter how much he tries to foil and make Tozaki submit to him, he always gets pummeled. And after he gets pummeled, he just comes back, his wounds healed and his body more robotic. From being a cyborg with half a face and a metal arm to becoming a robot with a phallus for a head, to just being a bunch of metal goop. His determination is ruthless, his skills are cartoonish, and I enjoyed seeing him undergo his own transformation. You rarely see TSF stories where both the protagonist and antagonist undergo such changes throughout the entire story… and this is one of them. Wait, is becoming more robotic considered TF? …I’m going to say yes.

While Kamio Yunosuke’s character is… honestly a bit strange. She is clearly meant to be a parallel sort of character to Tozaki— a girl who was at an all boys school but for different reasons and whose background has nothing to do with science magic tomfoolery. A girl who had to deny her femininity for years, and is eager to find someone who she can be herself with and someone who can accept her for who she is. I think that everything about her character, in relation to Tozaki, works pretty well, and the two share enough cute moments that it feels genuine when they do become a couple at the end of the story.

However, the story also does not afford her much agency. She is presented as someone Tozaki needs to protect, someone who is kidnapped, and someone whose presence during inopportune times makes things worse. She is seen as a woman in a world of men, where women are seen as a thing to protect and fight for. Tozaki is also pushed into that role by the antagonists, but he constantly fights back and proves his independence. Yunosuke meanwhile… does not get that privilege.

When combined with the fact she does not get a proper transformation into a man, it seems that Byuu did not want her to have a way of standing up for herself, or to help Tozaki beyond moral support. Which feels like some wasted potential in my book…

…Ah crap, this is starting to sound like a review.

In summary, I think Gyakujō Jigokuhen Kiwami is a good manga, and a great TSF manga. It does not really dabble in gender exploration too much, but through its absurdity and passion, I think it amounts to something special. Re-reading it actually got me super curious about what else Byuu has made over the past few decades, but translating things is hard work, and only a relatively small amount of people can do it. I guess I could stop being a coward and bust out a machine image-based translator, but… Nah.

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Ame Nochi Hare [Clear Up After Rain] by Bikke

This segment was originally featured in Rundown (12/10/2023) Good Night Gamindustri, See Ya Next Year!

Now this is a name I haven’t heard in a long time. 2009 to 2012 was something of the peak period for me when it came to scrounging the internet for TSF, or rather TG, media. Reading Fictionmania stories, searching out good caption sites, doing my daily search through DeviantArt for good stuff, and checking on whatever resources I could find.

It was an obsession, but in my pursuit for amassing an ethereal collection, I came across several promising ‘gender bender’ manga. Ones that I interpreted as the only mainstream, long-form, ongoing, English translated, manga that featured TSF as a central element. Ame Nochi Hare, Nyotai-ka, and Sekainohate de Aimashou. I mean, sure, there was stuff on TG Comics— a site I really should revisit now that my brain has stopped developing— but this felt more special.

The problem with these series, aside from Sekainohate de Aimashou, is the problem that plagues many fan translated comics. The translation group starts something, disappears into the ether, and the comic is left abandoned, to be picked up by another group, who may very well drop it after putting out just a few chapters. …Also Nyotai-ka got picked up by Project Hentai as a physical-only release. As such, it is a small miracle this comic ever received a full translation, and it took me over a decade before I read its conclusion.

So, is Ame Nochi Hare good, and did it live up to the fond memories of it I have accumulated in the back of my brain? …No.

I read through all eight volumes in a day— which took me over 8 hours— and I think the story kind of botches its potential and under-delivers in many ways. So consider this to be less of a showcase of something great and a dive into the untapped potential of Ame Nochi Hare! Or maybe it’s a review. I don’t know anymore!

Ame Nochi Hare follows a group of five boys attending a gender segregated boarding school who, following a violent storm, are transformed into girls. Well, temporarily. The series sees the cast of five alternate between their male and female forms in accordance with the weather. After it has rained for approximately an hour, they will transform into girls, and will remain in that form for 12 hours after the rain clears up. (Hence the title.) It’s a slightly complicated transformation system, far more complex and less fluid than hot/cold water or electricity/sex or day cycle, but one that I respect.

It is a transformation system that subjects humans to the whims of nature, robs the protagonists of power fantasy of having a controllable transformation, and sprinkles in a layer of randomness.. Similarly, the duration of the transformations is a good way to keep the characters locked between different forms for significant lengths of time, which, in turn, drives many of the conflicts throughout the story. Also, I liked this mechanic so much that I adjusted it for a novella I wrote a decade ago.

For the first few chapters, the story is primarily concerned with set up. Introducing the main cast of Hazuki Yamanoi, Junta Goromaru, Madoka Sakonji, Yuusuke Maki, and Touma Kisaragi along with their group dynamics. Meeting the chairman of the school, Haruto, who helps them pull strings to attend school as both men and women. Introducing a significant supporting cast of fellow school people. And showing the protagonists as they are thrust into the world of girlhood. Buying underwear, wearing female uniforms, traveling through the cluttered woods to attend school at the female campus, and pursuing female friendships.

Ame Nochi Hare starts with some strong footing, establishing itself as a story about a group of adolescents learning more about the world, themselves, and those they care about by becoming women. It allows them to form different connections not only with those around them, but each other. The act of becoming women gives them the freedom to act like women, to be seen as women, and form relationships that would be impossible if they were merely men. Thereby granting thema fuller understanding of those around them and, quite possibly, themselves.

When the story is pursuing this idea, exploring how characters juggle relationships with their dual identities, their hearts switching between that of a man and that of a woman, it can be genuinely beautiful. Seeing the group talk about the fragility, limitations, beauty, and, to an extent, freedom of their forms captures something I seldom see when perusing TSF manga. And the low stakes, soft-acceptance of this fact of life, of this magical transformation, gives the story a unique feel. The protagonists may not want their lives to be so complicated, but they don’t mope about it and just treat this as a part of life. Something to enjoy for what it is, rather than a curse they must undo.

There are plenty of tender moments of this manga that shine radiantly, capturing a feeling, a vibe, that reminds me of everything this comic could be… but instead, it’s just weirdly bloated and messy.

Ame Nochi Hare is ultimately a shoujo drama, a genre I admittedly have precious little familiarity with. And throughout my day-long binge of it, I could not help but wonder if there was something about it I was simply not getting about this genre and how stories work within it. …Because I just found the bulk of everything here to feel like a load of fluff and filler.

Rather than focusing on the five protagonists, their relationships, and their arcs, the story instead casts a wide net and aims to craft a cast of dozens, connected via a detailed relationship chart. Family members, friends, siblings, other students who they know via clubs, et cetera. All of whom are occasionally made the focus of the story in an attempt to give them additional depth, but it mostly serves to detract from the story of the protagonists, which confuses me.

When viewing a story, I typically try to break it down into an outline, identifying the purpose of scenes, story beats, and aligning them onto a story chart. This is all mental, but as someone who likes to write from an outline, it’s how I internalize things. With Ame Nochi Hare, I feel as if there was no outline or clear idea what its story would be beyond the concepts and relationships. It’s most just a story about… teenagers living their life, and what they get up to outside of classes.

Chapters have things that happen, and could be construed as progress toward one relationship or another. But so many of them cut back and forth so frequently and feature so many characters that it feels like the writer lacks much vision for this story or where they want it to go. Which is not helped by how often the whole TSF element is… just ignored. The story’s primary job, in my mind, is to make the most of its transformation premise, and it just doesn’t. Only some characters seek out relationships in their female forms, and I struggle to recall anything substantive some of them did under these new forms. Hazuki has his own love quadrangle with Asumi and Takuma. But for Yuusuke, he uses his girl form to get closer to his girlfriend from Kansai… I guess?

The story continues to waft and waver around for quite a while, but it eventually makes it clear that it is about in its final chapters. Ame Nochi Hare is the story about boys who become girls in order to learn a woman’s heart, confess their love, and become romantically mature men. The whole transformation element is ultimately a tool for them to understand women better, so they can enter into heterosexual relationships with them, or at least try.

Yeah, if that last sentence didn’t give this away, despite having such a queer premise and featuring a cast of pretty boys becoming pretty girls, this comic’s not interested in being queer. It has several queer characters, but they are not allowed to be with the people they love. They are turned down, rejected, and left to live the rest of their lives searching for love, or left musing about whether their hearts will change in the future. (If they will stop being queer and become straight.) Also, none of the boys stay as girls, or accept the heart of a woman. So, no trans stuff here either.

I could see this really not sitting well with people, or even being ‘queerbaiting’ to some extent, but I just view it as coming from a creator with a closed imagination. Something born from ignorance or traditionalism, rather than a point of malice.

The story is also largely devoid of anything sexual. Despite the cast being a bunch of 15-year-old boys, they are too chaste or intimidated by their bodies to try anything lewd. Sexual features are not really discussed beyond breasts and a bra shopping excursion and a few bra related comments. While topics like pregnancy and menstruation are complete non-factors. I guess the writer was more concerned with romance and love than anything of this nature, and in all fairness, that is probably the most successful element of this story.

Three of the five protagonists are given meaningful romantic relationships. One gets rejected because he barely knew his romantic counterpart. And the other guy is gay, and French, so he doesn’t get to kiss anyone.

I also should comment on the artwork, as I think it is what first drew me into this comic. The cover art for this series is phenomenal. The watercoloring pairs perfectly with the series’ identity. The texture of the canvas and shading of the brushstroke is masterful. And even when it is just having the characters stand about and pose for the camera, it manages to capture a vast amount of their character just from the way they stand and the expression on their faces.

The standard pages are similarly soulful and pretty. It features a more typical shoujo style with boys so pretty, you can barely notice when they’re girls. Dynamic panel work that keeps the story visually interesting throughout. Detailed environments, cute and expressive characters, and a general softness that keeps the comic pleasant to look at. It does slightly suffer from having so many characters who can only be differentiated by their hair shade and hairstyle, but that’s what happens when you try to make everyone so dang pretty. I have some words for Bikke as a storyteller, but when they have the time to shine, they can draw something beautiful.

I really wanted to come out talking about how Ame Nochi Hare was a gem after devoting so much time to it… but it just isn’t. At its core, it is a saccharine TSF story about a group of teens being given the opportunity to play around with gender to gain a fuller view of those around them, themselves, and the world at large. But it simply lacks the focus and conviction in its premise to pursue that ideal, and just winds up feeling like a romantic slice of life story with an underutilized gimmick and a bloated scope. The filler far outweighs the parts of the story that I found compelling, and considering how much I had to push myself to finish this story, I would not recommend it for entertainment purposes.

It has some great ideas, poor execution, and leaves me wishing for a non-suggestive and sweet TSF romance story involving a large cast of young people by someone who gets the appeal of the genre. Which… probably exists. I gotta keep on digging!

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Seitenkan Appli no Tadashii Tsukaikata [How to use Gender-Changing Apps Properly] by Mogetama (Tanakamori Yokota)

Last time, I covered a 1,400 page TSF manga that was decidedly not queer, so let’s bring it back with something that’s undeniably trans!

How to use Gender-Changing Apps Properly is a story that, on its most basic level, is familiar to anyone who has dabbled in the more erotic end of TSF manga. A young male-bodied person downloads a gender change app, uses it to nab themself a female body, and then proceeds to have sex with their best friend. It’s a bog standard hentai plot, so familiar that I’ve covered multiple stories that exaggerate this very same premise.

Though, it’s rare— at least in the world of TSF comics— to see more… realistic or proper use of something as fantastical as a “gender-changing app.” Namely as a way for people to… play around with their gender, explore their curiosities/identity, or use magical tech to change their bodies better than HRT and surgery ever could. …Which is pretty much what this story is all about.

The comic follows Hinata, a nineteen-year-old trans woman who has always envied their twin sister, Himari. For her ability to dress in fluttery, frilly clothes, wear girlish accessories, and be seen by others, namely their best friend, Yuushin, as cute. But Hinata has been routinely denied these things by having been born a boy, with a body that ‘doesn’t suit’ this type of clothing or general image. …Except for the face, which is the same as Himari. I’d call that questionable, but I’ve known trans girls who had the same face as their sister. Genetics are just like that sometimes.

Things begin by hammering home Hinata’s hyperfixation with this ‘typically girly’ aesthetic by having her buy a female fashion magazine, visit a female clothing store, and having a super girly room. And while this would typically elicit ribbing from her male best friend, Yuushin… is fully supportive of Hinata’s interest, and actively urges her to do what she’s passionate about even if she considers it to be “weird.”

Yuushin is pretty much the best sort of friend Hinata could ask for, so it’s not surprising that she has a crush on him. And in case this is all too subtle, she goes so far as to fantasize about being with him, imagining herself with a more femme body, in the clothes she admires so much, walking hand-in-hand. It is so vivid that Hinata decides she may as well try the ‘gender-changing app’ she heard some people talking about and, much to her shock, it actually worked.

Both are surprised by this, but rather than being overjoyed, Hinata is more concerned about having made a mistake by hitting the ‘turn into the girl button.’ Some eggs are just dense like that… But Yuushin, being the voice of reason, reminds Hinata that this is the perfect time to wear the clothes she admired so dearly. And as she looked over herself, Yuushin drops the compliment Hinata has wanted to hear her entire life, “you look really cute.”

These words cause Hinata to break. Not out of joy, but out of frustration that this is not the real her, and the belief that Yuushin is just saying that because she resembles her sister. Yuushin explains that, no, he has always cared for Hinata ever since they were little kids, always encouraged her to pursue what she wanted, and always thought Hinata was cute. To prove this, he gives Hinata her birthday present early, a cute top for her to wear.

With all emotional barriers crushed, and now having the body she always wanted, not knowing how longer this would last for, Hinata comes on to Yuushin, urging him to touch her. Yuushin makes sure this is what she wants, and she affirms she has always wanted this. From there, this 75 page manga then shifts into a 36 page sex scene and… it is almost one of my favorite sex scenes I have seen in my years of pursuing erotic manga.

It is slow, tender, and is driven by emotion from both parties. Hinata and Yuushin urge each other to go further when the other questions if they should stop there. There is a constant conversation between the two, rather than devolving things into a bunch of sexual barks. The sexual positions change regularly, but they carry a sense of escalation, with both parties easing into each other before Hinata gingerly asks Yuushin to go all the way. Hinata herself is sent on an emotional rollercoaster, overwhelmed by joy, fear, excitement, and uncertainty, yet clinging to her desires even as her face becomes full of tears. All while Yuushin serves as her rock. He’s stable, receptive, and clearly cares for her with every motion, and wants this to be good for her as much as he wants this himself. It’s both beautiful… and pretty inspiring as a writer. (Why yes, I do look to hentai for inspiration when writing sex scenes, just like every writer!)

…But right as this scene hits its apex— right after the creampie is served— the comic… undoes Hinata’s transformation! Her body turns back to normal, and rather than just… completely losing her shit over how dysphoric that would be, because that would be the sensible reaction, Hinata is much more… reserved. I’m not even sure how to describe it. It’s more like she is in disbelief over the whole event, and does not want to question it, while also really wanting to have a round two of sex. Yuushin is too, but instead decided to invite Hinata out to get ramen, urging her to wear her new blouse. Because no matter which body she has, he still loves her.

This is where the comic ends, and aside from the… sorta baffling ending, it is one of the most trans affirming TSF hentai comics I have ever seen. Yuushin is the best friend a TSF girl could ever ask for, being supportive and strong throughout the entire experience, while also having enough emotional intelligence to understand his partner’s desires. Hinata’s fixation is a bit… exaggerated— and weirdly reminds me of the DSM-V’s description of gender dysphoria. But she’s a deeply cute protagonist whose struggle to accept herself is probably more relatable than it should be. A lot of us trans girls are way too stubborn to accept who we are…

Now, I could wrap things up by gushing about how gorgeous the artwork is, with its soft linework, skill in depicting both casual clothes and girly frills, and the impressively dynamic sex scene. But… there’s a gosh darn sequel to this story! Seitenkan Appli no Tadashii Tsukaikata Bangai-hen/ Youta Otokonoko Ver. [How to use Gender-Changing Apps Properly Extra/Boy Ver].

Now, this sequel has not yet been translated, but I bought it, tried using a few machine translators, and… they didn’t really tell me much that I could not gather just by looking at the drawings. Fortunately, this extra version is a lot simpler.

A month after the first comic, Yuushin takes Hinata out on a birthday date, but rather than using the app to transform herself, Yuushin requests that Hinata go out in their untransformed form, while still wearing her gifted blouse. They do typical date stuff— get food, see a movie, visit some amusement destination, and head to Yuushin’s home at the end of the night. There, the topic of sex comes up, but Yuushin says that Hinata does not need to use the app.

Why? Well, the two then have sex, so you can probably read between the lines. Yuushin loves Hinata for who they are, regardless of which form they wear. …Or at least that’s the interpretation I think the story is going for. And what I’d want it to be going for. I could ask Chari to clear things up, but Chari is busy saving TSF history, and I don’t know any other translators who I can hand… yaoi hentai to.

Edit 5/17/2025: Hey, so I completely forgot that I didn’t update this segment after an unofficial English translation was released in January 2024, so I’m doing it now. However, I nailed it right on the head. Yuushin takes Hinata out for their birthday, takes them back to his place, and tells Hinata that he does not care about doing it with a girl, he wants to be with Hinata, no matter what their body is like. If Hinata wants it, cool, but Yuushin does not care what his lover looks like. And I love to see that!

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Jinzou Shoujo [Artificial Girl] by Natsume Satoru

Coming in as a special request from Cassandra Wright, we have… something extra special. Jinzou Shoujo was a 2 volume long TSF manga from 2000 that was translated all the way back in 2008. Its author is a rather obscure one who worked on a few series before this, before seemingly vanishing after writing this story. Normally, I don’t pay too much mind to a mangaka’s history and look into stuff like that, but Jinzou Shoujo is a… strange story.

The comic starts in a familiar place for anyone familiar with the first ‘real’ TSF manga, My First Time by Yuzuki Hikaru. An enigmatic doctor is reviving a young woman using the brain of a high school boy. But as the young man, Yutaka Misumi wakes up in his new body, he is understandably confused and hostile, demanding to get his body back. While the doctor, Anjin Hiruma, insists that Yutaka is dead and he must be reborn as Nina, or rather “Nina.”

Yutaka reacts to this news by running away to his old house, only to see it reduced to burnt rubble, having been destroyed 6 months ago. …Wait, then shouldn’t someone have cleared the lot in that time? Regardless, Yutaka learns that his original body was abducted before the fire, determines that it must still be around, and vows to find it so he can become himself again. The very next chapter, Yutaka learns that his body was spotted at the prestigious Shinseimei Academy, but is going by the name of Satonaka. As such, the only logical option is to attend school as Nina Hiruma to try and uncover this mystery.

The next chapter, a scant 12 pages, Yutaka quickly outs himself as a violent hothead despite his demure body, and basically blows his cover in front of Satonaka in an effort to get more information. Already, the pacing is… weird, but clearly going places.

…So chapter 5 opens with Yutaka getting abducted by a crow human chimera who tries to kill him with the power of gravity. He is sent free-falling, but Yutaka escapes death by awakening his body’s latent power to transform into a fairy. Or I guess a human-sized fairy. Despite this magical girl transformation, Yutaka is overwhelmed by the crow human chimera— his name is The Crow— who drops one of my favorite lines in manga history. “Should I fuck you and then kill you or should I kill you and then fuck your corpse?”

But as death nears, Yutaka slices The Crow’s head off and falls to the ground, where he is saved by Doctor Hiruma. …Who can fly now by the way. Also, I didn’t mention this earlier, but Hiruma has two confidants. A cat demon who loves eating rotten flesh, Mutton, and a mummy servant named Ushev. In this chapter, they are revealed to have alternate humanoid battle forms. They don’t really use them for much, or do much in the story, but they’re there!

In chapter 6, we learn about the origins of the original Nina. A 16-year-old girl with the mind of a 3-year-old who loved butterflies and wanted to become one. It’s actually a sweet if tragic inclusion, one that, while an idealized exaggeration, reminds me a lot of certain people with mental disabilities I shared the bus with when riding paratransit. Anywho, Nina jumped off a cliff, died, and was modified using alchemy before Yutaka’s brain was put in her body, thus giving him transformation powers. This also leads into a subplot where Yutaka is gradually gaining Nina’s pure and maidenly heart, including developing a… certain affinity for Doctor Hiruma.

Then we get to chapter 7, which opens with Yutaka returning to school and meeting up with a girl who gave him candy earlier, Nakahara, not to be confused with Satonaka. Yutaka defends her from a bunch of gyaru bullies who make fun of her for being a super senior, and Satonaka declares romantic feelings for Yutaka…. Only for Satonaka to be taken away and boy-smooched by a young man, who is revealed to be Kai, the mastermind behind everything.

If you are struggling to keep up with everything that’s going on… that’s because this manga progresses at a pretty fast clip for the first seven chapters, which make up 143 pages of the manga. Chapters 8 to 12 are 180 pages long, and… how do I put this? I can only assume that at this point the series was put on the chopping block due to low ratings or readership in the monthly magazine Asuka, but I have absolutely no evidence backing that up. I’d need to find and translate an old Japanese magazine to be sure.

Now, this is normally a death sentence for a lot of series, leading to a lot of rushed or non-endings/ While the former is the case for Jinzou Shoujo… calling it rushed is a disservice. This manga loses its damn mind during its later half and drops so many revelations, so many bombshells, that I found it hard to keep up with everything without taking nodes.

Reading through it, I was constantly asking “WHAT?!” in my head every minute or so, as it just keeps on throwing out every wild idea the writer had for this story, cramming them into as few pages as possible. I could see how some people would call this crap, bad storytelling, or just exhausting… but I find it to be exhilarating.

The latter half of Jinzou Shoujo is all killer, no filler, and refuses to let the reader catch their breath as the writer does their damndest to wrap things up ASAP. Characters make their big reveal only to be killed 20 pages later. Fight scenes with characters who were supposed to be important are condensed to two pages. And deranged nonsense happens so often that I almost certainly missed a few things in my casual single read through the comic.

It is so wild that… I genuinely do not want to spoil it for anyone. Partially because it would take 1,000 words just to explain what happened. And because I think its approach is genuinely inspiring. THIS is a prime example of condensed storytelling, and does so many cool things, so fast, back-to-back, that I cannot help but love it.

It has industrial human cloning, It has a whole damn apartment neighborhood full of artificial human hybrids, it has freaking magic, and also a hotel hysterectomy! That might sound like I’m giving away a lot, but I’m not giving away shit!

As a writer who prides herself on her ability to craft some truly bizarre stuff, I am humbled by Jinzou Shoujo. The final chapters of this comic are a creative triumph, and a testament to how much a creator can do when time is of the essence.

This messy and rushed conclusion is, unsurprisingly, carried over with the artwork, being very… early 2000s blobbiness. This was a transitional era for a lot of anime aesthetics, going from the harder edges of the 90s to something softer and more moe. Jinzou Shoujo can definitely be expressive and cute, but you can also tell when the artist just did not want to draw backgrounds, and didn’t grasp that people are supposed to be seven to eight heads tall. Not nine. I can tell they have experience with the craft, and I like some of the monster designs quite a bit, but Natsume Satoru… had some iffy habits here.

…Oh, and I should address how this comic fares as a TSF story. Yutaka does not really pry about being in a female body too much throughout the story, and his boy-ness is mostly conveyed by his hotheadedness and a few comments about his maidenly heart. This does culminate in an acceptance near the end of the story, when Yutaka accepts themself as Nina… I think. It has the skeleton of a gradual feminization TSF story, but with time in short supply, it needs to expedite a few too many things for it to feel… complete.

In conclusion, I think Jinzou Shoujo is a creatively rich work that is beautiful in its ambition and admirable in how well it managed to end all things considered. If I read this story when I was a teen, I know I would be carrying around traces of inspiration with me to this day. And as a creator, part of me wants to try tackling similar concepts to see if I can put my own spin on its treasure trove of cool ideas. …While the other part is a bit too dazzled to try.

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Megu Miruku [Megu Milk] by Kusaka Shiroi

Coming in as yet another request from Natalie.TF’s very own Cassandra Wright, we have a short-lived TSF ecchi school rom-com named… Mega Milk? Sorry, no, it’s Megu Miruku. …But the publisher obviously knew what they were doing with this title.

The comic follows 15-year-old Meguru Inaba as his friend, Shou Shubusawa, makes a carelessly worded wish to an angel, Moa Suzuki, that results in Meguru transforming into a busty girl. With no obvious way to undo this transformation, the two begin their first day of high school, where they reunite with their mutual childhood friend, Souko Takashina. They try to hide the truth around her, but Souko has a suggestive collision with Meguru, kissing him, and transforms him into a boy. With everybody thoroughly confused, Moa explains that Meguru will transform between a boy and a girl whenever he is kissed by a girl, but if he ever does “ecchi things” he will be stuck in that form forever. And by ecchi things, the comic really means SEX!

One would assume this would lead to a dual life mechanic where Meguru switches between male and female form regularly, just like in Ranma ½. …But you’d be wrong, as Meguru stays a girl from chapter two until the very end of the 15 chapter comic, barring three panels where he is transformed back into a boy. …So, does that make Meguru a trans girl or some other edge case that warrants she/her pronouns? Well, the unofficial English translation has other characters use he/him pronouns. Meguru says they have the heart of a man. They are called Meguru-kun. And they use the Japanese pronoun ore to refer to themself. Meaning… they’re a boy, I guess.

So, what exactly is the hook of Megu Miruku? What makes it different from the scattering of manga that belong to this same loosely defined sub-sub-genre? Well, honestly, not a ton. Every 30 to 45 page chapter follows an episodic story as the ensemble of characters go through familiar, if cliche situations. Taking Meguru to the underwear shop. Meguru and Shou going out on a mock date to allegedly mess with a distant friend of theirs. Chapters that pair Meguru with another character for the majority of the duration to explore their relationship as they address some minor conflict. It’s all fairly typical stuff of the general rom-com genre and its loosely defined era, is all littered with the type of suggestive content that makes me think that I really should not be reading this. I mean, these girls are literally half my age. I’m old enough to be their parent.

Normally, a work like this would bounce right off me. I’d zone out while reading, get bored, and move onto something with more texture. However, I not only diligently read through Megu Miruku, but… I actually liked it quite a bit. Why is that? Well, a lot of reasons.

The storylines themselves have enough room to feel like complete narratives, rather than loosely themed excuses for ecchi shenanigans. You wind up learning something about the central characters in every chapter, building them up into something endearing. There are more than enough characters, so the dynamics never really gets too trite and boring. And the series… knows what it wants to be and is proud of it.

While Megu Miruku is indeed an ecchi series, it is one without a truly lurid air to it. When something sexy happens, it is presented with a layer of comedy. Either things are exaggerated to an absurd degree, or the entire scene is part of a prolonged punchline. It has a lot of stuff that is, pretty shamelessly, meant to be sexy and sexual, but it rarely ever presents it as something humiliating or embarrassing for its characters.

Meguru’s tits pop out so many times that they don’t care when it happens, and while he is often drawn in compromising positions, these are offset by how casual and confident he is in his body. He still has the heart of a boy, so he likes seeing boobs, and knows that the boys around him like seeing boobs, so what’s there to be upset about? Nothing! Because everybody got to see some boobs!

And when the girls are subjected to a similar level of sexualization, it is presented with a similar degree of levity. Like when Meguru and the girls all go to the lingerie shop together and have a tops off party in the changing room. Or when they get their shirts torn open by a magical dodgeball blessed by Moa’s angel powers. When these scenes are viewed in isolation… It’s a bunch of pervy bullshit. But when together, it’s just part of a sex comedy. And you know what genre works really well with TSF, and has for nearly 50 years? Sex comedy.

Though, I’m burying the lead by not highlighting how none of this would work if not for Meguru himself. Meguru is a beans-for-brains busty bunny-themed bimbo. They are clearly designed to strike an elusive balance between cute and sexy with his extreme proportions and adorable face. They are brash, childish, spunky as all hell, loyal as a dog, always willing to help out a friend, and never dissuaded by any roadblock. …Except for maybe love, but that’s true for most 15-year-olds. While his type of character is by no means unique, he sets the tone for the rest of the comic, and as a character, he’s just excellently executed.

Okay, but is there any story to this comic? Do the characters ever grow? Well… sort of, I guess. Meguru is timid about having a female body for the first four chapters, but by chapter five, they have flat out stopped being bothered by it. There is an effort to make a minor character (who probably should have been cut) more relevant with a spotlight chapter and she becomes less shy after that chapter, I guess. But the most development weirdly goes to Shou and his family backstory.

Shou lives with Meguru, where he works part-time as an assistant for Meguru’s lewd milf of a mother, who also happens to be an overworked mangaka. Why he lives with them is not acknowledged early on, but later chapters explain Shou’s messy family life, curious relationship to his younger half-sister, Shiori, and… he kind of becomes the main character. His story is exaggerated in spots, but it is played straight, and does not feel inappropriate. If anything, it is a welcomed bit of drama that warrants a tone shift to break up Meguru’s carefree adventures.

This leads to the final three chapters, which aim to wrap up the story in a semi-fulfilling manner. They build upon the dense romantic tension between Meguru, Shou, and Souka while reminding Meguru that they can decide if they want to continue living as a boy or a girl. This ‘arc’ is still filled with goofy suggestive hijinks, but it shows the writer is capable of addressing more serious matters, and begins to veer into the predicted yet satisfying conclusion. …Only to then say NAH! I don’t want to spoil it, because it is hilarious in a half-assed last minute sorta way, but I’ll just say it ends the way a lot more TSF stories should. With MORE TSF and a denial of permanence!

I’m actually surprised how much I enjoyed Megu Miruku. It’s consistently funny. Its shameless ecchi-ness somehow managed to be a boon rather than a bane. It has so much creative energy that it feels like the author just cracked the surface come the last chapter. The artwork is both lively and adorable, filled with screenshot worthy moments. And just by reading it, I can tell the creator was confident in what they were doing, even if it probably didn’t work out as well as they probably wanted.

**…Yeah, the comic just be like that sometimes.**

Overall, I would say it is a pretty fun comic, but as a TSF story, it is a bit light. Despite being… very boyish, Meguru does not always feel like a TSF protagonist. He mostly reads as a sexually confident yet bimbo-brained girl so boyish they use ore or boku instead of watashi. Or, to lift a term provided by the unofficial translation, just an easy bake ore-woman.

On that note, I should comment on the English translation, because it is… odd. The first of three volumes was translated by an amateur group whose grammar, formatting, spelling, and general professionalism were all, well, shit. They translated a chapter in comic sans as a joke, plastered a watermark for Batoto over it, and have a lot of crude notes throughout their work. I normally don’t talk about fan translations, but I think it’s unfortunate this comic is sorta stuck with something so rough. It’s readable, but the group roankun did a vastly better job. …Well, aside from their curious decision to censor the word bitch and horny while having characters refer to Shou as a “normalfag.” Oh, pre-2016 4chan-filled anime culture…

Anyway, Megu Miruku is a pretty good rom-com with some TSF flavoring. Not quite a lost gem or anything of the sort, but a curiosity I’m glad I read through and got to share here.

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Irekawatte Modotta Joshikousei by Zaregoto Hitsuji

As an avid fan of TSF, I have become increasingly lustful toward works that do something different. That takes things further, that follows the next step, and tells a story beyond the initial transformation. Something that shows characters living with the aftermath of the transformation, that focuses more on how they changed rather than how they change, and sees a successive generation of transformations. And Irekawatte Modotta Joshikousei is precisely that!

The story picks up one year after a high school girl, Ayane, switched bodies with a generic lustful middle-aged man, when she suddenly finds herself back in her body. However, a year is a long time and that time has left Ayane’s mind “completely corrupted.” She’s now a ravenous pervert who cannot help but lust after her own body and seeks revenge on her former best friend, Chinatsu. Who, from Ayane’s perspective, went a full year without realizing that Ayane’s body was stolen by an imposter.

Now, any sane person would just realize that most people do not think ‘did someone use a body swap app on my friend’ when they start acting a bit differently. But revenge isn’t supposed to make sense.

As for how Ayane plans on getting revenge on Chinatsu, it’s a bit convoluted, but makes some sense. The body swap app used by the fat ugly bastard who stole Ayane’s body has been discontinued, all active swaps have been undone, and the memories of users have been erased. However, the memories of subjects have been left unchanged, and every subject has been given a ticket that lets them use the app once to avoid possible complaints. Now, why not just erase their memories like with the subjects? I dunno. Lawyers sometimes operate on moon logic like that!

Ayane then begins luring Chinatsu and a balding middle-aged man, or an oji-san, to an isolated apartment, where she promptly swaps the two. Oji-san is psyched to be such a pretty and ‘good-smelling’ young girl, while Chinatsu is naturally devastated. Oji-san and Chinatsu both have sex, Ayane masturbates in the background, and then leaves with her new best friend, leaving Chinatsu to be corrupted just like she was.

Initially, it seems like this is just Chinatsu’s eternal hell, doomed to feel perpetual lust over her true body while being in a body that is drawn so unattractively it clashes with the style guide. But Ayane later clarifies that she can just undo the swap at any time, and will give Chinatsu her body back… after she becomes corrupted, just like her. Presumably so she can have a partner just as twisted as she is, and someone to help her as she engages in all sorts of sex crimes.

As stated above, I enjoy this story’s twists on a familiar scenario, but what really pushes this story over the line for me is the way the creator brings this idea to life. They give this comic enough time to not only breath, develop, and establish a setting, but follow through on this foundation with a sex scene that doesn’t waste a single page. And while Zaregoto Hitsuji is clearly a self-taught artist still developing their technique and style, their burgeoning art style is not lacking in personality.

Character expressions are gloriously exaggerated, doing a lot to sell the sense of malice, disgust, lust, and horror that the characters feel as they go on this fraught journey. The inconsistencies and awkwardness in its artwork add to the more manic and wrathful mindset of the protagonist, whose persona and worldview have been distorted after a year of hardship. The sex scenes are depicted in a… surprisingly restrained way, without much attention to detail and more unflattering penis shots than anything else. Which, when combined with the aforementioned pseudo-human designs of middle-aged men, depicts sex as something that is linked with disgust, rather than beauty. It is a deliberately gross story, and one that thrives in that environment.

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Queen Slime no Gyakushuu [The Queen Slime’s Counterattack] by Hiiragi Popura and Kuratsuka Riko

I make it a point to go through most TSF comics that cross my radar. While many of them are of a more middling substance, without too much uniqueness, personality, or new ideas. But every now and then I find a comic that… just keeps on going, getting weirder, and getting cooler with every new page. And this is one of those!

The Queen Slime’s Counterattack starts simply enough. An adventurer guy with that Kirito swagger is investigating a slime cave after some fellow adventurers disappeared. Immediately, he gets attacked by a queen slime, who looks like what would happen if you put the Bowsette Super Crown on a genericized Dragon Quest slime. The slime queen starts digesting him, but recognizes his strength, so instead of just vaginally voring him, she decides to rebirth him.

The protagonist is age regressed into a small boy and as he is venturing through the cave, he is relentlessly assaulted by slimes. But rather than just raping his supple child body, they crawl up his orifices, transforming his body into that of a busty woman. It’s pretty gross on… several levels, but as a fusion/absorption fan, I need to take whatever scraps I can find.

The protagonist then runs into the queen slime again, who explains how the authors’ slime lore works. That the slime queen turns adventurers into slimes, but most are so weak that they lose all sense of self, becoming mindless goop. The Kirito-looking protagonist is special though, so rather than just reducing him into a slime, she kept him sentient, turned him into a slime girl, and had him absorb various other slimes. All to achieve her ultimate goal of transforming the adventurer into a ‘slime mother.’

Up until this point, I figured this would just be the typical ‘man to birthing unit’ type TSF story, which is fine, but nothing too remarkable. …Instead, the protagonist is transformed into a giantess! The Slime Mama! A 20-meter tall creature driven by instinct and a biologically mandated love for all her children, no matter who or what needs to be sacrificed.

How are they sacrificed? By shoving them right up her transparent slime pussy, where they get unbirthed into cute little slime girls! Still fully sentient/sapient and presumably retaining some version of their prior self, but now… goopier! It’s such an effective process that it turns the entire capital into a city of slime girls, with their giant Slime Mama serving as their ultimate leader. And then everybody lived happily ever after! Das Ende!

…For the record, all the Slime Mama stuff happened across 5 pages. I often criticize stories for rushing things, but when you have a story that concludes with grade-A craziness, sometimes this approach is better.

There isn’t really too much to this comic beyond that insane escalation, but for a 28 page comic, that’s kind of all you need, and it helps when you have an artist like Kuratsuka Riko. While I’m not crazy about the childlike faces they give almost every character, I admire their ability to bury darker subjects under a veil of cuteness. They have an immediately recognizable art style, and one that I have come to recognize as an indication of quality. I would say they certainly deliver here, due in part to the full coloring, which I think is important for a story involving slimes. You need good shading to make them look especially jelly-like, and you need good coloring to convey what flavors they are.

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Boku no Milk o Meshiagare by Yoshida Gorou

For the final TSF Showcase of the year, let’s go full circle with more breast milk!

It’s time for… well, not Turned into a Breast Milk Fountain by a Beautiful Vampire by Kouji (Hawkbit). I already talked about that one back in Natalie Rambles About TSF Comics, and won’t again unless I want to do an 8,000 word essay. Instead, we’re doing Boku no Milk o Meshiagare by Yoshida Gorou.

Yoshida Gorou is easily one of my all-time favorite TSF artists, and for some pretty simple reasons. Their artwork is phenomenal. Their characters are positively gushing with personality. Everything they draw carries with it a signature adorable quality. And they have an incredible skill for illustrating dynamic transformations. Their stories are not afraid to get really bloody weird, featuring a lot of oddball ideas and concepts that do not neatly adhere to the more blasé TSF premises, but if they do, they have a distinctly Gorou twist. And Gorou consistently delivers these densely packed stories that make extremely good use of their page counts, making them feel like full and complete explorations of their premises.

Pretty much any of their comics, at least those that have been translated, would be a prime candidate for a TSF Showcase, but we’re doing the milk boy one this time! With said milk boy being Megumu Shirai— not to be confused with Meguru Inaba of Megu Miruku. An XX-year-old child of the late legendary Milk Queen Kurumu Amanogawa and a recent volunteer in a program to become a ‘Milk Lady.’

In the world of Boku no Milk o Meshiagare, the highest quality milk is produced by humans, by Milk Ladies, whose milk is served at high quality restaurants and favored by politicians. While the title of Milk Lady was once only available to cis women, medical advancements now allow AMAB folks— like Megumu— to transition into Milk Ladies using magical future hormones. Not to be confused with modern HRT that allows trans women to produce breast milk. However, Megumu is left struggling to produce breast milk, as she has an aversion to giving up her past. Or, in TSF comic terms, she still has ‘the heart of a man.’

The Milk Ladies in Megumu’s class quickly spot this and ridicule her by… uh, gang raping her for daring to get a boner while getting her nipples felt up. This naturally leaves Megumu distraught, feeling like she is failing to capture their mother’s legacy. But in her desperate hour, fellow trans Milk Lady Muneaki Hanyu who helps the sweet girl inside of Megumu’s heart break free via the magic of makeup and selfies.

This influx of feminine feelings causes Megumu to develop rapidly, growing some impressively sized boobs and developing a vagina within… like, a minute. Which makes the perfect opportunity for Muneaki to penetrate her. Though, rather than being an extended sex scene, this is just a catalyst for Megumu to cast aside her former life as a boy and embrace her new body in a gushing milky climax.

After this display, it seems that Megumu has mastered the art of the Milk Lady properly. However, when she is unable to produce milk in the milk room, it’s clear she still has a ways to go. Thus bringing an end to part one.

Chapter two starts a month later, reintroducing the reader to the world with an adorable dream sequence before establishing that Megumu is now a respected rising prodigy among the Milk Ladies. To the point where her class, the one who raped her last chapter, is now begging for delicious milk. Things are looking up for the protagonist, but her newfound success attracts some negative attention.

Namely from a Milk Lady by the name of Yoko, who views people like Megumu as an insult to a sacred right that belongs to “true women.” Needless to say, she’s one of the most clear cut TERFs I have ever seen in a TSF comic, but like most TERFs, she’s more frog than human and cannot handle the slightest of criticisms.

Megumu is saved from Yoko’s attempted rape and threats of physical mutilation (again, typical TERF stuff) by Shizuru Ryuonji. A tall and cool character with billowing hair unlike Megumu’s more androgynous cut. After introducing herself, Shizuru plans a kiss on Megumu’s forehead, dazzling her, and states that Megumu doesn’t have what it takes to become the Milk Queen.

When asked why, Shizuru just rapes Megumu. She makes Megumu’s penis grow back, points out the bitterness of Megumu’s milk, compares it to the delectable taste of her own, and reminds her that she does not have to go down this path. That Megumu can always give up and go back to being a man.

…So this warrants some examination beyond the broad strokes summary I provided.

Shizuru is a character who could easily be read as a transmedicalist, or truescum. She is a trans woman who is putting down another trans woman for being ‘insufficiently womanly’ and telling her to embrace the pleasures of her penis. However, she is also Megumu’s senpai, and one who is directly in competition with her. And not in a ‘IRL, everything is a competition and respect is a finite resource’ sort of way (which is a vile topic well beyond the scope of a TSF showcase). They are competing to see who has the best milk and can inherit the title of Milk Queen, which is at least partially dictated by how feminine, or Milk Lady-like, one is.

Shizuru could be simply exploiting Megumu’s uncertainty, as she has only known she was trans for a few months now. Or, like a helpful rival character, she could be highlighting the weakness of her rival, showing them how far they have to go, and how much they need to commit to their training. When telling Megumu to go back to her old life, is she mocking her for ‘not being trans enough?’ Or is she trying to show her how her lingering doubts/desires are preventing her from becoming stronger, which makes sense per shonen logic at the very least.

It’s a surprising bit of depth in what is ultimately a deeply silly story, and… I appreciate the ambition on display by Gorou here. These ‘real life elements’ do a lot to make the story more interesting and grounded, while weirdly complementing the already present absurdity within its core premise. It feels like something that… works within this world.

Sadly, this is where the glimpse into this world ends. Boku no Milk o Meshiagare 2 came out on February 17, 2019, almost five years ago, has not seen a follow-up, and Gorou has released about a dozen comics in the interim. I would never say never— It took me eight years to release a sequel to The Malice of Abigale Quinlan— but it was long enough for me to do this showcase before waiting for this story to be ‘completed.’

My indulgent waffling aside, I really like Boku no Milk. Rather than just be a vessel for lactation fetish art, it stays true to its premise and treats it with respect. It manages to tell a story that, however tangentially, is about legacy and embracing or rejecting parts of one’s identity as they try to pursue their goals in life. And is all executed with a level of cheeriness that makes it easy to brush aside the more discomforting elements through the sheer cuteness of Yoshida’s illustrations. It’s cute, is never too messed up, and carries itself with a conviction that ties every disparate element together.

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Ame Nochi Hare [Clear Up After Rain] by Bikke

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Seitenkan Appli no Tadashii Tsukaikata [How to use Gender-Changing Apps Properly] by Mogetama (Tanakamori Yokota)

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Jinzou Shoujo [Artificial Girl] by Natsume Satoru

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Megu Miruku [Megu Milk] by Kusaka Shiroi

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Irekawatte Modotta Joshikousei by Zaregoto Hitsuji

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Boku no Milk o Meshiagare by Yoshida Gorou

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TSF Showcase 2023-32What Happens When You Gender Bend Close Friends With A Magic App lol by Ue ni Aru Mikan

TSF Showcase 2023-33Raiden Shogun Is My Wife?! by TadxSarah

TSF Showcase 2023-34Body Switched by Caleb Jones

TSF Showcase 2023-35Coffee Buns by Cinnamon Switch

TSF Showcase 2023-36Shisutaabooi by Joe Six-Pack

TSF Showcase 2023-37The Legend of Zelda: Tale of the Fourth Goddess by Unknown Creator

TSF Showcase 2023-38P(ossession)-Party by Asagiri (ts-complex2nd)

TSF Showcase 2023-39Electric-Exchanger [Dengeki Exchange] by Neriwasabi

TSF Showcase 2023-40Gyakujō Jigokuhen Kiwami by Byuu

TSF Showcase 2023-41Ame Nochi Hare [Clear Up After Rain] by Bikke

TSF Showcase 2023-42Seitenkan Appli no Tadashii Tsukaikata [How to use Gender-Changing Apps Properly] by Mogetama (Tanakamori Yokota)

TSF Showcase 2023-43Jinzou Shoujo [Artificial Girl] by Natsume Satoru

TSF Showcase 2023-44Megu Miruku [Megu Milk] by Kusaka Shiroi

TSF Showcase 2023-45Irekawatte Modotta Joshikousei by Zaregoto Hitsuji

TSF Showcase 2023-46Queen Slime no Gyakushuu [The Queen Slime’s Counterattack] by Hiiragi Popura and Kuratsuka Riko

TSF Showcase 2023-47Boku no Milk o Meshiagare by Yoshida Gorou

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