Because we needed more CHANGE to meet this month’s quota!
As TSF Showcase has evolved, I have covered most of the shorter works I wanted to showcase and my current list is full of two things. Long-form stories that exceed 500 pages, if not 1,000, and ongoing stories that I am waiting to conclude before I start covering them. Most of the shorter works I want to showcase have already been talked about in some form— or fallen out of my head. And due to changes in my life circumstances, I no longer spend time sifting through the TSF gulags looking for the weird riffraff.
…Also, I just wrapped up with tax season, where I worked 700 hours in three and a half months, so I just want to cover something light, saving the 500+ page stories for the summer, and fulfill my promise of 5,000 words of stuff a month. So I decided to cover a body swap hentai comic I first read in 2016, as I thought it would make for a cute follow-up to last week’s Change! Sabu. They have a similar premise, and they both begin with Change! But then I remembered it got a successor, and was actually a soft rehash of an earlier comic from the same author. So you’re getting three comics in this showcase, because my La-Le-Lewd-Le-Lo repository is insufficiently organized.
TSF Showcase 2025-05
Change! by Homare Mikokuno
Let’s start this off with a bit of backstory.
Homare Mikokuno is a hentai artist who has been bopping around for over twenty years, since at least 2003. She’s produced a respectable catalog of works while not really having a breakout hit or particularly long-running title beyond a single volume or so. Well, excluding Saki the Succubus Hungers Tonight, but she was just a writer on that one, not an artist. Just taking a cursory glance at her catalog, it’s nothing too out of the ordinary, at least per my skewed perception, but she did dabble into the wet and wild world of TSF back in 2009 with Osananajimi. A one shot compilation about childhood friends that is mostly just a vanilla hentai anthology of 20-ish page stories. Only one of which is involves any sort of fantastical transformation, The Case of Youichi and Chiharu, or as it is most often referred to, just Osananajimi. And it’s… really nothing special.
During summer break, two childhood friends and neighbors are trying to beat the summer heat while procrastinating on their summer homework. The male friend, Youichi, invites his female neighbor, Chiharu, over for some shaved ice, but the adventerous girl decides to try jumping out of her window, and the two fall into a bush. They swap bodies, are called by their mothers to bathe, and get ready to do so. Chiharu rushes in to stop Youichi from doing naughty things to her body, but Youichi urges her to try experimenting with her new body, grabbing her right by the dick. A handjob leads into standard penetration, the two cum in unison, and swap back mid-orgasm. Surprised yet still very horny, the two then go at it a second time, and realize that, for whatever reason, they switch bodies whenever they have sex. Das ende.
Honestly, it’s about the most you can expect from one of these standard 20 page hentai comics. Standard narrative, wafer-thin characters, and some novelty to be found in how casual and playful the resolution is. Though, I do have some nostalgia for the comic, as it was something I found on the Farhad TG Forums, not to be confused with the positively vintage Farhad’s TG Site, a decade ago. (Gosh, I really should do a deep dive into Farhad one of these days. Same with TG Comics. But there would be too much to cover.) The presentation of the English text, the quality of the translation, it takes me back to another time. And this was probably where I first encountered the idea of ‘two characters have sex to switch bodies’ in anything. But on it’s own, it’s just whatever.
However, this idea resonated with Homare Mikokuno enough for her to revisit it a solid 5 years later in 2014, with a single tankoban series named Change! Which I’m pretty sure is the title for probably at least ten other TSF comics. Change! technically contained three stories, each spread across three chapters, but the third and final one was a standard love story where a boy falls in love with a girl after seeing her panties. It was never translated as far as I can tell, and it doesn’t have any sort of transformation or anything, so I don’t particularly care. However, the first two definitely are TSF, and while I only intended on covering the first one, why not go for a double feature?
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Change! – Yuzu and Takehiko’s Situation by Homare Mikokuno
The first comic in this series is basically a remake of The Case of Youichi and Chiharu, just with a few elements tweaked. We open on a pair of childhood friends and neighbors, Yuzu and Takehiko, as they venture to the local shrine to make their New Year’s wish. Both predictably asking to find love with each other. Something you’d think would be obvious as day, but this way there’s more tension. This deeply personal wish is overheard, somehow, by a chibi female cupid-style angel who shoots off a magic arrow at the two. Or rather, she shoots it toward them, but we never see it land. It’s just gone the next panel.
The following night, Takehiko invites Yuzu over for meat buns, and we see that their homes are right next together, with barely a meter of space between them. I always thought this was an exaggeration when presented like this in anime and the like. But I did some street searching, and this is just how some Japanese homes are built. Land is at a premium, realtors want to maximize the use of space, and families want to keep their property taxes low.
Yuzu, rather than going downstairs like a normal person, decides to jump from window to window, risking permanent disability as she fumbles her jump, narrowly clenching onto Takehiko and smooching him on the lips before they slam into each other and swap bodies. Following a moment of shock, the two calmly discuss their situation while munching on hot meat buns, not really paying their current bodies much mind, in a transition that I just admire for how nonchalant it is. ‘We just experienced something unheard of and our lives may be changed forever. …But we gotta eat these pork buns before they get cold!’
Rather than discuss plans for turning back to normal, Takehiko gets distracted by his new body, fondling it and complimenting Yuzu’s breast in front of her before deciding to hop through the window to get some privacy. Yuzu just kind of lets him do this, despite clearly having perverted intentions, as there really isn’t much she can do. After taking a shower off-screen, Takehiko then proceeds to get up close and personal with this body, and it’s pretty standard fare for anybody familiar with the genre. Boob fondling, pussy fingering, though it’s all rendered in an unusual manner.
The world of hentai is no stranger to censorship, with most works and most distributors selling a version of the work with whited out or pixelated privates. In Change! however, these parts are either obscured or outright missing, like the artist didn’t want to draw realistic genitals. If I were to guess why, this was probably a mandate from the publisher, Houbunsha, who wanted this to be an ecchi release, not a hentai. Except they hired a hentai artist, who expected to have carte blanche to do whatever she wanted, so she just had to obscure the privates in post.
After showing Takehiko enjoying himself, the comic then goes over to the other house, showing Yuzu just working her new dick, covering the floor with cum-filled tissues, having an experience that mirrors what Takehiko is going through. Both of them are in the body of their crush, both of them are ridiculously horny about it, and are filled with a desire to put their parts together as they masturbate for, presumably, hours. It’s a small scene, but one that I love for several reasons.
It reinforces the idea that these two actually love each, that they are enthralled by the sight, sensation, and realization that they are so intimately close to the subject of their romantic love. Their exaggerated reactions, shared thoughts, and the gradual escalation of the paneling here is both adorable and succinct, while making it clear that these two dorks are perfect for each other. All while actually acknowledges the perspective of the female-to-male subject in the body swap.
This is not an absolute rule, but it’s something I try to operate under as a creative. A good body swap is one that acknowledges both perspectives of a swap and recognizes it as a parallel story. It can be an uneven or disproportionate in both fixation and reaction, but if one is going to only focus on a single perspective, then there is often little reason to make it a body swap versus a possession story. (Or skinsuit story I guess.) I know the reason why most focus on the male-to-female perspective. It has a larger audience of, extensively, men who are attracted to women, and most TSF creators like girls more than guys. I get it— I like girls more too— but the more experienced I get and the more TSF I read, the easier it is for me to get the allure of a girl becoming a teenage boy in sweatpants, just rubbing her dick raw.
The second chapter picks up the morning later with Takehiko as he gets dressed in a spiffy casual outfit and eagerly hopping across the window to the sight of cum-stained tissues littered all over the place. Not even sitting around the trash bin. After realizing that they are both unabashed perverts who masturbated themselves to sleep last night, Takehiko emphatically leads the pair into a mutual masturbation session, showing the other how to properly work their equipment. It’s primarily inserted for some lighter sexual content, though in the context of a romantically inclined body swap, I find this to be a rather adorable concept.
Both have already seen everything the other person has to offer, so there is no need for either to feel any sense of shame while together. Based on their enthusiasm, they are clearly stoked that the other found their body so dang appealing. There’s latent sexual tension between the two, but neither want to escalate it into full on intercourse at the moment, leading them to just jerk each other off. And they maintain a level of eager curiosity during this, openly accepting whatever the other wants to do. It’s good lewd fun that reminds me of just how much you can do with a body swap mutual masturbation scene, rather than jump to sex from the get-go.
After climaxing, the two confess their feelings to each other. That they want to be together, just not like this. This is fun, but they still prefer their own bodies, being themselves, and only now, at the end of the second chapter, do they consider looking for ways to swap back.
Chapter three opens up with a redundant masturbation scene and an unclear time jump before Takehiko tries to replicate the events of the swap, leaping out the window and tackling Yuzu, only to miss the head. With this aerial glomp proven ineffective, the two decide to take a page out of Tenkōsei and roll down the stairs together. …Which results in little more than bruises. Two death defying failures is enough for Takehiko to throw his hands up and accept this. Saying that he does not want to hurt Yuzu anymore, and he’s willing to live the rest of his life as her, so long as they get to be together. It’s a sweet gesture that speaks to how much these established childhood friends care for each other, and the two agree to marriage then and there, commencing their love with their first time.
The sex scene itself is a fairly vanilla missionary affair, though it is enhanced by how the two are so quick to adopt their roles. Yuzu takes on the role of a man while in bed, accepting her fate just as Takehiko accepted his, and enjoying the opportunity to be the large, dominant, figure. While Takehiko allows her to do so, laying back, not resisting as she uses her expert knowledge of her own body on him, and assuring her as she goes forward. It all leads up to the two sharing their first deliberate kiss together, leading the two to swap back. A move that leaves both shocked, but having already gotten 80% of the way there, they finished what they started, share an orgasm together yet again, and as they kiss once more, the comic jumps to its final scene.
Takehiko and Yuzu at their wedding, with Yuzu eight months pregnant with their child, both blushing with joy as the little cupid from the start takes pride in a job well done. The body swap, and sex, brought the two closer, they finally confessed their love, and they lived happily ever after, das ende. It’s definitely a bit of a status quo ending that frames the body swap as a mere mechanism for them to fulfill something, though I have always interpreted this ending a bit differently.
We do not actually know that the body swap kiss spell that the cupid placed on the two ever went away. It is implied, sure, but we never see what happens after their third kiss on the second to last page. Did they swap again? Maybe, maybe not, and as a body swap enthusiast, I’m going to go with a ‘yes absolutely, because that makes the story so much cooler.’ The idea of a couple who swap bodies by kissing on the lips is one with some real depth to it. It would be a socially acceptable and quick way for the two to casually swap bodies with no one the wiser. It would be a way to make their sex life a rollercoaster of different sensations as they swap positions in a second. It would lead to a deluge of antics as they force each other to do things the other doesn’t want to do. And it would allow the two to experience shared lives. All fulfilled not through some mystical bobble or criteria beyond a quick peck on the lips.
Theorizing aside, I still quite enjoy this work, and while not a hallmark example of the genre, I’m still quite fond of it. The operative word when discussing Yuzu and Takehiko’s Situation is sweet. It’s a very conflict light accidental body swap story that’s content with focusing on two kinky childhood friends fucking around and trying to make each other feel good. There’s no relationship drama about the two needing to accept or confess their feelings. No tension over the situation or what it means for the rest of their lives— we aren’t even sure what they do for a living or if they are students. And no real conflict beyond trying to undo the body swap. It focuses on one thing, does it well, and for a sixty page comic, I find that to be plenty admirable.
Furthermore, this is a comic I first read nearly a decade ago, allowing it to sit in the recesses of my mind. Meaning I can trace a hazy line of inspiration in both what I have made over the years and what I have personally come to like from a body swap. Specifically, it being a tool for a pair of lovers to become closer, learn how to pleasure another, and learn a greater sense of physical understanding. And anything that inspires me and sticks with me has to have at least some merit.
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Change! – Iyo and Makoto’s Situation by Homare Mikokuno
Serving as the second installment in this anthology, Iyo and Makoto’s Situation also follows a pair of childhood friends, but this time following a vanilla TSF transformation. Something that most would just call gender bender or TG, but that synonymizes gender and sex, which is just… wrong. Gender’s all about the mind and expression, sex, at least in this context, refers to someone’s physical sex and secondary sexual features. I’ve been trying to push for just calling it a TS Transformation, or TransSex transformation, yet many people deep into the weeds of the genre seem to have accepted ‘gender transformation’ as the definitive term, so I guess I’m fighting a losing battle.
Definitional diatribe aside, the story opens up on… a choice scene of Makoto, a boy, crossdressing before his older blonde haired female friend Iyo, explaining how, ever since they were toddlers, she has been treating him as her little sister. Styling his hair in a feminine manner, putting makeup on him, having him dress as female clothes, play the role of the wife when playing house— that sort of thing.
Right out the gate, I need to pause and question the nature of their relationship, and what each party truly wants. Makoto says in narration that he does not mind crossdressing, but one could argue that is because he has been forced into it since he was a child. Crossdressing on its face and in the overwhelming majority of situations, is just innocent fun— they’re just clothes after all. Dressing a way for someone else’s pleasure is a more thorny and broader topic. Think a husband demanding what his wife is allowed to wear when going out to certain places. And while there is definitely some power play that can be read into looking at the age age/size/maturity of the characters, the differences are pretty mild. Iyo looks more developed than the androgynous Makoto, but one year is generally not meaningful enough of an age difference to allow one to coerce others.
That being said, Iyo seems a bit too into forcing her friend to crossdress. Stripping him out of his boxers to put on striped panties, teasing him for getting aroused, and saying that if he were a girl, they could take baths together. Insinuating to Makoto that if he wants to be sexually involved with Iyo, he must continue this crossdressing hobby. I’d say it’s not a red flag, but I just covered the gold star groomer TSF comic My Toy, so perhaps my standards are a bit skewed.
Moving past character psychology, the TSF comes into play when Makoto wakes up the following day and finds out they transformed by going to the toilet and feeling things around. A classic trope that only makes narrative sense, rather than actual sense. (Who wouldn’t feel giant boobs on their chest when waking up?) Instead of going the freak out route, Makoto gets handsy, feeling up his boobs, rubbing his nipples, and sticking fingers in the business end of things. All pretty expected post-transformation actions, rendered without much distinctive fanfare, and relying on a fantasy sex scene to meet the erotic quota. A fantasy where Makoto imagines Iyo teasingly biting his tender nipples and fingering his new sex. Confirming that he really does view Iyo that way, and that he is okay being feminized and dominated if it means he gets off.
Makoto goes to bed after this, thinking this was all a dream, only to wake up and realize, no, he’s stuck like this… and his boobs are even bigger than before. Why? Not sure! Maybe Mikokuno wanted to make them bigger, but not enough to redraw seven pages.
Chapter two see Makoto invite Iyo over to reveal his transformation to her, opening up a thick jacket to reveal his utterly huge boobs. So big that Iyo does a spit-take, because you gotta have some cartoonish reactions in these things. Naturally, Iyo is stoked at this sight and immediately pushes Makoto to take a bath with her. Makoto is dazed by the situation, embarrassed by both his new body and at the fact that his fantasy is coming to life. However, Iyo reassures him, easing the tension with playful banter as she starts feeling up Makoto, showing him how sensitive his breasts can be.
…All before this odd line about how she’s excited to see a pussy firsthand as she looks at Makoto’s crotch. When… mirrors exist. Makoto actually looked at his vagina with one at the start of this chapter. Are you, Iyo, a certified pervert, seriously saying you never fingered yourself while looking at a mirror? Beyond this quirky line, it’s a pretty standard lesbian sex scene with nipple nibbling, nipples rubbing, and one-sided fingering. It doesn’t even use the bath setting to get wet and wild.
This leaves chapter three as the shopping and finale chapter, seeing Makoto hit the streets in a baggy T-Shirt and borrowed skirt as they go looking for a bra to cover his exposed nipples. It’s a scene that has ample room for awkwardness and antics, but all Mikokuno really delivers is some breast envy from Iyo before the two head back home. There, Makoto thinks back to an earlier comment from Iyo, saying that she prefers him like this, and Iyo gives the bisexual answer of “it doesn’t matter.”
Rather than breeding acceptance in his current situation, this answer just makes Makoto want to turn back to normal, but if he’s going to be stuck like this, he’s gonna learn how to make Iyo feel good in a new way. …Then, after some nipple kissing Makoto’s penis grows back. Or rather some smiley ghost thing, because this is still a no fully nudity ecchi tankobon. Meaning that this TSF comic concludes with the transformed male protagonist becoming a ‘futanari’ and having sex with a woman. …Yeah, that is just missing the essence of TSF. If you are going to do a TSF sex scene, characters should be using new parts or interacting with someone else’s new parts, and new boobs are insufficient. It’s not really following the expectations of criteria here, but based on the ending, I don’t think Mikokuno was really aspiring toward that at this point.
After climaxing, Makoto is shocked to see that his boobs disappeared, and his body returned to normal. Because I guess he could not feel those three kilogram weights on his chest. Makoto ultimately stays this way, and while Iyo does miss having a partner with G-cup tits, the two’s relationship has progressed into being a genuine couple. …I guess. Meaning the cupid responsible for all this can shrug off this experience, as she did a… satisfactory job.
I will say that I find Iyo and Makoto’s Situation to be a decidedly cute manga based on its artwork, adopting a more exaggerated look and tone compared to the first story, but it’s not the sort of thing that I would bring to the class if not for its relationship to the first one. Overall, I’d say that I’m just confused as to what the work is trying to accomplish, as it has less of a consistent through line with its romance or what it is trying to say.
Makoto is a crossdresser who turned into a girl for the better half of a day, had sex with who was extensively his girlfriend, twice, and then turned back to normal, the two now a couple. …Okay? But why? What’s this story trying to say or achieve? It would be one thing if he stayed as a girl after being pushed into crossdressing for so much of his life, or switched back periodically. But how does this advance their relationship beyond getting them to have sex for the first time?
For this confused messaging and goal, this is actually a good example of a work that I find to be ‘novel but mostly average.’ Something with good ideas, some nice scene compositions, and a good art style, but just does not fully succeed as a story. Whether it be due to the length or a misguided direction.
Honestly, my biggest takeaway from all this is the similarities between this comic and re:Dreamer of all things. Specifically how the love interest Britney attempted to forced protagonist Zach to crossdress at an anime convention. The way the protagonist wears an oversized coat before greeting the love interest and reveal what happened to their body (a hoodie is a type of coat). The general dynamic of a short dark-haired protagonist with dobonhonkeros playing off of a long light-haired and more aggressive love interest. The way their first experience is one where they face each other. How the two go out bra shopping for— wait, no, that one is too general to draw a comparison. It’s not a listed inspiration from what I recall, but I know re:Dreamer‘s creator, CaptainCaption, was pretty deep into TSF manga when the English translation came out.
That’s pretty much everything I have to say. Sorry if this was a bit low on the edge factor. Think of this entry as a bonus of sorts— because it is— and I’ll be back with something meaty next month. Until then, see ya~!
Nah, I knew of both of these, but neither were references nor inspirations for re:Dreamer. The hoodie thing specifically was from Aji Pontarou’s Otsukaresama desu Nyotaika-chan! (The Possessed Genderbender-chan!) and 173279 is a random number of six digits with no relevance, but I think the rest of Britney’s route has been a creative application of mixing the amalgamated plethora of knowledge I have on the genre rather than any set of distinct references.
Britney started out waaay back in 2019 as “well, there’s no way this game can’t have a yuri route.” Over the years, her character slowly got refined into a more compelling character based on contradictions she hasn’t reconciled through growing as a person (e.g., Catholic lesbian who thinks like a Protestant, legalistic theater kid who breaks rules just as much as she religiously follows them, someone who praises uniqueness and individuality while rigidly conforming to her expected role in her family and the church).
The most important contradiction is also the most relevant here, which is how she is hypocritically trying to remain closeted while trying to pull Zach out of the closet. As yet another instance of something I had no way of planning but which so suspiciously mirrors my life that it feels like I’ve got a curse of fate or something, exploring that aspect of Britney became far more prominent just as the CGs which I’d commissioned months ago got delivered and I became the victim of egg cracking (aka, telling someone who they are for them or hypocritically not believing who they are when they tell you that and trying to get them “out of their shell” to match your expectation).
I believe there’s a lot of interesting storytelling opportunities that can be found from the angle of the “genderbender-chan” girlfriend* unfairly making someone’s magic sex change event about her even though it (in theory) is a skin-deep transformation someone close to this person should be able to look through to see who they know is there. When you don’t have the girlfriend come to any kind of revelation about how messed up this kind of behavior is, it comes off as selfish at best and opportunistically predatory at worse. Iyo and Makoto’s Situation straddles an uncomfortable line between the two points in a shallow, contrived, and unsatisfying way, not just missing the mark on much of what makes this genre what it is but which should have raised many relationship-ending red flags rather than making them closer.
Also, Zach 100% agrees with you on the term “gender bender” or the like being poor names for the genre and feeling like they’re fighting a losing battle with using another term. As a direct quote, “My paraphilia went by many names. English called it feminization, gender bender, genderswap, TG, gender change, gender transformation, transgender fiction, and Rule 63 (kind of?), but the gender of the person wasn’t the thing that changed—it was their *sex.* Japan used more precise terms, such as TS (transsexual), TSF (transsexual fantasy/fiction), and my favorite, nyotaika (女体化), which (loosely) meant ‘woman body-fication.’ It most precisely captured what interested me about the fetish, but even with Japan’s economic and cultural rise over the last century, it remained a niche term outside of Japanese spaces, and I had long since begrudgingly accepted that I’m just going to have to call what I’m into ‘gender bender.'”
When I talk about references or influences, I am not always talking about direct ones. Sometimes references come in unexpected ways, and I know I have unconsciously referenced things in the past, and pick up inspiration like assorted rubbish as I roll my katamari of a mind through life.
Also, I was just looking for something to say here, as the Iyo and Makoto story is pretty average, and the superficial re:Dreamer parallels were the first thing that came to mind. :P
Tenkōsei again! Fun. I wonder if any game has ever made use of a stair-falling bodyswap.
The trope is common enough that I’m sure some visual novel used it for a body swap at some point, but you would likely need to scrape VNDB to find that information, and it might not even be accurate.