TSF Showcase 2025-10: A NEET’s Life Unraveled

One of the many examples of why you shouldn’t steal random skinsuits you find in a cardboard box…

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TSF Showcase 2025-10
A NEET’s Life Unraveled by Myra TSF-Productions

So… I wasn’t exactly planning on covering this series, at least not now. But as I was deciding on my schedule for the rest of the year, as candidates fell through this one just so happened to appear in the right place at the right time. I wanted to cover one more work I hadn’t touched upon before, and this was the most substantial comic I had read in the past few weeks, so it just so happened to fit the bill.

There’s not much history to delve into here. Myra is one of the many Koikatsu TSF artists who have cropped up in recent years, I’ve found them through some of their one-off projects. After bring impressed by their works, I decided to check out the premiere series they have been working on, on and off, for three years now, and the results are… definitely interesting enough to warrant a showcase. For how it utilizes the bodysuit and head swap niche, and how it grows from its humble beginnings into something wild.

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Part 1: That’s Quite an Inappropriate Head on Your Shoulders

The story begins by introducing the titular NEET John Miller. A 19-year-old who opted to not go to university or kick off a career and has spent his days lounging about doing, while bombing the occasional job interview to keep his single mother happy. Not because he cannot work, but because he does not want to devote his life to a career that can be stolen from him, or loiter in some dehumanizing profession where he is treated as just another expense. All so he can make a sub-living wage, forced to work part-time, and be denied luxuries like healthcare, tax withholdings, or a retirement account. …Alright, I’m embellishing a little in saying that.

While walking through a park following his latest interview, he happens across a large box next to a bench. Like a creep, he opens it, is shocked by its contents, and steals it. John just takes it home, and reveals to the reader that this box contains a skinsuit, or bodysuit, of a curvy woman. Or at least everything below the neck. This is a trend I’ve noticed with how some creators portray bodysuits. They are either someone’s full body, hair to toe, or they are make the mask a separate component.

Why do creators do this? Well, like many things, I think it is a combination of factors. Separating the face and body makes it seem more like an outfit. It allows the wearer to preserve their key visual identifier— their face— while having the lower form of someone different, the contrast often being the central appeal. And it helps achieve a particular balance in a transformation narrative. Where the majority of the protagonist is transformed from the get-go, while the rest is something that needs to be disguised, modified, and feminized. I would say feminized or masculinized, but let’s be realistic here. Male below-the-neck bodysuits are a slice of a niche of a niche of a niche. If it exists… leave a comment about it below.

John, knowing what kind of story he’s in, embraces his adventurous side and tries putting this suit on, where it fits his body. …Only for the suit to shrink his form, taking away roughly six inches of height while leaving his head unchanged. Well, I think that was the intention anyway. His head is actually ever so slightly smaller after this, but that could just be a software limitation of Koikatsu. Because this software was not designed for head swaps. It was not designed for a lot of things people do with it, but that hasn’t stopped people.

Point is, the bodysuit activated, adjusted its wearer to its specifications, and now John is fully embodying this female form and all that comes with it. The boob meat, the vagina, the darker skin— that I think is meant to be a Mediterranean olive complexion— and the ‘milfish curves.’ With this new form at his disposal, John does the most obvious thing and starts checking out the goods. Jamming two fingers in his new pussy and getting off in approximately two minutes. Indulging in the requisite mirror scene. Only to decide that he’s had enough fun for now and grabbing the zipper on the back of his neck… except it does not work. He is sealed in this bodysuit, and the core conflict of the series is established.

John needs to get out of this skinsuit, but in order to get his body out from this scientifically magical doodad, he needs to embrace what he has been given. Learn how to deal with, use, and on some level accept this female body, first by going out, getting dressed, and checking out the park. He raids his mother’s closet for a tank top and jeans, the most masculine thing he could find, leaves his phone behind, and makes way to the park, shouting about his bounding boobs all the while.

While John runs, we are treated to a flashback at the park, where a scientist character— you can tell by the lab coat— is running to retrieve an important parcel he supposedly left with an old man. The scientist, who is later named Friedrich, then thinks to himself about how he needs to locate these thieves using the energy signature of the zipper, even though that the battery was almost depleted. I’d ask how a battery’s energy signature could be traced, and how you even charge or replace something the size of a zipper, but I don’t really care. This is magic tech we’re dealing with!

Also, before moving on, I just need to pause and remark on Friedrich’s design, as I think it has to be a design circulated somewhere amongst the Koikatsu community, as I have seen this exact design before. The gray buzzed hair, opaque glasses, cheekbone lines, a thin frame, and what are unmistakably breasts underneath his shirt. I thought this was meant to be some slight foreshadowing, but it’s never brought up and everybody just refers to Friedrich as a man. So I don’t think the boobs are really meant to be part of his design, it’s just another quirk you get when using premade models like this.

Hours later, John arrives at the park, not even bringing the box with him, and predictably finds nothing. Just some teens playing in a fountain, as they wanton do, and a young couple enjoying a walk. With his one lead turning up dry, no phone, and no cash, John has two options. Go home and try to explain the situation to his mother, who he has an expectedly rocky relationship with. Or visit his cool younger aunt Liz and ask her for help.

John obviously goes with the latter option, and meets Liz, who is… a cool younger aunt character. Upbeat, a bit teasing, mature enough to function as an adult, while still being a dorky kid inside, probably in her late 20s or something. She’s quick to buy John’s story after an offscreen explanation, and decides to help him out however she can. If only because she would just love to embarrass her nephew and teach him how to live as a woman. (Lots of women are into feminizing their male relatives or friends, don’t ask me why.)

But first, she has John call up his mother— Jennifer— and tell her a lie. That he got the job and is working out of town for the next few day, so he won’t be home for a while. It sounds deeply suspicious— more so if Jennifer were to walk into John’s room and see he left his keys, wallet, phone, and clothes on the floor. But Jennifer is too thrilled that her good-for-nothing son is making it in the world.

With that done, the story… just goes through the motions for the next stretch. John rushes through things for the rest of the night. Taking a bath, masturbating while in the bath, getting teased by Liz for being a “woman of her age” with “natural yearnings,” and finally going to sleep naked. He wakes up the following morning and does the ‘meta’ thing where he googles his problem but only finds “weird shit,” not unlike this comic. Friedrich breaks into John’s house, thinking he must be an enemy of “The Don” or someone trying to steal his research, before learning that John left out of town and grabbing some of his cum tissues. …As a DNA sample, of course.

Meanwhile, John has spent all day wearing nothing but a towel, researching and coming up with diddly dinkus. Frustrated by this, and itching for some clothes, he raids Liz’s closet for a series of scenes that are noteworthy in examining John’s character. First by noting how he chose to dress up in sexy lingerie, stockings, and garters included, just to look at himself in a mirror. A very normal thing to do. And second by using this opportunity to muse over whether the girls at his school ever did something like this. Dress up sexily just for the sake of it, leading him to reflect on his time in high school. Or, rather, a girl he liked at high school. A kind, pretty, and popular young woman named Amelia.

John says she was his main driver to keep going to school after his father left his life, and specifically thinks back to the last day of school. When Amelia was clearly trying to spend time with John, inviting him into group photos, asking him to sign her year book, asking for his phone number, the works. Alas, John was not observant enough to recognize these signs, even in retrospect, and assumes that Amelia was just being nice to him. Typical ‘Johns’ behavior.

Having unearthed this memory, John then continues playing dress up, enthusiastically putting on Liz’s cosplay of Ganyu from the industry breaking mega hit Genshin Impact (2020). He is positively giddy as he prances to the mirror, wastes no time before he applies makeup and contacts to make the cosplay perfect, and even presents himself as the winner of a cosplay contest. In his own words, he says that he became his own wet dream, and the only things holding him back at his voice and jawline. (Both of which could be fixed for a semi-reasonable fee. Trust me, I know a guy.)

He even finds himself delighting in the fabrics of the clothes he is wearing, finding the way they cling to his body to be right, invigorating, leaving him wonder if all girls feel this way. …And then Liz walks in, interrupting his little performance. In exchange for ribbing him, she helps him grab some ‘real clothes,’ except Liz has not had the children to qualify for milf territory, so her clothes won’t fit John’s bakery-sized ass. The answer to this conflict is, naturally, to go shopping. John could just wear his tank top and jeans from yesterday, but Liz decides to get some emasculating revenge on her nephew. So she sticks him in a white summer dress, keeps his makeup as is, and styling his ambiguously shaggy hair to something more mom-like.

While driving to the Koikatsu mall to visit one of the Koikatsu clothing shops, John and Liz chat about his predicament. From how it feels to walk, how the zipper stopped working, and how this bodysuit is amplifying his sexual desires. …Only for Liz to casually drop the factoid that she talked to a friend she knows a scientist who specialized in things like this and went rogue, taking all his data with him. Which… I’m sorry, what? Liz just so happened to know someone who knew Friedrich? I won’t delve into this at the moment, but put a pin in this, as it’s emblematic of how this story handles much of its long-term storytelling.

Once at the clothing store, it’s time for the requisite dress up scene, and it’s about what one could imagine. John wants to get in and get out with some shirts and pants. He finds himself tempted into his perversions, and his skinsuit’s sensitivity. While Liz is willing to pay whatever to see her nephew dressed up like the hawtie he is. Eventually, Liz leaves to grab a nightie to continue her teasing, John chases after her and trips— because he’s in three-inch heels— where he is then approached by Amelia, his high school crush. Huh. Good thing she was introduced earlier this chapter!

Amelia is a dear to John, taking care of him after his fall, while John plays the mute, having done nothing acquire a female voice. Fortunately, Liz comes by at the right time and acts as John’s voice, spitting a lie that John here is actually her sister, Jennifer, and mentioning ‘her son John’ by name. Liz leads the conversation from there, being outwardly sociable to Amelia. Amelia then requests that the three visit the local hot springs this weekend, and while Liz is hesitant to the idea of John ogling naked women in a space like that, he gives her a knowing look, and Liz agrees. I think it’s supposed to be a ‘family bonds’ sort of thing, but it just looks like John is telepathically communicating to Liz.

With that, their date is set, John and Liz leave the mall, and I think now is an appropriate time for a tangent, as we just reached an element that I find noteworthy about A NEET’s Life Unraveled. The alternate identities, plural, worn by John.

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Tangent 1: The Many Faces of John

One of my big hang-ups with transformation stories, just in general, is the formation of new external identities and how it affects one’s ability to navigate the world. With body swapping, there are no new legal or social identities created, they are merely exchanged and must be fulfilled by different mental actors. With possession, one actor assumes the identity of another, living out their legal and social identities. With general transformation, it runs the gamut. Sometimes they become a new person, like some anime or video game girl who should not exist in reality. Sometimes they can transform into a different pre-existing person and assume their identity just fine.

Bodysuits, meanwhile, can be based on someone else, produced through science or shady industries, and allow individuals to become clones of them. A person could be turned into a bodysuit that another person wears, functioning as a simultaneously limited yet expanded variant of possession. Or a bodysuit could be designed around a custom identity of a person who does not exist in the world, a person designed in a lab in more ways than one.

Regardless of the method however, a physical fantastical transformation tends to be a linear affair. Someone starts as themself, the transformation compounds, and after a certain murky point, their outward identity becomes that of someone else, and the story is typically about that. Any further changes are typically provided as supplemental or successive transformations, rather than a singular transformation.

What I find interesting about NEET’s Life is that John’s external identity changes, but not in a linear manner. At the start of the story, John is seen as himself, despite his body (below the neck), because his face is widely recognizable as John’s face by those he interacts with. Then he is seen as his mother due to their similar features and the fact his body is that of a ‘middle-aged’ woman. As the series progresses though, John’s external identity further mutates through a combination of wigs, makeup, and various other apparatuses.

Most of these do not actively involve a fantastical element. It’s just using tools that exist in our real world to make someone look like a different person. Possibly a bit embellished or exaggerated, but not by much. These new identities are only possible because of a fantastical transformation, yet they are achieved through the use of ‘grounded’ methods.

I want to cap this off by saying this is a thematic through line for the work. That the story is about a NEET gaining the experiences and insights needed to plot his course in life by being other people, navigating social circumstances, and being forced to do a form of genuine work towards a clear goal— get his body back. And how John needs to become someone else in order to determine who you truly want to be, and how being other people helps him become a better, truer, version of himself. A self-improvement philosophy that I just love shoving into the TSF stories that I write, and love seeing even more. However, that’s not quite the direction the series goes.

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Part 2: You Gotta Embrace Womanhood Before You Can Escape It!

Following the mall trip and scheduling a ‘date’ with Amelia, John and Liz spend the car ride talking logistics about how John can pose as his mother. Namely, how Liz has another friend at a university who developed a fantastical voice changing treatment that lasts “2-3 days.” A duration that is completely dropped as the story goes on.

Liz also mentions how John’s complexion could be evened out using a “tanning lotion” she just has lying around, but didn’t think to grab ahead of this trip. One, that was careless of her and an indication that Myra just did not think of this element earlier. And two, the term “tanning lotion” is slightly incorrect here. There is sunless tanning lotion, or spray tans, that darken one’s skin. But general tanning lotion is meant to enhance the effects of a tan from the sun or a tanning bed.

After the car trip, and the mandatory masturbation scene for this chapter, the comic jumps ahead in time and away to a mansion. There, Friedrich presents a new skinsuit, identical to the one John wore, to the aforementioned Don, later named Lorenzo Rossi, so that it can ‘enhance’ the body of his wife, Francesca Rossi, an attractive 40-something-year-old woman with modest proportions. At least by anime standards. Francesca does not want to put the bodysuit on, but after her husband became The Don, he has become incredibly image conscious and wants to turn his wife, into a sexed up trophy wife. Which… definitely tracks.

Powerful men have been making their wives get plastic surgeries for as long as plastic surgery has been a thing. So of course the rich and powerful would be amongst the first to use this technology, and they would use it for the sake of vanity, i.e., social power. Or, additionally, as a means of furthering their control on their legal partner, in order to keep them dependent and keep them loyal. However, this stretch of a nine pages is dense, and I need to comment on some of the oddities on display.

Firstly, Lorenzo does not really look like what one would imagine for a crime boss, let alone one implied to be in his forties. Admittedly, Koikatsu was not made for modeling particularly masculine men, but this design is not really pushing against the mold. With shaggy androgynous teenage boy hair, a thin build, and a sweater vest with rolled up sleeves. Yet he claims that he “fits the image” of a Don. I know you can do better mafia bosses in Koikatsu— I am reminded of the work of SigmaGal, particularly Remedial Sex-Ed— or at least use a more masculine hairstyle.

Secondly, it is explained that the zipper on a bodysuit typically is only meant to hold a single charge and that the bonds become “permanent” if the zipper is removed, which is done by turning it clockwise. …How did John not accidentally do that when fiddling with his earlier? Why would you design something like this to be permanent? Or is this just modern tech ‘innovate first think later’ mindset on display?

Thirdly, Friedrich explains that while he has worked on mask prototypes that also change someone’s voice, he has not devised a way to change their iris color. This is something I am fond of— having one’s eye color correlate to their ‘true self’ even while in another body. (Shout out to Crossed Signals.) This makes some sense, as the bodysuit does not cover one’s eyes. But it also doesn’t make any sense when you think about it ten seconds, instead of five.

Case in point, would a bodysuit like this also change one’s teeth and mouth? It would have to, given how it changes one’s face and not every adult has the same sized mouth, or teeth. (I’ve checked.) Furthermore, people can be identified by their teeth, so any in-depth impersonation like this would want to cover all bases, wouldn’t it? And if you can change someone’s teeth, then changing their eye color— something you can achieve via contact lenses— should be pretty simple.

Bitching aside, things resume with Liz applying a voice changing spray she received from her mad scientist friend, causing John’s voice, and text color, to change within a few seconds. Heck, he even sounds “seductive” according to Liz, so who knows what this spray is actually meant to be used for. Regardless, this is good enough for the hot springs trip with Amelia… where John will be flying solo, as Liz is being written out to go on a work trip for the next couple hundred pages. A decision that… just comes straight outta left field.

A lot of A NEET’s Life Unraveled feels like it was written with only a vague outline of where things would or could go. Fascinations are brought up, ideas are established, but are then dropped by the wayside as the writer realizes a problem with their original intention, or wants to go in a different direction. One with new characters, fresh conflict, or a slightly different manner of progression. It is a narrative looseness that is common in a lot of gradually published worked like this, where the creator is often responding to the comments of readers with each new release, and I’m not the biggest fan of this. Because while this allows more ideas to flow into a work, there is routinely lack of commitment throughout the work. It lacks the vision of something that was outlined and stuck to. This phenomenon is why I am so adamant that all creators should outline things carefully, work out details in detail, and not rely on vagueries of how to get from A to B.

You can do that once you’ve been at the creative game for 5 or 10 years, but no sooner!

Back to the story proper, John and Amelia are left alone to enjoy the hot springs, and John follows Amelia (who is wearing a swimsuit for some reason) out to the hot springs. …But somehow he takes a wrong turn and wins up in the men’s hot springs instead. Which is not how bath houses are designed. They would be walls preventing people from getting into each section, otherwise many men are going to spy and women and three rotten girls are going to check out the men.

Moving past this odd gag, John has the opportunity to really spend time with Amelia and chat with her, but he’s a bit too distracted by all the naked women at the pool. He gawks, he ogles, he jills off, and he ignores Amelia as she confesses that she wants to be his girlfriend. The scene is meant to illustrate that John is still a pervert, that his suit increases all sexual inhibitions, and distract him when he really ought to be paying attention to other things. In practice, it just makes him seem weirdly disinterested in his dream girl for one scene. Then the next, after he passes out from jilling off, he is awakened by Amelia giving him CPR, and thinks he must be in heaven. Pick one lane, buddy!

John then apologizes for passing out, tries arranging a second get-together, but Amelia is more interested in getting ‘Jennifer’s’ blessings before she asks John out. John says that of course ‘he’ would be willing to go out with her… he just needs to find a way to become himself again. This is quite the hurdle for John, as he has no idea who Lorenzo, Friedrich, or Francesca are supposed to be, and no way to figure things out. …Then, when walking home that night, he sees a doppelgänger of his true self, walking down the street and into a shady back alley club.

Again, this is Myra connecting the dots to make the plot go vroom-vroom. This works, it keeps the story going, but the story would have hit a dead end if not for this confluence of fortunate events.

John follows the doppelgänger, listens in to let the reader know this is actually Friedrich wearing a John bodysuit, and with no real plan, he moseys up to the bouncer. The bouncer rightfully denies John entry, but John spies a suspiciously placed ‘waitress wanted’ poster and says he’s here for the new job. An obvious ploy if I’ve ever seen one, but the bouncer gullibly assumes John is a waitress they’ve been waiting on and orders John inside. Thus beginning the waitress arc of the story, where John is no longer presenting as his own mother, but as a “new girl” working at a seedy club that gets shoved into bunny suits before even being asked for his name.

The idea they would just do something like this without checking someone’s ID, asking for their name, or training at all is hard to believe, especially for a place exclusive enough to warrant a bouncer. But it keeps the plot moving, which is the most important thing. John gets precious little breathing room before he’s snapped into a blonde wig and bunny suit, subjected to men bold enough to demand him and grab his ass. While this is not the first time John has been seen as a woman by men— he was leered at while at the mall and hollered at while at the hot springs, this is the first time he was treated like this. Still, he has a mission and sticks to it, taking whatever pointers he can get from the bartender, Paul, as he tries to eavesdrop on a conversation between Lorenzo and Friedrich.

In short, Friedrich posed as John to enter his room and press his mother for information, but learned nothing beyond John’s taste in porn. Based on how thorough the John suit is, Lorenzo wants to capitalize on this new technology in the predictable ways. Having his men steal the lives of politicians, selling the skins of celebrities to sick bastards and their enemies. But, as a crime boss, he wants his greatest assets close to him, and promises Friedrich all the funding he could want so long as his lab is moved into his mansion’s basement.

John tries to intercept Friedrich before he can leave, but he’s forced to finish his shift for the night, kept inside by the bouncer. With that path closed off to him, his next best bet is to go after Lorenzo, figure out where he lives, and get close to him. After work, and getting paid, John asks Paul if he can help him pursue this opportunity, and he agrees to help him out, satisfied by his performance tonight. A bit rushed there, but whatever. Also, as part of this conversation, John finally comes up with a pseudonym for this new identity— Angelica. He says that he wanted it to be a name similar to the boss’s culture— an Italian name— but Angelica is not strictly an Italian name. It’s a common name throughout most of Europe.

Oh, and before I move on, there is another thing of note in this part of the story. John has been wearing glasses throughout most of the story, and here we see that John has terrible vision without his glasses— as in, I think this would qualify as legally blind. Yet, as of this chapter, after becoming a waitress, he stops wearing his glasses. So, what is it? Is his vision not actually that bad, or is he stumbling around, blind as a bat?

Nitpicks aside, John heads home after a hard day’s work, but finds that his clothes were swapped out while he was working, leaving him with only half a shirt, a pink short skirt, and fishnets that he reluctantly puts on. …He knows that he doesn’t need to wear the fishnets, right? Looking like a prime tart, he walks down the streets at night and gets pulled over by the cops who take him into custody on ‘the suspicion of prostitution.’ I’d ask if that’s a crime, but the cops don’t need a reason to arrest somebody.

I want to pause and say that this is a wild escalation. It’s John’s first night alone, first night after forging his own female identity, first night after working a demeaning job, and John winds up in the slammer because the cops thought he was dressed too slutty. Dude’s pretty much speedrunning all the bad shit women are subjected to in society. The cops probably stole his cash too.

The following morning, or afternoon, John wakes up in his cell and chats with a sex worker in the neighboring cell before pleading to the first officer he sees. The same red-haired female officer who brought him here. She explains that they can’t keep him here any longer, as they could not pin John’s ID. Something that I think would warrant further suspicion— cops hate it when you don’t have any paper— she instead decides to let John go. Hell, she even does him a sold by giving him some space clothes to walk home in. A jacket, tank top, and jean “hot pants.”

Things then cut away to “earlier this day” where Friedrich’s lab has already been fully moved into Lorenzo’s mansion, giant human-sized growth pods included. Damn, they must have started this move at night. Francesca comes to the lab to check out how her bodysuit was created, but mostly to ask Friedrich about the sexual urges she has been getting, with Friedrich saying he deliberately gave her bodysuit a higher sex drive. She’s naturally pissed over this, having not had any say in how this bodysuit was designed, but Friedrich just shrugs it off, saying he was working with Lorenzo, not her, thus planting the seeds of rage in Francesca.

Later, John heads back to the nightclub, wearing another new outfit— a hoodie and a different tank top— and with his hair unkempt and boyish, no makeup on his face. This should give a bad impression, but Paul admires John’s tenacity and tolerance for the bunny girls’ hazing, so he offers him the job at Lorenzo’s mansion, saying that they need a new live-in maid. Which is just perfect in my book! …But also a job that John is very ill-equipped for. Dude probably doesn’t even do his own laundry. John is more concerned about the live-in part, but he is not in any place to refuse, and it would be better to be trapped in the mansion than to try to infiltrate it.

Paul says he’ll interview for the job tomorrow, but lets John off the hook for his job tonight, as, well, he has a guy’s face and (most of) the clientele isn’t into that. To prepare, Paul gives John the contact information for a beauty salon where he can get a full makeover. While not thrilled about this, John accepts that he “need(s) to fully embrace womanhood before [he] can escape it.” Which should be one of the ten 63 TSF commandments. The protagonist must embrace their new sex before they can escape it. Or maybe one of the 108 TF commandments. The protagonist must embrace their new form before they can escape it.

With this new objective, the story jumps to tomorrow morning, where John is given a full makeover that leave him looking wildly different from before. With plucked eyebrows, fashionable earrings, and orange hair dye, hair extensions that bring his hair down to the middle of his back, pink acrylic nails. She even decks him out in a business lady outfit complete with leggings, a short skirt, heels, and a dress shirt that does not fit, so its top three buttons need to be undone.

This is not a bad fit or execution— I like the outfit and should add it to the reference library it for future stealing opportunities. Yet, nothing about this look screams maid. He’s not trying to become a business hottie who snags a middle manager position after 16 months and outsources 65% of her work to desperate horny young men. Nothing about this transformation screams maid to me, and I know all about maids. (Not by choice, but that’s a topic for another time.)

With this latest makeover complete, John then muses about backing down and just enjoying this life. Once again, he looks like a sexy woman of a… debatable age (more on that in a bit) and he feels like it. His sense of self is dwindling, his memories of his male anatomy are fading away, and nobody would ever think he was a guy at a glance. He thinks about giving up this chase, using his new curves and good looks to become a streamer, his “very own dream of an e-girl.” But no, he has gone this far, so he decides to stick to his guns and get his body back… but first he stops by the local sex shoppe to purchase an egg vibrator. You know, to experience what this body has to offer before be goes back to being a 100% John.

Having procured all his essentials, John then meets up with Paul for a ride to the Rossi mansion, hoping for the best, while leaving behind a contingency plan in case things go south. But before either of those, I think a break is in order.

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Tangent 2: What’s Your Age Again?

Something that I have glossed over throughout this showcase is the subject of age. Namely, how people perceive John to be on the sunny side of forty, which I just find to be rather… strange. I appreciate the undercurrent of age progression. Of John not only ‘becoming a woman’ but an older one, but this physical trait that is not immediately obvious just by looking at the characters. This is somewhat a limitation of a generalized anime art style, where it is clear when someone is meant to be very young (baby to middle schooler) or 50+, but ages 15 to 49 is basically a free for all. Cue the Cyrus and Lusamine age meme. Hell, cue those teenage creatures from Change! Sabu.

This problem gets worse when using a character creator like Koikatsu, which is designed around creating characters of specific ages and features. I have seen people make characters in Koikatsu look younger or older through modifications and edits— the weirdly older looking redesigns for characters in Cellular Shift come to mind— but NEET’s Life’s cast could all pass for twentysomethings.

NEET’s Life tries to show John’s age by highlighting his wide hips and breasts, but, uh, maybe I’ve gone to places I shouldn’t have, but I have seen flesh and bone teenage girls with asses that fat and boobs that big. Combined with soft anime schoolboy face, he just does not look like the milf so much of the series is trying to present him as. I’m not really sure what the solution is, and I’m also not sure what specific element characters are supposed to be using to clock John as being a fortysomething.

Then again, the comic can also be a bit inconsistent about how old John is supposed to be physically, and how old he is perceived. I don’t think most would want to put a fortysomething woman in a bunnygirl suit, but they do that. In future chapter, John is presented more like a twentysomething on account of his flexibility, ability to relate to a teenager, and sexual allure. So… which one is it? Are people just bad at clocking John’s age, looking at his clothing, hair, face, and makeup, and assuming his age? Because that is how it works IRL.

Also how exactly does the skinsuit come into play? Is it somehow aging John’s face? Is his face de-aging the skinsuit? Are they aging at the same rate, but on different timetables? Do skinsuits even age? Do the people sealed inside them age? I wrote a story where the occupant specifically does not age, but that’s my own weird fixation. And… why would Friedrich make a bootier and bustier Francesca skinsuit at her current age? Wouldn’t Lorenzo and Francesca both prefer that she be given a more youthful body? Like, age 25 to 30? I know that sane older guys like women their age, maybe a decade younger, but I think the more power men have, the younger their dick swings. And the more time stretched on, the more vindicated I feel in that belief. …But I fear that I’m getting off track. Now, where was I?

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Part 3: Made 2.B.A. Maid

Resuming mid-chapter with a cut away from the main story, we are given our first, and only, glimpse into Liz’s life during her work trip. After a night of drinking, she wakes up at noon to an alarm and hazily listens to a voicemail from John. He explains that he found the professor and plans on infiltrating the mansion today, while giving Liz a code word to verify his identity. …But Liz does not hear this or react to this dire news, as she is too busy vomiting into the toilet.

Meanwhile, John is escorted through the woods and into an isolated illustrious mansion where he is introduced to Helga. She’s a gray-haired maid who I think is meant to be in her late 50s or early 60s, but despite having faint age lines, she looks like she could be half that old. She invites them in, only for Lorenzo to grab Paul and John and conduct the interview right away.

Sitting the two down in a private room, Lorenzo explains that John’s duty as a maid is partially to do all the usual maidly work, but also to help his son, Antonio. Antonio has a problem talking to women, excluding his mother and Helga, and Lorenzo wants an attractive woman to help him grow more confident. To engage him in conversation, to show him that women are people too, and help spark something in his 18-year-old son. I’d say that therapy would be a better solution to what sounds like a form of gynophobia, but dude’s a crime boss, and not everybody took the right lessons from The Sopranos.

Lorenzo also comments on how Friedrich wanted to use the skinsuits to help improve Antonio’s comfort around women and… yeah, no, that would be a far more interesting route to go. Cure a guy with gynophobia by putting him in a woman suit for a couple hours each day and have a woman teach him what women are like! In all ways! As Lorenzo prattles on about this, John stares off into space, unable to focus on account of his skinsuit, as it was specifically designed to make the wearer aroused when around Lorenzo. John then promptly agrees and asks to begin immediately, where he is given an orientation from Helga. She provides John with his own room and maid uniform, complete with underwear, garters, and an appropriately maidly design, unlike those ill-advised attempts to modernize what a maid should be.

…Unfortunately, John lacks the conduct and discipline required of a good maid. He’s unable to even get up at the appropriate time, and does not know the first thing about even the basics of maidly duties. He cannot shower without getting hot and bothered. Cannot make scrambled eggs. But at least he knows how to clean the floors and collect laundry. Still, he puts in some effort for most of the day… until he checks out Antonio’s room, and sees his PlayStation. A short while later, Antonio comes home from school and is shocked to see this hot redhead maid sitting in his room, playing his PlayStation, and cursing like a sailor. …Or teenage White boy. Same difference.

Baffled by this situation, Antonio heeds John’s demands that he pick up a controller and join him in this multiplayer shooter. Antonio does just that, and finds himself weirdly comfortable around John. The story’s a bit vague as to why. Maybe he can tell John is not ‘actually a girl.’ Maybe it’s because John is just acting like a guy and not acting like a girl. Or maybe this is a fantasy of his. I mean, it is for at least 53% of all White teenage boys.

In fact, Antonio is so comfortable around John that he even defends her when Francesca barges in to chide John about playing games on the job. Something that should be impossible given his gynophobia. Francesca might not understand John’s methods, but she cannot disagree with the results. After chatting with John off-screen, she decides to ask him to join her yoga class today. Partially as a way to get to know someone who will be snooping around her house, but also as a way to earn his favor.

John, like a teenage boy who has never seen his mom exercise to her ‘yoga tapes’ is not thrilled by the idea. …Until he’s in the changing room and realized that part of yoga is being around women in sports bras, tank tops, leggings, and booty shorts. Like usual, John uses this as an opportunity to gawk at women while doing the best he can to exercise, struggling as he’s simply not used to moving like this. As he stretches, Francesca catches a glimpse of John’s neck zipper, but thinks it has to be something else. And after the session is finished, an exhausted John winds up running into… his mother. Yes, she just so happened to be at the same yoga class in the same location, at the same time. How convenient!

Jennifer immediately recognizes her son’s face even when it’s on an otherwise fully female body and starts up a conversation with him and Francesca. This interaction is enough to form a connection between the three and for Francesca to invite this random woman from yoga class out for coffee. A fairly flippant decision, but I choose to read this more as Francesca taking friendships and connections wherever she could. Because most people don’t want to be friends with The Don’s wife. John’s naturally not thrilled about this, as his relationship with his mother has been rocky for vague reasons, but he’s in this deep, yada-yada, et cetera.

At the café, the conversation very quickly lands on Jennifer, who regales these two strangers with a rather personal story explaining why she left her husband. Two years ago, Jennifer’s ex-husband gambled away John’s college savings, and didn’t even feel bad about it, viewing it as his money to lose. When Jennifer rightly blew up at him for losing tens of thousands of dollars, he said screw it, abandoned his family then and there. He lost the money, took his shit, bailed, and had not spoken to his family since then.

…I’m tempted to say that’s unrealistic, too simplistic, but I have heard a lot of shit in my day job as a tax accountant, and that’s pretty typical shitty husband behavior. Like a husband getting drunk and hitting the mother of his child because she disagreed with his aggressive prenuptial agreement. (Yes, that actually happened. Twice.)

This is a wildly important story to let her children know, but Jennifer just didn’t until now. She says that she did not want to ruin John’s image of his dad. So she held onto the truth, made herself into his enemy, and let herself carry this burden. …Which is not healthy. Your son’s an adult, ma’am. He deserves to know that his dad is a fuckbag. John tries to hide his reaction to this news, but he feels terrible for being so aggressive towards his mother for the past few years, freeloading at home out of spite.

John even thinks to himself that someone should take his place and be a better son, and… no John, that’s not how things work. You had key information withheld from you. Your mother made the mistake. And you were in an emotional quagmire because your dad stole your tuition and bailed. You might not be wholly innocent, but this is NOT your fault. As John stews over these emotions, he runs away to cry in a café toilet stall, blaming this female body and its hormones for this reaction, but I think he’s just deflecting in saying that.

Back at the mansion, Francesca gives John the rest of the day off, allowing him to sleuth through the mansion unsupervised, where he ventures into Friedrich’s basement lab and gawks around for… an hour. After which, Lorenzo and Friedrich walk in and talk business while John safely eavesdrops from the comfort of an empty box. Lorenzo and Friedrich discuss how they recently created a new skinsuit of a pink-haired girl with the intention of putting John inside it, forcing him to attend Antonio’s school and act as his girlfriend. A plan that has… many holes and could be solved in a dozen different ways, and sounds like it was devised yesterday or the day before. Because why would they need to go this way if John has proven his ability to connect with and speak to Antonio? Just because you guys have new toys doesn’t mean you need to use them to solve every problem.

John comes out of hiding after they leave, but Friedrich took the John skinsuit with him, so John needs to keep up the charade a bit longer. Which is arguably good for him, as John still has a red herring to pull, as he’s been holding onto a fresh new vibrating egg for a few days now. He plops this wiggly li’l thang in his loins, pulls out the remote control, and is overwhelmed by the sensation. He manages to turn the power off, but before he can remove the egg, Helga barges in, needing help to remove a dove from the foyer. …Yes, really.

While leaving to get rid of this bird, John drops the remote in the hallway. Antonio finds it a short while later, and fiddles with it, as the remote has to do something. He cranks the thing to max power, John is left stumbling around, barely able to walk, before desperately plucking this rambunctious egg from his pussy. He staggers up as he recovers, his shirt open and bra showing, when he crosses eyes with Lorenzo. Just seeing John in this state, sweaty, tits on display, smelling of a fresh orgasm, is enough to embolden Lorenzo to do as he sees fit. Lorenzo pins John against the wall, and since John’s body was made to be receptive toward Lorenzo specifically, he is unable to resist.

As this scene plays out, Francesca looks on from behind a corner, appalled by her husband’s adultery, and rushes off to the unattended lab— seriously, does Friedrich actually do any work down here? With revenge on her mind, she looks over the suits before her. The pink-haired girl, the skin mask of herself, and the skinsuit of John, when something finally clicks in her mind.

The John skinsuit and ‘Angelica’ have the same face and. She and ‘Angelica’ have the same body below the neck. And she saw a zipper poking out from ‘Angelica’s’ neck. She pieces together that John must have worn her skinsuit, and, for some reason, is planning on becoming her, replacing her. She does not care why, but if this John kid wants to give up his life, and wants to become the new Francesca, then she can take the life of John for herself.

While Francesca schemes, Lorenzo has his way with John, taking him to his big fancy master bedroom, and fucks him to the point of exhaustion, the two passing out. John tries to resist of course, but if the body is DTF, there’s no escape from an erotic situation. Trust me, I’ve seen this happen more than any sane woman should.

That night, Francesca dons the John skinsuit and ventures into the master bedroom, looking at John as he lays with her husband, and seals the deal, quite literally. With the Francesca mask applied on John’s face, she pulls the zipper and bonds her visage onto John. The ensuing shock enough to wake him from his slumber, and Francesca escorts him away and explains the situation. He is trapped in this body, Francesca’s life is his problem now, and John’s life is hers. If John tries to explain himself, Lorenzo will be furious, demand answers, and everybody could get hurt in the backlash. Which might be true, might be a lie. We don’t know, and neither does John.

This seems like a cruel ploy, trapping John into this life he is ill-equipped to live, and definitely does not want, but Francesca claims this will only be for a few days. Then she will return, everybody will go back to normal, and this sorted affair will be behind them. Despite this assurance, John rightfully freaks out, as he knows precious little about being a woman, even less about how to be a proper trophy wife, but he has no choice in the matter. He must make do and bide his time. After all, this is only for a few days.

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Part 4: The NEET to Trophy MILF Pipeline!

…Cutting ahead a few weeks later— so much for that promise— and John has been fulfilling his duties as Francesca, mostly the ones requiring him to look good and take Lorenzo’s cock whenever and wherever he sees fit. Additionally, he has been banned from entering the lab due to the story he had to come up with after the John skinsuit went missing. Having said that ‘she’ gifted it to ‘Angelica’ so Angelica could have a new life free from whatever burdens she was running away from. Lorenzo is not particularly bothered by that though, particularly because his ‘wife’ has been more submissive lately, allowing him to do what he pleased without any clapback or sass, even if he sorta liked that.

At this point, John is pretty much stuck living as a fortysomething trophy wife, and dealing with everything that comes with it. Dressing to a husband’s preferences, regardless of how uncomfortable they may be. Being the mother to a son who actually thinks that things are better now that his mother is not fighting with his father. Pursuing weekly yoga classes in order to keep this trophy wife body in check. And socializing with his mother, his only remaining tie to his old life… because I guess he can’t call Liz for help, call using a store phone, or write her a letter.

Moving past my nitpicks, while cooling off after yoga with Jennifer, John is given an update on what Francesca has been getting up to with his life, and the answer is Amelia. In John’s absence, Francesca has picked up his love life and is going out with Amelia. Per Jennifer, Francesca is not being aggressive, treating this more as a friendship, but John is already gone by the time she starts talking. He runs over the park where he sees the two sitting on a bench, acting like a pair of lovebirds. John looks at this and should be angry, but he’s more upset than anything, as Francesca is living out his fantasy. She has made Amelia into her girlfriend, has a good relationship with her, and Jennifer seems happy that her ‘son’ is getting ‘his’ life together. She is doing everything right. Doing things John wish he could have done… but didn’t.

John is viewed as a better Francesca by Lorenzo and Antonio. Francesca, per his limited observations, is a better John than he ever was. With this information dawning on him, his eyes into darken into voids of despair, and he… gives up. He says that things are supposed to be this way. Convinces himself that everything would get worse if things went back to normal, and he should just forget his old life, become Francesca Rossi in body and mind, and just… move on. Abusive relationship aside, he has it made. A pair of great tits, a big fancy house, boundless sex, oodles of cash he can spend on fancy things— at least he thinks so. And the sex feels really, really good. He went from a NEET to a milf of a trophy wife, and… is that really such a bad thing?

I mean, I would say hell no. We need to turn more NEETs into milves. Both in and out of TSF stories like this.

As far as I’m concerned, the story can just pivot to an end here. With John sucking Lorenzo’s dick, his mind casting aside his old identity, insisting that he is now Francesca. The transformation is complete, and as a lover of this particular arrangement of (effective) body swap— young man to fortysomething woman and vice versa— I’ve been serviced. However, we still have another 250 or so pages to go.

Things then cut away to Liz eating a popsicle at the beach, talking about how everything worked out in the end. She got a promotion, is enjoying a deserved vacation, and John is back to normal. She checks her nephew’s social media page to see a selfie of him with Amelia, looking sharp with his glasses-free face and amber eyes. …Only to remember that John had green eyes, pull up an older photo of him, and realize she fucked up!

Now, I will say this is a good twist, but it literally could only work in a setting where an ample sum of people have different eye color, or among an ethnic group where people have a diverse range of eye colors. Something like 80% of all humans have regular-ass brown eyes, and that number goes up the further you get away from Europe and White people. It’s a pesky little thing that pisses me off about human biology— like how racially divided natural hair colors are— but that’s just an annoying fact I just need to accept with whenever wanting to use some sort of character-based color coding. And it sucks!

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Part 5: It All Unravels In The End

Back to A NEET’s Life Unraveled— or A Milf’s Life Re-Raveled— the story skips ahead two weeks to see John having matured into his new role. He has made this body his own by getting a shorter haircut, growing into his femininity as it were. And while he’s back at his old high school, this time it’s as a parent talking to a teacher about his ‘son’s’ recent behavior, having gone from a gynophobe into someone who actively hits on girls and has gotten into hot water for being so forward with the women at his school. That is an interesting change, but it’s not really explained why this happened other than John gave him some advice, we don’t see what Antonio is doing, and… I’m just going to say it.

I don’t think Myra knew what to do with Antonio. He is poised as a potential-rich target for a TSF story like this, someone who could become female or form a relationship with a transformed person, but that avenue is never pursued. He’s just kind of there for most of the story, too vital in certain scenes to be cut, but lacking much for him to actively do, as this is not his story, when he could have easily led a B-plot.

Instead, talks about a school play, about a school festival, are had, but nothing ever comes from it. No events involving Antonio take place, and the broader purpose of this scene is to put John back in his high school, but as Francesca. No longer one of the students, but someone who commands respect, authority, an outsider who is not seen as so much as an acquaintance by his little sister.

…Did I forget to mention that? Yeah, John has a little sister, and she’s a non-entity for 99% of the story. Here, she just exists as another thing to cause doubt in John as he wonders about his old life, thinks of talking to her, yet walks away, committing to his current course.

After establishing John’s end, Liz finally goes to visit Francesca, posing as John, and brings up the code word the real John mentioned a month (months?) ago. Francesca, naturally, does not offer the expected response, and Liz realizes that she has a faker on her hands. She panics at this realization, having no idea where he could possibly be, unsure if he is even alive. However, she is not going to just let this slide and take the easy way out. Oh no. I don’t have any idea what she does, but Liz is a woman with many connections, and connections are the ley lines to miracles!

The following evening— maybe a few days later— there’s no indication that time passed— John is all gussied up as the trophy wife he is, serving as Lorenzo’s arm candy at a previously mentioned gala. A standard get-together of faceless figures who John does not recognize at all. This leaves him timid and unsure of himself, making use of his status when it pleases him, but otherwise being blindsided when encountering new people. Like Francesca’s sister, who teases John for his bodysuit enhancements— as a good sister should— before John notices some strange glances from a vaguely familiar redhead who leaves the foyer.

Curious, I suppose, he abandons Francesca’s sister and walks after her this redhead into a… public restroom. …Located inside a mansion? …And a men’s room no less, where the redheaded woman has her dress lifted up, pissing into one of the urinals, revealing her huge cock. As John recoils at this unexpected sight, Liz arrives from behind him and chops him in the neck in an attempt to knock him out, before explaining that she’s here to save him, and… I’m sorry, but what is this?

Narratively, I can see how this makes sense. John is presenting as Francesca before a wide variety of people, and is cementing his role as a trophy wife like he never has before. Breaking him out now feels big, dramatic, and like an appropriate climax. But this is logistically a pretty terrible time to try anything. Why during a gala like this when security would be on high alert? When prying eyes would be present to report any oddities for brownie points with The Don? And why would they reveal this truth in the middle of a men’s restroom located in the mansion, where there would be ample reason for somebody to walk on in and ask what three ‘women’ are doing here?

John resists Liz’s presence and insists that he is happy like this, living a pampered life, rich, and able to just laze about most days, but Liz does not buy that. She says that while his real family may seem happy on the outside, they are worried about how ‘John’ has been acting. They want the real John back, and Liz managed to make Francesca talk through her own special means. Meaning she shouted at her and locked her in a headlock until she told her what she wanted to hear. Liz further adds that Francesca truly did not intend on leaving them swapped for so long, but became addicted to being a lazy young man— as most middle-aged women would, per my objective worldview.

Alright, so all parties, John included, are okay with swapping back. What’s the issue? Well, both of them permanently sealed themselves in these bodysuits, and there actually is no way to get them out. So they need to create new bodysuits for both of them. To do this, they need to force Friedrich to do as they please and dispose of Lorenzo, the head of the local mafia. Oh, sure, sounds super easy!

Liz actually has a plan though. For John to sleep Lorenzo a sleeping pill, haul his ass down to the basement, and put his body in the pink-haired girl’s skinsuit. A move that will rob him of his identity, leave him out on the streets with no papers or anything. And because the bodysuit also has mental alterations built-in, he will have little hope of proving who he actually is. This will cause a power vacuum, leave Antonio as the heir, and leave an opportunity for the police to take down this crime syndicate.

This is where the redhaired girl with the dick comes in. Their name is actually Alex, and they are actually a man who got extensive surgery done in order to pose as an undercover female agent with Lorenzo’s crime syndicate. Because that was easier than finding or calling in a female officer from another city or province. Right after getting surgery done, the operation was put on hold, and Alex has needed to work as a female police officer for the past few months, waiting for the planned operation to go ahead. If Alex wants to go back to normal and get the reversal surgery done, then he needs to take down the mafia, so he worked with Liz on this harebrained operation after Liz barged into the police station, demanding help.

…This is explained with characters just standing around in a bathroom (for the most part), talking about their plan, for 36 dense pages. And I have to ask… why? Why make this so complicated? Why bring in a bit character who got an operation done to work as an undercover agent? Is Alex a character from a spin-off or prior Myra TSF-Productions joint? No, I don’t think so? Why is this story just now becoming a stop the mafia story, raising the stakes beyond the personal struggles of John, especially when we know nothing of the mafia crimes Lorenzo has been supposedly conducting. It is more dramatic, sure, but there is not enough build-up to warrant this type of conclusion. They are putting all the exposition right before the climax, and the climax itself… is barely a climax.

After this long exposition, John returns to the foyer, Lorenzo reaches out to him for the main event, and has him… display his naked body before the guests to demonstrate the thoroughness of his skinsuits as part of a sales pitch and gloating opportunity. He is presented before the crowd, they gawk at his naked body, John is embarrassed, upset, but that’s nothing new. Things then cut away to later that night, where Lorenzo has already been drugged and fucks John before passing out on top of him. With John’s body jellified through sexual gyrations, he alone drags Lorenzo’s body through the mansion, before bumping into Francesca’s unnamed sister.

Francesca’s sister is given the gist, and she agrees with John’s goals, having always hated Lorenzo, and chooses to help him out in dragging his body to the basement. No further interruptions, no further conflict, and before we can see how Friedrich and Liz apprehended Friedrich, the story ends.

That was the climax, and the remaining 85 pages are devoted to an epilogue. …And it’s a strange one.

A few weeks later, John is back to living his life, while committing a skinsuit faux pas. Because he is not himself, but rather himself inside a Francesca bodysuit, inside a bodysuit replica of himself. Which I’m pretty sure is a surefire recipe for an identity crisis. Currently, this results in him getting some ‘phantom pain’ sensations as he feels as if he has a female body sometimes, but he’s generally able to live his life just fine.

Aside from that? Everything’s great! He’s still in a relationship with Amelia, it’s implied that they have their own apartment, and they are sexually active, with Amelia giving John a blowie before work. Yes, John is now working for the police as a research assistant for a newly employed Friedrich, being supervised by a recently re-masculinized Alex.

John is not particularly enthused by his job, being more of a lab rat in practice, doing field tests on all of Friedrich’s latest inventions. Because Friedrich’s not just a skinsuit guy, he is a TF prodigy. With his latest invention being a… holographic cloaking bracelet that copies another person’s appearance. A highly useful bit of tech that, rather than test in a controlled environment, like an office, John decides to test it outside, at a university.

There, he becomes a copy of a new female transfer student, clothes and all, while his voice remains the same. Horndog John then decides to further test this out by getting naked and showering— a terrible idea for several reasons— and as he gets the bracelet wet, the hologram is not only disabled, but the electrical shock causes him to swap bodies with another girl in the showers. …Das ende!

Also, Francesca and Antonio were put into police custody and given new lives, as revealed in a throwaway line. No further elaboration. And per a ‘post-credits’ scene, Lorenzo is living as a sex addicted whore, unable to resist any man who puts his hands on him. A fitting punishment for… wait, what did he do again? He abused wife, and who he thought was his wife, but does that really warrant this type of… not identity death, but identity crushing? No, it does not.

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Part 6: What An Ending!

Yeah, I don’t know how to react to a conclusion like that beyond befuddlement. I have covered some oddball endings as part of this series, but this one just does not fit the story that came before it. It is not neat, does not feel like a natural conclusion, and is far from the easy way out, or what I expect most readers really wanted. Clearly, Myra had ideas, had some sort of vision, but I cannot help but feel that the vision might have been born out of fatigue for this series. It ties up most loose ends, is a functional ending, but has its focus in all the wrong places.

I can respect a creator wanting to undo an effective body swap like this, but why do it this way? Why have this big elaborate production that characters talk about, rather than show them execute the plan? Why cut to the epilogue right when John brings Lorenzo to the lab? Why don’t we actually see John and Francesca resume their old lives? Why don’t John and Francesca share a scene together? Why have this big to-do if the resolution to the story is so simple? Why end this story, grounded in a singular TF method, by branching it out and presenting what feels like a pilot for a sequel series? Especially a sequel series does not neatly mesh with John’s characterization.

John’s thing is that, no matter how feminized he is, no matter how much he has dick inside him or presents as a woman, he still remains a man. He might have some fun being a woman, might like having a pair of tits he can gawk at, or a pussy he can throw an egg into, but he only likes that as a temporary thing. He wants to be a man. At various points, he lies to himself, tries to force himself to accept femininity when the alternatives are closed off to him, but he ultimately wants to be himself. As such, it’s just weird to present him as a pervert with a penchant for turning himself into women, albeit temporarily, as part of his dayjob. That characterization can work, he can develop a desire to be a woman sometimes, but the implementation and exploration is too quick and shallow to feel like something he naturally decided upon. Based on everything up to the epilogue, I would think that he’d be content with a sexually active girlfriend.

Unraveling this story, I can see see the vision here, and I honestly love some of the ideas and exploration Myra has here. The shifting of identities, how John loses more and more of himself to become himself, before being abandoned of all hope and accepting a new life thrust upon him, only to be saved by his confidant. How he must learn and grow past his NEET life and become a better, stronger, and more resilient person. The rapport and bond he shares with Liz at the beginning, being this goofy duo getting in way over their heads. And how he commits himself to the roles he is forced into. There are plenty of good ideas and, generally speaking, I think the execution is good.

The series can be funny, tense, starts off pretty basic presentation-wise, but continues to improve with each successive chapter as Myra learns and attempts more. But it still bears the strain and scars of the first big project of a creator, and does not go as far as I think it could if given additional time, focus, or experience. It’s something I have oodles of firsthand experience with, and while I criticize the work for that, I also find there to be something fascinating in messier conclusions like this. In how unpredictable, random, and wild they can be. They keep me guessing what is good, what can be done, and what the rules are with telling a story like this. While I cannot say this would be my preferred ending, I at least appreciate it, and the entirety of A NEET’s Life Unraveled, for keeping me on my toes from beginning to end of this wild ride.