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Kashimashi #1
Kashimashi, Vol. 1
Being a girl is harder than it looks...
For Hazumu, this couldn't be truer, because just the other day, she...was a he. Shunned by the girl of his dreams, Hazumu loses himself in the mountains and is promptly squashed by an oncoming space ship. The alien inside, feeling guilty, rebuilds Hazumu's body...but as the wrong gender! Now Hazumu must learn how to be the girl his parents always wanted while dealing with the trials and tribulations of being caught in a love triangle between two girls--his childhood friend, Tomari, and Yasuna, the girl who rejected him but is now strangely attracted to him/her!
For Hazumu, this couldn't be truer, because just the other day, she...was a he. Shunned by the girl of his dreams, Hazumu loses himself in the mountains and is promptly squashed by an oncoming space ship. The alien inside, feeling guilty, rebuilds Hazumu's body...but as the wrong gender! Now Hazumu must learn how to be the girl his parents always wanted while dealing with the trials and tribulations of being caught in a love triangle between two girls--his childhood friend, Tomari, and Yasuna, the girl who rejected him but is now strangely attracted to him/her!
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 27, 2005
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Satoru Akahori
179 books21 followersSatoru Akahori (あかほり さとる Akahori Satoru, Born 赤堀 悟, March 8, 1965 in Handa, Aichi, Japan) is a Japanese scriptwriter, novelist and manga author. He is best known for the Saber Marionette, Sakura Wars and Sorcerer Hunters series, which comes in anime, novel and manga forms.
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March 3, 2012
These are the lesbian characters in Kashimashi: one who is really a boy and was turned into a girl by aliens for some inexplicable reason (apaprently, after they killed him, it was easier to build him a body with breasts); one who has some madeup godawful unbelievable condition where she can't see male faces; one who is an anthropomorphic spaceship (no, really); and one who was in love with the first when he was a boy. It's like some horrible stereotypical way to give male readers girl-girl kissing to get all excited over while making sure none of the characters are real scary lesbians who might put of homophobic male readers.
Add to that the utter stupidity of the plot, as delineated below, and the completely unbelievable reactions to it. "I'm a girl now, there's nothing any can do, so I'll just immediately a girl identity" - what, really? Nothing can be done? He's not even transgendered, just magically a girl? And no conflict? Add to THAT the idea that it is really hilarious that his father keeps trying to sexually molest him. And finally, add really medicore, generic art and characters that are a list of cliches - Tomari, for example, doesn't have so much as a personality as a lazy grab-bag of tsundere traits.
I read this because, although I didn't like the main concept, it kept being recommended as a sweet and funny yuri read. Really, I don't know what they were reading. Two stars is really quite a generous rating for this mess.
Add to that the utter stupidity of the plot, as delineated below, and the completely unbelievable reactions to it. "I'm a girl now, there's nothing any can do, so I'll just immediately a girl identity" - what, really? Nothing can be done? He's not even transgendered, just magically a girl? And no conflict? Add to THAT the idea that it is really hilarious that his father keeps trying to sexually molest him. And finally, add really medicore, generic art and characters that are a list of cliches - Tomari, for example, doesn't have so much as a personality as a lazy grab-bag of tsundere traits.
I read this because, although I didn't like the main concept, it kept being recommended as a sweet and funny yuri read. Really, I don't know what they were reading. Two stars is really quite a generous rating for this mess.
January 3, 2013
I received this book as a Christmas gift, as I'm up to read pretty much any shoujo manga I can get my hands on. I needed a new one to read, so this seemed good enough.
Let' s just say... it was interesting. Like most mangas, it only took me a couple hours in total to complete. The story was about a boy named Hazumu, who takes notice of all the beauty around him and is even told by one of the three main characters, Yasuna, that he has "the power to make the world beautiful". He has always been thought of as a bit feminine and fragile, and has been picked on since childhood. His childhood friend, Tomari, has always acted as sort of a body guard for him, in the process secretly developing feelings for him. One night, after being rejected by Yasuna when he finally had the guts to ask her out, he runs off to the mountains. Then, BOOM! He is squashed by an alien spaceship. That' s where the story starts to get really bizarre.
The aliens reconstruct his body, but for they accidentally make him a girl. For some unexplained reason, this is irreversible. Oops. And if what has happened so far isn't unrealistic enough, everyone around Hazumu starts acting like he/she can just automatically adjust to this change. All the guys around her, including her former best guy friend, suddenly start acting like HUGE perverts, and both of the girls that used to have a crush on him are just plain shocked, but still sort of forcing her to become girlish. Her parents are oddly delighted about the accident, and seem hardly concerned about Hazumu's feelings. These are some of the many reasons why I found that the plot didn't really fit together, or make sense.
It was an interesting idea for a story I guess; a guy suddenly being forced into the confusion of being a teenage girl. But, all said and done, it just wasn't something that worked. At least not for me. In a way, it was interesting, or at least enough so that I read to the end, but I don't think I would recommend it to anybody. It was just too unrealistic for me, with too many unexplained concepts that were just forced on the reader.
Maybe someone else would enjoy this type of story,it just wasn't one for me, other than to occupy a few lazy hours of my day.
Let' s just say... it was interesting. Like most mangas, it only took me a couple hours in total to complete. The story was about a boy named Hazumu, who takes notice of all the beauty around him and is even told by one of the three main characters, Yasuna, that he has "the power to make the world beautiful". He has always been thought of as a bit feminine and fragile, and has been picked on since childhood. His childhood friend, Tomari, has always acted as sort of a body guard for him, in the process secretly developing feelings for him. One night, after being rejected by Yasuna when he finally had the guts to ask her out, he runs off to the mountains. Then, BOOM! He is squashed by an alien spaceship. That' s where the story starts to get really bizarre.
The aliens reconstruct his body, but for they accidentally make him a girl. For some unexplained reason, this is irreversible. Oops. And if what has happened so far isn't unrealistic enough, everyone around Hazumu starts acting like he/she can just automatically adjust to this change. All the guys around her, including her former best guy friend, suddenly start acting like HUGE perverts, and both of the girls that used to have a crush on him are just plain shocked, but still sort of forcing her to become girlish. Her parents are oddly delighted about the accident, and seem hardly concerned about Hazumu's feelings. These are some of the many reasons why I found that the plot didn't really fit together, or make sense.
It was an interesting idea for a story I guess; a guy suddenly being forced into the confusion of being a teenage girl. But, all said and done, it just wasn't something that worked. At least not for me. In a way, it was interesting, or at least enough so that I read to the end, but I don't think I would recommend it to anybody. It was just too unrealistic for me, with too many unexplained concepts that were just forced on the reader.
Maybe someone else would enjoy this type of story,it just wasn't one for me, other than to occupy a few lazy hours of my day.
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March 30, 2016Please don't laugh at me.
Yes, I know, this is a Yuri about a girl triangle. Yes, I also know that it's about a boy that gets turned into a girl by aliens. Why do I know all this? Because I watched the Anime, that's why. Which is why I'm telling you not to laugh at me - I watched and enjoyed a Yuri about a transsexual girl triangle.
Look, it's actually not bad, okay? I mean, yeah, it's silly, but I did find myself laughing quite a few times as I watched it. And Hazumu's transition from boy to girl was handled with a surprising amount of honesty, at least at first. The causes of it were... a bit contrived, to say the least, but by making the characters very human and realistic, Akahori pulled it off. And yes, it has fanservice, as you might expect, but it's surprisingly tasteful, for the most part. I was never overwhelmed, anyway, as I am with some other Otaku stuff. (Cough, Soul Eater, cough.) Besides, it was almost always plot relevant, and that made it more bearable.
So, that's why I want to read the Manga, if I can get my hands on it. Because it's far, far, far better than it should be based on its premise. Please don't laugh at me...
Yes, I know, this is a Yuri about a girl triangle. Yes, I also know that it's about a boy that gets turned into a girl by aliens. Why do I know all this? Because I watched the Anime, that's why. Which is why I'm telling you not to laugh at me - I watched and enjoyed a Yuri about a transsexual girl triangle.
Look, it's actually not bad, okay? I mean, yeah, it's silly, but I did find myself laughing quite a few times as I watched it. And Hazumu's transition from boy to girl was handled with a surprising amount of honesty, at least at first. The causes of it were... a bit contrived, to say the least, but by making the characters very human and realistic, Akahori pulled it off. And yes, it has fanservice, as you might expect, but it's surprisingly tasteful, for the most part. I was never overwhelmed, anyway, as I am with some other Otaku stuff. (Cough, Soul Eater, cough.) Besides, it was almost always plot relevant, and that made it more bearable.
So, that's why I want to read the Manga, if I can get my hands on it. Because it's far, far, far better than it should be based on its premise. Please don't laugh at me...
September 5, 2015
I've heard this touted as a great lesbian manga, but it really isn't. And it's not quite a genderbender manga along the lines of Pretty Face, nor a transgender lesbian romance.
The plot twist of a bland boy being forced into a female body without any apparent repercussions until the final chapters was grating to say the least. Likewise, the romance...just felt off, probably because of that. Just a meh series all round. Cute drawing style though, I suppose?
Review for the whole series, except for the fact that I skimmed the last volume just to see who the final pairing was.
The plot twist of a bland boy being forced into a female body without any apparent repercussions until the final chapters was grating to say the least. Likewise, the romance...just felt off, probably because of that. Just a meh series all round. Cute drawing style though, I suppose?
Review for the whole series, except for the fact that I skimmed the last volume just to see who the final pairing was.
September 21, 2020
I unabashedly love this! As a trans woman, Hazumu's journey of self discovery is achingly familiar. Sure, it's a nonsensical world with aliens, over-the-top teachers, and a girl who hilariously "can't see men". And yes, it carries some internalized misogyny that's so common in manga stories. But overall, it's cute and depicts some surprisingly real struggle.
My heart hurts for Tomari, who has the hardest time with Hazumu's transition because she loved her friend exactly as she was.
And I love how, whenever depicting Hazumu's past as a boy, they hide their face to show that she's always felt disconnected. It's the most succinct depiction of gender dysphoria I've found, weirdly.
I could do without the "lecherous old man" trope though...
My heart hurts for Tomari, who has the hardest time with Hazumu's transition because she loved her friend exactly as she was.
And I love how, whenever depicting Hazumu's past as a boy, they hide their face to show that she's always felt disconnected. It's the most succinct depiction of gender dysphoria I've found, weirdly.
I could do without the "lecherous old man" trope though...
March 27, 2019
Ah, love triangles... I feel like most people hate them by now. Especially after the YA industry decided a book couldn't be popular without one and saturated the market with that trope. Although can it really be considered a "love triangle" when you have two people both in love with the same third person and and that person can't decide which of the two she likes better? That sounds more like a love caret to me... (This thing, ^) I feel like each of them would have to be in love with a different member of the trio without anyone having feeling for the same person to be a proper triangle. But now I'm way off topic...
The point is love triangles are tired and overused and we hate them now. So how do you write one that manages to feel different and interesting enough to still be entertaining? You could do what Kashimashi here did and weird it up with a bunch of random and improbable factors that, as strange as they are, actually create a real reason for the problem other than having a bland protagonist who 'just can't make up her mind.'
What if our protagonist, Hazumu, used to be a boy but then an alien space ship crashed into him, killing him, and the aliens felt so bad about it they reconstructed his body and brought him back to life, but because he had been such an effeminate looking young man they screwed up and brought him back as a girl? What if his best friend, Tomari, had been crushing on him but never acted on it because he was interested in a different girl, and now that he's a girl she realizes she missed her chance and that only forces her to come to terms with that fact that she really does loves Hazumu even if he is a girl now? What if Hazumu had been crushing on another girl, Yasuna, who also kind of liked him, but wouldn't allow herself to return his feelings because she has some weird condition that prevents her from being able to visually perceive males as anything other than inorganic shapes so she turned him down, but now that he's a girl and she can actually see Hazumu she wants to pursue that relationship? And what if now that Hazumu is a girl she doesn't think she can return the affections of either of them because she's a repressed Japanese teenager who has probably been taught her entire life that homosexuality isn't proper?
See? Now you have an interesting love triangle that sounds like it came right out of the bizarro fiction genre. And to think, Satoru Akahori came up with this back in 2004, a year before Twilight would come along and set the mold that would turn all love triangles into the same boring tripe rehashed over and over again.
It's a shame more people don't like this book because it's really quite a lovely little story. I know a lot of people complain that it's not really a lesbian love story because the protagonist is just a boy who was turned into a girl by aliens, or that it's just an out for homophobic men to enjoy seeing two girls together without it actually feeling gay... But honestly I look at it as more of a story of three heterosexuals suddenly thrust into a homosexual situation and being forced to come to terms with the fact that that they now realize they are okay with that. Which I thought was handled rather well.
The point is love triangles are tired and overused and we hate them now. So how do you write one that manages to feel different and interesting enough to still be entertaining? You could do what Kashimashi here did and weird it up with a bunch of random and improbable factors that, as strange as they are, actually create a real reason for the problem other than having a bland protagonist who 'just can't make up her mind.'
What if our protagonist, Hazumu, used to be a boy but then an alien space ship crashed into him, killing him, and the aliens felt so bad about it they reconstructed his body and brought him back to life, but because he had been such an effeminate looking young man they screwed up and brought him back as a girl? What if his best friend, Tomari, had been crushing on him but never acted on it because he was interested in a different girl, and now that he's a girl she realizes she missed her chance and that only forces her to come to terms with that fact that she really does loves Hazumu even if he is a girl now? What if Hazumu had been crushing on another girl, Yasuna, who also kind of liked him, but wouldn't allow herself to return his feelings because she has some weird condition that prevents her from being able to visually perceive males as anything other than inorganic shapes so she turned him down, but now that he's a girl and she can actually see Hazumu she wants to pursue that relationship? And what if now that Hazumu is a girl she doesn't think she can return the affections of either of them because she's a repressed Japanese teenager who has probably been taught her entire life that homosexuality isn't proper?
See? Now you have an interesting love triangle that sounds like it came right out of the bizarro fiction genre. And to think, Satoru Akahori came up with this back in 2004, a year before Twilight would come along and set the mold that would turn all love triangles into the same boring tripe rehashed over and over again.
It's a shame more people don't like this book because it's really quite a lovely little story. I know a lot of people complain that it's not really a lesbian love story because the protagonist is just a boy who was turned into a girl by aliens, or that it's just an out for homophobic men to enjoy seeing two girls together without it actually feeling gay... But honestly I look at it as more of a story of three heterosexuals suddenly thrust into a homosexual situation and being forced to come to terms with the fact that that they now realize they are okay with that. Which I thought was handled rather well.
November 20, 2024
Re-read 2024: Review for the first three volumes. Decided to re-read this series again! Been a while. I love the art. I love that Hazumu got changed into a girl and then had to figure out how things worked from bras to how to put on socks to what to show and what not and more. Hazumu is such a cute girl, but I am glad that she wasn't instantly OMG I am a girl and OK, but had lots of feels and worries about things. I loved seeing her grow more confident as a girl and get more OK with things. Jan-puu was adorable and cute and I am glad she is around. Tomarin x Hazumu forever they make such a cute couple and I cannot remember who ended up with Hazumu but I am rooting for Tomarin. The art was adorable. That teacher was hilarious (OK, at times things got a bit much). I love how accepting everyone was of Hazumu (I guess it helps that even as a boy she was feminine). Cute covers! Fun events from fireworks shows to amusement parks to beach days.
But no thank you to the dad for being a freaking pedophile. WTF, constantly wanting to bathe with your 17 year old daughter. Making tons of photographs (one even with her in a bathing suit). EWW, eww. Eww. The alien at those times was also horrible, but the dad definitely topped it with his horrific behaviour.
Also eww to the best friend and his delusions. Boy, no.
Also Tomarin x Hazumu forever. Yasuna can just fuck off. With her magically not being able to see boys but oh Hazumu she can see quite clear and instead of just giving Hazumu some time to recover from the shock of becoming a girl (plus the rejection) she immediately goes in for the confession and is so clingy and overly close to her. Nope. Don't like her at all. Eww. Plus, sorry, but Hazumu Yasuna just had a bit of a fever she wasn't dying, no need to go all dramatic.
But no thank you to the dad for being a freaking pedophile. WTF, constantly wanting to bathe with your 17 year old daughter. Making tons of photographs (one even with her in a bathing suit). EWW, eww. Eww. The alien at those times was also horrible, but the dad definitely topped it with his horrific behaviour.
Also eww to the best friend and his delusions. Boy, no.
Also Tomarin x Hazumu forever. Yasuna can just fuck off. With her magically not being able to see boys but oh Hazumu she can see quite clear and instead of just giving Hazumu some time to recover from the shock of becoming a girl (plus the rejection) she immediately goes in for the confession and is so clingy and overly close to her. Nope. Don't like her at all. Eww. Plus, sorry, but Hazumu Yasuna just had a bit of a fever she wasn't dying, no need to go all dramatic.
May 4, 2023
From day one (day before yesterday), it has had to be said Tsuki Namiko does not deserve this much disrespect from the author, for the entirety of her 35 years she gave up having a boyfriend to give her all to education...
quality maybe fluctuates but probably an essential genderbent work, and the birthday...
quality maybe fluctuates but probably an essential genderbent work, and the birthday...
January 4, 2020
Enjoyed the manga and show
June 28, 2024
I'm not sure what it is that I just read. All I know is that I'm kind of invested now, and that I absolutely hate the father in this series 🤢
August 12, 2014
Kashimashi is, hands down, one of my top 3 fav mangas out there.
It is witty, clever, sensitive and beautiful.
The style is sweet and personal, and the story is just perfectly manga.
Too crazy to work in a real book, but imaginative and easily accepted in the world of manga.
Hazumu is a sensitive boy who loves flowers and the prettiest girl in school, she who almost never talk to anybody.
But when he confesses his love to her, she turns him down, crying.
Hazumu goes on a hike up to the mountain just as a huge spaceship looses control and crashes towards earth. In the crash Hazumu is killed, but the alien is able to save his soul and recreate his body. Only one small problem: by some mistake, Hazumu is recreated as a girl.
He has to learn how to deal with his new body, and to help him is his best friend Tomari. She's always been the tough one, protecting Hazumu at all times, star of the schools track team.
But also, she soon realizes, in love with Hazumu. At least she was, when he was a boy, which makes the whole thing even harder to confess.
And to make matters worse, Yasuna, the girls of Hazumu's dreams, now seems oddly interested in Hazumu now that he had become a she.
A love triangle just waiting to happen!
With a lot of wit and sweet moments that have me longing for more,
Kashimashi is a short, sweet, lovable and memorable manga series.
It is witty, clever, sensitive and beautiful.
The style is sweet and personal, and the story is just perfectly manga.
Too crazy to work in a real book, but imaginative and easily accepted in the world of manga.
Hazumu is a sensitive boy who loves flowers and the prettiest girl in school, she who almost never talk to anybody.
But when he confesses his love to her, she turns him down, crying.
Hazumu goes on a hike up to the mountain just as a huge spaceship looses control and crashes towards earth. In the crash Hazumu is killed, but the alien is able to save his soul and recreate his body. Only one small problem: by some mistake, Hazumu is recreated as a girl.
He has to learn how to deal with his new body, and to help him is his best friend Tomari. She's always been the tough one, protecting Hazumu at all times, star of the schools track team.
But also, she soon realizes, in love with Hazumu. At least she was, when he was a boy, which makes the whole thing even harder to confess.
And to make matters worse, Yasuna, the girls of Hazumu's dreams, now seems oddly interested in Hazumu now that he had become a she.
A love triangle just waiting to happen!
With a lot of wit and sweet moments that have me longing for more,
Kashimashi is a short, sweet, lovable and memorable manga series.
December 22, 2023
I first saw this in anime form in college. The premise was moderately interesting, but it didn't really catch my interest. I saw the manga form at a used bookstore and thought I'd give it another go. I found that the premise only sets up a rather interesting story about who a person is on the inside even through drastic outward changes. I think knowing the benefits of identity theory (and its pitfalls) helped me a lot with this manga, as does guiding people through conversion (which is rarely a sudden and complete occurrence). The plot is rather run-of-the-mill, but there is some wisdom in how Hazumu continues to know herself through her friends, showing identity as not simply individual (as one character says eventually, "parting always involves two people"). There is little ground-breaking here, but that's part of the charm and the setting for a story that many of us go through when we grow old enough to have varied identities in our outward life and a single, essential being within.
June 23, 2009
I am relatively new to manga,and prefer to read all ages or 13+ as 16+ can be too violient or too sexual for me. I grew up with Archie and Gladtone comics, so manga has taken a little getting used to for me. That said, this 16+ was alright. It's a little different in the love story department as it is a boy who becomes girl, who gets into a love triangle with 2 girls. Got that? A boy, who is accidentaly gender re-asigned as a girl, is still in love with girl A who he loved as a boy, and girl B who he has known all his life, is in love with him. Wackyness insues. Not too typical ending for the series.
October 23, 2016
|3.5 Stars|
So this was... interesting? The whole deal with Hazumu having to deal with being a girl was really interesting, I thought that was explored in a way that... worked for me, at least? I don't know, all of the little things really worked for me, like Hazumu having to be more conscious of things that didn't matter as much for a boy. All of the characters were pretty interesting, though I will say sometimes their selfishness kinda killed me a little bit, and sometimes they were pretty tropey and pretty much just like all the other anime/manga characters out there right now. So that was interesting.
But it's definitely a series that I'll continue to pick up if I see it.
So this was... interesting? The whole deal with Hazumu having to deal with being a girl was really interesting, I thought that was explored in a way that... worked for me, at least? I don't know, all of the little things really worked for me, like Hazumu having to be more conscious of things that didn't matter as much for a boy. All of the characters were pretty interesting, though I will say sometimes their selfishness kinda killed me a little bit, and sometimes they were pretty tropey and pretty much just like all the other anime/manga characters out there right now. So that was interesting.
But it's definitely a series that I'll continue to pick up if I see it.
September 19, 2007
thought this would just be a cute story and it is...its just that its a cute yuri story which i wasnt quite expecting.
on a side note a female friend of mine, not into manga at all, asked me, once i explained 'yuri' to her: "how could you have not known it was yuri when the title says 'girl meets girl'?" XD
i would like to add that i found the first two volumes of this manga actually quite touching. somewhere it resonated rather deeply with me.
on a side note a female friend of mine, not into manga at all, asked me, once i explained 'yuri' to her: "how could you have not known it was yuri when the title says 'girl meets girl'?" XD
i would like to add that i found the first two volumes of this manga actually quite touching. somewhere it resonated rather deeply with me.
February 6, 2008
This is a sweet little romantic comedy that is a taste of something different from all the typical harem manga out there. The story follows Hazumu, an effeminate boy who gets killed by a falling spaceship and brought back to life as a girl by accident. The thing is, he prefers it that way, and the take on the whole thing, while funny, is also serious. The story quickly establishes itself as dealing with Hazumu's change in identity and the two girls he loves and who love him back. Very sweet.
May 26, 2010
Easily the best series in my yuri manga collection. Much better than anime, this cute girl love triangle never disappoints and every chapter is enjoyable. At least in the first volume. But I have high expectation of all others.
November 15, 2008
Silly, but cute. Actually, quite silly but very cute.
(Why is it respectable for girl-type creatures to like yaoi but sordid for boy-type creatures to like yuri?)
(Why is it respectable for girl-type creatures to like yaoi but sordid for boy-type creatures to like yuri?)
November 29, 2015
Well, I love the artwork. The story is kind of interesting. I think it is cute, but not super wow. Therefore, 3 stars.
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August 20, 2016Quite different from your standard American fare.
April 26, 2017
Hazumu Ifigure 1)is a boy who is feminine in appearance. One day he's off in the forest looking for plants (he's into horticulture) and an alien spaceship appears. It promptly squashes him.
The aliens consider this a rather bad thing to do and 'repair' Hazumu. The problem is that they make a bit of a mistake and Hazumu ends up being a girl. One of the strangest gender transfers anywhere.
One of Hazumu's friends was Yasuna (figure 2) and he had been interested in her and she turned him down, thus leading to his walk in the forest. He didn't know that Yasuna is a lesbian. Tomari (figure 3) is another friend of his along with Ayuki, a guy.
The aliens, feeling sorry but seeing a good opportunity for studying Earthlings (they had no emotions, by the way, being sort of Vulcan in that nature) for Hitoshi Sora takes a position as a teacher, Jan Pu (the spaceship) assumes the form of a girl and things move on from there.
Hazumu's parents are weird, especially her father who wants to take a bath with her now 17-year-old daughter. Yasuna is now really interested in Hazumu but, at this time, though, she's not interested in girls. Tomari is jealous of Yasuna.
There's other stuff going on in the story plus there's also a 'bonus track,' a section on Japanese honorifics and translation notes. It's a very good start to a rather strange series.
The aliens consider this a rather bad thing to do and 'repair' Hazumu. The problem is that they make a bit of a mistake and Hazumu ends up being a girl. One of the strangest gender transfers anywhere.
One of Hazumu's friends was Yasuna (figure 2) and he had been interested in her and she turned him down, thus leading to his walk in the forest. He didn't know that Yasuna is a lesbian. Tomari (figure 3) is another friend of his along with Ayuki, a guy.
The aliens, feeling sorry but seeing a good opportunity for studying Earthlings (they had no emotions, by the way, being sort of Vulcan in that nature) for Hitoshi Sora takes a position as a teacher, Jan Pu (the spaceship) assumes the form of a girl and things move on from there.
Hazumu's parents are weird, especially her father who wants to take a bath with her now 17-year-old daughter. Yasuna is now really interested in Hazumu but, at this time, though, she's not interested in girls. Tomari is jealous of Yasuna.
There's other stuff going on in the story plus there's also a 'bonus track,' a section on Japanese honorifics and translation notes. It's a very good start to a rather strange series.
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