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A follow-on from this year's Sirens conference. As requested by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jennifergale, some manga (and manhwa) series I've come across over the years that have cross-dressing as a major plot/thematic element. This is not every series I've read -- just those that made enough of an impression to remember them,* and some are included only to disrecommend them. Most are comedies, some dramas, and many romances.
These are strictly cross-dressing series -- cross-gendered body-swapping (by reincarnation or other means) is omitted, though some of those are good, fun reading. Ditto the cross-gender shapeshifters. I do however include a couple series with transgendered characters. I list the series demographic to give an idea of who it's playing to, though I don't distinguish between older and younger shoujo despite their differences. (To my surprise, no josei -- WUWT?) Licensed series are italicized, while particularly recommended ones are bolded.
* For example, hardly anything I think of as "moe otaku bait" is on the list, because I usually drop them so quickly they don't have time to rise out of the morass.
( Cut-tagged for length and the disinterested )
Anyone have others to add?
ETA suggestions in comments.
... spend your life worrying / about what you could have been / can't you like being you
---L.
jennifergale, some manga (and manhwa) series I've come across over the years that have cross-dressing as a major plot/thematic element. This is not every series I've read -- just those that made enough of an impression to remember them,* and some are included only to disrecommend them. Most are comedies, some dramas, and many romances. These are strictly cross-dressing series -- cross-gendered body-swapping (by reincarnation or other means) is omitted, though some of those are good, fun reading. Ditto the cross-gender shapeshifters. I do however include a couple series with transgendered characters. I list the series demographic to give an idea of who it's playing to, though I don't distinguish between older and younger shoujo despite their differences. (To my surprise, no josei -- WUWT?) Licensed series are italicized, while particularly recommended ones are bolded.
* For example, hardly anything I think of as "moe otaku bait" is on the list, because I usually drop them so quickly they don't have time to rise out of the morass.
( Cut-tagged for length and the disinterested )
Anyone have others to add?
ETA suggestions in comments.
... spend your life worrying / about what you could have been / can't you like being you
---L.