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NEWS: Tenkō-saki no Seiso Karen na Bishōjo ga, Mukashi Danshi to Omotte Issho ni Asonda Osananajimi




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Yune Amagiri



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 5:48 am Reply with quote
Waking up with multiple announcement which i was waiting for, such bliss.
Keep going on Kadokawa.
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prime_pm



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 7:32 am Reply with quote
At first I wondered why the second picture was differently proportioned than the first one. Then on closer inspection, I was like "Oh, that's a sheep!"
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HannoX



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 11:08 am Reply with quote
Sometimes I wonder if LN authors get paid by the length of their titles.
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xxmsxx



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 1:44 pm Reply with quote
When I read the Japanese title at first, I thought it said "the pretty girl I met was my childhood friend who used to be a boy".
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 3:45 pm Reply with quote
Ah, when the bro you grew up with ends up becoming your girlfriend!
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Rob49152



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PostPosted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 8:50 pm Reply with quote
I've only read the manga. But happy to see this get a go ahead.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 24, 2023 11:14 pm Reply with quote
prime_pm wrote:
At first I wondered why the second picture was differently proportioned than the first one. Then on closer inspection, I was like "Oh, that's a sheep!"

A sheep is the GOAT, right?
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ch3ru



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PostPosted: Mon Sep 25, 2023 11:55 am Reply with quote
HannoX wrote:
Sometimes I wonder if LN authors get paid by the length of their titles.

It's because LN sites just list the title under a genre plus a few tags but no summary, so the absurdly long and detailed titles *are* the summary.

I still think it's dumb that once they get officially adapted they don't give them a 'proper' title though.
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 3:35 am Reply with quote
MFrontier wrote:
Ah, when the bro you grew up with ends up becoming your girlfriend!
You say it like there are other manga you're aware of that could use this same tagline.
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recsanime



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 10:01 am Reply with quote
Boy discovers childhood friend is actually a girl..... Is this reskinned Tomo or something?
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Minos_Kurumada



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 12:18 pm Reply with quote
recsanime wrote:
Boy discovers childhood friend is actually a girl..... Is this reskinned Tomo or something?


Well, there is no nice way to sugar coat it:

"My childhood friend was actually a girl" it's an extremely normal trope in hentai.

It's not that normal in "mainstream" manga, there it's more common to make fun of it like Komi-san: Najimi is the perfect childhood friend, as such their gender is unknown, that way she can be a she for guys and a he for girls.

Series like Tomo makes fun of the trope while trying to deconstruct it.

A series like this its not coping Tomo, just using a common trope not that common in mainstream manga.
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Shay Guy



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PostPosted: Tue Sep 26, 2023 5:16 pm Reply with quote
ch3ru wrote:
It's because LN sites just list the title under a genre plus a few tags but no summary, so the absurdly long and detailed titles *are* the summary.

I still think it's dumb that once they get officially adapted they don't give them a 'proper' title though.


On Shousetsuka ni Narou, you can see the tags and summary on the detailed ranking pages and search results, and of course the info page for the individual story; they just aren't shown in the abbreviated rankings on the main page, the summary pages of the rankings section, etc. I don't know how Kakuyomu does things.

Of course, by the time you're getting officially published, you've got brand recognition to maintain.

Minos_Kurumada wrote:
Well, there is no nice way to sugar coat it:

"My childhood friend was actually a girl" it's an extremely normal trope in hentai.

It's not that normal in "mainstream" manga, there it's more common to make fun of it like Komi-san: Najimi is the perfect childhood friend, as such their gender is unknown, that way she can be a she for guys and a he for girls.

Series like Tomo makes fun of the trope while trying to deconstruct it.

A series like this its not coping Tomo, just using a common trope not that common in mainstream manga.


Well, in mainstream manga, it goes back at least to Ukyo Kuonji in Ranma ½. Which was, y'know, fairly influential as romance manga go.
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AVGN88



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 27, 2023 2:59 am Reply with quote
Can’t wait for this one. The manga is great! Hope this will speed up the releases of the manga.
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pikabot



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PostPosted: Wed Sep 27, 2023 8:51 am Reply with quote
I've said it before, I'll say it again: this is a stock anime/manga/LN trope, albeit not a super common one, but the only time it has ever happened in real life is when the girl is trans.
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ChirashiD



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PostPosted: Thu Sep 28, 2023 3:58 am Reply with quote
pikabot wrote:
I've said it before, I'll say it again: this is a stock anime/manga/LN trope, albeit not a super common one, but the only time it has ever happened in real life is when the girl is trans.
That's because in romcom manga/LNs the genderbending character is often not the protagonist, so we see interactions from a more external viewpoint. I've seen variations on this trope, like the girlfriend character actually was a boy when they were children. Whatever the setup, many authors base their story on experiences of the protagonist.
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