Senpai wa Otokonoko

I hate that western people has zero subtlety otokonoko characters aren't transgender you people don't know anything about Japanese culture yet still dictating your western politics on Japanese popular culture otokonoko characters basically has same meaning with trap to simplify that it's a crossdresser please have some subtlety and don't use transgender tag on every manga that has otokonoko characters

The art is beautiful, the three main characters are adorable, and the story touches on many important topics, making you root for each character in a different way. That said, the ending was terrible, like watching a movie and someone turning off the TV 15 minutes before it ends. We don't know what Makoto discussed with his grandfather about his career and future, we don't know how Saki managed living alone, or how Ryuji dealt with his friends ending up dating. We don't know which university they went to or what they decided to do with their lives. It’s a delightful story with one of the most anticlimactic endings I’ve ever seen. I finished it feeling like there’s still a revised version with a proper ending missing.

Because I feel like I might have started reading this with a mistaken impression of what it was gonna be about. I am dropping this because the gay/homo (whichever will trigger people less) vibes it gives off are very uncomfortable for me. I expected something very different (and more straight) from the summary.

I'm leaving this comment as a warning for people like me, as I'm not seeing anything of the sort on this site or others.

Half way through I was worried about how this would end, a look into the future following the ending might be a little bit better but overall I think it ended okay.

I read many people saying it's disappointing, but for me it was satisfying.

I guess this is as slice of life as you can get

People forget that lgbtq+ community is not well received in all countries (I'd say it being seen as "normal" in just a few), so you have to have in mind that this story occurs in Japan

For me the 3 main characters were adorable and relatable in their own ways
Fear of abandonment
Not knowing who you are
People pleasing over being true to yourself
Questioning gender identity
Questioning your sexual orientation
Dealing with bad parenting

Those are everyday situations for a lot of people, not easy topics, that's why I say this is a slice of life
They're just highschoolers, in my mind they'll do even better in the future (an extra glance of their future would be so good tho)

So if you like stories like 3gatsu no lion, silver spoon, shimanami tasogare or even nana, i don't think you will dislike this one

Now I'm anticipating the anime ✌️

I guess it's my fault for reading this after just finishing Genius Doctor Black Belly Miss where the characters were the opposite of the ones in My Crossdressing Senpai.

But to me this was pretty boring, and then it got a serialization ? and then after the 3 main characters kept wavering and it ending so poorly this won 1st place in the 'manga we want to see most turned into an anime" contest ? ... people really need to get out there a more and explore a little further from home.

The characters
They were boring and indecisive, neither of the 3 MC's can even decide what sexual orientation they have, 2 of them never even question it, like being bisexual is the most normal thing in the world.
A few of the characters (specially the 2 moms) are just so weak, fragile and mentally broken and just who broke them ? we never get an answer as to why they are such extreme edge case weirdos, I guess they broke themselves ?
People like that and people who have a much greater passion for their work than their families (I'm looking at you whale guy), should not start families or even get partners.

I found almost everything about it very half-assed, from the characters to the story, even the art to some extent.

The art is usually very good but quite often it drops to amateur levels, but I get it, the more important a scene the more detail the artist adds, I have no real issue with that.

With that said this should be more enjoyable as an anime, but the ending still sucks, it sucks because it barely tied up 2 things and it immediately ended, what about the rest ? they didn't even graduate, or even choose career paths, it's just so un-satisfying.

Not perhaps the best manga but a decent one. I can't help but feel it's pretty good at first, then kind of meanders a bit in the middle, and then kind of ends in a boring and somewhat disappointing manner, but then most slice-of-life dramas are like this too. I think the key messages the story wants to tell are good though. 100 chapters long but the strips are webtoon style so it's not actually overly long. Give it a read.

It's pretty good