“Unemployed gamer Bong Gi wakes up as a woman, falls for online friend, and seeks revenge on bully.”
When I Woke Up I Became a Bagel Girl
어느 날 잠에서 깨어보니 베이글녀가 되어 있었다
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Synopsis
Unemployed gamer Bong Gi wakes up as a woman, falls for online friend, and seeks revenge on bully.
Bong Gi used to have dreams of making something of his life. But now all that seems like a distant memory. He has become fat, lazy, unemployed, and altogether unlovable. In the real world, people are grossed out by him. He has never had a girlfriend and he spends his late nights fantasizing about women whose pictures he leers at on the internet. His own life appalls him, but he has one escape – his online life. Gaming has become his everything, and he excels at it. After another long, lonely night of gaming, he wakes up – and is shocked to find that he has transformed into a woman. Or to be more precise, a woman who looks a lot like those he used to lust after online! Confused, he does not know where to turn – so looks for answers on the net. He encounters a young woman in a chat forum named Sae Mi, who offers him advice. He soon falls for her charms – which makes things complicated to say the least. And things get even more bizarre when he attempts to take revenge on Sang Woo, a school bully who turns out to be Sae Mi’s older brother! (Source: Viki)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
What 5 viewers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.48 · split reception
5.0 pts
Recommenders 8.0 · others 3.0
↓ 1.80
Running avg · Nov 2020 → Oct 2022
- 7 “The body-swap premise works as lightweight wish-fulfillment, with a few amusing side-characters and plenty of ecchi eye-candy to keep things lively. Still, there’s nothing groundbreaking here—just...”
- 9 “A scathing yet hilarious gender-bender that uses Gi’s inner voice to chart a believable shift from male otaku to fully realized woman while skewering Korean social ills. Organic dialogue,...”
- 4 “The whole concept of this anime is "Gender Bender" or now on MAL "Magical Sex Shift" and yet it lies to you, the cover, the theme, the protagonist is listed as the shifted sex (from male to female...”
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A Ona Production
Studio Animal.- Format 15 × 12′ eps × min
- Total runtime 3h 00m all episodes
- Aired Nov 2019 – Dec 2019
- Source Ona media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-17323 catalog