“Genderless 18-year-old Hinase must choose a gender—and between two confessing childhood friends—before time runs out.”
Just Like Mona Lisa
性別「モナリザ」の君へ。
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Synopsis
Genderless 18-year-old Hinase must choose a gender—and between two confessing childhood friends—before time runs out.
Everyone in the world is born genderless. But when children hit their 12th birthday, their bodies alter toward their desired gender. One person is an exception to this phenomenon: Hinase Arima, whose anatomy has yet to change upon their 18th spring. Nonetheless, they are satisfied with this, as long as they have their two childhood friends—the joyfully cute girl Ritsu Kaga and the stubbornly tall boy Shiori Takayama. With their last year of high school on the horizon, Hinase expects that their life will remain unchanged. Yet, this expectation is quickly swept away when they are confessed to by Ritsu and Shiori on the same day! Having never held romantic or sexual desires, Hinase is clueless on how to answer both of their confessions. However, time is running out, and Hinase must soon make the crucial decision: to choose between becoming a boy or a girl.
What people say
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Derived from 12 sampled reviews
What 12 readers settled on.
Mostly aligned
σ 1.71 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
↑ 1.50
Running avg · Jan 2021 → Jul 2025
- 10 “Good story backed up with amazing art --Artstyle The art style is just perfect. The first panel would be like "wow, he's handsome" and the next panel "sh** she's beautiful" The strokes went from...”
- 10 “One of the best histories I could ever read. The art is lovely, the characters are relatable and adorable the plot is very unpredictable, heartwarming and Exciting. even if you're not used to this...”
- 10 “One of the few manga I would give a 10/10. It's a beautiful story about identity, and even if you don't find identity struggles personally relatable it's still a great read. Aside from that (I...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 53 × 10 ch × vol
- Total read 7h 04m approx
- Published May 2018 – Dec 2022
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M48400 catalog