“Effeminate boy raised as girl attends all-girls school as witch, hiding gender until magical reveal prompts acceptance.”
Mei no Naisho
メイのないしょ
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Synopsis
Effeminate boy raised as girl attends all-girls school as witch, hiding gender until magical reveal prompts acceptance.
Mei no Naisho revolves around the life of the title character Mei Haruna, an effeminate young boy who was raised by his witch mother as a girl, and always thought of himself as female. His mother was the only family he had, so after she died, he transfers to an all-girls high school and comes to reside in the school's dormitory with his talking familiar cat Abel, and his roommate Fuuka Honjou, who is also a member of the public morals committee. Shortly after arriving at the school, his new friends discover after a magical display in the dormitory community bath that he is actually male, though this comes as quite a shock to him despite him being aware of the physical differences between him and normal girls. Despite him being found out, and after some helpful intervening of the perverted student council president, the principal of the school decides that he can stay at the school. The next day, Mei comes to school with Fuuka and apologizes for hiding the fact that he was a witch, and informs the others how he is apparently male. The other students quickly accept him as one of their own, and are impressed how he can use magic. (Source: MU)
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Running avg · Feb 2012 → Dec 2017
- 8 “WHERE IS VOLUME 3?! The manga was great i love crossdressing mangas with boys genderbent or whatever, lots of lewd positions and cute chibisyou like crossdressing mangas this is a pleasant 2 volume...”
- 7 “This is my first review so I'll try to make it good Mei no naisho to me is a jewel of a cross-dressing / gender-bending manga. The story although filled with sexual inuendos and is very short, it...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 18 × 4 ch × vol
- Total read 2h 24m approx
- Published Oct 2007 – Dec 2010
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M6544 catalog