“Three college students hide behind false identities—crossdressing, prostitution, and impersonation—while searching for their true selves.”
HIME-GOTO: uniforms at the age of nineteen
ヒメゴト ~十九歳の制服~
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Synopsis
Three college students hide behind false identities—crossdressing, prostitution, and impersonation—while searching for their true selves.
Acting and crossdressing as a boy, Yuki "Yoshiki" Ichihara is viewed as a male by her peers. Despite their expectations, she secretly wants nothing more than to be more feminine. On the other hand, all of Mikako Nagao's classmates believe she is sweet and pure; but in contrast to her innocent veneer, she enjoys selling her body to older men while pretending to be 15 years old. Though it may just be a front, her appearance has enchanted the dashing lady-killer Kaito Aiba, who lusts not for Mikako but to be her. To help fulfill this fantasy, he crossdresses as his idol and takes pleasure in impersonating her in his spare time. Each of these three college students hides behind an identity that is not their own, masking a self that they cannot reveal. Burdened by their hidden lives, they search for who they are and what defines them as their fates begin to intertwine.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 19 sampled reviews
What 19 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.23 · split reception
4.5 pts
Recommenders 8.7 · others 4.3
↑ 0.16
Running avg · Aug 2014 → Jan 2025
- 10 “Im not one to write reviews, im also not one to give 10/10s, infact, i dont think i ever did for a manga, and if i did, it was once or twice and it was ages ago. If I went at length at what I liked...”
- 10 “This is probably one of my top manga/anime of all time. It just manages to find the perfect balance between deep and wholesome story telling in a way that makes every act of carefully sprinkled...”
- 7 “This manga is close to my heart. I took it up because of its very unusual premise of boy-like girl, girl-like boy, girl-like boy with girls, and all the very convoluted parts of their...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 100 × 8 ch × vol
- Total read 13h 20m approx
- Published Jul 2010 – Nov 2014
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M20297 catalog