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“Actor Makoto must attend high school as a girl; tomboy Ito discovers his secret and sparks fly.”
W-Juliet
Wジュリエット
8.03
879 rank · 11,052 readers · 246 favorites
Shoujo
Crossdressing
Performing Arts
School
Comedy
Drama
Romance
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
Actor Makoto must attend high school as a girl; tomboy Ito discovers his secret and sparks fly.
Makoto Amano wants to become an actor, but his stern father has decreed that the only way Makoto can pursue his dream is to spend the last two years of high school as a girl! He quickly makes friends with popular tomboy Ito Miura, another drama enthusiast at this new high school and the only student to find out his secret—but are they more than pals? (Source: VIZ Media)
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Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
9.8
/10
What 5 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 10
mode 10
σ 0.40
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.40 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.80
Running avg · Aug 2010 → Mar 2019
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “I really liked this manga! You see all kind of different charcters. The writer did a good job making me waiting for the very end... I couldn't rest until I finished it! The stories are intersting...”
- 10 “I'll be honest. I'm picky on art. I usually hate the stories where the male has to pretend to be a girl in a school since the outcomes are bad (in my opinion) but I happened to loved this one....”
- 9 “W-Juliet is one of the best mangas out there, it has awesome characters that are easy to like and understand....but the best part of this manga series is the plot which is basically boy meets girl...”
Verbosity
Short · 80%
Medium · 20%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 79 × 14 ch × vol
- Total read 10h 32m approx
- Published Oct 1997 – Nov 2002
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0056 catalog