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“Tough boy Megumi becomes a girl via evil genie; six years later, she's a popular school beauty hiding her true self.”
Cheeky Angel
天使な小生意気
7.37
4,575 rank · 4,543 readers · 56 favorites
Shounen
Magical Sex Shift
Award Winning
Comedy
Romance
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Synopsis
Tough boy Megumi becomes a girl via evil genie; six years later, she's a popular school beauty hiding her true self.
Megumi Amatsuka, a rough and tumble nine-year-old boy, always dreamt of becoming the "manliest man on earth." Upon receiving a book of magic from a sorcerer whom he saved from a group of local thugs, Megumi summons a genie in order to make a wish. But due to a sick twist of fate, the genie turns out to be an evil one, and Megumi winds up being the "womanliest woman on earth"! Six years later... Megumi is the most desirable girl in school, but deep within her hot-mama facade is the same trash-talkin,' punk-stompin' boy. (Source: VIZ)
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Community consensus
Derived from 5 sampled reviews
7.6
/10
What 5 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 8
σ 0.49
Agreement
Strong agreement
σ 0.49 · scores cluster tight
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 0.60
Running avg · Jun 2009 → Jan 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 8 “I always bring this manga up when people ask me for recommendations. It's the anime's first episode that got me to read the series, and I always mention how the anime's ending is so much worse than...”
- 8 “Tenshi na Konamaiki (Manga) 8/8/8/8/8 First things first. My "reviews" system is explained on a blog entry. Which can be found through my profile. ------ ✦Story Another of "gender bender" stories...”
- 8 “When I read the description, I was thinking that this is some kind of "gender bender" type manga, but then I read into it, i was happily surprised that it is not like that. Most "Gender Bender"...”
Verbosity
Short · 40%
Medium · 40%
Long · 20%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 199 × 20 ch × vol
- Total read 26h 32m approx
- Published May 1999 – Aug 2003
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M0893 catalog