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“In a world of declining female birth rates, men like Kenji are biologically altered to bear children.”
Balance Policy
バランスポリシー
6.53
17,523 rank · 3,762 readers · 15 favorites
Seinen
Magical Sex Shift
Drama
Romance
Slice of Life
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Synopsis
In a world of declining female birth rates, men like Kenji are biologically altered to bear children.
In a world where birth rates mysteriously dropped, specially women's, men have their bodies changed so they can give birth. This is the story of one of them, Kenji.
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Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
7.7
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 8
mode 6
σ 1.25
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.25 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 1.33
Running avg · Mar 2016 → Jul 2024
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “The gender-bender/trap "genre" is usually a subgenre of comedy and/or ecchi, but in this particular case it's a nice mixture of science fiction and drama. An alternate future is presented and each...”
- 8 “Balance Policy is about a boy who was turned into a girl because of japan's birth rate declining. In short mangas like these, you can't really expect anything "good" in general standards and it is...”
- 6 “It's an interesting premise, but it doesn't really figure into the story in any important ways. This is really just a story about a teenage boy magically and forcibly "changed" into a girl, now...”
Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 33%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 14 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 52m approx
- Published Apr 2010 – Feb 2014
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M15363 catalog