Buddy Go! · review
-no spoilers review- Gender bender is a personal favourite of mine so I always look all around the net for GB mangas to read. This one is a very enjoyable manga. I actually like the female lead. Also, I would like to mention that not all GB manga can make it successfully like this. One of my pet peeve is they make the girl "cross dress" but still make her obviously girly. And most of all, the crossdressing's motivation is to get close and be lovey-dovey with the handsome lead. Kind of annoying. What set this manga apart is that the main girl actually focuses onimproving her dancing and strives to be excellent. Her head is not full of fluffy love-love clouds all the time. With that, she had my respect. She is does not have to be super strong or overly tomboy to look cool. She looked cute enough without looking like a girl trying hard to be stoic. She's just the right mix. For that, I give props for the mangaka.
Art is usual cutesy shoujo manga done right. I enjoy the story flow too. It's not repetitive and the plot continues to go forward without overstressing the cross-dressing part. It get me focused more on the idol aspect of the story so it's nice.