I'm astounded that such a modern story has such a small community and lacks some traction. But that doesn't make it any less beautiful or great; rather, it's brilliance waiting to be discovered by someone like me, who suffers from many of the same ailments as Rika-kun. I came across this recommendation by chance on TikTok and added it to my reading list after only reading one panel. If you are new to this story, I will do my best to give it a glowing review as a fellow transgender person similar to the main character! Rika is a transgender FTM (female to male) who longs fora sense of belonging. He lives with dysphoria, has a tiredness of being misgendered, and is fed up with constantly having to present as a cisgendered girl on a daily basis. He lives with a mother, who is aware of his transgender status, but pretends to ignore it out of desperation to keep her son as his biological gender. He makes an unlikely friend with a fellow troubled (cis-gendered) boy as a result of his constant arguing with his mother. This is a story about maturing, discovering one's identity, and, most importantly, finding love and acceptance in ways different than just romance.

I will recommend this story to anyone. It is so lovely and so heart wrenchingly good. Tugs on my heart strings in just the right ways.

EDIT: 2025
Coming back to say I’ve finished this manga almost two years later. I think it was so worth taking forever to finish, because the feelings that I had before couldn’t compare to how I felt finally finishing it. This story has a very painfully realistic feeling about the characters, and how one could react when someone you know (or meet) presents one way, but prefers something completely other than what you’d expect. As a trans person, the journey this story takes you on is a rough but very beautiful one. Especially when coming to gauge the friendships and complex relationships the MC has in such short chapters. This story is deserving of its score from me all these years later. I genuinely implore anyone hesitant to read this to take this as your sign! This manga is super well done, and so worth the rather quick read. It’s so wholesome to see what a work with only a limited amount of chapters can do better than some mangas with over 30+ with the same kind of plot. Very well done..! The art may fall a bit short at times, but the plot makes up for that in my opinion.