Shishunki Bitter Change · review
A body swap story that takes things a bit more seriously than usual. The characters swap when they're very young, and can't figure out how to switch back, leading them to go through puberty in each others' bodies and move onto middle and then high school. Body swapping is obviously a concept ripe for exploration of varying aspects of the human condition, something for which it is basically never actually used. This series gets closer than usual, but stops just short of actually get too deep or introspective. Still, it's pretty good, I think. The characters have a pretty believable "friends who fight all thetime" energy going on. The ending feels a bit sudden, but I still liked it overall. There's a few "after the story" bonus chapters out there that I think are pretty essential to kind of cushion it and leave you feeling a bit more satisfied with how it wrapped up.
As a disclaimer- no, I didn't read the webcomic. Yes, I know the ending is different. Tbh, if this story had ended the way I understand the webcomic version does, I'd probably hate it.