Otomen

Description

Asuka Masamune is a guy who loves girly things—sewing, knitting, making cute stuffed animals and reading shoujo comics. But in a world where boys are expected to act manly, Asuka must hide his beloved hobbies and play the part of a masculine jock instead. Can Asuka ever show his true self to anyone, much less to Ryo Miyakozuka, the girl that he’s falling for? (From Viz)

Original Manga

Type

Manga

Related Series

N/A

Associated Names

Chàng Trai Hoàn Hảo

Maiden Man

Manlady

Otomen: Um Doce de garoto

Отомэн

ยอดชายใจแหวว

オトメン

オトメン(乙男)

乙男

粉紅系男孩

오토멘

Groups Scanlating

Latest Release(s)

c.15 by S2scans 13 years ago

v.4 c.14 by I Eat Manga 15 years ago

v.4 c.13 by I Eat Manga 15 years ago

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Status in Country of Origin

18 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

User Reviews

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Forum

6 topics, 25 posts

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User Rating

Average: 8.1 / 10.0 (744 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.03 / 10.0

28%

18%

22%

16%

Last Updated

December 27th, 2024 12:05am PST - 4 months ago

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Genre

Comedy Drama Romance School Life Shoujo
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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Hakusensha

Serialized In (magazine)

Bessatsu Hana to Yume (Hakusensha)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

Chuang Yi (11 Volumes - Dropped)

Viz (18 Volumes - Complete; Digital)

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #838

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Monthly Pos #1889 (No change)

3 Month Pos #3062

(-216)

6 Month Pos #4246

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Year Pos #5404

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List Stats

On 2695 reading lists

On 1347 wish lists

On 667 completed lists

On 287 unfinished lists

On 668 custom lists

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Mystery Scanlation Group?

12 years ago

Otomen to End in November

13 years ago

How does he not realize his friend is writing manga about him?

14 years ago

Otomen - The unconventional "heroine"

15 years ago

Otomen & Soushoku danshi

15 years ago

User Comments [ Order by usefulness ]

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by AkagiReika
6 months ago

Rating: N/A

as a women i hate feminists i like Role reversal but not in the political sense they are fun but feminists doesn't actually understand that they use that as a simply political tool they ruin everything western entertainment is a big example of that like what they did to Sarah Connor in terminator she was real badass female lead but they turned her in to a stereotypcial one dimensional feminist natanalist "girl boss" now they want to do same thing to Japanese entertainment don't view Japanese comic like this thorough your western politic lense this isn't your tool and you misunderstood everything about it Japanese popular culture have way more liberty than yours they can make better strong female lead stories without hating femininity one female character can be feminine and masculine at the same time they don't need to think being stay at home is a slavery which is of course not taking care of your home and your family isn't a slavery but if you're only thinking statute and power you can like a character just because they are CEO not because of their character which is the most important thing you call yourself a feminist but you are too trying to shaping a woman thorough your own view and restrict them you don't get to choose which is liberating for women it is a choice for individual not the bunch of delusional narcissistic people well i talk way too much about this in short you can enjoy a role reversal genre without being a insufferable feminist if you want to read story with the fully masculine female lead just search for it i can assure you that you can find it because Japanese manga isn't centralized as western entertainment you can find any kind of story here so please don't complain about shounen manga like witchcraft that isn't made for you and you don't need to read a popular manga to find your kind of story just search for it also complaining about sexualizing a female characters is a big insecurity like i said don't complain about sexualizion while reading a shounen which target audience is young men,if a character doesn't sexualized that doesn't mean is a profeminist either this is a shoujo manga characters that are generally sexualized is the male characters unless is a smut manga

last note if you like a role reversal i can recommend this manga but characters a bit caricaturistic which is normal for shoujo so if you don't like that you can read josei you can find role reversal josei easily just search in the tags

... Last updated 6 months ago

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Asuka is ultimate waifu

by iamananimeniac
7 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I really liked this manga, especially the role reversal scenes! 😀 I loved how the manga was pro-feminist and how there's no objectification of women. For example witchcraft works has similar scenes, but it soon goes into "a woman should listen to her man" mode and goes downhill. In otomen, the girl's boobs aren't DINOSAUR SIZE and the characters are interesting and unique. I like to use Ryo as a character insert cuz we're really similar ^^. Anyway, the art style is wonderful and some scenes really triggered emotions. I feel like Asuka's mom should be less hated, as she was actually an owner of a company and not some stay-at-home slave when she was still with Asuka's dad. Despite her rather traditional views, I kinda like her. Like, she's not afraid to voice her opinion and support it. If she wasn't so traditional, I would've thought she was a 100% feminist character. Pretty inspirational if you ask me.

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It had such a good premis

by Kurarara
8 years ago

Rating: N/A

...but it ended up being a bit... too shallow. The characters are all flat, and it became boring.
Too bad... he is really cute.

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Very, very good and very, very much recommended

by Nemurenaiyo
9 years ago

Rating: N/A

I'm the sort who loves light, rom-coms (given that it has good art and this manga has good art). It doesn't even have to be completely coated and focused on the romance and I'm already in love. This is that sort of manga. It's funny and nothing deep. And I love it when mangakas make their side characters involved in funny adventures with the other protagonists. It's a refreshing read and good change of pace for shoujo manga readers.
If you're into this, I recommend for you to check out other stuff of the same sort such as 'Oresama Teacher' and 'Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun'.

... Last updated 9 years ago

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It's cute, but with a lot of flaws.

by moonmystery
10 years ago

Rating: 4.0 / 10.0

This story was not a masterpiece by any means, but it was cute, and the art was lovely.
I LOVED ASUKA's girly side, but..... the author overdid it. Seriously. Even normal girls don't think the way Asuka does.

PROS:

The author tried pretty hard to reverse gender roles. His message of accepting men with effeminate characteristics definitely got across to me.
The art was cute
The main character is easily lovable

CONS:

The story was unbelievably CLICHE, underdeveloped, and (believe it or not) STEREOTYPICAL!!
flat, one-dimensional characters (including main characters)
WAY too long
ridiculously convenient situations (random characters would pop out of nowhere in order to get the plot moving)
very LITTLE on-screen romantic development (other than Asuka's constant blushing, there were few scenes involving romance.

(there was about 3-5 hugs, and 1 kiss in the whole freaking manga)

My biggest disappointment with this manga is that it FAILED to reach its potential. The premise was so interesting, but the author decided to flatly categorize the characters without fleshing out different aspects of their personalities. ... Everything felt very... superficial and fake

Here's the ending if you wish to be spoiled:

Asuka, the girly dude, marries the female lead 10 years after high school graduation. Pretty much everyone is happy, and Asuka's dad became a transvestite.

(i actually really liked the ending... but the amount of poor quality story-telling I had to suffer through made me dislike this manga)

... Last updated 10 years ago

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Sooooooooo Gooooood!!

by Rebekahs5
10 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

This was such a great read! ^_^ I had already seen the live action version of Otomen and so I was worried that it would let me down. Boy was I WRONG! This was SO much better then I was expecting. The only thing I regret is the fact that I had been putting off reading it is for so long. Totally worth the time I spent reading all the chapters.
The ending was brilliant. There were no loose ends. All the characters were well fleshed out and very lovable. It was funny, heartwarming, sad at times and even a little crazy. The romance was this mangas icing on the cake. Asuka and Ryo where an amazing couple with unparalleled chemestry. <3
PLEASE. READ. THIS. MANGA. You will not regret it!! If you love shoujo manga, you need this in your life! 10/10 5 Stars!

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No shoujo lover is too manly to read this!

by HoneyDippedLemons
11 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

I can't remember when was the last time I had so much fun reading a shoujo manga! First I thought this is going to be just your typical shoujo, but with the roles reversed. And it kinda-sorta was, but to me Asuka and the other characters were just so refreshing that I had to fall in love with this.

I especially like the fact that there's no typical crybaby girl in this. I'm also glad that although Asuka is girly, he still feels like a boy, and Ryo is manly, but feels like a girl. This manga is actually about peoples' hobbies and interests and accepting people for who they are. I often complain how shoujo is unrealistic, cliched and over the top, but this manga reminded me that the reasons why I liked shoujo in the first place are because it's innocent, naive and it makes my heart flutter.

Although at the beginning I wanted to smack Kanno sensei for not making this into a shounen ai (seriously the bromance at the beginning was so good...), but eventually Ryo won me over, and Kanno sensei stopped with the teasing.

If all of this isn't enough to convince you to give this a shot, read it for the sole purpose of seeing an otomen who looks like Nappa from DBZ (yes there is a character like that).

... Last updated 11 years ago

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Well..

by LouEngine
12 years ago

Rating: N/A

the story is kind of interesting but.. I'd rather read a BL story. No matter how I look at it, if he was involved with a guy, he'd leave her just like his father did to his mother. He's a girl after all, and I don't believe Ryou-chan can always be strong like a man. Their relationship looks very weak to me, even if it works for a few years, it won't work longer. It can't convince me that he's totally a straight man. sigh even if he'd change later, I don't believe his change will last long, because he's always been a girl since he was born.

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ahh

by koolgurl5
12 years ago

Rating: 1.0 / 10.0

Well it's not my cup of tea, I gave it a shot but it is out of my so called "comfort zone". I only managed to read two chapters, I couldn't continue on. The gender swap was kind of disturbing and irritating, in my opinion but the manga plot was a different approach. The guy's personality was a little too much to handle lol. It is worth the try because it's different from your average shoujo mangas.

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Not my thing~

by eriberri
12 years ago

Rating: N/A

I had really high hopes going in to this manga; especially as - due to what some other reviewers has mentioned - I was expecting the female lead to be as "boyish" as Asuka is "girlish" (something like a female banchou/delinquent) thus making it a really interesting and unique concept.. but not only is the female lead pretty stereotypical (how many shoujo manga feature cute girls who can't cook - that doesn't make them any less girlish) with nothing particularly special about her, she's not boyish whatsoever.

This was the major letdown for me because I envisioned a really captivating love story between two androgynous characters with clashing personalities that found themselves drawn to one another. I guess I should really learn to take the tags listed with a grain of salt. It was only later that I even realized that the 'love story' was a weak and minor part of the 'action' at best.

Asuka - or the concept of him, and not how he actually turned out - had potential too, but all in all it seemed to skim over everything too quickly and lacked any kind of depth or real characterization. I couldn't connect or feel anything for any of the characters (I would have liked to like Asuka, but he had such a bland personality) and just ended up boring me to tears very quickly.

On another note: A couple of times, at least in the parts I read, it almost seemed as if it could drift off into a BL (which could only have been a good thing) but even that quickly turned out to be a bland old tease.. sigh..

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