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Otokonoko Genre
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"Otokonoko", also known as "Otoko no Musume", is a Japanese genre of romantic and/or erotic stories for men, focusing on Attractive Bent-Gender male Crossdressers. The name is a pun.DetailsThe word "otokonoko" normally means "boy" (literally "male child"), but swapping the "ko" meaning "child" for a different "ko" meaning "girl" gives a compound that Japanese sites like to translate as "male maiden". It is sometimes called '"josou" ("women's clothes"), a more generic term for male crossdressers. Western fandom uses the terms "trap"note This word is offensive when directed at transgender people., "femboy", and — less often — "tomgirl" (as the opposite of Tomboy). Otokonoko features both girl-on-crossdresser and guy-on-crossdresser stories (it's one of the few places where you will find M/F stories and M/M stories side-by-side in the same magazine). The target audience is men who crossdress (or are interested), and men who have a fetish for crossdressers, and the art styles and tropes are typically those of male-oriented romance/ecchi/hentai material. There is also a significant Periphery Demographic of female readers. (Although guy-on-guy otokonoko is often mistaken for Yaoi Genre, and some Shoujo, Josei, boys love works, and otome games do include characters that identify as otokonoko, anything targeted to women is not the otokonoko genre.) Although cute crossdressers in romantic situations have been an occasional theme in Shōnen and seinen since the '80s, otokonoko did not start as an identified genre until about 2004. Most works created before this are not usually considered part of the genre, although some have been grandfathered in. An otokonoko character must be anatomically male (no Hermaphrodites or Gender Benders) but look convincingly like an attractive girl. Most identify as male, but even when the character identifies as female, few works try to deal with actual Transgender issues in anything like a realistic way. Since otokonoko is mainly an otaku thing, otokonoko are quite likely to wear Sailor Fuku, Meido, Miko, Cat Girl or Naughty Nurse Outfits as well as "ordinary" female clothes. Some non-fiction magazines exist to provide advice and help with crossdressing for men who identify as otokonoko in Real Life and who crossdress to achieve the look (or want to). Most otokonoko is technically seinen, although some is shounen. Works aimed at a female audience are never this, so don't list Shoujo, josei or boys' love. If you are looking for people who are otokonoko, you may be looking for Dude Looks Like a Lady. |
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Otoko no Ko wa Meido Fuku ga Osuki!?: Four cute girls open and run a maid cafe (spoiler: they're not girls) | |
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Ookami Shounen Wa Kyou Mo Uso O Kasaneru is about a Nice Guy with the Face of a Thug. Being rejected by the girl he loves he runs to his Cool Big Sis for help. She drugs his coffee and makes him look like a girl. Now he saves the girl he loves from some real thugs and Love Interest reveals she has a crippling fear of boys. After a while he finds out that he actually likes being dressed like that more as he can be himself without people fearing him. | |
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If you were to explain otokonoko to someone, Bridget from Guilty Gear would probably be the first character to come to mind for many (at least in regards to her XX appearance), but she's not the focus of the series and the series predates the genre by a few years. And when Bridget appears in Guilty Gear -STRIVE- after a long absence, she's a genuine transgender woman, making her no longer even relevant to the concept. | |
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Brocken Blood: a borderline example, started off as a gag comedy with a crossdressed Magical Boy but has increased the crossdressing-fanservice levels to appeal to otokonoko fans. | |
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The iDOLM@STER - It has two iconic otokonoko characters, Ryo Akizuki and Saki Mizushima, the latter whom is voiced by an actual otokonoko. However, they are but two characters in a huge franchise; SideM is mainly aimed at women (though Saki is very popular with men), and Ryo stopped crossdressing in the True Ending of Dearly Stars and his subsequent appearances in SideM. The two are total opposites when it comes to why they came to do it: Ryo was forced into it at first but came to love the people he knew while on the job, and Saki adores the practice, but was inspired to start crossdressing in the open after Ryo confessed the truth to his fans. | |
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Excuse Me Dentist, It's Touching Me! follows a yakuza member who falls for his attractive female dentist, not realizing that she's actually a crossdresser and a member of a rival yakuza group. | |
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Bokura no Hentai is light on the Fanservice, but it's seinen and therefore fits the "targeted towards men" part. Notably, one of the three main characters is explicitly transgender, while the other two are boys who are crossdressing for personal reasons. The series comes off as a Genre Deconstruction as with its cute art style and "Middle school crossdressers" premise it seems to be normal game, but the cast has a serious case of Dysfunction Junction and the series handles its topics seriously. | |
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Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts - Hideyoshi is an icon for the subculture. Doesn't quite fit into the genre, as it doesn't focus on Hideyoshi's love life (he's only a side character). | |
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Hikaru to Hikari: A young boy is made to crossdress by his childhood friend for a singing contest, and discovers that he is far more confident in himself as his new alter-ego. | |
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I'm a Royal Tutor in My Sister's Dress revolves around a boy impersonating his older sister in order for the both of them to avoid execution. | |
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Handsome Girl and Crossdressing Boy is about a Wholesome Crossdresser guy who starts going out with an assertive Bifauxnen. | |
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W Juliet - It is about a boy pretending to be a girl at school so his father will let him become an actor. However, his female Love Interest is the lead, and the manga is Shoujo. | |
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Happiness! - Jun is pretty much the type-model for the "guy meets cute girl, finds out girl isn't a girl, decides he doesn't care" plot. Doesn't quite fit into the genre, as Jun is only one of a number of possible Love Interests in the game and is mostly a side-character in the anime adaptations. On the other hand, Jun is also heavily implied to be transgender and can be romanced as a boy or, via magic, a girl. | |
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Sazanami Cherry: A boy confesses his attraction to a girl but it turns out the girl is a crossdressing boy. In this case, Ren has an Ambiguous Gender Identity and is implied that he's actually a trans girl who hasn't began identifying as so yet. | |
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The Secret Devil-chan: Guy wishes for a Hot as Hell devil to take his virginity, gets a cutie, freaks when he realizes he forgot to specify female cutie. | |
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Princess Jellyfish - Kuranosuke is an icon, well known for being both incredibly fashionable and a rare adult crossdresser, and the series does focus on the Sibling Triangle. But it doesn't quite fit the genre, being a manga josei (aimed at young adult women). | |
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Maria†Holic - The inspiration for dozens of "boy crossdresses to infiltrate an all-girl's school, gets involved in pseudo-lesbian sexual hijinks" stories, although it's not the first to do this. It's not quite an example of the genre (in ways, it's almost a parody of it, actually). | |
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Reversible!: An all boys school that at first glance seems to be coed due to the eccentric dress code, and the relationships that develop there. | |
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Himegoto by Norio Tsukudani, a rare 4-koma work (at least the first few chapters). The first in the genre to get an anime, though it was badly received. Himegoto Plus: A spinoff focusing on the main character's little brother. |
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Usotsuki Lily - A parody on the genre aimed at the Shoujo crowd. | |
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Stop!! Hibari-kun! - Hibari is well-known as a classic in the genre, but predates it by at least twenty years, being from The '80s. From a modern perspective, the protagonist also seems much more like a transgender girl than a crossdressing boy, though the author has referred to Hibari as a boy (and an otokonoko specifically). | |
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No Bra - Like Happiness!, a model for the "guy meets cute girl, finds out girl isn't a girl, decides he doesn't care" storyline. Predates the genre, sometimes grandfathered in as it otherwise fits quite well (though it's implied that Yuki is transgender). | |
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Prunus Girl: yet another "guy meets cute girl, finds out girl isn't a girl, decides he doesn't care" story. | |
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Wandering Son - The three "crossdressers" are all transgender, but the series is often mistaken for at Otokonoko series. Waai did run some articles and ads for the anime adaptation. | |
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Boku to Boku: A girl who looks like a boy befriends a crossdresser. | |
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I Think I Turned My Childhood Friend Into a Girl: A guy's childhood friend lets him practice makeup on him, and discovers that he likes presenting femininely. The guy finds himself attracted to his friend's new feminine appearance. | |
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Otoboku - Maidens Are Falling For Me: Possibly the original "boy crossdresses to infiltrate an all-girl's school, gets involved in pseudo-lesbian sexual hijinks" story; released at a point where the genre didn't have a name and consequently advertised as "Girls Love" even though the main character is male. | |
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Crossplay Love: Otaku x Punk is a romcom about two crossdressing boys, a gloomy otaku and a delinquent, who hate each other's male identities, but are attracted to the other's fem alter ego, without knowing they're not a girl. Hilarity ensues. | |
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Love Me For Who I Am - The series is about male assigned at birth people working in dresses at a cafe, and the characters do call themselves "otokonoko" sometimes, but the protagonist is explicitly non-binary and at least two other characters are trans girls. | |
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