Tramps Like Us Vol. 1

[cerusee]

♥ to those of you on my flist who recommended Tramps Like Us (nee Kimi wa Petto). I'm halfway through volume 1, and it's utterly charming and unlike anything else I'm reading. In some weird, backwards sort of way, it reminds me of Maison Ikkoku, which of course is my favorite manga of all time, so this is all kinds of good.

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[cerusee.livejournal.com]

The premise, if I recall correctly, had a guy dying and waking up in the body of a female classmate named Akane (previously comatose or something). The author seemed willing to explore all the gender-bending possibilities this would have allowed, and with a bit more sensitivity than I normally expect from shounen manga--until the last few chapters, which devolved into some kind absolutely crackish confusion of random marriages and people trying to have sex with each other. And then it just stopped.