Title: 女装してめんどくさい事になってるネクラとヤンキーの両片想い 1 | L25
Book type: Manga
Available formats: physical / ebook
Summary - Japanese
お互いの好きな人は、嫌いなヤツが女装した姿!?
可愛く朗らかな女の子・「花」
凛とした美人・「めい」
二人はお互いに好きだと気づいていない両片思い!
…しかし、互いにバレてはいけない秘密が…。
Summary - English
Note: Seven Seas Entertainment (which was picked by Anilist and MAL) has a much more involved blurb… but I disagree with some of the stuff they say, which I noted down.
Shuumei has a problem. He’s in love with a girl who works at a maid cafe, but he’s too cool to go into a place like that without being embarrassed. But girls can go to maid cafes without seeming creepy, right? When he dresses in feminine clothes and transforms himself into “Mei,” he can finally walk into the place to meet the girl of his dreams: the lovely blonde Hana. Meanwhile, Hanae is an introverted otaku who’s uncomfortable talking to people…unless he’s dressed in feminine clothes himself. While decked out in his best dresses [note: incorrect, he is wearing a “uniform”, in the sense that it belongs to the shop], he works at a maid cafe, and finds himself crushing on a young woman who regularly comes to visit him: a cool beauty named Mei! In this delightful LGBT+ romcom, two young people in love are about to find out a lot about each other–and themselves.
[Thing that is missing from the Japanese blurb: they know, and hate, each other as men]
Content warnings
None that I can think of.
Reason(s) for nominating: So, first, I have to say that I’m not sure if this series really fit the spirit of the club. Sure, it’s two men in love with each other, but they both believe that the other is a woman. Most of the tension comes from them trying to hide that they are men, preventing them to go forward with the relationship, while reading the other’s identical hesitation as a sign that they are not romantically interested.
For that reason, though, the romantic part mostly takes place when both are in girl mode, so it’s kinda hard to call it BL from the get go? I does get there, I swear, but that’s much further in the series and I guess we’ll only read one~two volumes with the club… If people feel like it’s out of topic, I don’t mind dropping it.
Still, I really liked how the story developed as well as the kind of internal exploration that comes from the situations that came up, to the point of nominating it despite having just read every published volumes so far