What is Gender Bender manga?

Deals with switching souls, crossdressing, transsexual and transgender people, or anything that breaks traditional binary gender roles. A character could undergo a complete or partial physical sex change. Depending on the situation, the character might be stuck in their new body/sex, or changed back automatically at some point, or have the ability to change back and forth at will. It can also include series with a man and woman who suddenly share the same body.

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Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken

(That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)

8.26

Description:

After being killed by a passing robber, a normal 37-year-old guy finds himself reincarnated in another world as a blind slime with unique abilities. He takes up a new name and calls himself "Rimuru Tempest," which he thought of after meeting his new friend, "catastrophe-level" Storm Dragon Verudora. There, he begins his new slime-like life in another world with his increasing number of minions by his side. (Source: Guro Translation)
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2015-03-26

Ouran Koukou Host Club

(Ouran High School Host Club)

8.24

Description:

Haruhi sticks out like a sore thumb as a poor, smart girl who got into the hoity-toity Ouran High School on talent alone. When she mistakenly wanders into the meeting room of the host club and breaks a valuable vase, she's recruited to join the club. Realistic and sarcastic, Haruhi isn't used to being around crazy people like the princely Tamaki, scheming Kyouya, silent Mori, immature Hunny, and devilish Hikaru and Kaoru, but she's got no choice if she ever wants to pay earn what she owes. Too bad the club is made for girls to come and be entertained by gorgeous guys -- and Haruhi's been mistaken for a boy! Includes chapters of the story "Romantic Egoist" in various volumes, starring a pair of twins who play matchmaker with their fellow students, teachers and the like. (Source: MAL)Note: The final volume contains a special bonus chapter where the group travels to Spain.
Type

manga

Volumes

18

Chapters

87

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2002-07-24

Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken

(That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime)

8.24

Description:

After being killed by a passing robber, a normal 37-year-old guy find himself reincarnated in another world as a blind slime with unique skills. With a new name "Rimuru Tempest" he got after meeting his new friend, the "catastrophe level" Storm Dragon Verudora, he starts his slime life in another world with his increasing number of minions. (Source: Guro Translation)
Type

novel

Status

current

Started

2014-05-30

Boku Girl: Boku no Arbeit

8.22

Description:

Type

novel

Volumes

1

Chapters

7

Status

finished

Started

2015-09-18

Youjo Senki

(The Saga of Tanya the Evil)

8.16

Description:

On the front line of the war, there's a little girl. Blond hair, blue eyes and porcelain white skin, she commands the army with lisping voice. Her name is Tanya Degurechaff. But in reality, she is one of Japan's most elite salarymen, reborn as a little girl after angering a mysterious being X who calls himself "God." And this little girl, who prioritize over anything else efficiency and her own career, will become the most dangerous being amongst the sorcerers of the imperial army...
Type

manga

Status

current

Started

2016-04-26

Hourou Musuko

(Wandering Son)

8.11

Description:

Shuuichi Nitori is a 5th grade student who likes to bake and has always been something of a feminine boy. When he transfers to a new school, Shuuichi is mistaken for his 6th grade sister on his first day. Then he ends up sitting next to Yoshino Takatsuki, a tall, boyish girl who everyone calls "Takatsuki-kun." They both have secrets they can't let anyone know... (Source: Kotonoha) The series deals with issues such as transsexualism, gender identity, and the beginning of puberty. (Source: Wikipedia)
Type

manga

Volumes

15

Chapters

123

Status

finished

Started

2002-12-12

Fukakai na Boku no Subete o

(Love me for what I am.)

8.07

Description:

Mogumo is a cute but lonely high school student who just wants a few loving friends. Fellow student Iwaoka Tetsu invites Mogumo to work at his family’s café for “cross-dressing boys,” but he makes an incorrect assumption: Mogumo is non-binary and doesn’t identify as a boy or a girl. However, Mogumo soon finds out that the café is run by LGBT+ folks of all stripes, all with their own reasons for congregating there. (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)
Type

manga

Volumes

5

Chapters

28

Status

finished

Started

2018-06-01

Ouran Koukou Host Club

(Ouran High School Host Club ~Extraordinary!~)

8.07

Description:

Ouran High School Host Club Novel that is only available in Japanese. It is not yet known at this time whether or not Viz will publish it in English.
Type

novel

Volumes

0

Chapters

6

Status

finished

Started

2008-04-10

When I Woke Up I Became a Bagel Girl

8.06

Description:

A Korean NEET who lives day to day playing games turned into a girl all of sudden! What will he do?Bagel is Korean slang for a girl with a baby face and a glamorous (sexy) body.(Source: MU)
Type

manhwa

Chapters

37

Status

finished

Started

2014-01-01

Yukarism

(Yukarism)

8.06

Description:

"Yukarism" is the story of a young man named "Yukari" who is born with the memories of his past life and so at the tender age of 17, he is an Edo period novelist. Yukari "meets cute" with Mahoro on the first day of the new school term and Yukari has the sense that even though he's never met Mahoro, he knows her...and from there, their story of the past and the present begins. (Source: Omari's Sister's Anime & Manga Blog)
Type

manga

Volumes

4

Chapters

17

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2010-10-26

Kuragehime

(Princess Jellyfish)

8.05

Description:

Tsukimi Kurashita has a strange fascination with jellyfish. She’s loved them from a young age and has carried that love with her to her new life in the big city of Tokyo. There, she resides in Amamizukan, a safe-haven for girl geeks who regularly gush over a range of things from trains to Japanese dolls. However, a chance meeting at a pet shop has Tsukimi crossing paths with one of the things that the residents of Amamizukan have been desperately trying to avoid—a beautiful and fashionable woman! But there’s much more to this woman than her trendy clothes! This odd encounter is only the beginning of a new and unexpected path for Tsukimi and her friends. (Source: Kodansha Comics)
Type

manga

Volumes

17

Chapters

84

Rating

Status

finished

Started

2008-10-25

4 Cut Hero

8.05

Description:

The Hero has defeated the Demon King! But the Princess he meant to save turned out to be a Prince. NEETdom, here he comes, but a life of relaxation surrounded by animes is a pretty sweet deal. Unfortunately, he gets caught up in millennia old legends, curses, and a twisted plot involving multiple Kingdoms and many dragons. Through and through, though, he'll follow a path of whimsy, even if that involves him palling it up with "villains". (Source: MU)
Type

manhwa

Rating

Status

current

Started

2014-08-18

Hanazakari no Kimitachi e

(Hana-Kimi: For You in Full Blossom)

8.02

Description:

Japanese-American track-and-field star Mizuki has gotten herself to transfer to a high school in Japan...but not just any school! To be close to her idol, high jumper Izumi Sano, she's going to an all-guys' high school...and disguising herself as a boy! But as fate would have it, they're more than classmates...they're roommates! Now, Mizuki must keep her secret in the classroom, the locker room, and her own bedroom. And her classmates—and the school nurse—must cope with a new transfer student who may make them question their own orientation... (Source: VIZ Media) Included one-shots: Volume 1: Natsu no Ori (The Cage of Summer) Volume 4: Kawaki no Tsuki (The Thirsty Moon)
Type

manga

Volumes

23

Chapters

148

Rating

Status

finished

Started

1996-08-20

Ranma ½

()

8.03

Description:

In China, there lies a famous training springs, a place where martial artists can hone their skills to great levels. Unfortunately, the springs are also cursed! Teenage martial artist Ranma falls into the "spring of drowned girl" and now changes into a woman every time he's splashed with cold water. That doesn't stop his father from engaging him to Akane, the daughter of an old friend and a tough girl who has better thing to do than worry about boys. But Akane isn't the only girl who has a chance for Ranma's affections -- two other girls have also been betrothed to him. But Ranma has better things to do than worry about his love life -- such as making a plethora of crazy rivals and even more suitors!
Type

manga

Volumes

38

Chapters

407

Rating

Ecchi

Status

finished

Started

1987-08-05

Yamada-kun to 7-nin no Majo

(Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches)

7.98

Description:

Ryuu Yamada is a second-year student at Suzaku High. Ryuu is always late for school, naps in class and gets abysmal grades. His life is a dead bore. The beautiful Urara Shiraishi, on the other hand, is Suzaku High's brightest student. One day, without explanation, their bodies are swapped! Ryuu ends up in Urara's body, and Urara in Ryuu's. (Source: MU) Includes the side stories Muramura and Sobasshi no Ryouri Yacchimauzo★
Type

manga

Volumes

28

Chapters

245

Rating

Ecchi

Status

finished

Started

2012-02-22

Finding Camellia

(Finding Camellia)

7.9

Description:

Camellia was just 12 when she was taken away from her mother in the slums and forced to live as the son of an aristocratic family. But under the layers of secrets and lies, she never forgets. She continues to struggle to be her true self again, to reclaim the life of Camellia. Source: Manta Comics
Type

manhwa

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2021-06-12

Boys Run the Riot

7.85

Description:

"My body is female, but inside I am male." High school student Ryuu, while struggling with dysphoria and acceptance, meets Jin, a man who loves clothes, and his life starts to change. Demolish clothes that are "obvious" and "discomforting"! A rugged style fashion story. (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

4

Chapters

37

Status

finished

Started

2020-01-27

My Heart Is Beating

7.84

Description:

17 year old exemplary student Bae Sugu lives alone with his father, the vice principal of his school. Weighed down by his father's expectations, Sugu has to hide his one true passion: swimsuits. He does not know where it comes from, but his passion is pure and genuine - and often misunderstood. But one day, when Sugu is secretly taking pictures of swimsuits by the pool, he is caught by his homeroom teacher who forces him into something ridiculous. Can Sugu find something to get out of the standstill his life has come to? Can his heart beat again? (Source: Noctis Op.92)
Type

manga

Volumes

3

Chapters

30

Status

finished

Started

2009-06-05

Onii-chan wa Oshimai

(Onimai: I'm Now Your Sister!)

7.82

Description:

Mahiro Oyama was just a normal erotic-game loving dude...until he woke up one morning as a woman! Turns out his mad-scientist little sister, Mihari, tried out one of her new experiments on him...with a disastrous outcome, as far as Mahiro's concerned! But Mihari is as determined to study him as he is determined to go back to his shut-in, game-playing life, and one thing's for sure...life is going to get a whole lot weirder from here on out! (Source: Kodansha USA)
Type

manga

Rating

Teens 13 or older

Status

current

Started

2017-05-06

Classi9

7.8

Description:

Ren travels all the way to the City of Music, Vienna, to study music. Her classmates are all musical geniuses, but they also come with problems! (Source: MU)
Type

manga

Volumes

0

Chapters

26

Status

finished

Started

2015-04-09

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