Manga Fans Looking For Adorable Trans Romance Need The Bride Was a Boy

For manga fans looking for an adorable romance between a Trans woman and her husband, The Bride Was a Boy is a must-read. In the world of manga, Trans characters are often undervalued as people, with their genders a “plot twist”. There have been some significant steps forward with Trans representation in manga and anime as the years have gone on, but it’s still a medium that’s in dire need of more positive representation. This is where The Bride Was a Boy comes in, which is an autobiographical manga written by a Trans woman about her gender transition and her eventual walk down the aisle.

This manga is both written and illustrated by the main character of the story who goes by the pseudonym Chii. She’s happily married to her husband in Japan and is still continuing to create comics to this day on her Twitter account. Over the years, she had created four-panel comics that she would publish on her online blog, and these would eventually be composed together to become The Bride Was a Boy, which is one of the most wholesome romances you will ever read.

What makes this something to seek out over other romance manga is its adorable art style, its educational value, and its positive representation of Trans individuals. While this isn’t necessarily a story that will give readers an in-depth look at gender theory, it’s still an amazing beginner course for people wanting to learn more about the Trans community. With every passing chapter, Chii includes important information about herself to give an inside perspective at one possible journey a Trans person might take. Chii isn’t afraid of going into detail about what her transition was like. She talks about her time as a child, her attempts at forcing herself to fit in with society as a gender that didn’t match how she felt, her love life, and more. The comic also provides important vocabulary for the reader to learn that can be crucial to broadening their understanding of what gender is and how it’s different than the basics they learned in elementary school.

Of course, it all leads to Chii and her husband’s wedding, but this doesn’t happen without the adorable chemistry between her and her husband. The story actually begins with how they first met, and the fact that her groom-to-be sees her instantly as his type makes for a sweet real-life love story. Plus, when she does come out, it’s even better that he accepts her wholeheartedly, and this is reflected throughout the story with him being supportive of Chii and doing his best to make her feel like the woman she is. This is the kind of love that’s so rarely shown when revolving around Trans characters in manga because they tend to end with the Trans person in some kind of misery, so it’s amazing to see a story like this where the romance is met the entire way to a happy ending, giving her a Happily Ever After as the person she always knew she was.

It’s important to note that this manga’s inclusion of the legal process to change legal gender in Japan may be outdated as the comic originally was released in 2016. Nevertheless, this is still a must-read love story for people that love manga romances. It gives a wholesome look at a Trans woman’s journey to the alter and is an educational one to boot. The Bride Was a Boy is a manga that should be in every reader’s collection, and it’s a story that should also be held up as one of the best Trans narratives put to paper today.

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