Rating: Teen
Volumes: 7 ongoing
Otomen is by KANNO Aya. On the outside Atsuka looks like a cool tough stoic guy but in the inside he's an Otomen, a straight guy who likes sewing, cooking, shoujo manga, and other girly things. He hides it from almost everyone, his mother especially since she was traumatized by her husband who ran away to get a sex change. After Asuka falls in love with the new girl(Ryou), he can't help but do girly things.
Tachibana, who can see through Atsuka's tough man mask advises him to be himself. A friendship evolves between Atsuka, Tachibana and Ryou. They all learn things from each other, get into silly situations and help each other grow.
Tachibana has a secret of his own. He's actually the famous mangaka of the shoujo story "Lovetic", and he uses Atsuka as the model of the leading lady! And what's funny is "Lovetic" is Atsuka's favorite manga,and he doesn't even realize that the story is about him.
I'm loving this story so far. I don't really see Ryou/Atsuka as a couple but their friendship is really cute. It's also refreshing to have feminine man and not so feminine girl in the story.
The art is really great too. The pencil strokes are so clean and I love the way Kanno Aya draws eyes.
I'm definatly looking forward to more chapters.
Otomen is license by Viz Media. If you like the chapters you got here you should support Kanno Aya and Viz by buying the volumes
. The recent one release is Volume 4
I believe. Downloads
Volume 1 // Mirror
Volume 2 // Mirror
Volume 3 Ch 9 // Mirror
Volume 3 Ch 10// Mirror
Hmm... I think his name is Asuka, not Atsuka ^^.
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