One day, the main character, Nagisa Hajime, is suddenly diagnosed with cancer. With the little time they have left, they decide to live as themself. To do so, they decide to renounce the gender they were assigned at birth, male, and go out into the city. Nagisa then goes through a series of incidents and events they never experienced before. The author lays bare their soul as they recount their personal experiences in this great LGBT work.
I Quit Being a Man: Got Cancer So I Decided to Dress up as a Woman and Fall in Love It is also Known as: 男をやめてみた～癌になったので女装して恋をすることにしました～, Otoko wo Yamete Mita - Gan ni natta no de Josou shite Koi wo suru Koto ni narimashita
Genres: Drama , Cross Dressing , Gender Bender , Slice of Life , Seinen
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Top 5 Manga Like I Quit Being a Man: Got Cancer So I Decided to Dress up as a Woman and Fall in Love (Otoko wo Yametemita: Gan ni Natte node Josou Shite Koi wo Suru Koto ni Shimashita) [2026 List]
5. Boys Run the Riot
"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.
Boys Run the Riot has finished publishing and it has 37 Chapters. It is also Known as: ボーイズ・ラン・ザ・ライオット, Boys Run the Riot
4. Reversible!
Shuu Kaidou is sent away to an all boys boarding school with a very strange rule concerning half the students.
Reversible! has finished publishing and it has 15 Chapters. It is also Known as: リバーシブル！, Reversible School Life
3. Bokura no Hentai
Three boys in junior-high who cross-dress because of differing reasons meet each other through a cross-dressing community website, and decide to meet up in real life. "Parou" started cross-dressing because he wanted to attract a heterosexual boy he liked. "Marika" is transgendered and identifies as female. Lastly, "Yui" is an antagonistic boy who adopted the persona of his older sister after her death. In contrast to Parou and Marika, Yui is sorely disappointed at the meeting.
has finished publishing and it has 41 Chapters. It is also Known as: ぼくらのへんたい, Our Abnormalities, Our Transformations
2. Himegoto: Juukyuusai no Seifuku
This is a story of a group of college-age people who struggle with gender and sexual identity.
Yuki (nicknamed Yoshiki) is a girl, but she is terrible at 'being feminine.' She mostly dresses like a boy and is often mistaken as one. However, she has to wear a skirt and imagine being dominated by a guy in order to masturbate.
Nagao Mikako seems young and innocent, and she uses that apparent innocence to sell her body as a fake 15-year-old. She knows her youthfulness can't last forever, but she enjoys tricking the men. Her friends have no idea of her sexual habits and believe her to be sweet and sheltered.
Aiba Kaito is a pretty good-looking guy, but he wants to be Nagao Mikako. He often dresses as a girl, picking out clothes that mimic Mikako's style. Though he's into cross-dressing, he is still attracted to women.
Will these young adults and their friends be able to handle their 'guilty secrets' and muddle their way through this confusing period of their lives?
Himegoto: Uniforms at the Age of Nineteen has finished publishing and it has 100 Chapters. It is also Known as: ヒメゴト ～十九歳の制服～, Himegoto - Uniforms at the Age of Nineteen, Secrets - Uniforms at the Age of Nineteen, HIME-GOTO: uniforms at the age of nineteen
1. Shimanami Tasogare
After recently moving to Onomichi, Hiroshima, high school student Tasuku Kaname is thrown into despair at the possibility that he may have been outed for being gay. Convinced his life is over, his despair turns into shock when he sees a woman jump out of a window of a nearby house. Tasuku races to the house in a panic only to discover that it's a public meeting lounge owned by the woman he saw before. Tasuku comes face to face with the woman as she walks past him unharmed, but not before she implies that she had been watching him from afar. Confused, Tasuku follows her up to the top of a steep hill where she offers to briefly listen to what's on his mind. Although Tasuku doesn't go into too much detail, he later accepts her invitation to come to the lounge to meet others with similar troubles.
Our Dreams at Dusk: Shimanami Tasogare has finished publishing and it has 23 Chapters. It is also Known as: しまなみ誰そ彼, Shimanami Tasogare
