Top 19 Gender Bender manga you should read right now. [2026 List]

19. Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken

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.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 転生したらスライムだった件, Regarding Reincarnated to Slime, Re: My Reincarnation as a Slime

18. The Blood Princess and the Knight

I, who was a sacred knight, was defeated and captured in a battle against the vampire clan.
"Oh? Letting you die? In your dreams! Accept my embrace. In the future, please take care of me, my lovely daughter~
"The silver-haired, the Queen of the Vampire Clan, lifted my chin and smiled cunningly, while her sharp canines drew nearer to my neck...

The Blood Princess and the Knight is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Vampires and Knight

17. Marriagetoxin

A hitman and a marriage swindler set out on the world’s most grueling battle for marriage! Gero is a young man from a clan of hitmen, which has been in existence for hundreds of years. As someone who’s never gone to school and lived his life dealing in the dark side of the business, he considers himself to have “no prospects with women” and marriage as “something not for him.” However, one day, in fear that their lineage would dissolve, his clan warns Gero that if he doesn’t marry and produce an heir, they would have no choice but to…force his little sister into doing “that.” Driven to his wits’ end, Gero asks the target of his work, a marriage swindler, to…

MARRIAGETOXIN is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: マリッジトキシン, Marriage Toxin, マリッジトキシン

16. Aniki no Kanojo ni Naru, Onnanoko ni Nacchatta Otouto.

When I returned home for the first time in a long time, my brother transformed into a girl!?

When I Returned Home for the First Time in a Long Time, My Brother Transformed Into a Girl is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 久しぶりに実家に帰ったら弟がTSしてた。, Hisashiburi ni Jikka ni Kaettara Otouto ga TS Shiteta., 兄貴の彼女になる、女の子になっちゃった弟。, How the Little Brother Who Turned Into a Girl Became His Big Brother's Girlfriend

15. Yoku Wakaranai keredo Isekai ni Tensei Shiteita You Desu

I am cute, but I was a middle-aged researcher in my previous life?!
Surviving in another world with magic and sciences!!

The orphan Ren was riding the carriage after being sold, when she got involved into an accident, and got her previous life's memories back!

"I was... a middle-aged man!"

Indeed, she was a researcher in his thirties in her previous life, and had been living as an orphan girl up to now!

Ren will make use of her talents in magic and knowledge in science to survive in this harsh world in order to escape from the investor who bought her!

This Is Screwed Up, but I Was Reincarnated as a GIRL in Another World! is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: よくわからないけれど異世界に転生していたようです, I Don't Really Get It, but It Looks like I Was Reincarnated in an Another World

14. Fantasy Bishoujo Juniku Ojisan to

A dull old man and his handsome best friend were summoned to another world by a naked goddess! However, because of the goddess's mischief, he has turned into a peerless beautiful girl?! To get back his body, he has to go on a journey with his best friend to defeat the demon king!! "An old man that became a beautiful girl" and "A handsome old man"! Let the madness filled another world journey rom-com begin!!

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Fantasy Bishoujo Juniku Ojisan to is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 異世界〈ファンタジー〉美少女受肉おじさんと, Isekai Bishoujo Juniku Ojisan to, Fabiniku, ファ美肉

13. I Quit the Hero's Party

I Quit the Hero's Party is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 勇者パーティー辞めます。, I Quit the Heroes’ Party

12. Destiny Unchain Online: Kyuuketsuki Shoujo to Natte, Yagate "Aka no Maou" to Yobareru You ni Narimashita

Kou Mitsuki is a gamer with god-like skills who also goes by the nickname "Headhunting Crim". He participates in a test of a new game device for his father's new game, "Destiny Unchained Online". But the game was filled with bugs at the start and he ends up as a vampire girl. Meeting amazing allies, and taking the game by storm, the story of a top-tier gamer where anything and everything can change....begins!

Destiny Unchain Online: Kyuuketsuki Shoujo to Natte, Yagate "Aka no Maou" to Yobareru You ni Narimashita is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Destiny Unchain Online ～吸血鬼少女となって、やがて『赤の魔王』と呼ばれるようになりました～　, Destiny Unchain Online

11. Youjo Senki

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...

The Saga of Tanya the Evil is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 幼女戦記, The Military Chronicles of a Little Girl

10. I Became A Thief Who Steals Overpowered Skills

Crash was once scorned as a "failure" and betrayed by his own companions. But at death's door, what he obtained was a single chance at regression--a one-time return to the past. The regression skill can never be used again. However, armed with knowledge of the future from that single do- over, Crash sets out this time to save the world from destruction and exact revenge on those who trampled him in his previous life. Steal skills. Refine them. Accumulate them. An ultimate "skill thief" that surpasses even cheats now awakens!

I Became A Thief Who Steals Overpowered Skills is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: 먼치킨 스킬 도둑이 되었다, Became a Cheat-Tier Skill Thief, I Became a Cheat-Level Skill Thief, I Became a Munchkin Skill Thief, チート級スキル泥棒になった

9. Last Boss Shoujo Akari: Watashi yori Tsuyoi Yatsu ni Ai ni Gendai ni Iku

he strongest final boss of another world, whom nobody could defeat, transmigrates into the body of a bullied high school girl in the modern age!? The unrivaled school life of the demon king of another world!!

Last Boss Shoujo Akari: Watashi yori Tsuyoi Yatsu ni Ai ni Gendai ni Iku is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: ラスボス少女アカリ～ワタシより強いやつに会いに現代に行く～, Akari The Final Boss Girl: I’m Going to the Modern Age to Find Someone Stronger Than Me, ラスボス少女アカリ

8. Danshi Koukousei, Otome Game no Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei suru.

One day, "I," an ordinary high school boy living in the present day, was hit by a truck and reincarnated in another world. But what a surprise it was to find out that I was reincarnated as Elena Evan, the "villainess" of an otome game!

If this continues, the future that awaits me will either be condemnation, execution, or exile... I want to avoid that at all costs. While I was worrying about this, I found a glimmer of hope. If Tiara, the main heroine, and I could get together and find a yuri route for us, maybe we could avoid a bad ending...?

However, I am now beset by a number of beautiful and handsome men?!

Danshi Koukousei, Otome Game no Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei suru. has finished publishing and it has 20 Chapters. It is also Known as: 男子高校生、乙女ゲームの悪役令嬢に転生する。, Danshi Koukousei, Otome Game no Akuyaku Reijou ni Tensei Suru, A High School Boy Reincarnates as the Villainous Daughter in an Otome Game

7. Serial Killer Isekai ni Oritatsu

A murderer who cannot stop the urge to kill people, even though he wants to stop, receives the death sentence he wants. His joy is short-lived, as he is reincarnated in another world. The mission entrusted to him by the goddess is to kill 12 reincarnated people using his murderous impulses. Not all reincarnated people are saints!

The Serial Killer Is Reincarnated Into the Another World is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: シリアルキラー異世界に降り立つ, Serial Killer Isekai ni Oritatsu

6. Another World Dump Truck

One day, 'Yul', the president of a different world dump truck office, for the first time kills a wrong person who is not his target, 'Kwon Yoo-jun'. Yul, who entered a romance fantasy novel to rectify his mistake, tries to return Yu-jun, who has become a villain, to the original world, but various events twist and end up trapped in the novel. After being scattered with the office staff, Yul, who does not know the specifics of the novel, tries to find a way to escape, but is in trouble because of Kwon Yoo-Jun, who talks nonsense about living as an aristocratic lady in a new world.

(Source; KakaoPage; translated)

Another World Dump Truck is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Another World Dump Truck

5. 4 Cut Hero

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".

4 Cut Hero has finished publishing and it has 252 Chapters. It is also Known as: 4 Cut Hero

4. Zhuang Po Huangdi Nüer Shen

After transmigrating to another world as a wealthy young master, Su Changqing only wanted to live a low-profile life as a rich second-generation heir and enjoy his days in comfort. However, his plans are suddenly disrupted when his family faces an unexpected crisis, and he accidentally discovers the Emperor's secret - that she is actually a woman.

While he initially feared the female Emperor would stop at nothing to silence him, to his surprise, she instead becomes interested in his mysterious ability to transform his appearance. She wants him to become her male body double. What Su Changqing never expected was that being the female Emperor's male substitute would mean he has to visit the imperial harem on his very first day. His peaceful life completely falls apart from that moment on...

Zhuang Po Huangdi Nüer Shen is currently publishing and has Chapters. It is also Known as: Breaking Into the Body of the Emperor's Daughter, Unveiling the Emperor's Secret

3. Koushaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta node, Mental Otome na Ore wa, Zenryoku de Onnanoko wo Tanoshimimasu

A humble man in his twenties suddenly dies and is reborn as the daughter of a duke in an 18th-century lookalike world where magic exists! He is now living a second life as the adorable "Miranda Mirandiehl," who looks like a doll. As he was always a "girl inside" with girlish interests, he accepted his reincarnation surprisingly easily. And so, after being reborn as Miranda, he will enjoy his new life to the fullest! What kind of encounters await him, and what lies ahead in his gender-swapped otherworldly reincarnation life?

Since I Have Been Reincarnated as the Daughter of a Duke, I, the "Girl Inside," Will Enjoy Being a Girl as Much as I Can! has finished publishing and it has 29 Chapters. It is also Known as: 公爵令嬢に転生してしまったので、メンタル乙女な俺は、全力で女の子を楽しみます, Koushaku Reijou ni Tensei shiteshimatta node, Mental Otome na Ore wa, Zenryoku de Onnanoko wo Tanoshimimasu

2. Ikemen Joshi to Josou Danshi

My first time out in public cross-dressing as a woman is turning out horribly. A handsome man swept me off my feet and before I knew it we were in a love hotel!?

While Cross-Dressing, I Was Hit On By A Handsome Guy! has finished publishing and it has 105 Chapters. It is also Known as: イケメン女子と女装男子, 女装して街に出たらイケメンにナンパされた, Josou Shite Machi ni Detara Ikemen ni Nanpa Sareta

1. Tetsuwan Birdy

From fansite( http://tetsuwan_birdy.tripod.com/synopsis.htm ):
“Meet Tsutomu & Birdy - a boy and a girl from opposite ends of the galaxy with absolutely nothing in common. Tsutomu was an ordinary high school student. Birdy’s a maverick Space Federation Officer armed with superhuman strength and - as Tsutomu soon discovers- a devastating energy blast.
Now they have one thing in common: Their body. While apprehending an alien felon hiding out on Earth. Birdy accidentally blasted Tsutomu- killing him instantly. Now, Tsutomu must “time-share” his body with Birdy. And when she isn’t yanking him around like a marionette, he’s transforming into a girl in full view of his friends and family!

Birdy The Mighty II has finished publishing and it has 218 Chapters. It is also Known as: 鉄腕バーディー, Tetsuwan Birdy II