Ai no Shintairiku
Alt Names: | Brave New world Brave New World of Love New Continent's Love (YAMADA Nari) No Ordinary Brave New World 愛の新大陸 |
Author: | Yamada Nari |
Artist: | Yamada Nari |
Genres: | Comedy Gender Bender Romance School Life Shoujo |
Type: | Manga (Japanese) |
Status: | Complete |
Description: | Nikotama Souhei is transferring to a new school and vows to enjoy a new life, living a lifestyle true to himself. Adopting the name "Sara", Souhei heads to school in a girls' uniform, ready to grab life by the knads and twist. Sara's no pushover: bright, hyper and frequently violent. "She" is like nothing anyone at the school has ever encountered. Especially "her" sweet, upstanding classmate Naruse Kaito who finds himself knee-deep in Sara's "Brave New World". A nice bit of shoujo fluffiness unique for featuring an honest-to-goodness, non-apologetic crossdressing hero. |
Go to Ai no Shintairiku Forums! | Scroll Down to Comments |
Latest Forum Posts
Topic | Started By | Stats | Last Post Info | |
---|---|---|---|---|
No topics has been found for this comic. |
16 Comments
If I want to read a manga about a pair of dicks struggling against the inherent sociological and personal dilemmas that accompany one of those dicks assigning themselves female gender roles and the how the remaining dick sees that dick; then I'm going to be searching the shounen ai tag.
Because if we start using mass opinion to decide genres, then everything hits the fan. That annoying reverse trap in a romcom that insists they're a dude? Now it's shounen ai. Now like 10,000 manga just became shounen ai.
Been awhile since I've read this so I decided to give it a quick reread. Overall I find it pretty enjoyable. Just wish the beginning wasn't so rushed.
I have always wonder one small thing. What is gender? how do you divide it?
By genetics? so how do you class those who have a XXY trisomie?
By the body? How do you class those who have male and female caracteritics (and not onlty the sexe, but bosom and male thing, or a girl with an hypertrophy of her clit, and so on?) Go read IS - Otoko demo Onna demo Nai Sei you'll see what I speak.
Or by how they see themself?
For me it's logic, the first two have exception so they can't be the right definition.
So Sarah is a girl whatever her body.
However, svines has a point in that yes, biologically, Sara is male and hasn't undergone any operations to change that. I can definitely connect with Sara in this aspect. Neither she nor I are so utterly blind to reality that we'd deny the fact that, yes, we do have male genitalia (I'm pre-op, so, yeah...)
Regardless of all that, I'm glad to have found a handful of supportive people on the internet, which as we all know is filled to the brim with trolls and other jerks. Thank you all for your support.
Sara is male-bodied, which to a lot of people translates out as "technically a guy" - this is inaccurate in English (not sure about in Japanese) but that doesn't stop it from being a common idea. Those who don't understand the inaccuracy will see it as shounen-ai, those who do understand it won't see it as that.
@Metrosio
I agree with everything you're saying about gender identification, but this is shounen ai because Sara is a guy (at least technically). A nice little romance story, short and sweet.
(It shouldn't be tagged shounen ai, unless I missed some background boy characters hitting it off? Been a bit since I read it)