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* LongTitle: The full title translates to "Dressing Up Like Women Became Troublesome: A Pessimist and a Delinquent's Mutual Unrequited Love". It's understandable why Seven Seas shortened it for the English release.
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* AntiquatedLinguistics: Yuuma's sister speaks in an old-fashioned style.
* EurekaMoment: In Chapter 38, after seeing a modeling photo of Hana (who he knows is a boy) and Udon (who he knows is actually Shimazaki), Yuzuru sees Shimazaki walking by with Hanae. He suddenly realizes who Hana really is.
* FakeRelationship: In Chapter 31, Mei pretends to be Hanae's girlfriend so he can buy something for his sister at a store for couples.
* FakeRelationship: In Chapter 31, Mei pretends to be Hanae's girlfriend so he can buy something for his sister at a store for couples.
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* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Hanae's friend Nakamura Jun is attracted to Hana because she treats him like a normal person, instead of being immediately attracted to him like most girls.
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* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Hanae's friend Jun Nakamura Jun is attracted to Hana because she treats him like a normal person, instead of being immediately attracted to him like most girls.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: In Chapter 34, Shimazaki walks by just in time to see Yuzuru doing what looks like a WallPinOfLove to Shuumei and saying, "Lie down for me like a good boy". Yuzuru frantically tries to explain he was trying to get a feverish Shuumei to lie down and rest, but Shimazaki just says [[MistakenForGay he's not prejudiced]]. Kanoko also mistakenly thinks that they're a couple.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When he gets a fever, Shuumei becomes weirdly friendly and spacey.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: When he gets a fever, Shuumei becomes weirdly friendly and spacey.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Kagesawa Aoi, the manager of Cafe Roman, is described as "the personification of common sense".
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* SecretSecretKeeper: Yuzuru figures out right away that Shuumei's crush Hana is actually a boy (though he doesn't know who), and that "Mei" is Shuumei. He keeps both secrets from everyone, partially [[LovesSecrecy for his own amusement]].
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* SecretSecretKeeper: Yuzuru figures out right away that Shuumei's crush Hana is actually a boy (though he doesn't know who), who until later), and that "Mei" is Shuumei. He keeps both secrets from everyone, partially [[LovesSecrecy for his own amusement]].
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* SecretSecretKeeper: Yuzuru figures out right away that Shuumei's crush Hana is actually a boy (though he doesn't know who), and that "Mei" is Shuumei. He keeps both secrets from everyone, partially [[LovesSecrets for his own amusement]].
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* SecretSecretKeeper: Yuzuru figures out right away that Shuumei's crush Hana is actually a boy (though he doesn't know who), and that "Mei" is Shuumei. He keeps both secrets from everyone, partially [[LovesSecrets [[LovesSecrecy for his own amusement]].
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* IHaveSisters: Both boys' sisters are aware of their crossdressing, and even help them with makeup sometimes.
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* RecursiveCrossdressing: The cafe Hana works at has a genderswap-themed day, so Hana ends up being a guy dressed as a girl dressed as a guy.
* RejectionAffection: Shuumei's friend Kanoko is head-over-heels for Mei, even stalking her, despite her making it clear that she wants nothing to do with him.
* ReversePsychologyBackfire: Mei tries to stamp out Kanoko's interest in her by dressing girlishly and behaving the opposite of how she normally does. Unfortunately, he's still attracted to her as a person.
* RejectionAffection: Shuumei's friend Kanoko is head-over-heels for Mei, even stalking her, despite her making it clear that she wants nothing to do with him.
* ReversePsychologyBackfire: Mei tries to stamp out Kanoko's interest in her by dressing girlishly and behaving the opposite of how she normally does. Unfortunately, he's still attracted to her as a person.
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* SecretSecretKeeper: Yuzuru figures out right away that Shuumei's crush Hana is actually a boy (though he doesn't know who), and that "Mei" is Shuumei. He keeps both secrets from everyone, partially [[LovesSecrets for his own amusement]].
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* ThemeNaming: Shimazaki and his cosplay friends' {{bishonen}} personas are all named after different types of noodles--Udon, Ramen, Soumen, etc.
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* HelpImStuck: Shuumei spends all of Chapter 24 with his foot stuck between river rocks, until Hana comes by to help him.
* ILoveYouBecauseICantControlYou: Hanae's friend Nakamura Jun is attracted to Hana because she treats him like a normal person, instead of being immediately attracted to him like most girls.
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* VerbalTic: Hanae's friend ends his sentences with "de gozaru" rather than "desu" and uses the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorific]] -shi. Hanae also uses -shi.
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* SecretKeeper: Shimazaki figures out on his own that "Hana" is his friend Hanae, and keeps his secret safe.
* SpottingTheThread: Hanae's friend Shimazaki goes to Cafe Roman, where Hana works, and notices that she prepares his glass of water exactly the way he likes it, despite supposedly never having met him before. He confronts Hanae with his suspicions the next day at school.
* VerbalTic: Hanae's friend Shimazaki ends his sentences with "de gozaru" rather than "desu" and uses the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorific]] -shi. Hanae also uses -shi.
* SpottingTheThread: Hanae's friend Shimazaki goes to Cafe Roman, where Hana works, and notices that she prepares his glass of water exactly the way he likes it, despite supposedly never having met him before. He confronts Hanae with his suspicions the next day at school.
* VerbalTic: Hanae's friend Shimazaki ends his sentences with "de gozaru" rather than "desu" and uses the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorific]] -shi. Hanae also uses -shi.
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* LuminescentBlush: Shuumei when he gets a text from Hana, and Hanae when he gets one back from Mei. Also whenever they're close to each other. and at least one is crossdressing.
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* LuminescentBlush: Shuumei when he gets a text from Hana, and Hanae when he gets one back from Mei. Also whenever they're close to each other. other, and at least one is crossdressing.
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''Crossplay Love: Otaku x Punk'' (''Josou-shite Mendokusai Koto ni Natteru Nekura to Yankee no Ryou Kataomoi''[[note]]"Dressing Up Like Women Became Troublesome: A Pessimist and a Delinquent's Mutual Unrequited Love"[[/note]]) is a RomanticComedy manga by Tooru, published in ''Mag Garden'' since 2018. Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment will be releasing an English translation in 2022.
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''Crossplay Love: Otaku x Punk'' (''Josou-shite Mendokusai Koto ni Natteru Nekura to Yankee no Ryou Kataomoi''[[note]]"Dressing Up Like Women Became Troublesome: A Pessimist and a Delinquent's Mutual Unrequited Love"[[/note]]) is a RomanticComedy manga by Tooru, published in ''Mag Garden'' since 2018. Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment will be started releasing an English translation in 2022.
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* LovesMyAlterEgo: The manga takes this UpToEleven with ''both'' main characters being {{Crossdresser}}s who are attracted to each other's fem alter egos, without knowing they're not actually a girl. In their normal lives, they don't like each other's male identities at all.
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* LovesMyAlterEgo: The manga takes this UpToEleven with ''both'' main characters being are {{Crossdresser}}s who are attracted to each other's fem alter egos, without knowing they're not actually a girl. In their normal lives, they don't like each other's male identities at all.
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* WholesomeCrossdresser: Hanae falls into this a bit more than Shuumei, since Shuumei has an ulterior motive for crossdressing.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Shuumei has pink DelinquentHair.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Shuumei has pink DelinquentHair.
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* WholesomeCrossdresser: Hanae falls into this a bit more than Shuumei, since Shuumei has an ulterior motive for crossdressing.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Shuumei has pink DelinquentHair.crossdressing.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Shuumei has pink DelinquentHair.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Shuumei asks his friend "Isn't there some way for people to stop thinking I'm a delinquent?" while grinding his foot into someone's face. His friend just stares.
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* HypocriticalHumor: Shuumei asks his friend Yuzuru "Isn't there some way for people to stop thinking I'm a delinquent?" while grinding his foot into someone's face. His friend Yuzuru just stares.stares, thinking "this is like someone saying 'Why can't I lose weight?' while eating".
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High school {{delinquent}} Satogiri Shuumei has a crush on Hana, a beautiful girl who works at a local MaidCafe, but he's "too cool" to go there and talk to her without being embarrassed. But it's not creepy if a girl goes to a maid cafe, right? He puts on feminine clothes to become "[[DisguisedInDrag Mei]]" and goes to talk to Hana almost every day. But he has no idea Hana is actually his male classmate Yuuma Hanae, a gloomy otaku who's uncomfortable talking to people unless he's dressed as a girl. He ends up falling for Mei, the beautiful "girl" who keeps visiting the cafe to see "Hana".
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High school {{delinquent}} Shuumei Satogiri Shuumei has a crush on Hana, a beautiful girl who works at a local MaidCafe, but he's "too cool" to go there and talk to her without being embarrassed. But it's not creepy if a girl goes to a maid cafe, right? He puts on feminine clothes to become "[[DisguisedInDrag Mei]]" and goes to talk to Hana almost every day. But he has no idea Hana is actually his male classmate Yuuma Hanae, a gloomy otaku who's uncomfortable talking to people unless he's dressed as a girl. He ends up falling for Mei, the beautiful "girl" who keeps visiting the cafe to see "Hana".
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* {{Nosebleed}}: Shuumei's nose literally ''spews'' blood in all directions (and all over his face when a feverish Hana holds his hands to her face.
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* {{Nosebleed}}: Shuumei's nose literally ''spews'' blood in all directions (and all over his face face) when a feverish Hana holds his hands to her face.
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* RecognizableByVoice: Hana recognizes Shuumei as having Mei's voice, but she's so loopy from her fever that she doesn't notice he looks nothing like Mei at the moment.
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* RecognizableByVoice: RecognizableBySound: Hana recognizes Shuumei as having Mei's voice, but she's so loopy from her fever that she doesn't notice he looks nothing like Mei at the moment.
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High school {{delinquent}} Satogiri Shuumei has a crush on Hana, a beautiful girl who works at a local MaidCafe, but he's "too cool" to go there and talk to her without being embarrassed. But it's not creepy if a girl goes to a maid cafe, right? He puts on feminine clothes to become "[[DisguisedInDrag Mei]]" and goes to talk to Hana almost every day. But he has no idea Hana is actually his male classmate Yuuma Hanae, a gloomy otaku who's uncomfortable talking to people unless he's dressed as a girl. He ends up falling for Mei, the beautiful "girl" who keeps visiting the cafe to see "Hana".
''Crossplay Love: Otaku x Punk'' (''Josou-shite Mendokusai Koto ni Natteru Nekura to Yankee no Ryou Kataomoi''[[note]]"Dressing Up Like Women Became Troublesome: A Pessimist and a Delinquent's Mutual Unrequited Love"[[/note]]) is a RomanticComedy manga by Tooru, published in ''Mag Garden'' since 2018. Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment will be releasing an English translation in 2022.
Note: On this page, Hanae and Shuumei will be called by their actual names and he/him pronouns when they're not crossdressing, and by their alter ego names and she/her pronouns when they are.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AttractiveBentGender: Both boys are very pretty as girls.
* CaughtInTheRain: In Chapter 5, Mei is caught in the rain without an umbrella and worries that her makeup will run. Hanae, despite not being Hana at the moment, gives her his umbrella, but she rejects it and runs home with just a hat to protect her from the rain.
* DisguisedInDrag: Shuumei creates his "Mei" persona to be able to get close and talk to Hana, who he worries wouldn't like his male personality.
* EmoTeen: Hanae is described as emo, and often acts reserved around others. He also wears all black, but that's the school uniform.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: It's a wig, but Hana's sweet personality matches her hair color.
* HypocriticalHumor: Shuumei asks his friend "Isn't there some way for people to stop thinking I'm a delinquent?" while grinding his foot into someone's face. His friend just stares.
* IHaveThisFriend: Hanae and Shuumei ask their friends Shimazaki and Yuzuru what a girl would give someone to show her gratitude (hypothetically, of course). Both tell their friend "a kiss on the cheek".
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Hana tells Mei how she hates {{delinquents}}, and Mei responds with how she doesn't want anything to do with otaku. Both think the other hates their real self.
* JapaneseDelinquents: Shuumei is a ''yankii'', with short, spiky DelinquentHair.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Hana wears a blonde wig, dresses in more feminine clothing like dresses, and is much kinder and softer than the dark-haired Mei, who dresses more androgynously and still shows some of Shuumei's HotBlooded personality.
* LongTitle: The full title translates to "Dressing Up Like Women Became Troublesome: A Pessimist and a Delinquent's Mutual Unrequited Love". It's understandable why Seven Seas shortened it for the English release.
* LovesMyAlterEgo: The manga takes this UpToEleven with ''both'' main characters being {{Crossdresser}}s who are attracted to each other's fem alter egos, without knowing they're not actually a girl. In their normal lives, they don't like each other's male identities at all.
* LuminescentBlush: Shuumei when he gets a text from Hana, and Hanae when he gets one back from Mei. Also whenever they're close to each other. and at least one is crossdressing.
* MaidCafe: Hana works at a Taisho-themed one called Roman (romance), though it's unclear if the manager and other employees know Hana's true identity.
* {{Nosebleed}}: Shuumei's nose literally ''spews'' blood in all directions (and all over his face when a feverish Hana holds his hands to her face.
* OtokonokoGenre: A manga about {{Wholesome Crossdresser}}s, one of whom works at a MaidCafe.
* RealNameAsAnAlias: Both of them take their female alter egos' names from parts of their own names.
* RecognizableByVoice: Hana recognizes Shuumei as having Mei's voice, but she's so loopy from her fever that she doesn't notice he looks nothing like Mei at the moment.
* VerbalTic: Hanae's friend ends his sentences with "de gozaru" rather than "desu" and uses the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorific]] -shi. Hanae also uses -shi.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Hanae falls into this a bit more than Shuumei, since Shuumei has an ulterior motive for crossdressing.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Shuumei has pink DelinquentHair.
High school {{delinquent}} Satogiri Shuumei has a crush on Hana, a beautiful girl who works at a local MaidCafe, but he's "too cool" to go there and talk to her without being embarrassed. But it's not creepy if a girl goes to a maid cafe, right? He puts on feminine clothes to become "[[DisguisedInDrag Mei]]" and goes to talk to Hana almost every day. But he has no idea Hana is actually his male classmate Yuuma Hanae, a gloomy otaku who's uncomfortable talking to people unless he's dressed as a girl. He ends up falling for Mei, the beautiful "girl" who keeps visiting the cafe to see "Hana".
''Crossplay Love: Otaku x Punk'' (''Josou-shite Mendokusai Koto ni Natteru Nekura to Yankee no Ryou Kataomoi''[[note]]"Dressing Up Like Women Became Troublesome: A Pessimist and a Delinquent's Mutual Unrequited Love"[[/note]]) is a RomanticComedy manga by Tooru, published in ''Mag Garden'' since 2018. Creator/SevenSeasEntertainment will be releasing an English translation in 2022.
Note: On this page, Hanae and Shuumei will be called by their actual names and he/him pronouns when they're not crossdressing, and by their alter ego names and she/her pronouns when they are.
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!!Contains examples of:
* AttractiveBentGender: Both boys are very pretty as girls.
* CaughtInTheRain: In Chapter 5, Mei is caught in the rain without an umbrella and worries that her makeup will run. Hanae, despite not being Hana at the moment, gives her his umbrella, but she rejects it and runs home with just a hat to protect her from the rain.
* DisguisedInDrag: Shuumei creates his "Mei" persona to be able to get close and talk to Hana, who he worries wouldn't like his male personality.
* EmoTeen: Hanae is described as emo, and often acts reserved around others. He also wears all black, but that's the school uniform.
* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: It's a wig, but Hana's sweet personality matches her hair color.
* HypocriticalHumor: Shuumei asks his friend "Isn't there some way for people to stop thinking I'm a delinquent?" while grinding his foot into someone's face. His friend just stares.
* IHaveThisFriend: Hanae and Shuumei ask their friends Shimazaki and Yuzuru what a girl would give someone to show her gratitude (hypothetically, of course). Both tell their friend "a kiss on the cheek".
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Hana tells Mei how she hates {{delinquents}}, and Mei responds with how she doesn't want anything to do with otaku. Both think the other hates their real self.
* JapaneseDelinquents: Shuumei is a ''yankii'', with short, spiky DelinquentHair.
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: Hana wears a blonde wig, dresses in more feminine clothing like dresses, and is much kinder and softer than the dark-haired Mei, who dresses more androgynously and still shows some of Shuumei's HotBlooded personality.
* LongTitle: The full title translates to "Dressing Up Like Women Became Troublesome: A Pessimist and a Delinquent's Mutual Unrequited Love". It's understandable why Seven Seas shortened it for the English release.
* LovesMyAlterEgo: The manga takes this UpToEleven with ''both'' main characters being {{Crossdresser}}s who are attracted to each other's fem alter egos, without knowing they're not actually a girl. In their normal lives, they don't like each other's male identities at all.
* LuminescentBlush: Shuumei when he gets a text from Hana, and Hanae when he gets one back from Mei. Also whenever they're close to each other. and at least one is crossdressing.
* MaidCafe: Hana works at a Taisho-themed one called Roman (romance), though it's unclear if the manager and other employees know Hana's true identity.
* {{Nosebleed}}: Shuumei's nose literally ''spews'' blood in all directions (and all over his face when a feverish Hana holds his hands to her face.
* OtokonokoGenre: A manga about {{Wholesome Crossdresser}}s, one of whom works at a MaidCafe.
* RealNameAsAnAlias: Both of them take their female alter egos' names from parts of their own names.
* RecognizableByVoice: Hana recognizes Shuumei as having Mei's voice, but she's so loopy from her fever that she doesn't notice he looks nothing like Mei at the moment.
* VerbalTic: Hanae's friend ends his sentences with "de gozaru" rather than "desu" and uses the [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorific]] -shi. Hanae also uses -shi.
* WholesomeCrossdresser: Hanae falls into this a bit more than Shuumei, since Shuumei has an ulterior motive for crossdressing.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Shuumei has pink DelinquentHair.
