History Manga / YubisakiMilkTea

* AttractiveBentGender: Yoshinori as Yuki.

* FirstGirlWins: [[spoiler:Invoked with Hidari.]]

* ItHasOnlyJustBegun: During the Yuki vs. Nogi basketball game in volume 3.

* TheAce: Wataru is a very good soccer player, and Nogi is the best on the basketball team. Which gives them both problems, since both sports are team sports, where one player isn't enough to win a match. Wataru learns this the hard way, when he tries to play despite being out of form, while Nogi has to face a boycott from her fellow players.

* BrickJoke: During the school festival, Wataru makes a joke (or not, no one's sure) about wanting to [[spoiler:suck on Yoshinori's cock]] after seeing how pretty he is when crossdressing (although it's not as Yuki). Later, when Wataru is in a funk after losing a football game, about a chapter after Yoshinori outed himself as Yuki to him, Yoshinori comes in full Yuki regalia to comfort him, and asks him if [[spoiler:Wataru wants to suck his cock.]] He doesn't, but they kiss.

* CoolBigSis: Miki is this to Hidari and Yoshinori wants to be it as Yuki as well.

* DefrostingIceQueen: Kurokawa.

* {{Ecchi}}/{{Fanservice}}: The mangaka loves to draw his female characters in various states of undress. Pushes dangerously close to {{Hentai}} territory [[spoiler:in the sex scenes with Yoshinori and Hidari at the end.]]

* GrowingUpSucks: Hit Yoshinori for the first time when he realized he had grown from 161 cm to 169 cm, which made it harder for him to pass as a girl.

* HugeSchoolGirl - Nogi at 171 cm, wondering who would like a big girl like her. Yuki is also seen like this after growing from 161 cm to 169 cm. For the same reason he also wanted to stop crossdressing but Minamo asked him to continue. Later when Yuki meets Nogi the latter thinks that Yuki should play basketball due to "her" height.

* StoicSpectacles: Kodama. Doubles as Meganekko in the crossdressing café.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Happens to Wataru in Chapter 68; however, he's forgiving of this, especially after encouragement from Kurokawa.

* {{Bishounen}}: Even when not crossdressing, Yoshinori is still considered attractive, and the others will often comment on how sexy he is or how sexy he acts.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: Nogi is not only the captain of the basketball team but also its best player.

* StoicSpectacles: Kodama. Doubles as {{Meganekko}} in the crossdressing café.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Yoshinori.

* {{Meganekko}}: Kurokawa, again. Sometimes, particularly when she's studying in later chapters, Hidari also wears glasses.

* SchoolgirlLesbians: Kagami towards Hidari.

* RealityEnsues: Anywhere else, the situation Yoshinori finds himself in -- crossdressing and having people attracted to him -- would be PlayedForLaughs (Manga/RanmaOneHalf, anyone?). But here, Yoshinori feels how the situation gets to him, with his attraction to both Kurokawa and Hidari, and manifesting emotional turmoil due to his fear of hurting either of them, his coming to grips with the fact that he's becoming a man whether he wants to or not, the impulsiveness that comes with being a teenager and how it affects those around him, etc.

* BiTheWay: Wataru, although it may have been a joke on his part, but it's really hard to tell considering his serious expression when he made the comment.
** His relationship to Yuki also gives his best friend Yoshinori problems with this. He already loves both Hidari and Minamo but as Yuki he can't really say no to Wataru because of their friendship. The fact that their dates make him feel like a real girl doesn't make it easier either.

* SeriesHiatus: In 2007, after the publication of the seventh volume, the manga went on hiatus for more than two years. One unintentional side effect of this is that Creator/{{Tokyopop}}, the manga's North American licensor, shut down operations before the final volume could be published, leaving it an uncompleted series in English.

Compare with ''Manga/WanderingSon'', one of very few series like ''Yubisaki Milk Tea'' to actually take transgender themes seriously.

* AlwaysSecondBest - Kodama would be prefer to be in second place since you don't get so much attention then. Minamo disagrees on that, saying that no one want to be number two, which leads Kodama to correctly conclude that she must be in love.

* CuteSportsClubManager - Nobuko for the boys soccer team in the high school. Yoshinori and Wataru wonder why she has the position in a boys team but guess she is the type who supports others. Yori may also count as she starts a girls soccer team in the middle school with Hidari, Yu and others.

* RealityEnsues: Anywhere else, the situation Yoshinori finds himself in -- crossdressing and having people attracted to him -- would be PlayedForLaughs (Manga/RanmaOneHalf, anyone?). But here, Yoshinori feels how the situation gets to him, with his attraction to both Kurokawa and Hidari, and manifesting emotional turmoil due to his fear of hurting either of them, his coming to grips with the fact that he's becoming a man whether he wants to or not, the impulsivity that comes with being a teenager and how it affects those around him, etc.

* SailorFuku: Minamo's old school uniform which she gives to Yuki. It becomes symbolic on two later occassions. First when Yoshinori wears it to "continue" after he and Minamo got disturbed while about to get close. Second when he [[spoiler: decides to break up in the last volume.]]

* SeriesHiatus: In 2007, after publication of the seventh volume, the manga went on hiatus, for more than two years. One unintentional side effect of this is that Creator/{{Tokyopop}}, the manga's North American licensor, shut down operations, before the final volume could be published, leaving it an uncompleted series in English.

Compare with ''Manga/WanderingSon'', one of very few series like ''Yubisaki Milk Tea'' to actually take crossdressing seriously.

* SailorFuku: Minamo's old school uniform which she gives to Yuki. It becomes symbolic on two later occassions. First when Yoshinori wears it to "continue" after he and Minamo got disturbed while about to get close. Second when he [[spoiler:decides to break up in the last volume.]]

* SecretKeeper: Everyone who learns about Yoshinori being Yuki will keep it secret, unless they are sure those around them know it as well.
* SecretSecretKeeper: Kodama after he figures out that the girl Yoshinori obtained for him as a model is Yoshinori crossdressing. Kodama then helps to keep it secret without letting Yoshinori or others know that he know - until he sees Yuki hand in hand with with his own love interest, Nogi…
* SeriesHiatus: In 2007, after publication of the seventh volume, the manga went on hiatus for more than two years. One unintentional side effect of this is that {{Tokyopop}}, the manga's North American licensor, shut down operations before the final volume could be published, leaving it an uncompleted series in English.

* StoicSpectacles: Kodama. Doubles as {{Meganekko}} in the crossdressing cafe.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: Happens to Wataru in chapter 68; however, he's forgiving of this, especially after encouragement from Kurokawa.
** He's not the only one, though: it happened to Nogi during her game against Yuki, Miki accidentally found out while looking for her clothes, Kodama figured out Yoshinori's crossdressing due to his collarbones, and Hidari only found out after Yoshinori confessed it to her.

* TheBeautifulGame: Plays a role several times. Yoshinori played soccer back in middle school but stopped because if he got too much muscle from it, it would be harder for him to pass as a girl. His friend Wataru however continues as a good player. Meanwhile Hidari also is happy playing soccer. First for fun, but when Yori creates a girls soccer team at their school she recruits Hidari at the same time.

* RealityEnsues: Anywhere else, the situation Yoshinori finds himself in -- crossdressing and having people attracted to him -- would be PlayedForLaughs (RanmaOneHalf, anyone?). But here, Yoshinori feels how the situation gets to him, with his attraction to both Kurokawa and Hidari, and manifesting emotional turmoil due to his fear of hurting either of them, his coming to grips with the fact that he's becoming a man whether he wants to or not, the impulsivity that comes with being a teenager and how it affects those around him, etc.

* SecretSecretKeeper: Kodama after he figures out that the girl Yoshinori obtained for him as a model is Yoshinori crossdressing. Kodama then helps to keep it secret without letting Yoshinori or others know that he know - until he sees Yuki hand in hand with with his own love interest, Nogi...

** He's not the only one, though: it happened to Nogi during her game against Yuki, Miki accidentally found out while looking for her clothes, Kodama found out about Yoshinori's crossdressing due to his collarbones, and Hidari only found out after Yoshinori confessed it to her.

* {{Ecchi}}

* HugeSchoolGirl - Nogi with 171 cm, wondering who would like a big girl like her. Yuki is also seen like this after growing from 161 cm to 169 cm. For the same reason he also wanted to stop crossdressing but Minamo asked him to continue. Later when Yuki meets Nogi the latter thinks that Yuki should play basketball due to "her" height.
* InterruptedIntimacy: Miki walks in on [[spoiler:Yoshinori and Minamo]] having sex.

* SecretSecretKeeper: Kodama after he finds out that the girl Yuki Yoshinori got him as a model is Yoshinori crossdressing. Kodama then helps to keep it secret without letting Yoshinori or others know that he know - until he sees Yuki hand in hand with with his own love interest, Nogi...

** Kurokawa on the other hand revealed it herself, to the surprise of Yoshinori, who thought his crossdressing w perfect.

''Yubisaki Milk Tea'' is a manga by Tomochika Miyano that ran between 2003 and 2010. It should originally just have been one volume, but it ended up with ten.

Yoshinori Ikeda is a high school boy who works part-time as a photographer. One day Yoshinori's older sister Miki has to model for the latter as a bride, but forgets and runs off on a date instead. Yoshinori is dragged in and has to wear the wedding dress instead. After that he finds out that he actually likes to crossdress and begins to get more and more into it, creating a female personality, Yuki. But Yoshinori/Yuki gets into a complicated love affair when he falls in love with both his lively neighbor girl Hidari Morii and his classmate, ice queen and honor student, Minamo Kurokawa. Since Minamo becomes a home teacher for Hidari it doesn't take long before they both know about it. Things however get more complicated when Yoshinori's best friend, Wataru, unknowingly falls for Yuki, all while both Wataru and Hidari also have their own admirers...

* TheAce - Wataru is a very good soccer player, and Nogi is the best on the basketball team. Which gives them both problems, since both sports are team sports, where one player isn't enough to win a match. Wataru learns this the hard way, when he tries to play despite being out of form, while Nogi has to face a boycott from her fellow players.

* ACupAngst - Yuki admires Minamo's big breasts and complains that "her" own are small and fake.

* AttractiveBentGender - Yoshinori as Yuki.
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking - Nogi is not only the captain of the basketball team but also its best player.
* TheBeautifulGame - Plays a role several times. Yoshinori played soccer back in middle school but stopped because if he got too much muscle from it, it would be harder for him to pass as a girl. His friend Wataru however continues as a good player. Meanwhile Hidari also is happy playing soccer. First for fun, but when Yori creates a girls soccer team at their school she recruits Hidari at the same time.
* BigSisterInstinct - Miki to Yoshinori, especially after she accidentally discovers his crossdressing.
* {{Bishounen}} - Even when not crossdressing, Yoshinori is still considered attractive, and the others will often comment on how sexy he is or how sexy he acts.
* BiTheWay - Wataru, although it may have been a joke on his part, but it's really hard to tell considering his serious expression when he made the comment.

* BrickJoke - During the school festival, Wataru makes a joke (or not, no one's sure) about wanting to [[spoiler:suck on Yoshinori's cock]] after seeing how pretty he is when crossdressing (although it's not as Yuki). Later, when Wataru is in a funk after losing a football game, about a chapter after Yoshinori outed himself as Yuki to him, Yoshinori comes in full Yuki regalia to comfort him, and asks him if [[spoiler:Wataru wants to suck his cock.]] He doesn't, but they kiss.

* CameraFiend - Yoshinori, who mostly takes self-portraits of himself as Yuki. Minami, Hidari and Kagami, however, also come in front of the lens.
* CoolBigSis - Miki is this to Hidari and Yoshinori wants to be it as Yuki as well.
* CuteLittleFangs - Lampshaded with Shiba in her first brief appearance in the second chapter.

* {{Deconstruction}} - of AttractiveBentGender and romance manga in general. It becomes evident fast that being stuck in a LoveDodecahedron is not doing anything good to Yoshinori's mental health, along with trying to still be able to pass when crossdressing.
* DefrostingIceQueen - Kurokawa.
* DestinedBystander - The manga was originally planned to be only one volume. When it grew longer several of the characters from that first volume got their role expanded a lot. This goes for both Wataru, Miki and Shiba.

* GrowingUpSucks - Hit Yoshinori for the first time when he realized he had grown from 161 cm to 169 cm, which made it harder for him to pass as a girl.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl - Wataru is much taller than both Nobuko, Yuki, Minamo and just about everyone else.

* ItHasOnlyJustBegun - During the Yuki vs. Nogi basketball game in volume 3.
* JapaneseSchoolClub - The series has a small collection with several friends of Yoshinori in different clubs in high school. Wataru is in the boys soccer club, Nogi is the captain of the girls basketball team and Kodama is in the art club. Meanwhile Hidari joins a newfound girls soccer team in her middle school. Yoshinori himself played soccer in middle school but dropped it when he got into crossdressing.
* LoveDodecahedron - A pretty big part of the story: The main LoveTriangle is with Yoshinori, who loves both Minamo and Hidari. They both love him back. But then there are also Sakura and Kagami, who both love Hidari, Shiba, who loves Yoshinori, Wataru, who loves Yuki, Nobuko, who loves Wataru, Miki, who loves Hidari's father and Nogi and Kodama who love each other. And we haven't counted the relationships between several family members.
* MaliciousMisnaming - Minamo decides to call Yoshinori's crossdressing alter-ego Catherine, when she first meets "her". As a running gag, she'll do it several times afterward just to tease her/him, while Yoshinori corrects her. It ends when Minamo requests that they should be girlfriends.
* {{Meganekko}} - Kurokawa, again. Sometimes, particularly when she's studying in later chapters, Hidari also wears glasses.

* PassionateSportsGirl - Hidari Morii likes playing soccer and is skilled as well, so when her classmate Yori Hotta is founding a girl soccer team she is promptly asked to join, which she does. Meanwhile Toko Nogi is the captain and The Ace of her high school basketball team. All three girls however have the same problem: other people have a hard time keeping up with their talents and ambitions, in sports as well as love.
* PrecisionFStrike - Yoshinori gives one off when he realizes that he's infatuated with his own female alter ego, Yuki.
* RealityEnsues - Anywhere else, the situation Yoshinori finds himself in, crossdressing and having people attracted to him, would be played for laughs. But here, Yoshinori feels how the situation gets to him, with his attraction to both Kurokawa and Hidari, and manifesting emotional turmoil due to his fear of hurting either of them, his coming to grips with the fact that he's becoming a man whether he wants to or not, the impulsivity that comes with being a teenager and how it affects those around him, etc.
* RealPlaceBackground - Many of the locations are real places in Tokyo, often drawn in surprising detail. A collection of pictures of the real places can be seen [[http://natsukan.net/0034yubisakiMilkTea/?id=all here]].
* SailorFuku - Minamo's old school uniform which she gives to Yuki. It becomes symbolic on two later occassions. First when Yoshinori wears it to "continue" after he and Minamo got disturbed while about to get close. Second when he [[spoiler:decides to break up in the last volume.]]
* SchoolgirlLesbians - Kagami towards Hidari.
* SecretKeeper - Everyone who learns about Yoshinori being Yuki will keep it secret, unless they are sure those around them know it as well.
* SecretSecretKeeper - Kodama after he finds out that the girl Yuki Yoshinori got him as a model is Yoshinori crossdressing. Kodama then helps to keep it secret without letting Yoshinori or others know that he know - until he sees Yuki hand in hand with with his own love interest, Nogi...
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses - Minamo and Kodama, who are best and second best of their year, both wear glasses. Later Hidari as well.
* StoicSpectacles - Kodama. Doubles as {{Meganekko}} in the crossdressing cafe.
* UnsettlingGenderReveal - Happens to Wataru in chapter 68; however, he's forgiving of this, especially after encouragement from Kurokawa.

* WholesomeCrossdresser - Yoshinori.

Compare with ''Manga/WanderingSon'', one of very few series like ''Yubisaki Milk Tea'', to actually take crossdressing seriously.

* TheAce - Wataru is a very good soccer player, and Nogi is the best on the basketball team. Which give them both problems, since both sports are team sports, where one player isn't enough to win a match. Wataru learn this the hard way, when he try to play despite being out of form, while Nogi have to face a boykot from her fellow players.
** When it comes to studying Minamo is usually the best student of the year with Kodama as the second best. Minamo's teaching also make Hidari able to advance from the middle to the fourth best of her year.
* ACupAngst - Yuki admire Minamos big breast and complain that "her" own are small and fake.
* AlwaysSecondBest - Kodama would be prefer to be in second place since you get don't get so much attention then. Minamo disagree on that saying that no one want to be number two which lead Kodama to correctly conclude that she must be in love.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking - Nogi is not only the captain of the basketball team but also it's best player.
* TheBeautifulGame - Plays a role several times. Yoshinori played soccer back in middle school but stopped because if he got to much muscle from it, it would be harder for him to pass as a girl. His friend Wataru however continue as a good player. Meanwhile Hidari also is happy for playing soccer. First for fun but when Yori create a girl soccer team on their school she recruite Hidari at the same.

** His relationship to Yuki also give his best friend Yoshinori problems with this. He already love both Hidari and Minamo but as Yuki he can't really say no to Wataru because of their friendship. The fact that their dates make him feel like a real girl doesn't make is easier either.

* CameraFiend - Yoshinori who mostly take selfportraits of him self as Yuki. Minami, Hidari and Kagami however also come in front of the lens.
* CoolBigSis - Miki is this to Hidari and Yoshinori want to be it as Yuki as well.
* CuteLittleFangs - Lampshaded with Shiba in her first brief apperance in the second chapter.
* CuteSportsClubManager - Nobuko for the boys soccer team in the high school. Yoshinori and Wataru wonder why she is it for a boy team but guess she is the type who support other. Yori may also count as she start a girl soccer team in the middle school with Hidari, Yu and others.

* DestinedBystander - The manga were originally planned to be only one volume. When it groved several of the characters from that first volume got their role expanded a lot. This goes for both Wataru, Miki and Shiba.

* GrowingUpSucks - Hit Yoshinori first time when he realized, he has grown from 161 cm to 169 cm, which make it harder for him to pass as a girl.

* HugeSchoolGirl - Nogi with 171 cm, wondering who would like a big girl like her. Yuki is also seen like this after growing from 161 cm to 169 cm. For the same reason also wanted to stop crossdressing but Minamo asked him to continue. Later when Yuki meet Nogi the later think that first should play to basketball due to "her" high.

* JapaneseSchoolClub - The serie have a small collection with several friends of Yoshinori in different clubs in high school. Wataru is in the boys soccer club, Nogi is the captain of the girls basketball team and Kodama is in the art club. Meanwhile Hidari join a newfound girls soccer team on her middle school. Yoshinori himself played soccer in middle school but dropped it when he got into crossdressing.
* LoveDodecahedron - A pretty big part of the story: The main LoveTriangle is with Yoshinori, who love both Minamo and Hidari. They both love him back. But then there are also Sakura and Kagami who both love Hidari, Shiba who love Yoshinori, Wataru who love Yuki, Nobuko who love Wataru, Miki who love Hidari's father and Nogi and Kodama who love each other. And then we haven't counted the relationships between several family members.
* MaliciousMisnaming - Minamo decide to call Yoshinori's crossdressing alter-ego for Catherine, when she first meet "her". As a running gag, she'll do it several times afterward just to tease her/him, while Yoshinori corrects her. It ends when Minamo requests that they should be girlfriends.

* PassionateSportsGirl - Hidari Morii like playing soccer and is skilled as well so when her clasmate Yori Hotta is founding a girl soccer team she is promptly asked to join which she does. Meanwhile Toko Nogi is the captain and The Ace of her high school basketball team. All three girls however have the same problem: other people have a hard time keeping up with their talents and ambitions, in sport as well as love.

* RealPlaceBackground - Many of the locations are real places in Tokyo, often surprising detailed drawn. A collection of pictures of the real places can be seen [[http://natsukan.net/0034yubisakiMilkTea/?id=all here]].
* SailorFuku - Minamo's old school uniform which she give to Yuki. It become symbolic on two later occassions. First when Yoshinori wear it to "continue" after he and Minamo got disturbed while about to getting close. Second when he [[spoiler:decide to break up in the last volume.]]

* SecretKeeper - Everyone who learn about Yoshinori being Yuki will keep it secret, unless they are sure those around them know it as well.
* SecretSecretKeeper - Kodama after he find out that the girl, Yuki, Yoshinori got him as a model, is Yoshinori crossdressing. Kodama then helps to keep it secret without letting Yoshinori or other know that he know - until he see Yuki hand in hand with with his own love interest, Nogi...
* SmartPeopleWearGlasses - Minamo and Kodama who are best and second best of their year both wear glasses. Later Hidari as well.
* StoicSpectacles - Kodama. Double as {{Meganekko}} in the crossdressing cafe.

** Kurokawa on the other hand revealed it herself, to the surprise of Yoshinori, who thought his crossdressing were perfect.

* MyNameIsNotDurwood - Minamo decide to call Yoshinoris crossdressing alter-ego for Catherine, when she first meet "her". As a running gag she do it several times afterward just to tease her/him, while she annoyed correct her. It end however when Minamo request that they should be girlfriends.

** His relationship to Yuki also give his best friend Yoshinori problems with this. He love both Hidari but Minamo but as Yuki can't really say no to Wataru because of their friendship. The fact that their dates make him feel like a real girl doesn't make is easier either.

* SailorFuku - Worn by Yoshinori on two separate occasions.

* DesignatedHero - Yoshinori's about as close to the {{Jerkass}} line as you can get before hitting SchoolDays levels. Even the two main girls who are in love with him find him to be scary at times. Kurokawa even calls him "the type of person who would cut the wings off of a bird just so it couldn't fly free."
** Just around the whole cast fall under this trope. But both Yoshinori and all the other will also usually got painfully reminded of the unpleasant consequences of their egoism and behaviour.

* OnlySixFaces - Possibly the reason Yuki is so attractive, the girls and guys have similar faces.

Compare with ''WanderingSon'', one of very few series like ''Yubisaki Milk Tea'', to actually take crossdressing seriously.

* DroppedABridgetOnHim - Happens to Wataru in chapter 68; however, he's forgiving of this, especially after encouragement from Kurokawa.
** He's not the only one, though: Kurokawa got the Bridget dropped on her immediately, it happened to Nogi during her game against Yuki, Miki accidentally found out while looking for her clothes, Kodama found out about Yoshinori's crossdressing due to his collarbones, and Hidari only found out after Yoshinori confessed it to her.
** Kurokawa dropped the Bridget herself, so to say, to the surprise of Yoshinori, who thought his crossdressing were perfect.