History Manga / FutabaKunChange

* GenreShift: Starts as a High School gender-bending comedy and ends with the revelation that [[spoiler:the Shimerus are aliens, their homeland is a spaceship and their homeworld is a {{Ringworld}} made of ivy that has under gone a Category 4 extinction]].

Sadly out of print in the United States as of September 2010.

* MouthfulOfSmokes: The cigarette-obsessed sales clerk is able to smoke five cigarettes at once and tried for six before the fire alarm startles her into dropping a smouldering butt in the merchandise.

'''''Futaba-kun Change!''''' is an eight-volume manga series by Hiroshi Aro about Futaba Shimeru, a seemingly normal junior high school student who suddenly discovers that he is anything ''but'' normal.

!!''Futaba-kun Change!'' provides examples of the following tropes:

* FollowTheLeader: Copies a lot of ideas from ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf''.

!!''Futaba-kun Change!'' provides examples of the following trope:

* LaxativePrank: The club tournament is cut short after one underhanded contestant serves a batch of laxative-laced drinks, causing nearly everyone to withdraw.

* NonstandardCharacterDesign: Principal Hiroin has a considerably more cartoonish look than all the characters, including a huge round head over a midget body.

** Usagi from ''Manga/SailorMoon'' can also be spotted front and center in [[http://mangafox.me/manga/futaba_kun_change/v05/c004/14.html one panel]].

!!''Futaba-kun Change!'' provides examples of:

* ArrangedMarriage: Kurin & Futaba; Futana also has a fiance, but he's WalkingTheEarth.

* BigEater

* TheCameo

* EggSitting: Futana tricks Futaba into this, kinda, sorta, it's complicated.

* TheGhost: Mrs Shimeru, Futaba's [[ItMakesSenseInContext father]]. Her face is never seen, and only about two strips show even a part of her body.

* HotForStudent

* [[spoiler:HumanAliens]]: The origin of the Shimeru clan.

* LostHimInACardGame: The wrestling team captain basically stakes the team in a series of {{mahjong}} games with Negiri and Futaba has to pay off the debt.

* [[spoiler:MarryThemAll]]: The canon solution to [[spoiler:the love triangle]], shown in the last few chapters. Futaba [[spoiler: marries]] both [[spoiler:Kurin ''and'' Misaki (who gets gene therapy on the ship to turn her into a permanent [[GenderBender gender bending]] HumanAlien like the other two).]]

* PaperFanOfDoom

* SweetTooth: Misaki's got a huge one; so much so that it ties in with LethalChef -- anything she cooks for herself is unbearably sweet.\\\
It gets better -- she's so overly sugared that the swim team can't really swim -- because her swimming in the pool has turned the water into a sugary equivalent of the Dead Sea, which is rather hard to sink in.\\\
Even better: at one point she makes chocolate so overly sweet, it spontanously combusts, turning it into the world's first Chocolate hand grenade!

* TimeDilation: [[spoiler:It takes eight years for the Shimeru spaceship island to make the journey to it's homeworld and back, but for Futaba, Kurin and Misaki it only took a few days or less]].

* [[spoiler:VictoriousChildhoodFriend:]] Misaki, with the complication that [[spoiler: she's going to have to share Futaba with Kurin]]. She earned it, though, what with [[spoiler: going through Gene therapy to turn herself into a full HumanAlien so she would be compatible.]]

* HotDad and/or HotMom: Futaba's father in his female form (s/he even works as a model and actress). And his male form can be quite attractive for [[{{Bara}} some]]...

* TimeDilation: [[spoiler:It takes eight years for the Shimeru spaceship island to make the journey to it's homeworld and back, but for Futaba, Kurin and Misaki it only took a few minutes]].

* FootFocus: The wrestling match in book 4. Female wrestler Anzu specializes in leg-work; she isn't wearing wrestling boots but only gaiters, leaving most of her feet bare, and she thrusts them all the time in her opponents' face (which is most often the reader's viewpoint).

* RipVanWinkle: [[spoiler:It takes eight years for the Shimeru spaceship island to make the journey to it's homeworld and back, but for Futaba, Kurin and Misaki it only took a few minutes]].

* TournamentArc

* DrunkOnMilk

* TheAhnold: Mr. Lucky Strike, the P.E. teacher, looks quite a lot like Arnold; the guy acts a bit like Dutch from ''Film/{{Predator}}''.

** The two girls [[http://www.mangafox.com/manga/futaba_kun_change/v06/c004/12.html here]] [[TenchiMuyo look quite familiar]], as does one in the background of panel two. There are a number of others if you look closely at random characters in crowds.
** You can also spot [[YaoiGuys Bert and Ernie]] from ''SesameStreet'' and [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Rei Ayanami]] at one point too.
** During the TournamentArc, [[StreetFighter Blanka, Zangief, Guile, and Dhalsim]] are each seen once, with [[StreetFighter Ryu and Chun-Li]] making multiple appearances (especially Chun-Li). An early visit to Misaki's room reveals a collection of 9 plushies, featuring the [[StreetFighter 8 World Warriors and Sagat.]] (Every time we return to her room, different plushies are on display.)
** Usagi from ''SailorMoon'' can also be spotted front and center in [[http://mangafox.me/manga/futaba_kun_change/v05/c004/14.html one panel]].

* {{Expy}}: Negiri to [[RanmaOneHalf Nabiki]]. At first anyway, but CharacterizationMarchesOn, see the main entry on that for more.

* FollowTheLeader: Copies a lot of ideas from ''RanmaOneHalf''.

* [[spoiler: MarryThemAll]]: The canon solution to [[spoiler: the love triangle]], shown in the last few chapters. Futaba [[spoiler: marries]] both [[spoiler: Kurin ''and'' Misaki (who gets gene therapy on the ship to turn her into a permanent [[GenderBender gender bending]] HumanAlien like the other two).]]

** Usagi from ''SailorMoon'' can also be spotted front and center in [[http://mangafox.me/manga/futaba_kun_change/v05/c004/14.html one panel].

** Usagi from ''SailorMoon'' can also be spotted front and center in one panel.

* [[spoiler: TenchiSolution]]: The canon solution to [[spoiler: the love triangle]], shown in the last few chapters. Futaba [[spoiler: marries]] both [[spoiler: Kurin ''and'' Misaki (who gets gene therapy on the ship to turn her into a permanent [[GenderBender gender bending]] HumanAlien like the other two).]]

* JumpingTheGenderBarrier: [[spoiler:During their trip to the Shimeru clan homeworld, Misaki gets gene therapy to make her into a full HumanAlien like Futaba and Kurin, making her suddenly an available love interest. Futaba decides [[TenchiSolution not to decide.]] ]]

Some scary moments (and the discovery that the effect isn't permanent) later, Futaba gets home, only to find out that everyone in his family changes gender upon becoming aroused, and the person he's always thought of as a father in fact was the one who gave birth to him!

Some scary moments (and the discovery that the effect isn't permanent) later, Futaba gets home, only to find out that everyone in his family changes gender, and the person he's always thought of as a father in fact was the one who gave birth to him!

* TheAhnold: Mr. Lucky Strike, the P.E. teacher, looks quite a lot like Arnold; the guy acts a bit like Dutch from ''{{Predator}}''.

* RapeAsComedy: Futana comes perilously close to this trope time and again, but is usually foiled by circumstance.

* LesYay: Female Futaba and Misaki.

* DrunkOnMalts