- Broken Aesop: Senbongi eventually realizes that no matter what body Akira's in, he likes Akira. But the end of the manga challenges that completely, and ultimately disproves this realization, when Akira and Nanako get their bodies back for a time.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: With Akira going through so much suffering and learning about the unpleasantness of girl life, you'd think that Nanako would be subjected to the same thing with life as a boy. The answer is a big, fat "no", and her time in Akira's body is a marked improvement over Akira's time in his own.
- Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: According to some reviews, many readers found the characters so repugnant that they just gave up reading.
- To give a more in depth explanation: Nanako, after acquiring Akira's body, proceeds to establish herself as a selfish, messy, violent, domineering bully who loves the freedom her new male body gives her, refusing to give it back to Akira and living it up, while at the same time threatening him with verbal and physical abuse if he dares think of doing something she doesn't approve of with the body she doesn't even want back. Akira's own family tell him, to his face, that they prefer the more "conventionally masculine" Akira that Nanako provides, and Nanako's grandfather, the Mad Scientist who caused this mess, likewise refuses to repair the machine that could switch them back because he prefers the quieter, more demure Nanako that Akira makes. The closest thing Akira-as-Nanako has to a friend is his "best friend", Senbongi, who constantly sexually harasses him, including kissing him by force and groping his breasts and genitals. Akira ends up falling in love with Senbongi, simply because he's the only person who seems to "care" about Akira. When Nanako's grandfather fixes the machine at last, Nanako destroys it so she can keep Akira's body and her stolen life. About that point is where most readers dropped the manga and wanted nothing to do with it — which is all the more understandable when you learn that the manga ends with the two of them deciding to stay in each other's bodies.
- Trans Audience Interpretation: Nanako might have some degree of gender dysphoria or be an outright closeted trans boy; she's noticeably more satisfied with her life in a boy's body, and goes out of her way to avoid being returned to her body.
- Values Dissonance: The whole premise is very dependent on Japan's strict views on gender roles, given that the two leads are praised for conforming to their switched body's dated gender stereotyping.
- The Woobie: Imagine having somebody switch bodies with you... and your friends and family are all happier with the result. Now imagine that your best friend starts lusting after you, you won't be able to get your body back for quite some time because the other switchee won't let you have it, and you have to learn all the repugnant things about the opposite sex while your body-snatcher is living it up in your body, no worse for wear and rolling in women. This is your life, Akira. God help you.
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