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Boys Run The Riot

2020, Manga, 38 ch, 78%

Recommended by 16 After School Mate fans on AniList. The same kind of story: gender identity coming-of-age.

High schooler Ryo knows he’s transgender, but he doesn’t have anyone to confide in about the confusion he feels. He can’t tell his best friend, who he’s secretly got a crush on, and he can’t tell his mom, who’s constantly asking why Ryo "dresses like a boy." He certainly can’t…

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    2023, Manga, 6 ch, 73%

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  2. Cover of Garden in the Closet
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    2026, Manga, ongoing, 83%

    Recommended by 4 After School Mate fans on AniList. The same kind of story: gender identity coming-of-age.

  3. Cover of Oblivion Battery
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    2018, Manga, ongoing, 79%

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    2021, Manga, 43 ch, 63%

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    2023, Manga, 58 ch, 75%

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  8. Cover of Tokyo Aliens
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    Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun

    2014, Manga, ongoing, 85%

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About After School Mate

2021, Manga, 13 ch, 73%

Family, friends, himself... Rika is frustrated by his inability to gain understanding of the gender difference between his body and mind, and one day he gets into a fight with his mother and runs away from home. There he meets Satsuki, a boy who can share his feelings of not being understood... The two meet and confront the issues they have been running away from... A coming-of-age drama that questions "individuality"!

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