ヒメゴト〜十九歳の制服〜 1 [Himegoto - Juukyuusai no Seifuku 1]

ヒメゴト ～十九歳の制服～ / Himegoto - Juukyuusai no Seifuku #1

by Ryo Minenami

周囲から男っぽく見られている女子大生・由樹（ユキ）。彼女は誰にも言えない秘密の儀式を行っていた――。燻り続ける己の欲望に苦悩する日々を送る由樹。一方、同じ大学に通う佳人（カイト）と未果子（ミカコ）の2人も他人には明かせぬ「秘密」を抱えていて――。「ヒメゴト」を持つ3人の19歳が繰り広げる「ヨクボウ」と「セイフク」の物語――。

Genres: Manga, Romance, Comics, Queer, Slice Of Life, Fiction, LGBT

192 pages, Paperback

First published April 28, 2011

About the author

MINENAMI Ryou
Name (in native language): 峰浪りょう
Associated Name:
MINENAMI Ryo
Ryô Minenami

Reviews

[Shannon · Rating 2 out of 5]

I was browsing through some manga tagged as seinen/smut and I found this series. It's ... uhhh ... pretty smutty. I don't want to call this hentai though because the plot doesn't revolve around sex, but it is a prevalent theme. So while there's sex, it's not the whole story. If you've ever read/watched hentai I think you know the difference I'm trying to explain.

Gender and sexuality are two very present topics throughout the series. The characters are college students so thankfully they're all adults. One girl pretends she's 15 though when she prostitutes herself. 😬 The main character is a tomboy—but mostly not by choice. She wants to be feminine but struggles with people taking her seriously. One of the boys cross-dresses and it's not for comedic value—which is what most manga does. There's also homophobia and attempted rape. So this is a pretty serious manga and a lot of it will probably make people uncomfortable.

Why the low rating? Because I honestly don't really like the story or the characters. BUT this is super interesting and I can't seem to look away. Sometimes even though I'm not enjoying something it stills works as entertainment for me. Lol maybe I'm just weird. 🙃

[Jon Ureña · Rating 3 out of 5]

Three and a half stars.

Only when I searched this series on Goodreads I realized that it's an earlier effort by the author of the story that has impressed me the most recently: 'Boy's Abyss'. Someone also recommended 'Himegoto' because it reminded them of Shūzō Oshimi's stuff, so I guess Ryou Minenami is on the fast track to becoming one of my favorite authors.

However, this series I'm reviewing is much sloppier and less impressive than 'Boy's Abyss'. We follow mostly four college students, all of whom have issues with what they were either born as or were pushed into being.

The main protagonist is a pretty tomboy who has been locked into acting like one of the guys by her shitty childhood friend (an infuriating idiot that I didn't find interesting enough as a character despite his personal issues), and now is having trouble accepting herself as a woman and dealing with not only her need to dress more girly, but also with her growing urges to be dominated sexually by men. We get a few scenes of her alone in her bedroom feeling bad because she can't reconcile her masturbatory fantasies with her inability to accept her female nature.

The second most important main character is a pretty guy who's popular for that reason, but who in reality wishes he had been born a woman. In his spare time he dresses with women clothes as often as he can (usually imitating a gorgeous classmate of theirs, whom he admits he'd rather be). However, he's attracted to women, and gets particularly turned on by handling girly women aggressively while wearing women clothes. This person and the previous main character spark a compelling friendship through such an encounter.

The third main character is a baby-faced eighteen-year-old girl who's revered for her beauty and fashion sense (this is the girl that the previous character is imitating). However, she's terrified of growing old, and in fact moonlights as a prostitute mainly to cosplay as a fifteen-year-old girl during the act and be treated as such by middle aged men (some of which approach the act with cosplay of their own, well aware that this girl isn't fifteen). Interestingly, the girl despises men and is sexually attracted to "boys". She becomes infatuated with the main protagonist because that one has looked like an innocent, pretty boy throughout her life. She has no trouble imagining the protagonist's naked breasts in her romantic fantasies, so she's likely dealing with further repressed urges.

The fourth character is the previously mentioned childhood "friend" of the protagonist, a guy who has been in love with the protagonist precisely because she looked like a pretty boy. He has made every effort to restrain the girl's urges to grow as a woman. The protagonist had hoped that her new life in college would be her first opportunity to express herself freely, but her dickheaded childhood "friend" has made a point of following her there, and is eager to inform everyone who approaches her that "she's one of the boys". The author could have attempted to make this idiot somewhat sympathetic, but the volume ends with this guy's outrageous reaction to the protagonist presenting herself with girly clothes, which solidifies him as the nasty villain of the tale so far.

An interesting, compelling volume which almost made me miss my train stop this morning. However, the contrast between the author's drawings, as well as his writing and storyboarding abilities, in this series and in the superior effort 'Boy's Abyss' prevents me from rating this one higher.

[James DeSantis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Alright, so I just dove into Ryo Minenami's Himegoto after enjoying his other manga, Boys Abyss. Man, talk about a first work, while keeping that dark trademark he has.

This first volume throws you headfirst into the lives of three seriously messed-up individuals. First up is Yuki, this girl who dresses super tomboyish but secretly? She's all about wanting to be girly and, uh, get railed. A lot.

Then you've got Kaito, this dude who goes all-out dressing like a seriously pretty girl, totally copying our third character. His thing is basically pretending to be someone else, so he's still with feeling not who he wants to be.

And finally, Mikako. On the outside, she's the popular girl with all the friends. Everyone views her as kind and sensitive. But her secret? She sells herself to guys and makes them treat her like a goddess, like they're nothing but dirt as they go down on her. Seriously messed up stuff.

These three? They are all over each other, pushing boundaries, making seriously bad choices. It's honestly terrible, but I was also completely hooked. I'm not gonna lie, the forced stuff wasn't my favorite, but in the context of these characters, it almost makes a twisted kind of sense, even if it's hard to read. Just like Boys Abyss, it feels kinda trashy at times, but also so dark and fascinating that I couldn't look away.

Definitely gonna keep reading to see how much more messed up these characters can get. 😬

[Leandro · Rating 4 out of 5]

Himegoto - Juukyuusai no Seifuku
Secreto - Uniformes a los diecinueve
Serie manga que consiste en 8 volúmenes. Para no arruinar mi conteo en GoodReads solo subiré el tomo 1 de las colecciones manga en lugar de subir toda la serie.
Género: Drama / Romance
Demografía: Seinen
Autor: Minenami Ryo (Historia y Arte).

Esta fue una historia bizarra, algunas veces tierna.
Tenemos a tres personajes principales con rarezas.
Yuki Ichihara la chica "marimacha" a la que confunden con ser hombre.
Mikako Nagao una de las mas hermosas y femeninas de la universidad.
Kaito Aiba el mujeriego y guapo del salón.
Las vidas de estos personajes se complica cuando Yuki descubre que Kaito se viste de mujer y que es mas femenino que ella. Cuando Kaito descubre que Mikako practica la prostitución haciéndose pasar por niña de secundaria. Y cuando Mikako se enamora de Yuki. y Yuki se enamora de Kaito. Pero a Kaito le gusta Mikako!
Todo una complejidad llena de sexualidad, tragedia, violación e intentos de violación.
Los personajes se hacen querer y pues uno llega a apoyar sus motivos en lo relacionado al amor.
Es difícil discernir quien es el villano, si es uno de ellos o si lo es la sociedad.

[إيمان❤︎ · Rating 2 out of 5]

This manga is about the conflicts that face a few college students while they're trying to know their sexuality and their interests.
It is filled with... unnecessary inappropriate content, and for this reason, I may drop it if I weren't someone who can't drop mangas.

[Maiko-chan [|] · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5stars

[C. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this manga after one of the accounts I'm following on Twitter tweeted a screenshot of one of the panels and another account provided its source as a reply. I was curious, so I decided to check it out. I don't regret reading it since I'm already on the second chapter, but this is problematic.

This manga doesn't just contain sex, but it also contains story since some of the characters are dealing with sexual identity. However, if you're sensitive to triggering topics such as attempted rape and pedophilia, it's best that you skip this.

[Curious Madra · Rating 1 out of 5]

My blood is fuxking boiling from reading this manga, it's absolutely disgusting to see the main character Yuki be sexually assaulted by the some of the main characters just because how she dresses. No excuse at all whatsoever with the other characters for what they did. I just had to drop this at 6 chapters, just extremely rotten and triggering..

[cvtherin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Snapshot review: they're all assholes and yet I keep reading?

reader beware, you're in for a scare: if you're extra touchy about gender and sexual themes being explored in raw and less than stellar ways. also, tw: sa

[Aurelie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Err. it's just not doing anything for me. These tropes that try to normalise sexual assault, that utilize LGBT+ characters but end up just feeding stereotypes, I don't know if it improves in later volumes, but it's a pass for me.

[Andrea Aguas · Rating 4 out of 5]

This type of story is completely new to me that I feel alienated. It tackles a topic that is not discussed in the open, what with teenagers and their identity. It's interesting and I'm invested.

[Aaliyah Newton · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book has some really stuff in it, but I did like the ending.

[Sara · Rating 5 out of 5]

I honestly quite enjoyed the main characters and the plot. The one thing that really got on my nerves was how easily the characters moved past an attempted rape like it was a minor conflict.