Tensei Pandemic

Tensei Pandemic is a fun and pretty good gender bender ecchi romcom series, but don't expect much more from it than that. Our main character Hinata, a very feminine looking boy with a complex about his lack of masculinity, comes across a mysterious stranger offering, for free, to inject him in a back alley shop with a mysterious drug that the stranger claims will solve all his problems. Naturally, he agrees immediately without any questions. Shocking nobody, Hinata comes away from this encounter infected with a contagious virus... but not your garden variety STD. No, instead, he's infected with the never-before-seen TS virus, which transforms himinto a girl. Now he/she must navigate high school life and love interests of all shades of gender as Patient 0 of the TS pandemic. From there, most of what the series has to throw at you is a never-ending series of boys, girls, boys-turned-girls, and girls-turned boys, locked into different lewd situations with poor, confused Hinata. Throughout the story Hinata is trying desperately to juggle teenage hormones (hers and others...) with her tiny little problem of being the carrier of a secret plague of epic proportions. Not to mention her at least nominal desire to return to being a boy. Worse yet, some of the many characters vying for her affection actually even want to be infected! If you were hoping for significantly more development than that before the last few chapters, or some actually serious drama along the way, you'll be disappointed. That being said the series is a lot of fun and I recommend it regardless. The cast is varied and unpredictable and instead of the usual unfunny ecchi clichés we instead get this group of confused, horny oddball teenagers attempting to restrain themselves from committing biological warfare and plunging the world into chaos. It's pretty refreshing, really entertaining and if you happen to actually get attached to what little plot there is inbetween the lewder panels, everything does get wrapped up with a proper, satisfying conclusion. All in all, I give it a 7/10... a score not helped by the mediocre quality of the English scanlation currently available.