My Two Wings

Who doesn't like hermaphrodites? Probably a lot of people, but that's beside the point. Hello and welcome to the "Sometimes I Really Question Why I Finished Reading This" segment, where the answer is almost always "Curiosity Killed The Cat". I like reading weird shit. It's almost always bad in an entertaining way. Sometimes it's not. Enter Boku no Futatsu no Tsubasa, where it's just bad. Spoiler warning? The twists are so left field not even Nostradamus could hope to see them coming... Enter cousins Hiromi (not a hermaphrodite) and Makoto (a hermaphrodite). They have everyday problems, such as boys, the school lesbian, periods, and making sure Makoto doesn't pop astiffy in public and let everyone in on the big secret. Everything is fine and dandy until one day Makoto receives a mysterious cellphone, from someone claiming to be her father. I don't want to type out an entire plot summary, but it starts off fine enough and turns into the worst train wreck since the 2004 Sri Lanka tsunami rail disaster. The plot is overtly contrived, with way too many "plot twists" and secretive bad guys out to kidnap Makoto that feel like they're there to inject interest but only succeed in confusing. Characters fail to act rationally (I'm going to have sex with your seedy ex-boyfriend who is a known cheater and only uses women for their bodies because he seems like a nice guy!) and detract from the plot that is barely there by the end. Should You Read: Boku no Futatsu no Tsubasa? Probably not. There's probably better hermaphrodite manga out there if that's what you're looking for, and if that isn't what you're looking for, then why are you here?

This is my first review so bear with me. I didn't hate it but there was a lot left to be desired. The art was about the only redeeming thing in this whole manga. The story (especially the ending), was so contrived, it felt the ending was a part of a whole different manga. The character development was poor and it just was a waste of time. If you want to read a better quality gender bender about a half guy, half girl (though in a different way), you should read After School Nightmare. It has the sci-fi aspect of this manga; the character development and themystery is a lot better; and frankly the ending was 20x better than this one. Edit: I did like how they portrayed the main character in a normal way, in a way where she had problems that were similar (if not the same) to every other teenager.

This manga started off well but by the end, it lost all of its wonder. The main character is a futanari that happens to have both a penis and a vagina. She starts to live with her cousin and her aunt. It's a simple story with what should be a complex character. However, the thing that sucks about is everything happens so quickly and not in a good way. So I find fault in the pacing of the manga and depth of characters. Not a lot of the central characters were fleshed out to me. The cousin of the m.c. felt empty besides what sheends up doing with her ex-boyfriend who also happens to hook up with the lead. I don't have a problem with the direction the author took. I have a problem with how it developed, it wasn't done right to me. It lacked depth and made the manga boring. I was waiting for sex scenes to pop up after I started to get half way through the manga as that was the only interesting thing to occur after a while.

"Boku no Futatsu no Tsubasa" is an ecchi comedy manga that really feels more like fan service for people who enjoy gender bending stories. I don't feel any need to criticize the themes, but I will say that in many cases the characters come off quite shallow. For instance, wile I certainly expect teenagers to be obsessed with sex, neither of the two main leads seem to have any sort of emotional baggage that goes along with these feelings and that alone feels very unnatural. The plot line itself is fairly nonsensical - starting off as "slice of life" comedy, but then changing about halfway through the series to a sci-fi conspiracy that never really seems credible and the ending is perfunctory and only perhaps modestly satisfying. That being said, this is not a terrible manga. It's merely not very good. If you're a fan of gender bent/futanari type stories, then you might get some extra mileage out of the subject mater here, but for other people there isn't really much here to see that you can't get elsewhere and honestly done better.