[ENG Ver.] When I Woke Up This Morning I’d Become A Girl & Even Got To Have Lesbian Sex

Editorial Review

★4.2 / 5 — henhenta editorial rating (our own assessment, not the DLsite official user score)

The body-swap-into-womanhood premise occupies a surprisingly durable niche in adult manga, but this entry from Iyoka Yamaguchi takes the concept in a distinctly character-driven direction. Rather than treating the transformation as mere setup for mechanical gratification, the work emphasizes the psychological friction between the protagonist’s male consciousness and his new female embodiment—a tension that shapes how he navigates intimacy with Kurumi, his host body’s friend.

What distinguishes this 45-page work is its commitment to the lesbian framework despite the male-perspective premise. The combination of an initially male protagonist discovering sexuality through a female body while engaging exclusively with female partners creates an unusual dynamic: the work acknowledges both the transgressive appeal and the genuine exploration of desire outside heterosexual convention. Yamaguchi’s approach treats Kurumi’s characterization as a pushover with enough specificity that her passivity reads as personality rather than placeholder, making their sexual encounters feel anchored in recognizable relationship dynamics rather than pure fantasy abstraction.

The decision to include “accessible information” about the host body’s memories adds a layer of narrative texture often absent from body-swap narratives—this isn’t pure dissociation but rather a collision between two sets of consciousness and history occupying the same physical space. The work’s transparency about featuring “some depictions of men” (the protagonist’s previous form) signals restraint; this isn’t bait-and-switch but honest framing for audiences specifically seeking lesbian content with thematic complexity.

This appeals most to readers comfortable with gender-dysphoria themes who want their adult manga to sustain psychological tension alongside arousal—those who appreciate when a transformation narrative genuinely explores what inhabiting a different body means for desire and identity rather than using it as decorative window dressing.

A thoughtfully constructed body-swap narrative that refuses the easy route of pure fantasy wish fulfillment.