Tensei Pandemic isn't your typical highschool romance manga. It's a cursed love pentagram drawn in premium grade trash. And I can't put it down... Allow me to explain!

From the title 転性 (gender) パンデみっく (pandemic), we're introduced to an unknown gender changing disease. The gimmick casually lays waste to the uneventful daily lives of our main cast. While the reader wonders how our protagonist's love life will be affected by this, you'll notice the author has different priorities: boobs.

Yes, boobs, and it doesn't stop there... Oh, no... This author has the guts to sexualize not only the appearance of underage highschoolers, but their behavior as well. The apparently inexhaustible source of puberty hormones, that these kids suffer from, "excuses" an unbelievably naive plot. Specifically, I expect its portrayal of the LGBTQ+ to piss off many readers. That being said...

The ambiguity of characters' sexual orientation and their secrecy about the disease make for a unique love story, and the notion of an imminent pandemic adds a whole new dimension to the plot. So, I decided to give it a shot, and as threw away my sense of pride and justice, I found a story with extreme ups and downs. Characters are either likable or stereotypically stupid, arcs are either exciting or forced and cliché, and the plot is either surprising or really predictable. This manga has a lot going for it. The overarching plot keeps you hooked, the romance is wholesome, and the art style fits the story to a tee. However...

What makes this manga truly special, is that the bad moments are so trash, that they transcended and became good! The forced fanservice at inappropriate moments, the characters' tolerance of sexual harassment, the wildly varying size of people's boobs per chapter (or even per page!), and the list goes on... Tensei Pandemic's world has its own rules, its own norms, all founded on trash. After some chapters I got to understand them, and now I don't know if I became more cultured or if my soul got corrupted, but I had some real good fun regardless.

Are you looking for something weird? Something unique? A guilty pleasure? Give it a shot! And if aren't, give it a chance anyway! I can imagine people's opinions on this manga being very divided, so have a look for yourself before you dismiss it. Who knows, you might, just like me, recognize beauty in its cringe and ask yourself: "What the hell am I reading?" while giggling uncontrollably like a teenage girl, or you might just have some good old dumb fun. It isn't the best manga out there, but it quickly became one of my personal favorites, and as such I can't help but give it a high score.

Thanks for reading! This is the 1st review I've ever written.