This Horrible Feeling...

[MaxAloysius]

Hey guys, I'm reading this manga called 'My Boyfriend is a Vampire', and I have to say it's making me feel like crap.

It's about a beautiful guy who is always being mistaken for a girl (which he hates) and who is then bitten by a vampire and he turns into a girl. I haven't gotten very far into the story yet, but it's leaving me with this horrible tight feeling in my chest, like I don't want to read it at all because I don't like the direction in which it's going, and I don't like the feelings it's bringing up. He desperately wants to be seen as male by everyone, but now he's been pushed into this situation that makes him feel wretched, and reading about it reminds me of my own situation.

I've gotten this feeling a couple of times with movies and stories that I can relate to, even if they're not about trans issues, and I was wondering if any of you guys do too?

[VeryGnawty]

That manga sounds intense.

[MaxAloysius]

It was... I had to stop reading when he had to go to school after the change and bound his chest, then got all flustered when he tried to go into the mens room and the guys there all yelled at him for being a girl. I think it's even worse in this circumstance because they're things he used to be able to do easily that have been taken away.

Too hardcore-hurty-chest-feely-inducing for me...

It was also proclaimed that his life as a guy was over, and he'd now live out his life as a woman. I forsaw the 'happy ending' to be 'Oh I'm a woman! I finally embrace this thing I've spent all of my life fighting and hating about myself!' Which strikes me as the absolute last thing I would ever want to read.

[emil]

what's the name of the manga? sounds like something i would like some folks who don't understand dysphoria to read

[rexyrex]

oo i love manga i see if i can read it

[El Capitan]

oo i love manga i see if i can read it

I'm not a manga fan at all (sorry!) but I was intrigued and decided to search for it on Google

http://www.mangareader.net/1699-54083-1/my-boyfriend-is-a-vampire/chapter-1.html

seems to have the full thing

[N.Chaos]

That was like "Bicentennial Man" for me. I came pretty close to completely breaking down at the end of the movie, and I sobbed for a good 20 minutes after it was over. It just hit so close, for me. Especially that goddamn ending.

[MaxAloysius]

Yup yup! I had to stop because I couldn't handle it anymore, maybe I'll go back when I'm in a better mood. It sucks because I was quite enjoying it until all of that...

[Felix]

I'd heard of it. Thanks for the synopsis. I'm not tough enough to read that, and I'm glad to know to avoid it.

[Wolfsnake]

I had to stop simply because the art and dialogue were painfully bad. 

[Natkat]

Hey guys, I'm reading this manga called 'My Boyfriend is a Vampire', and I have to say it's making me feel like crap.

It's about a beautiful guy who is always being mistaken for a girl (which he hates) and who is then bitten by a vampire and he turns into a girl. I haven't gotten very far into the story yet, but it's leaving me with this horrible tight feeling in my chest, like I don't want to read it at all because I don't like the direction in which it's going, and I don't like the feelings it's bringing up. He desperately wants to be seen as male by everyone, but now he's been pushed into this situation that makes him feel wretched, and reading about it reminds me of my own situation.

I've gotten this feeling a couple of times with movies and stories that I can relate to, even if they're not about trans issues, and I was wondering if any of you guys do too?

the guys in the serie kinda remind me of karin episode 18
not to mention thats also a vampire story
http://video.soha.vn/watch/5/video/224088

I usunally tend to be pretty sceptical about gender-bender genre because some of them kinda annoying me endless as being unrealistic and kinda gives me a wierd felling where they end up being there original gender anyway, or just accept there new genderrole no matter how much they where agenst it from the start.

but well, yeah I got that for many kinds of movies and so on,
while wathing Hourou musuko I felt very sad in the scene where Nitorin are running outside in a female clothes just to be herself,
it somehow remind me of myself where the only time I could be male where away from school and famely and just alone by the street passing by random people.
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