Most of it has to do with not growing up as a female, not having relationships with female friends as a female and not having a relationship with my family as a female.
Everything about my day to day life is masculine or over the top macho and it's driving me crazy.
Granted... When I first saw the Manga I thought to myself 'oh this is most likely not going to be good for me' but I opened the book and subsequently ended up reading the entire series (had to download book 5 from a torrent). Good story for being a yuri, not over the top (I'm not a fan of the yuri class of manga) but someone said I might like it (started talking about Elfen Lied and they don't know about my particular bane in life) and wouldn't tell me about the story other then it's got a good story line.
(Added 3 hours after)
To give those an idea of what this story is about that don't want to read the series.
A boy, rejected by the one he loves escapes into the mountains where he normal gathers plants for the gardening club he runs at school is killed by an out of control space ship that crashes into the mountain (more like right into him). The aliens (yeah, go Japanese cartoons!!!) responsible for the boys death bring him back to life in accordance with their laws on harming foreign species with one complication. Because of the situation he had to be returned to life as a fully functional female.
From the actual book cover...
QuoteBeing a girl is harder than it looks...
For Hazumu, this couldn't be truer, because just the other day, she...was a he.
Shunned by the girl of his dreams, Hazumu loses himself in the mountains and is promptly squashed by an oncoming space ship. The alien inside, feeling guilty, rebuilds Hazumu's body...but as the wrong gender!
Now Hazumu must learn how to be the girl his parents always wanted while dealing with the trials and tribulations of being caught in a love triangle between two girls--his childhood friend, Tomari, and Yasuna, the girl who rejected him but is now strangely attracted to him/her!
Now, I know by reading that it does have that 'calling her a him' issue going on. But keep in mind, this wasn't written specifically as a transgender sensitive book.