My Androgynous Boyfriend

My Androgynous Boyfriend is a Japanese manga series by Tamekou. It was serialized in the monthly manga magazine Feel Young from February 2018 to March 2023. A television drama adaptation, titled Colorful Love: My Androgynous Boyfriend, aired from April to June 2021, on Yomiuri TV, Nippon Television and their affiliates as part of the MokuDra F programming block.

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Plot

Wako works as a manga editor at a publishing department, while her boyfriend, Meguru, is a model and a clerk at a clothing store with a large social media following. Meguru is part of the genderless fashion subculture and is knowledgeable about make-up and fashion, causing other people around the couple to tend to mistake the nature of their relationship, as well as Meguru's gender.

Characters

;Wako Machida
;Meguru Sōma
;Sasame Tachi
;Kira
;Asahi Tetsumoto
;Masami Sakai

Media

Manga

My Androgynous Boyfriend is written and illustrated by Tamekou as her first work outside of the genre. It is serialized in the monthly manga magazine Feel Young, beginning in the March 2018 issue released on February 8, 2018. The series will end serialization in the April 2023 issue released on March 8, 2023. The chapters have been released in five tankōbon by Shodensha under the Feel Comics FC Swing imprint.
To celebrate the release of the second volume, an art exhibit was featured at the Animate Girls Festival 2019. Tamekou herself hosted a panel with genderless actor and model Toman as a guest.
At Anime Expo 2019, Seven Seas Entertainment announced that they had licensed the series in English for North American distribution.

Television drama

A live-action television series adaptation, titled Colorful Love: My Androgynous Boyfriend was announced on March 2, 2021. Produced by Yomiuri TV, the series began airing on April 1, 2021, on ytv, Nippon TV and their affiliates as part of their MokuDra F programming block, with 10 episodes scheduled. Colorful Love stars Ai Yoshikawa and Rihito Itagaki as Wako Machida and Meguru Sōma respectively. Additional cast members include Renn Kiriyama as Kira and Miki Mizuno as Asahi Tetsumoto. was later announced as a regular cast member, appearing as Masami Sakai. Hirotsugu Otsu and Kōsei Awaji, who are members of the group Kougu Ishin and the comedy duo Kitsune, made a guest appearance in episode 1 as part of a collaboration. The series is directed by Izuru Kumasaka, Hiroaki Yuasa, and Takeshi Matsuura, with Fumi Tsubota in charge of the script and Akihiro Manabe in charge of the soundtrack. The show's theme song is "Question" by Amber's.

Reception

Rebecca Silverman from Anime News Network praised My Androgynous Boyfriend for its artwork and "sweet romance" but mentioned that while the series brings up issues about gender, it ultimately doesn't do "enough" with them.