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Switch Girl!!  
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Description
Tamiya Nika is a beautiful, outgoing, popular high school girl. She has just the right look, just the right fashions, and is everyone’s friend. What everyone at school does not know is how hard Nika works to keep up this perfect image, and what she is REALLY like at home. When not at school, Nika is a scary, sloppy, tight-fisted girl who wears glasses, an ugly sweatsuit, and has her hair pulled back into unattractive buns. She lies around playing video games and reading manga. Her attitude is bossy and cranky, and she travels far out of her way to shop where she won’t be recognized.

Every day, Nika “Switches On” with a strict regimen of beautification that involves primping and plucking and careful dressing. The only person who knows about Nika’s Switched On/Off modes is her best friend, who is also aware of the reasons behind the changes.

However, soon a second person finds out about Nika’s personalities - someone who has his own On/Off switch, but in reverse! His name is Kamiyama Arata, and he is a recent transfer student. He meets Nika when she is in OFF Mode, and then again at school when she is ON. However Nika can see that he has his own little secret. At school, Arata wears thick swirly-eyed glasses and messy hair that make some bullies think he is an otaku. However, at home, he ditches the glasses and is downright gorgeous! He is just the opposite of Nika, but why?

Type
Manga

Related Series
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Associated Names
スイッチガール!!
双面少女
变身指令
스위치걸
Switch Girl
Switch Girl!!~變身指令~

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Latest Release(s)
v.7 c.Extra 3 by Transcendence (86d ago)
v.7 c.Extra 2 by Transcendence (100d ago)
v.7 c.42 by Transcendence (164d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
21 Volumes (Ongoing)

Completely Scanlated?
No

Anime Start/End Chapter
N/A

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Forum
6 topics, 20 posts
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User Rating
Average: 7.8 / 10.0 (404 votes)
Bayesian Average: 7.74 / 10.0
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Last Updated
February 2nd 2013, 9:56am PST

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Genre
Comedy  Romance  School Life  Shoujo 
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Author(s)
AIDA Natsumi

Artist(s)
AIDA Natsumi

Year
2006

Original Publisher
Shueisha

Serialized In (magazine)
Margaret (Shueisha)

Licensed (in English)
No

English Publisher
N/A

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #791 increased(+130)
Monthly Pos #1264 decreased(-264)
3 Month Pos #909 decreased(-288)
6 Month Pos #682 decreased(-63)

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On 926 wish lists
On 165 unfinished lists
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Forum Posts
Switch Girl!! Enters Final Arc 116 days, 16 hours, 56 minutes ago
how many readers are Switch Girls/Boys themselves? or have friends that are 341 days, 21 hours, 14 minutes ago
Switch Girl Gets Live-Action Show 378 days, 21 hours, 32 minutes ago
ch27 641 days, 16 hours, 48 minutes ago
Help! Chapters 27-33 ? 731 days, 2 hours, 1 minutes ago

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 My big problem with this series.   
Rating: N/A
by Lucifel
August 25th, 2012, 6:29pm
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Nika telling Arata to forgive his mother for nearly two decades of cheating on his father is just disgusting.


The series is interesting with a funny heroine and a different situation but this is just such a moronic turn of events. Hate is a perfectly reasonable feeling to have for someone and telling someone to get over something like that defies belief.

... Last updated on August 25th, 2012, 6:31pm
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 Disappointed   
Rating: 7.0 / 10.0
by nesfe
May 1st, 2012, 2:38pm
I'll be honest, I had great expectations after reading the first couple of chapters. The story was funny, the main female lead wasn't like the average shoujo lead, and the art looks really good.

However, as the story progressed it quickly started to disappoint. Examples (contains spoilers from first 5 volumes)
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I found it really annoying that almost the next day after the female lead realizes that she is in love with the main lead, a love rival appears, starts blackmailing her to sleep with him [he knows her secret], she refuses. He then confesses his love for her. She starts thinking he's not such a bad guy [wtf, he just tried to blackmail you, literally a day ago] and starts wavering between the 2 males. (shoujo cliche used badly number 1)

My second disappointment was how the male lead back story was handled. His mother was cheating on his father from before he was born till he was 12. So 12+ years of infidelity and she only stopped when she was caught in the act. 5 years later, she shows up wanting to fix their relationship. All that is fine .

What i had a problem with, the moment the main female lead hears the story [he tells her he still sees the images clear in his head off his mother cheating] she tells him to go live with his mother o_0. (shoujo cliche used badly number 2)


For me this was a manga that started really good, turned cliche and used these cliches badly. Events should have extended and handled better. All in all, still a good read but fell really short from my high expectations.

... Last updated on May 1st, 2012, 2:40pm
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 Dropped   
Rating: 6.0 / 10.0
by Sakura29
May 1st, 2012, 1:14am
I like the art and the story was okay but the main reason why I dropped this was because of the main character. I hate her attacks on the main lead. I know it's meant to be funny but it just pisses me off because I've seen lots of manga with love crazy girls. She's strong when it comes to defending others and stuff, I don't know I forgot a lot I dropped it ages ago, but when it comes to her own feelings she's so very insecure! Like come on! Other than that it was a pretty good manga but just a lousy main lead.
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 Cheap..   
Rating: N/A
by slykid
April 7th, 2012, 3:27pm
Too me, Kare kano is much better, yeah it may ne deeper, but tbh I liked the anime, and it seriously made me laugh ! this women's cut and copy paste of playserism should not be promoted.Tbh I can't even remember half of what happened...and I read it 2 days ago ..

... Last updated on April 7th, 2012, 3:28pm
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 Not quite Kare Kano   
Rating: 3.0 / 10.0
by SpankyMcFlych
December 3rd, 2011, 12:19pm
Not quite as funny, not quite as dramatic, not quite as touching. This series falls short of Kare Kano in pretty much all ways. Way too far on the childish side of shoujo to boot. The characters in KareKano were deep and heartwarming, the characters in switch girl are just cheap copies. Disappointing but what can you do, this story's already been told and told much better. Go read KareKano if you havn't already.

... Last updated on December 3rd, 2011, 12:23pm
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 so far so good =)   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by leilockheart
November 21st, 2011, 1:31pm
im already liking it. very funny.
the arc on shibuya thing, about meika girl was really hilarious.
will edit this later =)
i love someya-sensei, so hot.
i wonder if nika's first love will appear in the future? uhhmm..

... Last updated on November 21st, 2011, 4:02pm
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 A good laugh   
Rating: 8.0 / 10.0
by 1122shadows
October 10th, 2011, 8:59pm
Despite the humorous tone, the romance between Nika and Arata is moving. The side characters are lovable and there aren't too many characters that are in the "love to hate" category, so it keeps the magna fun and appealing.

... Last updated on October 10th, 2011, 9:00pm
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 Frickin' hilarious   
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
by turnip head
July 27th, 2011, 10:48am
I was worried that this would head into love triangle mediocrity but it veered off into another more delightful direction entirely. So good. Not a deep read but honest and memorable. I've read so many unmemorable shoujo that when I come across a diamond in the rough like this I get excited. off beat and adorable. Good stuff.
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 alright   
Rating: N/A
by cherrykookie
June 26th, 2011, 3:10am
I liked the start. It was funny and refreshing, but then somewhere along the line it got cliche which was where i lost interest... Very typical shoujo. Go for Kare Kano instead if you want something more realistic and serious.. If you want something very light and funny then go for this.
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 although it looked like just another "genre type" manga again   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by APOKOLYPES
March 27th, 2011, 3:15pm
it's refreshing to read a manga that break's cliche's - i definitely recommend reading this

very cute and characters although seemingly exaggerated can be related to, as in how characters act in this manga is not to far from reality of things real people do ^_^ i'm sure many of us have our own or at least know of know plenty of people who have "switch mode" behaviors
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