Nao, Yuki, Tomo and Rio are four brothers working as maids in their family's maid cafe Cherry Girls.
2 Volumes (Complete)





3 parts ecchi shenanigans, 2 parts family matters, 1 part queer.
I honestly don't remember where their parents went that they HAD to take over the cafe.
So we have:
Yuki: Second oldest son, tsundere-ish, does not like dressing in feminine clothes at all, ambiguous feelings towards Nao
Tomo: Third son, sadistic, makes all their work clothes, surprisingly sensitive about it
Nao: Oldest son, likes crossdressing a lot, very feminine, thinks of himself as a boy still
Rio: Youngest, easy-going and a little naive but really open-minded, (he has a crush on his male teacher, his best friend might have a crush on him)
Shizuka: The older cousin who likes to pick on Yuki, has made him wear a vibrator as a punishment, tried to 'help' them with the cafe by making them spicier, I think he picked up on Yuki->Nao?
There's a lot of ecchi moments like Yuki spilling cream on himself and Rio and Tomo licking it off him, Yuki falling on Rio who acts like a virgin maiden, Yuki's reactions to Nao wearing girly things etc but then they're all 'but we're brothers, so it doesn't mean anything!'.
Yuki spends most of the manga hating his situation and I don't blame him, he wants to be a boy-boy and feels forced into a feminine role, and we did get to see how this effected the others (even if they did end up guilt-tripping him back into his role), though I do think he changed his mind about wearing feminine things.
His thoughts at the beginning were that boys should wear 'boy things' and be masculine, and when he ended up hurting Nao and Tomo and realized that Rio had a crush on a guy, he had to dial it back and realize he didn't want to hurt them and maybe it wasn't such a big deal if they wanted to do it. Plus by then he was so used to wearing feminine clothes he was putting on panties by habit haha.
This really isn't supposed to be a manga to make you think that deep but I enjoyed the glimpses of queerness and I did find it fun while it lasted (the manga was cancelled, but it ended at a fine spot).
I was surprised on reading the JP wiki to learn that there was a novel, a web drama and another story called 'I Want to Be an Otokonoko' about a "girls" idol unit called Cherry Lips. I might have to translate the web stories some time (they're preserved via the wayback machine).
A fun and light hearted read, Cherry Girls is a real keeper! Nothing new or revolutionary, but a genre executed to perfection, I think.
Highly recommended for anyone, even people new to this area. Good and mostly clean fun!
It's SOOO weird!! OMG! All the traps _ it's too much! but at the same time I'm laughing on the side. Traps are a guilty pleasure and this manga is an overdose of it...lord help me! XD