I'm looking for a strong, tomboyish woman who meets a romantic interest and forces or leads her to embrace her femininity. She has to end up with this guy, by the way!

This, by no means, does it mean she turns into a damsel in distress, or a weak, stupid clingy schoolgirl or whatever. By embracing femininity, it means meeting a man who is equal or of more strength than her, who causes her to recognize qualities inside of her that she long suppressed, but is starting to acknowledge it. That there is nothing wrong with being a woman, that being feminine does not mean being weak, but it simply means strength in a different way, ways that the male could never hope to be. She does not lose her qualities that made her strong in the first place, but by falling in love and getting in touch with her woman side, it enhances her. I'm looking for reads that focuses on soul-searching on this very issue.

Please do not recommend me cross-dressing comedy manga or whatever - most of the times, the crossdressing is there for plot device.

Titles such as:

Hana no kishi

I've read:

Basara. (I have a feeling someone would suggest this.)


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best shonen manga couples :

shinichi X ran
natsu X erza
ippo X kumi
naruto X gaara

Well, Magnolia KIND of counts, I mean, um... How do I say this without giving up the plot?

... Actually, I can't say what the real deal is without giving up the plot, but suffice it to say that the protagonist ends up having to make a choice between being feminine and masculine, and ends up choosing to be feminine because of a guy.

Full Metal Panic! - hm I guess it counts (haven't read the light novels, also, the main heroine is still pretty tomboyish)
Darling wa Namamono ni Tsuki - I think that's what you're looking for...
Biyaku Cafe - several couples, two of them might be what you're looking for (I know it's smut, but I define this as tasteful smut )


-> just realized,it's not that easy to think of something that fits this request.

These are lighter, short reads:

Beast Master - holy cow this girl has guts...
and possibly Otokomae! Beads Kurabu (trying to remember... yeah... I think so).
Kimi wa Girlfriend - well, she has raised with like... 7 brothers?

Longer reads with character development:

Koukou Debut - this may be the closest to what you're looking for... but in my opinion, the story kind of dragged on after a certain point... but it has a lot of great reviews from other people, so don't let my opinion deter you!!! It's a pretty sweet beginning!

I'm not sure if you will accept josei, but I think that Kimi wa Pet is a good one... she may not be tomboy-ish... but she's pretty "manly" in the corporate world... well, at least she's an independent woman. Lots of interior dialogue / self-reflections.

Your my Girlfriend
Ice revolution.