Otokonoko Zuma

• Name — Otokonoko Zuma • Ja Kanji — おとこのこ妻 • Genre — Romantic comedy, slice of life

• Type — manga • Author — Crystal na Yousuke • Publisher — Shogakukan • Imprint — Shōnen Sunday Comics Special • Magazine — Sunday Webry • First — July 15, 2016 • Last — January 31, 2020 • Volumes — 3 • Volume List — #Volumes Otokonoko Zuma is a slice-of-life romantic comedy manga series written and drawn by Crystal na Yousuke. Shogakukan serialized it through its webcomic platform Sunday Webry from July 15, 2016, to January 31, 2020, and released it across three collected tankōbon volumes between 2017 and 2020. The story follows a married couple, Yuki and Kou, through short chapters depicting their everyday life. Although they are both men, they consider themselves wife and husband, and Yuki dresses like a woman. The series was well received by critics, who liked the portrayal of Yuki and Kou's romantic relationship, and found Yuki a cute and appealing character.

Otokonoko Zuma is a romantic comedy manga following a loving married couple: the soft-spoken and feminine Yuki, and the honest and quirky Kou. Although the two appear to be a heterosexual couple and consider themselves wife and husband, Yuki is a cross-dressing man. Each chapter follows a slice-of-life scenario such as Yuki and Kou meeting acquaintances or going to the cinema, but also situations arising from how Yuki is cross-dressing and how others react to him, such as when he goes to the men's public bath or uses the men's bathroom. Yuki thinks cross-dressing is embarrassing at times, but still enjoys doing it and loves making Kou happy by being cute.

Otokonoko Zuma was written and drawn by Crystal na Yousuke, using a short-form, eight-page format for the chapters. It was serialized by Shogakukan on a monthly basis through their webcomic platform Sunday Webry from July 15, 2016, to January 31, 2020, and was collected in three tankōbon volumes from 2017 to 2020 under Shogakukan's Shounen Sunday Comics imprint. The release schedule for the volumes was slower than usual for manga due to how only eight new pages were published each month, meaning it took more than a year to accumulate enough new chapters to fill a whole tankōbon volume.