Book#017, Japanesque Collection, Themes: Sci-Fi Body Swap / Cloning / Fugitive Thriller, Keywords: Cloning, Memory Transfer, IPS Cells, Male to Female (MtF), Identity Crisis, Doppelganger, Yuri / Lesbian Romance, Runaway, CEO Protagonist
He paid 200 million yen for a second life. He didn’t expect to wake up as a girl.
Daigo Kousaka is a brilliant IT CEO with everything to lose. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, he bets his fortune on two experimental technologies: a radical immune-boosting drug, and “Genuine Clone”, a forbidden service that grows a rapid-maturity clone and transfers the user’s memories.
The impossible happens: Both treatments succeed.
The original Daigo recovers. But the clone wakes up in a lab, strapped to a bed, with all of Daigo’s memories… but in a female body. Marked for “disposal” to hide the illegal experiment, the clone, now naming herself Rina, escapes into the Tokyo night.
Armed with a CEO’s intellect but trapped in the body of a 20-year-old woman, Rina must learn to survive as a fugitive. From navigating women’s fashion to exploring unexpected desires with a runaway girl, Rina discovers that being a copy might be more fun than being the original.
But the original Daigo is looking for her. And he has a plan for his new “sister.”
[CONTENT WARNING] Contains themes of: Cloning ethics, existential dread (identity crisis), medical restraint, periods/menstruation discussion, and lesbian/yuri intimacy.
Heat Level (1-5) 3 (Steamy / Exploratory) The focus is largely on the thriller/survival aspect and the “slice of life” of becoming a woman (buying clothes, makeup). However, the scenes with the runaway girl (Shiho) involve lesbian sexual discovery.