AniWorthWhen I Woke Up I Became a Bagel Girl
Introduction
Bong Gi used to have dreams of making something of his life. But now all that seems like a distant memory. He has become fat, lazy, unemployed, and altogether unlovable. In the real world, people are grossed out by him. He has never had a girlfriend and he spends his late nights fantasizing about women whose pictures he leers at on the internet. His own life appalls him, but he has one escape – his online life. Gaming has become his everything, and he excels at it.
After another long, lonely night of gaming, he wakes up – and is shocked to find that he has transformed into a woman. Or to be more precise, a woman who looks a lot like those he used to lust after online! Confused, he does not know where to turn – so looks for answers on the net. He encounters a young woman in a chat forum named Sae Mi, who offers him advice. He soon falls for her charms – which makes things complicated to say the least. And things get even more bizarre when he attempts to take revenge on Sang Woo, a school bully who turns out to be Sae Mi’s older brother!
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Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 6.24/10 · 4281
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Audience reviews
4 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
ShadowBlah
Korean cinema seemingly never fails to have an interesting, if not great, premise and execute it spectacularly until about halfway, where the tone whiplashes - fine enough - only to annihilate any goodwill it built up with me in the first half.
It turns out this isn't just a Slice of Life-Genderbender-Comedy, but also a Mystery show, as is readily apparent just from the title: Why and how did the protagonist turn into a girl? It's pretty cool until you realize the protagonist isn't genre savvy. This starts, as I mentioned, about halfway through, but goes beyond the pale at about Episode 9 or 10. I was screaming at the screen I was so angry.
Maybe I'm just too smart or something, but I only needed until Episode 7 to build a functioning model in my head of what happened. The mystery wasn't…
Read at the sourceInvidiaSan
Baiting at its finest. This anime will promote itself as an anime with a trans main character and a comedy, and out of the blue will pull a dramatic mexican telenovela plot and don't know what to do with it.
Basically the beginning was great and the story was doing well as a comedy just as the trailer promoted. Bong Ji/Ah Reum, Se Mi and her brother were good characters, and the arc of the protagonist discovering what it was like to live as a woman was pretty good.
At this rate, the anime would do greatly by continuing to focus on Ah Reum's life and how she accepts her new body. We even have some sweet scenes with her and Se Mi to give her development. And this development goes nowhere.
Somehow someone decided that it would be a nice idea to switch the idea of the show completely and mak…
Read at the source1anime4you
The show starts off as a somewhat lighthearted comedy about a weeb, named Bong Gi, who – after coming home frustrated from work one night – magically transforms into an attractive, young woman.
The first half of the show mainly deals with Gi coming to terms with the fact that he is now a woman, and we get to see how he adapts to this new reality as he establishes new relationships and overcomes various hurdles associated with being a young woman in modern Korean society. As you can imagine, many awkward situations and encounters ensue, which in turn, bring much hilarity to the viewer.
That being said, it is already apparent from the get go that the show is not your run of the mill gender bender comedy flick, as there is some rather serious (if not – at times – scathing) social commentary…
Read at the sourceSamways
The story is basically about a bullied overweight guy that turns into a hot girl with some hugely sized chest equipment. It's not super innovative or anything, but it's reasonably interesting as that particular kind of a wish fulfillment type of show. S/he has a series of troubles like buying underwear and various job related stuff. She tries and somewhat manages to get back at some bullies too and then gets involved in some pretty serious mystery.
It has a number of ecchi scenes and some interesting side characters, like a girl that helps him out with shopping and stuff from the very beginning when he's all surprised and confused.
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