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Upside Down
Upside Down
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Synopsis

Have you ever had something happen to you that made you think, ‘it’s the end of the world?’
What if something really did happen that ends your world as you know it?
How would you deal with it?
Would you give up?
Do the best you could to live with the new circumstances?
What if it wasn’t the world, but you that changed?
What do you do when your world is turned upside down?

After inadvertently drinking out of a flask which contained nanites his parents developed before their death, Sora Ito wakes up almost a month later as a girl. Not just a girl, but a fertile girl in a world where less than 20% of them are fertile.

What is a boy (girl), who is Androphobic, Enochlophobia, shy and withdrawn, supposed to do when governments and corporations will do anything to solve the world's population problem?

This has a GB tag, but only at first. It’s not about him fighting to hold on to who he was, you’ll later find out why. So, if you expect the standard GB template story, you’ll be sadly disappointed.
Actually, this is a slow-paced novel more about the character interactions around Sora. Sort of a multi-genre SOL. It’s slow, then picks up and slows down again repeatedly. She goes through several personality changes over the course of time. So hang in there folks. My Patreons love this. Not all tags are relevant until much later.

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DramaGender BenderMaturePsychologicalRomanceSci-fiSlice of Life
Tags
Appearance Changes Beautiful Female Lead Bisexual Protagonist Childhood Friends Female Protagonist Genetic Modifications Genius Protagonist Male to Female Multiple POV Personality Changes R-18 Siblings Not Related by Blood Sister Complex Tragic Past Weak to Strong
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Upside Down – Ad Hominem (Shared Universe)
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    SovietWeeb
    Status: c26

    Been a bit since I've bothered writing a review so I might be a bit rusty. 

    This is an interesting story. It's not awful, But I don't think it's great. I found a fair amount of issues with it. But in the end, I did find enjoyment out of it.

    Things such as being overly drama oriented and some nonsensical revelations, story-arcs, and in my opinion some bad world building. Just so I'm not going into much of spoilers, I'll keep it to one or two examples. 

    One of the things that are rarely ever mentioned and I, for the most part, didn't even realize it till I was well into the story was that this takes place in the future. The story nonchalantly reveals that there is an infertile epidemic happening. I guess this wouldn't be a bad plot line. But the issue is that it's rarely address tell much later onto the story. With again it being nonchalantly revealed that the government enforces marriage or baby making for fertile women at the age of 21. Not only is this absurd but it's made even funnier for me when it's also revealed that it can be a death penalty for anyone that harms fertile females. I that might be something interesting except it seems more something that would fit in dystopian societies.  I could go on more about my dislike for this part but I won't.

    The second part features more spoiler heavy stuff. 

    Spoiler

    Near chapter 20 or so we get this story arch of the MC seeing a shrink. The issue is that the first day the MC visits. All of the problems are solved by some questionable tactics that I really can't see ever being approved without a system in place for a higher authority to green light it. The MC is pretty much put into a trance and is told to associate all the bad memories with the male self and all the good stuff with their new female persona. The male memories of the MC will now feel like someone else's memory to the MC. This is kind of horrifying as now the MC only has good memories about the female self with any bad stuff being blocked off. This can not end well in any way. 

    What is probably the worst part about this is that the MC is never told (In fact no one is) That the therapist will tell the MC to forget all about their male self. The MC is now believing they've always been a female. That's such an awful thing to do to someone without their consent or even in general. I am assuming this won't last but it still stands as being highly questionable. 

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    I was also partially disappointed with the overall structure. This story focuses way too much on the MC's drama. I think it may have been good if it was better spaced with the MC daily life. Such as the MC returning to school. What's even weirder is that near chapter 20 it's revealed the MC is actually 13. I was under the impression the MC was more like 16-18. The way the MC acts and the fact that the MC has such a developed body at that age is a little weird.

    I don't think the story is all bad and shouldn't just be shoved aside. I think if the description of the story sounds interesting to you then you should check it out. This is just my opinion. Hell, The grammar in this is good and that's not something you can say for a lot of other stories.

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    LiaFeil
    Status: c89

    Spoiler

    It's a bit disappointing, I think I'll find a nice girl love story. Yes, I found it. And yes, that is very nice.

    but when the story continues, I find that the main character falls in love with another man. Quite disappointing.

    especially in chapter 89, you have to be careful there.

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    I agree with what SovietWeeb said, and I won't talk too much. This story is quite interesting, and I like it enough.

    Oh, that bothers me how the main character wants too much s*x. Damn, MC is only a 13 year old kid !!

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    NRAmember
    Status: chapter 149: winter vacation (part 1)

    Phenomenal series with unique twist on the gender bender genre. 

    Very powerful heart wrenching emotions transition to a nice and fun to read slice of life that keeps you waiting for more.

    Can not wait until next chapter is released. 

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    TheCritiuqeTimes
    Status: chapter 15: fallout (part 2)

    Sometimes it feels like watching a drama show

    but the plot just gets more and more ridiculous

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    KatherineFtw
    Status: chapter 64: normal day?

    Maybe not the thing for more neache communities that the tags usually imply. This is more so trans-fantasy than straight Yuri. Stick with it and you get a fairly good slice-of-life novel set in neo-future japan.

    Do feel like this could use a change in tags though. Add Smut, replace Yuri with Yuri Subplot being the main ones.

    On a side note: If you're personally unhappy with not every GB novel being Yuri, then stop thinking the GB tag is the yuri tag.

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    posiedon11
    Status: chapter 88: the dance (part 3)

    This is my first review ever, so it’s probably going to suck.

    The premise is good, my main issue is that there seems to be to much focus on appearances, with a good portion of the story spot on what the characters wear and how good the look in them. All the characters are supposedly beautiful, which may just be the lens that the MC is seeing them through, and this in my opinion makes beauty less important if all of them are. 

     The MC also does not have enough interactions with other characters that are not apart of her family, which I believe could help with world feel more alive.

    One last thing, when there are multiple POVs, it sometimes feels like a copy paste of what the MC thought, in some cases it appears that some sentences were just copied, and I’m not talking about spoken dialogue.

    Final thoughts, it’s fairly good, but the author just needs to take some time to flesh out the world and it’s current state, with some more in depth explanations of some of the plot points.

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    CrazyMinh
    Status: chapter 01

    I hate to say it, but this story didn't really grab me in a good way. While the premise is... interesting, the execution of the plot as well as the distinct lack of technical skill displayed in the actual structure and editing of the story make this a story I can't recommend.

    The initial premise is great. In fact, the idea of a reduced fertility rate leading to a change in established society has been done very well before in fiction, with a standout depiction being Children of Men, a film from 2006 where world fertility rates have practically dropped to zero, except in the case of a single woman who immediately becomes a target of a oppressive dystopian British government.

    This story takes this very cool (and also extremely relevant in a era where the fertility of male sperm is actually beginning to drop, the potential causes of which are actually really interesting from a scientific and sociological perspective) idea, and makes a thirteen year old trans girl be the salvation to the fertility problem.

    This... this is not tasteful. First off, I don't care that the age of consent varies worldwide, you are talking about a child who has barely entered puberty. The issue isn't that the fictional character is now in a vulnerable position, but rather that I can already see where this story is going with this, and I really don't like it.

    Furthermore, a cursory skim of later chapters shows a staggering lack of comprehension on the behalf of the author about how such a sudden and unwanted change of gender would impact a person such as the protagonist. I struggled with gender dysphoria for years (and still do to an extent), and I was born into the wrong body, not changed against my will. Other stories on this site- including The Sisters of Dorley  by alysongreaves; or QuietValerie's extensive collection of Troubleverse stories- handle the issue of dysphoria in a nuanced and genuine way, which is better representative of the experience of being trans. 

    Meanwhile, in this story, the protagonist cries a little because they suddenly have breasts, before immediately oggling themselves in the mirror. To the story's credit, it does tell us that the protagonist is depressed, upset, and angry about their unwanted gender change... but that's the thing, isn't it? It tells us. The basic maxim of all storytelling is "show, don't tell". I don't want to hear the protagonist narrate to the fourth wall how depressed and upset they are. I want to see them experience it, not give lip service to their apparently emotional state. It also doesn't help that, within the first two paragraphs of the third chapter- the chapter immediately after the protagonist is told about what has happened- the protagonist oscilates in the space of a line break between feeling what could generously be called dysphoria-themed wangsting to thinking about all the boys who'll want to oggle them. And how they'll be really attractive at school.

    On that note, the worldbuilding here is shoddy. Apparently, a virus has caused infertility rates amongst most of... humanity?... the population of Japan?... it's not immediately clear, and I really am not engaged enough to read further and find out. In any case, this virus happened an indeterminate length of time in the past, but apparently there are very few children actually around, implying that the protagonist's generation was born following the pandemic, and that there are so few that a nurse in a major urban hospital rarely gets a chance to treat underage patients. 

    OK, cool, so maybe the population is so spread out that she rarely sees children... ah, but that also means that large high schools are unlikely to exist as well, just for similar reasons as to why a large number of rural Japanese high schools IRL are also closing- lack of students, and lack of new children to attend schools.

    The issue is that the statistics given make no sense. It is stated that children occupy 13% of the total population (by which I assume the author means on a national level). This is already higher than the actual percentage of children aged 0-14 in Japan as of the 2020 census, which was estimated to be around 12% of the national population. That alone is around 15 million children and change out of a total population of 125.7 million

    And this means absolutely nothing as far as fertility rates go. For comparison, the percentage of my own country (Australia) 's total population aged 0-14 as of the last census in 2016 was 18.6%, totalling around 4.3 million children. We have a fraction of the total Japanese population, meaning we actually average out with less children, with around 4.6 million children out of a total population of 25.69 million. Yet our population is increasing, meaning that the percentage of children out of the total population of a country is absolutely meaningless.

    Even if it's taken to be 13% of children worldwide, and even assuming that the world population has declined a generous two billion since this virus (which is a lot of people, but whatever, maybe this was a really bad pandemic), that's still 780 million children worldwide, give or take. Which isn't that bad considering that there are an estimated two billion children alive today. I mean, sure, that's a pretty significant drop of around 1.22 billion children, but it's not quite an extinction level event. Those children haven't died, they're just not being replaced as they age up.

    In addition to this, the stated statistic that only 20% of women are fertile worldwide is... dubious. If the drop in the number of children (assuming that the 13% child-to-total-population ration is worldwide), that's a 63.9% drop in world population, and within the statistically most stable age range of 5-14 year olds as well. So this implies that worst case there are 2.8 billion people left alive out of eight billion. OK, pretty bad, but again, a genetically diverse population can be built from as few as 500 people (assuming you want to have a buffer against loss of genetic diversity). The world as we know it would pretty much be over, and by this point where 65% of the human race are dead the world economy would be pretty much boned, but it's not exactly armageddon.

    So, assuming consistant survival rates between genders and age groups, let's figure out how many fertile women between the ages of 15 and 64 would remain alive (as women are not fertile for their entire lives). According to the world bank, there are 2.55 billion women aged in that range as of now. This is about 31% of the world population. The remaining 69% are either male or women too young or too old to viably reproduce (and that's with some margin for error, menopause can affect women at different points, including within the age range I specified. Yes, I am being sloppy with my math. No, I do not care, it only makes my point stronger).

    Assuming that 65% of the total population died off, this means that only 16120000 women worldwide would be capable of reproduction. Since the story claims only 20% of all women able to reproduce can actually become pregnant due to this mystery virus, this means that, worldwide, there are three million woman capable of carrying children.

    And this distribution is in no way even, and would be affected by the gender distribition of the nations in which they reside. So a country like Japan where, I dunno, 51.18 of the population are female, this means there are at least 24, 663 women in Japan who can reproduce. Out of a post-disaster population of eighty one million (not accounting for the existing decline in birth rate because I don't know the goddamn year and that's needed to do growth/decay calculations). Of this eighty one million, around thirty nine million are men, although how many of them are prebescant children or suffer from some sort of reproductive issue of their own is unknown. This means that, all in all, there is a ratio of one woman to every 1621 men in Japan.

    Which is barely an issue considering that a) a good deal of these men will be elderly thanks to the aging problem, and therefore not exactly going to be having s*x with a fifteen year old unless they want prison time, b) the Japanese population has a large quantity of shut-in men aged in the 15-25 demographic who are not likely to be part of the breeding stock, and c) that ratio is pretty good considering that this also doesn't factor in men who are gay, women who are lesbians, or women who do not wish to reproduce. It also doesn't mean the world is f**ked, because there are still people who can reproduce, and there are apparently more than enough of them to sustain a genetically viable population (remember, minimum 500, maximum 1000 people of reproductive age).

    This does mean that the population will drop significantly, probably to the point where order breaks down, but it does not mean the world is over, and it does give humans a chance of survival when the population restabilises.

    Moving on from this, the story also lacks competence from a technical aspect. Paragraphs are broken up into way too small chunks, making text overly digestible, and making the story appear choppy. Descriptions are not given adequate detail to set scenes or flesh out the world, meaning everything seems to take place in a blank white void. There is more description given to the main chararacter's bust size than there is given to the hospital room she wakes up in, which appears to consist solely of a bed and a mirror. There is a distinct lack of correct dialogue structure, with dialogue placed in a single unbroken chunk, and often put on the same line as other dialogue, making conversations hard to follow. The fic has numerous awkwardly written phrases that could have been written way better, and fails to take advantage of formatting tricks to make the text more professionally formatted. The pacing is extremely rapid, with each chapter taking up a ludicrously small amount of words compared to an average novel-length chapter. The only reason each chapter isn't confined to a single page is that the author is deeply, madly in love with their enter key and uses it excessively to space out what little text they have.

    Overall, this story isn't the worst, but it isn't good either. Cannot reccomend. 3/5 for giving me a cool math problem to solve, but no points for effort.

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