Balance Policy

Balance Policy
The cover art features Kenji, a character in a girls' school uniform, against a white background.
Volume 1 cover art, featuring Kenji
バランスポリシー
(Baransu Porishī)
GenreScience fiction[1]
Manga
Written byAkihito Yoshitomi
Published byShōnen Gahōsha
ImprintTS Comics
MagazineChange H[a]
DemographicSeinen
Original runApril 26, 2010 – February 28, 2014
Volumes2 (List of volumes)
Manga
Tokyo Shoujo
Written byAkihito Yoshitomi
Published byShōnen Gahōsha
ImprintYK Comics
MagazineYoung Comic
DemographicSeinen
PublishedJune 10, 2016
Volumes1

Balance Policy (Japanese: バランスポリシー, Hepburn: Baransu Porishī) is a science fiction manga series by Akihito Yoshitomi. It was originally planned as a six-page story, but was expanded as Yoshitomi saw potential to develop the setting further, and was serialized by Shōnen Gahōsha in 2010–2014 in their magazine Change H;[a] it has since been collected in two tankōbon volumes. A one-shot finale, Tokyo Shoujo (東京少女, "Tokyo Girl"), was published in 2016, and was collected in a volume together with Yoshitomi's series Lily System in 2019.

The story is set in the near future in Japan after birth rates have declined significantly, and follows Kenji, who has been chosen to be part of a government initiative to counteract this with a feminization procedure making men able to give birth. Critics called the story emotionally resonant but considered its premise of forcibly having one's body altered questionable.

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