Twelfth Night Adventure: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'', in which our heroine Haruhi is talked into joining the club and masquerading as a wholesomely sweet boy to cater to their female clientele. It deviates from the usual formula in that her clubmates, at least, are fully aware of the ruse.

** Also in that it's not really Haruhi (who simply has boyish tastes in clothing and hairstyle, and is entirely indifferent to what sex people think she is) trying to maintain the masquerade, but ''everybody around her''.

* In ''[[Maria Holic]]'', the crossdresser in question is actually ''not'' the main character. He is also ''apparently'' a cruel person who cares not one whit about other people.

* In the first OVA of ''[[El Hazard]]'', after finding himself in another dimension, the main character Makoto is forced to crossdress in order to pose as the missing princess Fatora.

* The manga series ''[[Mint Na Bokura]]'' is about a boy whose [[Half-Identical Twins|twin sister]] transfers to a boarding school to be closer to the boy she has a crush on. He transfers to the same school because he doesn't want to be separated from her, but there's a catch: the boys' dorm is full, so he has to disguise himself as a girl and live in the girls' dorm.

* In ''[[Hana Kimi]]'', a Japanese-American girl wanted so much to meet her idol she decided to enroll the same school he attends. The problem is that he attends an all-boys school. He soon found out and started to like her. The plot point is that he doesn't know she likes him and she thinks he still doesn't know she's a girl. {{spoiler|When rumours start to abound of a girl on campus and her facade starts to crack via various Bridget-droppings, she decides to transfer to a public school while the going's still good, though [[Bittersweet Ending|she and her idol meet up again in college and become an item in the epilogue]].}}

* In [[Marugoto Anju Gakuen]], our protagonist is pretty much ''forced'' to join an all-girl academy for yokais by his mother.

 

== [[Fan Fiction]] ==

 

== [[Film]] ==

* The truly [[Squick|squick-tacular]] Wayan Brothers film ''[[White Chicks]]'' has two black male police officers masquerade as [[Gonk|hideously ugly]] white valley-girls.

** And two decades earlier, a girl infiltrates another high school's senior class as a boy to try to prove gender bias in her school's newspaper in ''[[Just One Of The Guys]].'' The fact that her name was Terry didn't hurt. The funny part is, she failed miserably -- turns out her writing to start with wasn't very good -- but the [[Twelfth Night]] plot helped her to improve.

** Although one does notice that the character is drawn differently when she pretends to be a man. Look at the movie poster where half of her face is reflected in a sword. Notice her nose and jaw.

** And apparently her eyebrows grew in no time.