トモちゃんは女の子! 1

Slangy, funny, only slightly off

Tomo has a crush on her best friend Jun, who only recognises her as his best bros! One of the easier 4-komas I've read, though largely due to the vocabulary being relatively simple, Tomo-chan is a relatively breezy read. There's a lot of high school slang (male and female) deployed, so knowing a certain amount of slangy contractions is very helpful, but in language terms I wouldn't say this one is too difficult. It's pretty funny, too, though to my mind it has an at heart relatively traditional view of gender roles despite its seemingly outside-the-box premise.

While Tomo's backup crew of Misuzu and Carol (who are both trolls in different ways) are some of the funniest characters around, and Tomo herself is enjoyable in a hot-blooded kind of way, her love interest Jun is denser than a bag of bricks and can kind of bring the mood down at times. Still, the manga is better at pacing than the anime at least.