うちの旦那はお嫁さん (ZERO-SUMス)

Husband is kind of annoying

There is Furigana, so reading this isn't very hard. The husband speaks overly femininely, so you can compare and contrast that to his more neutral wife.

I picked this up because I thought it might have something interesting to say about gender, but it wasn't so. Haru basically likes dressing femininely, to the point that wearing suits feels like "cosplay" to him, but he also refers to himself solidly as a man and his sexuality basically boils down to "my wife", so there's no interrogation of that. He also dresses as a man when necessary, and when he does so he's perceived as hot by her friends. So this all stays safely within the confines of cisheterosexuality.

That's all fine and all, but what really annoyed me about him was how insecure he is. He does multiple things that I would expect to only see from a couple that just started dating rather than one that's actually married, such as come to her workplace when she says not to. He basically follows her to meetings where he's afraid he might have competitors multiple times, with or without her knowledge. His energy also clearly gets too much for her at times, but the work insists that they make it work (the mismatch made me exhausted reading it, on the other hand). I just don't think his clingy behavior and him following her around whenever he gets the least bit insecure is healthy, interesting, or cute. He leaps to conclusions all the time. Do you trust your partner or not?

They also don't go into his upbringing at all, which seems like a miss. It just makes him a satellite love interest.

On the other hand, Mei is great, I like her a lot. Though the way she acted as a teen doesn't really match up entirely with how she acts now, and that confuses me slightly.

The other interesting thing is that this book did its best to avoid even the slight mention of sex. While that's fine with me (and it would certainly be problematic if it swung too hard in the opposite direction), it struck me as kind of weird to not even hint at it as something they do once in a blue moon off-page considering that they're married. As neither of them are called asexual or anything like that, it feels kind of like a desexualization of someone who is gender-nonconforming. Maybe it was to avoid implying that the feminine dress was in any way a fetish, but it still felt a bit weird since even shoujo manga with teens will hint at this stuff.

So anyway, I guess this book is basically fluff for people who like feminine high-energy men in heterosexual relationships.