Femboy webtoons and manhua are easy to find and hard to recommend. Search and you get fan lists that mix in Japanese titles and school settings. This page is the checked version: Chinese manhua and Korean webtoons with a lead or co-lead who dresses or presents femininely, every one with an official English release, and the app to read each one on.
It's the companion to our femboy manga list, which is where to start. That list already covers the best-known Korean and Chinese titles (Lady Crystal Is a Man, Reunion, Men's Wear Store and "Her Royal Highness" and A Cross-Dresser's Triple Proposal Chase), so here they get a line each and the rest of the page goes to the series it doesn't have.
Every lead here is an adult in canon. We left out anything set in school, anything whose only English edition carries an adult rating, and anything where the lead physically turns into a woman. For the animated version, our femboy anime characters list applies the same rule.
Webtoon, manhua, manhwa: the short version
A webtoon is a format, not a country: an episodic comic drawn as one long vertical strip for reading on a phone. Manhua are Chinese-language comics, from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Manhwa is the Korean word for comics, and in English it means Korean comics specifically. Most new manhua and manhwa are published as webtoons, which is why the three words get used interchangeably.
None of these series would call its lead a femboy, an English word and a newer one. What they share is a man who dresses or carries himself in a way the people around him read as feminine. For some it's a disguise; for others it's a job, or just how they like to dress.
The list at a glance
| Title | Origin | Official English home | Free or paid | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Tough First Love | China | Tapas, WebComics | Wait-until-free on Tapas | Complete, 62 episodes |
| It's Not As If I Wanted to Dress Like a Woman | China | Coolmic, HyperComic | 5 free on Coolmic, then paid | English still releasing |
| My Graduate Roommate in Women's Clothes | China | WebComics | First chapters free, then gems | Complete, 74 chapters |
| Superstar From Today | China | WebComics | First chapters free, then gems | English stalled at 249 |
| Beauty and the Raven | Korea | Tappytoon (16+), Manta, Tapas | First episodes free, then coins | Complete, 92 episodes |
Checked on each platform's own page on 12 October 2026. Anything on Tapas has a deadline: it closes on 31 March 2027.
Chinese manhua
A Tough First Love — Li Ge Yi and Bu Bu Xing Qiu
The best fit on the page. Zhou Chengyi is 27, a ruthless investor who has never had time for romance, and he falls hard for a face on a billboard. The model is Dao Tian, a man whose job is modelling women's fashion. It's a BL office romance with plenty of comedy, and Dao Tian is a professional, not someone hiding a secret.
The clothes are a career, and the story treats them that way. In spirit it's the closest thing here to My Androgynous Boyfriend on our manga list, and it's short enough to read in a weekend.
Is he an adult? Yes, and it's stated: Tapas gives Zhou's age as 27, and Dao Tian is a working model.
English: Tapas, 62 episodes, complete, wait-until-free; also WebComics, 63 chapters, complete, with the first chapters free.
It's Not As If I Wanted to Dress Like a Woman — Cat Island Studio
The office comedy. Lin Zicheng is straight and practical, so when a job offers him triple pay to come to work in a dress, he takes it. He didn't plan on Gu Fang, a CEO famous for never looking at a woman, falling for him at first sight. Lin spends the series trying to keep his job, his disguise and his dignity, roughly in that order.
The jokes are about the misunderstanding, never about him being in a dress. It's light, fast, and one of the few office-set titles in the genre.
Is he an adult? Yes. He's a salaried employee, and his love interest is the company's CEO.
English: Coolmic, the first five episodes free and the rest paid; Coolmic doesn't mark it as mature. The first ten episodes are also free on HyperComic. It's a Bilibili Comics title that survived that service's English closure in February 2024.
My Graduate Roommate in Women's Clothes — Daoshang Project
The streamer one. Qi Tong is 1.78 metres tall and has a huge livestream following for being cute, with fans of every gender. The one person who's completely unmoved is his roommate, Chen Baifei, who just wants to get through his degree and graduate on time, and Qi Tong keeps making that harder.
It's a BL comedy with the most current premise on the list: a femboy streamer whose look is his brand. Qi Tong's confidence is the whole point.
Is he an adult? Yes. They're university roommates, and the plot runs on Chen trying to graduate.
English: WebComics, 74 chapters, complete, with the first chapters free and the rest unlocked with gems.
Superstar From Today — Shidai Man Wang
The showbiz one. Qin Ze wants a quiet, handsome, ordinary life at university. His sister has other plans, dresses him up, and before long he's being pushed into the entertainment industry as someone he isn't.
It's long and closer to a career drama than a romance, the pick for idol-story fans.
Is he an adult? Yes. The official synopsis places him at university.
English: WebComics, 249 chapters, first chapters free. One warning: the English edition has stopped at chapter 249 and the platform still lists it as ongoing, while the Chinese original ran past 400 and finished. Read it knowing the English may never catch up.
Korean webtoons
Beauty and the Raven — Kkochnilang and Seong Hyeon
The dark horse. Evelyn was born with black hair and black eyes in an empire that reads them as a curse, and she's been treated as a disgrace her whole life. Years after the debutante ball where she first met her rival, she has walked away from her title and captains a mercenary band. Her newest client is Ansian (Anisian on Tapas), the dazzling silver-haired heir of the rival house, introduced as a grand duchess. The official blurbs keep the secret carefully. MangaUpdates' doesn't: he must pretend to be another.
It's the darkest romance here: two people each punished for how they look, both very good at hiding, and Ansian's disguise drives the whole plot.
Is he an adult? Yes. The story picks up years after their debut, with Evelyn running a mercenary company.
English: Tappytoon (16+, completed, prologue to episode 3 free), Manta (92 episodes) and Tapas (92 episodes, wait-until-free). It lost a home when Pocket Comics closed in October 2025 and was re-released on Tappytoon and Manta.
Also on our manga list
These four are written up on our femboy manga list, with where to read each.
- Lady Crystal Is a Man (Korea, Tapas, complete): a duke's son raised as a daughter, hiding from his family in a rival duke's house. On the manga list →
- Men's Wear Store and "Her Royal Highness" (China, WebComics, complete): a shop owner who wears suits, Lolita and hanfu as he likes, and a design student sure he's straight. On the manga list →
- Reunion (Korea, Tappytoon 16+ and Manta; Ize Press print): a serious BL about a disguise he wore seven years ago. On the manga list →
- A Cross-Dresser's Triple Proposal Chase (China, WebComics, complete): an actor stuck playing the heroine of a romance game. On the manga list →
Near misses
- Netkama Punch!!! (Tappytoon, 16+, complete) is about adults and very good, but its lead plays a girl in an online game rather than dressing as one.
- I'm the Only One Who Doesn't Know the Villainess Is a Man started in English on Manta on 9 October 2026. Nothing official we found gives the characters' ages, so it waits for now.
- Pixel of Life would have fitted, with an adult office worker and a rival who turns out to be a man, but Tappytoon lists it as no longer available and we can't find another English home.
- English-original webtoons. WEBTOON's femboy comics are mostly on Canvas, its self-published section, and many are set in school; none of WEBTOON's or Tapas's own Originals passed our rules. If one turns up, it goes on this page.
Where to read
- WebComics: the English home of three of the four manhua here. The first chapters are free and the rest unlock with gems, which the app also hands out free in small amounts.
- Tapas (Kakao): A Tough First Love and an edition of Beauty and the Raven. Wait-until-free on a one-day timer. Tapas stopped selling Ink on 1 October 2026 and closes at 23:59 Pacific time on 31 March 2027. Unlocked episodes go with it and can't be moved to another Kakao service, so read on the free timer.
- Tappytoon: the 16+ edition of Beauty and the Raven. A few episodes free, then coins.
- Manta (RIDI): the all-ages edition of Beauty and the Raven. A few episodes free, then gems or a subscription.
- Coolmic and HyperComic: It's Not As If I Wanted to Dress Like a Woman, one of the Bilibili Comics titles that found a new English home.
By region. The Tapas, Tappytoon, Manta and WEBTOON apps are all on Apple's App Store in India, Indonesia, the US, Brazil and Russia (checked 12 October 2026), though licences can still vary by title. In Russia, Google Play billing has been paused since March 2022, so Android in-app purchases won't go through; free and wait-until-free episodes are the realistic route there.
Reading on official platforms, even for free, is what keeps this niche licensed. English homes keep closing: Bilibili Comics in February 2024, Pocket Comics in October 2025, Tapas in March 2027. Several series on this page have already lost a home once.
Questions people ask
What's the difference between webtoons, manhua and manhwa?
A webtoon is the vertical-scroll phone format. Manhua are Chinese comics and manhwa are Korean ones, and both now mostly come out as webtoons. So A Tough First Love is a manhua published as a webtoon, and Beauty and the Raven is a manhwa published as one. Japanese comics are manga, and they're on our femboy manga list.
Why are there so few femboy webtoons in English?
The genre's two biggest shelves are school romance and adult-rated BL, and neither fits a list like this. Many English editions also vanished with their platforms. What's left with an official English edition is this page and the webcomic half of our manga list.
Is there one official app for all of these?
No. Licences are split across Tapas, Tappytoon, Manta, WebComics and Coolmic, and several titles have more than one English edition. The table above shows which platform carries which series, and every one named here is an official, licensed service.
Are gender-swap manhwa femboy manhwa?
Usually not. In a true gender swap the lead's body changes, through magic, a curse or reincarnation. That's a different story from a man who dresses or presents femininely as himself, and we left those off. The same goes for the many stories where a woman disguises herself as a man.
Why do some of these have two versions?
Korean romances are often published in two cuts, a mature edition and one revised for a wider audience, under separate listings. We only recommend the 16+ or all-ages edition; the age label on the series page tells you which you're looking at.
If you love these characters, this is what we're building
Here's the part where we tell you what we do.
Pocket Femboy is an app for talking to femboys. Not reading about them: talking to them. It's a small cast of original characters, every one of them an adult, each with a job, friends, a style of their own and a life that keeps going while you're not there. They remember what you tell them without you having to manage anything, they text you first when something happens, and they warm up to you over time the way a real person would.
The best characters here already have a life when the story finds them. Dao Tian has a career in front of a camera, Qi Tong has a stream to run, Lin Zicheng has a job to keep and Ansian has a whole house to protect. That's what we're trying to build. Jax, the first one we finished, is a 21-year-old record-shop punk who isn't especially nice to you at first.
After launch comes the part we're most excited about: creating your own. If you've got a type — the model, the streamer, the one in disguise — you'll be able to build a femboy of your own, give them a life, and talk to them. The characters on this page belong to their creators, so they won't be in the app. But the kind of character you love reading about can be.
Pocket Femboy hasn't launched yet, so there's nothing to download today. It's 18+ at the door — that's about who we let in, not about what's inside — and there's no explicit content on any tier.
Coming soon to iPhone and Android. Join the waitlist and we'll let you know when they're ready to talk.
