Balance Policy
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; 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.
| Balance Policy | |
Volume 1 cover art, featuring Kenji | |
| バランスポリシー (Baransu Porishī) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Akihito Yoshitomi |
| Published by | Shōnen Gahōsha |
| Imprint | TS Comics |
| Magazine | Change H |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Original run | April 26, 2010 – February 28, 2014 |
| Volumes | 2 |
| Manga | |
| Tokyo Shoujo | |
| Written by | Akihito Yoshitomi |
| Published by | Shōnen Gahōsha |
| Imprint | YK Comics |
| Magazine | Young Comic |
| Demographic | Seinen |
| Published | June 10, 2016 |
| Volumes | 1 |
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.