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The Usagi Drop comparison was just because the manga for that got incredibly creepy and disgusting toward the end, so when they adapted it to the anime they just straight up cut that part out. As a result, everyone who recommends the anime will tell you to never, ever read the manga.
I was just wondering if they removed the creepy parts of this manga when they adapted it to an anime. I liked the manga, but after a while it got straight up disgusting with the kind of stuff it tried to play for laughs, including one of the girls turning into a guy straight up trying to rape another one of the girls. And that was far from a one off occurrence. At some point the manga ended up stopping just short of being straight up hentai, and that's where I dropped it. I wanted to read the cute manga about a guy learning what it's like to be a young girl, not a borderline hentai with nothing else to show.
Judging by the fact that the anime has gained a lot more popularity in communities like this, it seemed likely to me that the anime removed that stuff, and if it did I'd be happy to check it out.
It's good to hear the anime captures some of the best parts of the manga. The manga actually released really early into my transition, so back then I latched on to it for all the reasons you described. Getting turned into a girl unwillingly is a really common fantasy for trans people because it removes the aspect of being responsible for your choice. I certainly fantasized about it a lot so I could tell my at the time unsupportive dad "hey, I wasn't the one who did this. Maybe it was an act if god. Guess we gotta accept it now."
It was also really great to watch a character slowly learn what life as a girl was like while I myself was doing the same thing. Made me feel better about not understanding certain things, especially because at the time I didn't have any women, friends or family, who I could ask sensitive questions to.
I may have exaggerated a bit with the hentai remark, but it did feel like the author eventually got bored of the original point of the manga and just started coming up with increasingly convoluted ways to put the characters in sexual situations. I'm also a lot more sensitive to stuff like that because of things that happened to me and people I know as a kid, so I may be overreacting a bit too. The beginning of it though was pretty tame even in the manga.
If the anime let's me relive reading it for the first time, I'll certainly give it a shot at some point. I did love what it was going for at the beginning.