She Is my Knight: A Reincarnation Romance Manga with Gender Swap

If you enjoy high school romance manga with reincarnation and gender swapping, you might like Ano Ko wa Kishi (She Is My Knight), written by Kubonaka Akino. This manga began publication in July 2024 and recently received its first volume.

On the cover, we see a girl holding a sword and, beside her, a boy. No one would guess that the story here is that today these two are ordinary students at a normal school in Japan, but in their past life, he was a princess and she was the knight who protected her.

The story is simple: every night, high school student Himemiya Shori has the same dream—of a princess being protected by her knight. This leads him to wonder whether he and his classmate, Asako Kishi, might be reincarnations of those two people.

Himemiya would be the reincarnation of the princess, while Kishi would be the reincarnation of the knight. As it turns out, many things happen during the school day that confirm this theory.

For example, Kishi feels an uncontrollable urge to protect Himemiya from absolutely everything, and she even kneels in front of him like a knight before her princess.

From there, the story develops as the two grow closer and begin acting (without realizing it) like their past lives. So if you enjoy this type of romance manga where the girl behaves in a more masculine way because of her past life and the boy in a more feminine way because he was a princess, this one is for you.

In addition, their names are quite obvious: the boy is named Himemiya—hime means princess in Japanese—and the girl is named Kishi, with kishi meaning knight.