---
title: "Yin-Yang! X Change Alternative"
description: "Kaoru Sakurazuka is a normal young man, besides his unusually feminine features. Even his name, Kaoru, is a common name for both girls and boys. His friends don"
image: "https://t.vndb.org/cv/66/88266.jpg"
---

# Yin-Yang! X Change Alternative

![Yin-Yang! X Change Alternative](https://t.vndb.org/cv/66/88266.jpg)

**Aliases:** Yin-Yang! Another X-Change

**Developer:** CROWD

**Release date:** Oct 29, 2004

**Platform:** Windows

**Language:** English, Japanese, Russian

**Rating:** 6.5/10 (834 votes)

## Description
Kaoru Sakurazuka is a normal young man, besides his unusually feminine features. Even his name, Kaoru, is a common name for both girls and boys. His friends don't care, and he enjoys living in a cheap apartment with his buddies Touya and Renji.

One day he feeling strangely ill, so Kaoru visits the school doctor, who is more like a crackpot chemist that enjoying creating new concoctions in the name of science. Upon his visit, Kaoru accidentally drinks a vial marked 'experimental medicine' – and the next day Kaoru, the boy, has become Kaoru, the girl! While he desperately tries to find a way to return to normal, he's forced to spend his days in his new female body.

Kaoru is surprised at the changes in his environment now that he's a girl. Everywhere he goes he's the center of attention, and it seems that everyone takes an interest in him. What strange adventures are in store for Kaoru, now that he has this new body to test-out?

[From [JAST USA](https://jastusa.com/games/p013/)]

## Characters
### Sakurazuka Kaoru (桜塚 薫)
A normal Japanese youth who has never had much to do with girls and is sure he'll die a virgin. He has a complex about his effeminate features and his unisex name. He tries to make up for looking like a girl by wearing an extra coating of male bravado wherever he goes. When he's changed into a girl after drinking a strange potion, he learns that his body possesses rare "yin-yang" (dual-sex) DNA.

[Edited from [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin-Yang!_X-Change_Alternative]Wikipedia[/url] and game manual]

- **Gender:** Male
- **Hair:** Red, Short
- **Body:** Teen
- **Clothes:** Trousers
- **Role:** High School Student
- **Subject of:** Sex Change (Male to Female)
- **Voiced by:** Renaissance Yamada

### Sakurazuka Kaoru (桜塚 カオル)
The female version of Kaoru.

- **Gender:** Female
- **Hair:** Red, Ahoge, Short
- **Body:** Teen
- **Role:** Miko, High School Student
- **Engages in:** Unarmed Fighting
- **Clothes:** Miko's Dress, Panties, Bra, Transparent, Chastity Belt, Lace Lingerie
- **Subject of:** Sex Change (Male to Female)
- **Voiced by:** Haruse Miki

### Asakura Mizuki (麻倉 瑞稀)
Kaoru's classmate. She's secretly in love with him, but is unable to confess her feelings. A shy girl, she's terribly worried when Kaoru turns into a girl and does her best to help him adjust to his new situation.

[Edited from game manual]

- **Gender:** Female
- **Hair:** Brown, Ponytail, Waist Length+, Spiky Bangs
- **Eyes:** Brown, Tareme
- **Body:** Teen, Slim, Pale, Futanari
- **Clothes:** School Uniform, Skirt, Miniskirt, Ribbon Tie, Ribbon Hair Tie
- **Role:** Classmate, High School Student
- **Subject of:** Penis Growth
- **Voiced by:** Nagasaki Minami

### Kamishiro Sakuya (神代 咲夜)
Kaoru's classmate and a friend of Mizuki. A stylish girl who gets good grades and is good at sports. When she's not working as a Shrine Maiden at her family's Shinto Shrine, she practices her swordfighting technique.

[Edited from [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin-Yang!_X-Change_Alternative]Wikipedia[/url] and game manual]

- **Gender:** Female
- **Hair:** Black, Waist Length+
- **Eyes:** Brown
- **Body:** Teen
- **Personality:** Hard Worker, Stylish
- **Role:** Miko, Classmate, High School Student, Yamato Nadeshiko, Honor Student
- **Clothes:** Ribbon Tie, Ribbon Hair Tie
- **Voiced by:** Nakase Hina

### Kotosaka Miu (琴坂 美雨)
Kaoru's stepsister, the daughter of Kaoru's stepfather. Her last name is different from Kaoru's because Kaoru decided to keep his old last name in honor of his deceased father. She's secretly in love with Kaoru.

[Edited from [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin-Yang!_X-Change_Alternative]Wikipedia[/url]]

- **Gender:** Female
- **Hair:** Brown, Twin Tails, Long
- **Body:** Teen
- **Role:** Step Sister, High School Student
- **Subject of:** Pregnancy
- **Voiced by:** Hokuto Minami

### Saionji Kyouka (西園寺 杏華)
Daughter of a famous family, Kyouka was raised with nothing but the best a girl can have. Popular with the other students, she can't keep her hands off anyone she considers to be cute, whether they be male or female.

[Edited from [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin-Yang!_X-Change_Alternative]Wikipedia[/url]]

- **Gender:** Female
- **Hair:** Blond, Waist Length+, Wavy, Spiky Bangs
- **Body:** Teen, Slim, Pale
- **Clothes:** Thigh-high Stockings
- **Role:** Student Council President, Wealthy, High School Student, Bisexual, Ojousama
- **Eyes:** Teal
- **Voiced by:** Hatono Hina

### Kuzunoha Soumei (葛葉 蒼明)
The school doctor with a penchant for doing bizarre DNA research in his spare time. He develops a substance that brings strange results in individuals with a rare condition known as "yin-yang" DNA.

[Edited from game manual]

- **Gender:** Male
- **Role:** Medical Doctor
- **Voiced by:** Takahashi Ikkyuu

### Nanaumi Rui (七海 留衣)
One of the twin servants of Kyoka. Their family has served the Saionji Clan as chamberlains for generations. They go wherever "Kyoka-sama" goes, serving her and protecting her from harm.

[Edited from game manual]

- **Gender:** Male
- **Role:** Twin Brother

### Nanaumi Yui (七海 由衣)
One of the twin servants of Kyoka. Their family has served the Saionji Clan as chamberlains for generations. They go wherever "Kyoka-sama" goes, serving her and protecting her from harm.

[Edited from game manual]

- **Gender:** Female
- **Role:** Twin Sister
- **Voiced by:** Suzumori Chisato

### Sakaki Touya (榊 冬弥)
A close friend of Kaoru's, he enjoys the freedom sharing an apartment with two friends affords. He doesn't have a girlfriend, and is a virgin, like Kaoru. He has a rock band that specializes in doing covers of others' music. Band practice doesn't leave him much time for girls, despite the love letters he gets at school.

[Edited from [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin-Yang!_X-Change_Alternative]Wikipedia[/url] and game manual]

- **Gender:** Male
- **Alias:** Sakaki Tohru
- **Hair:** Blue, Short
- **Clothes:** Trousers
- **Role:** Friend, High School Student
- **Voiced by:** Nagakura Jinpachi

### Saotome Renji (早乙女 蓮司)
Kaoru's other close friend. He's not especially handsome, but he's got a confident personality, and doesn't have a problem finding girls to date. He likes cute girls, and doesn't really care much about them as long as they're cute.

[Edited from [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yin-Yang!_X-Change_Alternative]Wikipedia[/url]]

- **Gender:** Male
- **Hair:** Brown, Short
- **Eyes:** Brown
- **Body:** Teen
- **Clothes:** Trousers
- **Role:** Friend, Classmate, High School Student
- **Voiced by:** Ichijou Kazuya

## Shops
- [Official Website](http://www.hs-crowd.co.jp/crowd/product/lot/xca/xca.html)
- [DLsite](https://www.dlsite.com/pro/work/=/product_id/VJ001511.html)
- [Getchu](http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=775177)

## Releases
### Japanese
- **2004-10-29**: Yin-Yang! X Change Alternative - [Official website](http://www.hs-crowd.co.jp/crowd/product/lot/xca/xca.html), [ErogameScape](https://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/game.php?game=4138), [Getchu](http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=26563)
- **2005-10-21**: Yin-Yang! X Change Alternative - Reprint Edition - [Official website](http://www.hs-crowd.co.jp/crowd/product/lot/xca/xca.html), [ErogameScape](https://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/game.php?game=4138), [Getchu](http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=209801)
- **2006-04-15**: Yin-Yang! X Change Alternative - Download Edition - [Official website](http://www.hs-crowd.co.jp/crowd/product/lot/xca/xca.html), [DLsite](https://www.dlsite.com/pro/work/=/product_id/VJ001511.html), [Gyutto](https://gyutto.com/i/item2204), [Digiket](https://www.digiket.com/work/show/_data/ID=ITM0005826/), [DL.Getchu](http://dl.getchu.com/i/item1000059), [DMM](https://dlsoft.dmm.co.jp/detail/ggs_0036/)
- **2013-08-30**: CROWD GOLD BOX 2013 - Collector's Edition - [Official website](http://www.hs-crowd.co.jp/crowd/product/c_box2013/cbox2013_top.html), [Getchu](http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=775177), [DMM](https://www.dmm.co.jp/mono/pcgame/-/detail/=/cid=536crw251/)

### English
- **2006-12-15**: Yin-Yang! X-Change Alternative - Package Edition - [Official website](https://web.archive.org/web/20070114013126/http://www.peachprincess.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=PP&Product_Code=P013&Category_Code=BG)
- **2010-03-26**: Yin-Yang! X-Change Alternative - Download Edition - [JAST USA](https://jastusa.com/games/p013/yin-yang!-x-change-alternative), [J-List](https://jlist.com/shop/product/17098-yin-yang-x-change-alternative-download-edition)
- **2013-03-30**: Yin Yang / X-Change 3 Bundle Pack - [PlayAsia](https://www.play-asia.com/13/701xyb)

### Russian
- **2007-03-22**: Obmen Telami : Sladkaja Al'ternativa (DVD version) - [Official website](http://web.archive.org/web/20170118052106/http://www.neogame.com.ua/view.php?id=xchangeal2pcdvd)
- **2007-03-26**: Obmen Telami : Sladkaja Al'ternativa (CD version) - [Official website](http://web.archive.org/web/20170118070939/http://www.neogame.com.ua/view.php?id=xchangeal2pccd)
- **2008-03-16**: Yin-Yang! X-Change Alternative - [Official website](http://www.zoneofgames.ru/gamebase/file/2689/)

## Tags
Sexual Content, ADV, High School, Onna Bugeisha Heroine, Combat with Blunt Weapons, Lesbian Sex, Completely Avoidable Rape, Non-blood-related Sister/Sister Incest, Non-blood-related Brother/Sister Incest, Girl x Girl Romance, Comedy, Miko Heroine, Male Protagonist, Female Protagonist, Protagonist with Voice Acting, Multiple Endings, School Life Comedy, Violence, Foolish Friend, Group Sex, Ojousama Heroine, Student Council, Nukige, Bondage, Modern Day Japan, Reverse Rape, High Sexual Content, Group Sex of One Male and Several Females, Sex Change, Futanari Heroine, Sex Involving Drugs, Branching Plot, Foolish Protagonist, Comedy Rape, Male Protagonist for a Short Time, Ponytail Heroine, Group Sex of Multiple Females and Males, Strap-on Dildos, Hidden Vibrator, Protagonist with a Face, Sex in Public Places, Anal Penetration, Only Virgin Heroines, Protagonist's Childhood Friend as a Hero, Protagonist with Ahoge, Masturbation, Poor Protagonist, High School Student Protagonist, Genderbent Sex, More Than Seven Endings, Full Chastity Belt, Outdoor Sex, Naked Sprites, Miko Protagonist, Protagonist with a Sprite, Both Male and Female Love Interests, High School Student Heroine

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