---
title: "Shift!"
description: "Boy drinks secret medicine \"XYX\" and and turns into a girl. The only way to get to original form is to have intimacy with girls. But that works only for a short"
image: "https://t.vndb.org/cv/81/81081.jpg"
---

# Shift!

![Shift!](https://t.vndb.org/cv/81/81081.jpg)

**Developer:** Trush

**Release date:** Feb 27, 1998

**Platform:** Windows, DVD

**Language:** Japanese, Chinese (traditional)

**Rating:** 6.8/10 (avg, 3 votes)

## Description
Boy drinks secret medicine "XYX" and and turns into a girl. The only way to get to original form is to have intimacy with girls. But that works only for a short time and there must be a permanent antidote solution... Will he be able to regain male form?

[From [vndbreview](https://vndbreview.blogspot.com/2017/09/vn-of-month-february-1998.html)]

## Characters
### Akagawa Yuuki (赤川 優樹)
- **Gender:** Female
- **Hair:** Red, Shoulder-length, Mullet, Spiky
- **Eyes:** Brown
- **Body:** Teen, Mole, Medium Breasts
- **Clothes:** Jacket, T-shirt, Jeans, Shorts, Belt, Turtleneck Sweater, Ankle Socks, Crop Top
- **Subject of:** Molesting, Penis Growth, Sex Change (Male to Female)
- **Role:** University Student

### Akagawa Yuuki (赤川 優樹)
- **Gender:** Male
- **Hair:** Red, Short, Spiky
- **Eyes:** Brown
- **Body:** Pale, Young-adult, Mole
- **Clothes:** Jacket, Shirt, T-shirt, Gloves, Tank Top, Helmet
- **Role:** University Student
- **Subject of:** Sex Change (Male to Female)

### Arisugawa Ayaka (有須川 綾華)
Ayaka is a third-year student at the same University as the protagonist. She belongs to the Faculty of Pharmacology and is a pharmaceutical genius who is highly admired by the professors.

She is a scary woman with a self-righteous side who makes the protagonist take an experimental drug that reverses a person's gender to aid her in developing an antidote for it. The drug she is tenting is called "XYX".

[Translated from [url=https://gyutto.com/i/item875?select_uaflag=1]Gyutto[/url].]

- **Gender:** Female
- **Hair:** Shoulder-length, Grey, Sidehair
- **Body:** Slim, Mole, Makeup, Albino
- **Eyes:** Blue
- **Role:** Girlfriend, Senpai, University Student, Inventor
- **Clothes:** Lab Coat, Ribbon Tie, Leggings, Ankle Boots, Naked Shirt, Lace Lingerie, Lace Band Thigh-high Stockings
- **Personality:** Genius, Confident, Eccentric
- **Engages in:** Infidelity
- **Items:** Pen

### Higashino Chihiro (東野 千尋)
- **Gender:** Female
- **Hair:** Brown, Long, Straight, Parted in Middle
- **Eyes:** Brown, Tareme
- **Body:** Teen, Slim, Pale, Medium Breasts
- **Clothes:** Jacket, Skirt
- **Role:** Girlfriend, University Student

### Nagai Asako (永井 麻子)
- **Gender:** Female
- **Hair:** Blond, Short
- **Body:** Teen, Slim, Pale
- **Role:** Student, High School Student
- **Eyes:** Blue
- **Personality:** Curious
- **Clothes:** Sailor School Uniform

### Nakatsu Namie (中津 奈美恵)
Namie attended the same school and class as the protagonist, who happens to study at the same university as him as well. She is currently in a relationship with [url=/c98563]Ayaka[/url], but she gets jealous after the latter performs the  "XYX" drug experiment on the protagonist. Namie ends up taking the drug out of spite and turns into a man.

[Translated from [url=https://gyutto.com/i/item875?select_uaflag=1]Gyutto[/url].]

- **Gender:** Female
- **Hair:** Blue, Long
- **Body:** Teen, Slim, Pale
- **Eyes:** Blue
- **Clothes:** Headband, Jacket
- **Role:** Girlfriend, University Student, Homosexual
- **Engages in:** Infidelity
- **Subject of:** Sex Change (Female to Male)

### Nakatsu Namie (中津 奈美恵)
Namie attended the same school and class as the protagonist, who happens to study at the same university as him as well. She is currently in a relationship with [url=/c98563]Ayaka[/url], but she gets jealous after the latter performs the  "XYX" drug experiment on the protagonist. Namie ends up taking the drug out of spite and turns into a man.

[Translated from [url=https://gyutto.com/i/item875?select_uaflag=1]Gyutto[/url].]

- **Gender:** Male
- **Hair:** Blue, Short
- **Body:** Teen, Slim, Pale
- **Clothes:** Sweater, Trousers, Jacket, Naked Shirt
- **Eyes:** Blue
- **Role:** University Student
- **Subject of:** Sex Change (Female to Male)

### Okajima Mayuko (岡嶋 真由子)
Just like the protagonist, Mayuko is a second year university student. She is a bookworm who is rumored to be the owner of the library. Mayuko seems to have extreme androphobia due to being only educated in all girls' schools starting from elementary school. 

[Translated from [url=https://gyutto.com/i/item875?select_uaflag=1]Gyutto[/url].]

- **Gender:** Female
- **Hair:** Blue, Shoulder-length, Teal, Spiky Bangs, Sidehair
- **Body:** Teen, Slim, Pale
- **Clothes:** Sweater, Glasses, Miniskirt, Ankle Socks
- **Eyes:** Blue, Teal
- **Role:** Librarian, University Student
- **Subject of:** Androphobia
- **Personality:** Bookworm

### Unknown
- **Gender:** Female
- **Hair:** Black, Violet, Hime Cut, Long, Straight, Blunt Bangs
- **Eyes:** Red
- **Body:** Kid, Unnatural Skin Tone, Flat Chest
- **Clothes:** Dress, Pantyhose, Naked

### Unknown
- **Gender:** Male
- **Hair:** Long, Moustache, Grey, Balding
- **Eyes:** White
- **Body:** Old, Overweight, Wrinkles
- **Clothes:** Suit, Necktie, Naked, Coke-bottle Glasses

### Unknown
- **Gender:** Male
- **Hair:** Black, Long, Slicked Back
- **Eyes:** Hidden
- **Body:** Young-adult, Muscular, Olive
- **Clothes:** Sunglasses, Gakuran

## Shops
- [Official Website](http://web.archive.org/web/20031008042842/http://www.gegege2.com/shift/index.html)
- [Getchu](http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=83081)

## Releases
### Japanese
- **1998-02-27**: Shift! - [Official website](http://web.archive.org/web/20031008042842/http://www.gegege2.com/shift/index.html), [ErogameScape](https://erogamescape.dyndns.org/~ap2/ero/toukei_kaiseki/game.php?game=327)
- **2004-07-30**: Henshin ~Otoko ga Onna ni Natta Toki~ DVDPG - [Getchu](http://www.getchu.com/soft.phtml?id=83081)
- **2005-10-24**: Shift! - Download Edition - [Gyutto](https://gyutto.com/i/item875), [DMM](https://dlsoft.dmm.co.jp/detail/trush_0001/)

### Chinese (traditional)
- **1999-02**: Jiyin Fangchengshi

## Tags
ADV, Lesbian Sex, Genius Heroine, Male Protagonist, Female Protagonist, School Life Comedy, Loli Heroine, Heroine with Glasses, Sex Change, Protagonist with a Face, White Haired Heroine, Genderbent Sex, University Student Heroine, Central Heroine

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