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It's been a long time since I watched _Otoboku_ , but I've always wondered if
the visual novel explained what happens to Mizuho after he graduates and puts
aside his façade.

Mizuho is a guy disguised as a girl, attending an all-girls school. He doesn't
exactly keep a low profile, either; if he'd done that, he could have just made
his girl form disappear after graduation and went back to being a man.
Instead, he runs for Elder and becomes a celebrity who is looked up to by the
younger girls. When he graduates, he can't just throw off his wig and dress,
go "Phew, what a relief", and be a man again, because tons of his former
classmates recognize him. He would have to either tell them all "Yeah, I was
cross-dressing all those years and hanging out in the dressing room and
bathrooms with you" and get arrested for a pervert, or else pretend to be his
own brother (or something) and get out the disguise again whenever his old
school friends come around.

![Mizuho hair flipping](https://i.stack.imgur.com/dgOsd.jpg)

Yes, seriously, that's a guy.

If I remember correctly, Mariya, Takako, and Shion all know by the end of the
anime series that Mizuho is a guy. Yukari and Kana never find out. So at some
point, he's going to have to break it to Yukari and Kana, even if he decides
to never see anyone else from the school again. (According to [the Wikipedia
article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Otome_wa_Boku_ni_Koishiteru_characters#Main_characters),
though, he, Shion, and Takako often visit their old school after graduation.)

The Wikipedia article says the VN does show what Mizuho does after he
graduates. Does it address this? Does he maintain his female disguise or
eventually break it to everyone that he was a guy the whole time?


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Does Mizuho reveal his crossdressing after he graduates?


**Not really. After graduating, Mizuho maintains his female disguise _only
when visiting the academy._** However, it's never revealed if his other former
classmates know about it (though I also failed to find any remarks if they
finally know about it).

According to [pixiv encyclopedia
(Japanese)](https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E5%AE%AE%E5%B0%8F%E8%B7%AF%E7%91%9E%E7%A9%82),

> ### 伝説
>
> [...]卒業後は翔陽大学に進学、[...]  
>  卒業後もちょくちょく学院にも顔を出している。 **大学では男性として、学院に顔を出す際は女装。** [...]
>
> ### Legend
>
> [...] he went to Shoyo University after graduating, [...]  
>  He was also visiting the academy occasionally. **He was living as a man in
> the university, but cross-dressing when visiting the academy.** [...]
>
> (Emphasis mine)

According to [AniOta Wiki
(Japanese)](https://www49.atwiki.jp/aniwotawiki/pages/6568.html)

> 卒業後は翔陽大学という外部の学校に進学。  
>  **女装を解いてる** のにも関わらず相変わらず女の子に間違われ、翔大名物美少女トリオのひとりに数えられている。
>
> He went to Shoyo University after graduating.  
>  Even though **he stopped crossdressing** , he was mistaken as a girl
> regardless of that and as usual, and counted as one of Shoyo's Speciality
> Trio Beautiful Girl.

* * *

The story related to the university life is told in the omake scenario from
_Yarukibako 2_ ([VNDB entry](https://vndb.org/v544)), a fan-disk for Caramel
Box's works (the original visual novel).

> Yes, seriously, [that](http://www.caramel-
> box.com/products/yaruki2/image/wallpaper/mizuho/y2_mizuho_n0640.jpg)'s a guy
> ( **potentially NSFW** : Mizuho in girl's underwear with his natural long-
> hair)


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