Ranked #5244

Teacher's Pet! (Manga)

The mere four chapters of this manga aren't nearly enough to develop such an outrageous story. It's true that many shoujo mangas (especially mature ones like this) usually have ridiculous plots, but this one presents more serious issues.

First, I should warn you that the "official" plot summary is quite misleading. Yes, it's about a school teacher that has a relationship with a student, but this isn't really the taboo of the story... Actually, it doesn't even matter that she's his teacher, that's hardly a conflict on its own.

The true summary should go like this: Misuzu is an enthusiastic english teacher that's going out with the young principal of the school, the gentle Kazuki. One day after class she's cornered by a cute and shy boy called Masahiro, who shocks Misuzu (and probably the reader as well) when he attacks her and proceeds to rape her. Indeed, the fact that Masahiro is Kazuki's younger brother is connected with this... So what will Mizusu do now?

I don't know about you, but I can't understand how a love story can be born after such a traumatic event as a rape, much less how can it be justified in only a few chapters. But even if you're okay with that, the story has other problems, starting by the characters. They all seem inconsistent and paradoxical, and their actions have absolutely nothing to do with their personalities.

There are abundant smut scenes and the art style is very cartoonish, as expected from Miki Aihara, but it's clean and well defined. But the story is poorly developed and very implausible, even inside the fantasy world of a shoujo manga.

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