Ranked #4600

Secret Kiss (Manga)

The 15 years old Wakaba suddenly confessed by his cram school teacher, Toudou sensei. Wakaba is not really a strong mided girl and the sudden happening confuses her. She knows that a teacher-student relationship can cause problems for Toudou sensei, but later she realizes that she likes him. They begin to date for a trial period to see is it works out well, or not.

The story is not so unique, another teacher-student relationship, but this time Toudou sensei confesses to Wakaba and the girl doesn't really know how to deal with it. In cram school he is not too kind to her, always shouts and complains about Wakana, but outside he is a university student, who is actually caring, kind hearted and he sais in the manga that although he is Wakaba's teacher at school, he is a guy.
The manga also contains too one shots, Aoi bokura and Love you. Both of the stories are cute. Aoi bokura is about a girl, who tries to hide her real complaining self from her boyfriend, because it was the cause of the breaking up with her ex. But always saying "it's ok", "no problem" makes her boyfriend think that she doesn't love him as he loves her. This story was so cute...
In the manga Love you, we see the main heroine, Arisugawa Koto the student president of an all girls high school who is pretty and cute. One day, in an exchange meeting with an all boys school, she meets with the boy, she confessed in primary school, but at that time he said he didn't want to go out with an ugly girl. Well this one shot was actually quite interesting and I really enjoyed it, it was cute as well.
But because all three stories were full of clichés and tipical shoujo moments, I only give this manga an 8 for the story.

The art was amazing, the mangaka did a great job, I really liked it. All the boys was so welldrawn and goodlooking, but the girls as well. I don't have anything to complain about so I'll give the art a 10.

Characters were the tipical shoujo characters. There wasn't anything new in their personality. The girls are all clumsy, always fell over and the guys always there to catch them or cheer them. So I only give this an 8.

I enjoyed this manga quite well, but I don't want to give this a 10. It's only worth an 8 or less, because the story and the characters. But I sticked to it, so it's worth reading but only if you like shoujo. There were so much love scenes that I like that's why I add this an 8 point.

Well you can see, this manga is not a very outstanding piece but if you like the shoujo romance genre, then you'll like it for sure. I still stick with number 8 for the overall and if you read it, I hope you'll enjoye it.

P.S.: Sorry if my english sucks sometimes... read more

This manga is not special nor did it have any unique quality to it that I found compelling. It's a story of a 15 year old girl who has a silly relationship with a 19 year old guy. The ditzy lead girl is introduced with her crush on a guy she went to school with. However, her college exam Professor (think of him as a Kaplan Professor for the USA brats out there ^_^) seems to have more than a StudentxTeacher relationship in mind, with her . By chapter two things work themselves out after those wacky misadventures built on misunderstandings, confusion, and fickleness. The final chapter, chapter 3, really didn't even bring things together or add depth to the story. There was inconsistency in storytelling where possible story directions were left hanging to give a dry, unmemorable, and rather depressing ending.

Did the story show any promise? If you are looking at art alone, it showed considerable promise although I found the male to see rather too young to be so much older than her. If you're looking at characters, anything can happen and a story plot could have lots of depth. In this case it was a failure across the board besides art. I would not reread this story. I am not that fond of the characters---if you get any thing from them, which I did not.

One thing to note though. If you like StudentxTeacher, specifically female student and male teacher...then this is is a must to complete your collection. I plan on reading all student/teacher stories I can so this fell into the mix. But as you can tell, it had no depth. It's a very shallow piece of writing. read more