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One chapter left until the end of the 12th volume, but as several people have said, if they were going to end the manga they would have made a big announcement by now, so I guess we'll be seeing more KnJ in the forseeable future. In fact, the cover of this month's Comic High calls this "the shocking turning point chapter of this long-running series." Once again, summary below the jump:
The chapter opens with Shirai at an izakaya at around the same time Aoki arrives at Rin's house. "I've been doing some self analysis as an accidental educator," she says, "but I feel that a lot of people live hard, confusing lives. What I can do is to impart knowledge, which is why I feel that teaching is now my life's calling."
"That poor man," says Houin, who is sitting across from a confused Shirai. "I feel so sorry for Oyajima-sensei! He might look like a older man on the outside, but on the inside he's an innocent maiden!"
"A maiden?"
"He's purer than either of us!"
"Pure?"
And you're postponing your marriage due to work? How cruel!"
"But he said it was fine!"
"Why don't you try switching genders?" Houin says as they both imagine Shirai as a man leaving Obajima-sensei in bed after doing his deed with her, declaring that his job is his life and marriage can come later with Obajima (around forty), thinking of her young lover's happiness, reluctantly agreeing.
"Why do a post-coital scene?!" screams Shirai.
"Why don't you just tell the school that you're seeing him?" asks Houin.
"That's... embarrassing," says Shirai.
"Huh? Why would it be "embarrassing?" an obviously angry-drunk Houin yells back to Shirai. "I myself haven't had sex in years!" Of course that last line attracted some look from the male patrons. "There's no such thing as a romance that's not embarrassing! I wanna to have sex!"
"Keep it down!" says a flustered Shirai.
We return to Rin's house at night where Aoki is standing before her with some takeout.
"H... Hey!" says Aoki who's now blushing.
A wide-eyed Rin recalls what she said to Houin earlier about how she'll wait till she's an adult. "Wh... What do you want!" she finally spits out.
Aoki, being Aoki, decides to pull out: "Y-Yeah, let's do this another time!" However, Rin's not letting him get away as she grabs one of his legs, making him fall flat on his face. "What are you doing?!" asks Aoki.
"Why are you leaving? You came here for something, didn't you?"
"Why are you mad?"
"I'm not mad!"
Aoki starts to get desperate. "But you're all alone right now... wait, it's not what you think!"
"Geez, you'll disturb the neighbors, hurry up and get in!" says Rin. They do just that with Aoki sweating up a storm. "I'll put on some tea. Go sit wherever you want."
"Uh, sure," says Aoki as he puts down his takeout. "Um, look, I wanted to apologize. Sorry I lost my cool at your parent-teacher conference. These takoyakis I got are the best! They're made fresh, and they're hot and sticky on the inside."
However Rin is hardly listening as she boils some water, her heart racing as she imagines Aoki, who now has her all to himself, doing all sorts of unprintable things to her. Thinking about that causes a certain reaction in her, making her reach down below while her knees tremble.
"Kokonoe?" asks Aoki, which startles Rin as she drops the teakettle on the floor, spilling boiling water on herself. "Kokonoe!"
"It burns!" shouts Rin in agony. Aoki thinks fast and pulls off her pants. "Noo! I'm being violated!" screams Rin.
"Idiot! You'll bump into the takoyaki!" says a perturbed Aoki. He carries Rin to the sink and immediately douses her with cold water. Aoki later goes to another room to retrieve a towel while Rin complains about the cold water. He later comes back to see Rin climbing out of the sink in her underwear.
"God, I'm soaking wet," says Rin.
Aoki looks away red-faced. "Uh, here's a towel."
"You're the one who stripped me, don't act disturbed!" yells Rin. However, just then Aoki slips on the towel and onto Rin, and the two of them get in yet another compromising position with Aoki's face full of crotch. "What the hell!" screams Rin.
"I'm sorry." says Aoki who is now waiting while Rin changes in a closet. It also looks like he got hit on the head by Rin.
"You're acting weird. Did something happen?" ask Rin. Aoki looks startled, but Rin continues as she holds up a pair of Pedobear Chuck® brand panties that Aoki brought for her: "What is this? I can't wear this!"
"I found it in Reiji's room," says Aoki.
"That creep!" yells Rin. She resigningly pulls down her old panties, "Ugh, oh well."
"Look, Kokonoe," Aoki declares, "I'm..."
"Hmm?"
"I'm... going to transfer to a school far away from here."
Rin slams open the closet door, facing Aoki. "What did you say?"
However, because she wasn't finished changing, Aoki gets a faceful of her bare panty parts. "Her pu..." was all he can think.
We switch over to Kuro's highrise where she's studying effectively for her entrance exams. "All done! Wow, I really am studying! Is this great or what? Is this a turnaround or what? It must be the power of love. I'm such a..." Right at that line, an image of Aoki pops up in her head, bishie bubbles and all. Of course that makes her spit out her tea XD "Why did Aoki... Bleech! Go away, shoo, shoo!" Kuro, who's now blushing, flomps down on her bed holding a pillow. She opens up her cellphone and stares at the wallpaper picture of Rin.
Kuro makes her silent declaration as she rolls around in bed: "Next time, I'm going to get Rin-chan to say 'kiss me'. I want to get bigger."
"That's it!" says Kuro out loud. She'll grow bigger (in more ways than one XD ) and take care of all of Rin's needs. "Mama, if I get into a private school, buy me a smart phone!" yells Kuro. "Also get me some snacks!"
We return to Rin's house where her Pedobear Chuck® panties still remain on the floor. Aoki now has his face turned away as he continues, "It'll be after you graduated! Anyways, put on some panties!"
Rin, presses herself on Aoki's back. "No!" she pleads. "Don't leave, Sensei!"
Aoki can only think "Kokonoe!" as he trembles with his eyes welling with tears. He then composes himself. "T-Teachers are also salarymen, you know. We can't go against personnel changes."
"You're right." says Rin bluntly as her bangs cover her eyes. "I won't be able to see you while I'm in middle school anyways. It'll be just the same as you going somewhere else."
Aoki turns to her as Rin pulls up her panties. "That's a surprisingly dry response from you. I guess that means I'm done here." Aoki thinks that he was stupid to want Rin to cry for him upon hearing the news. Now that he's confirmed that everything will be all right if he leaves, he can transfer without any regrets.
"Be sure to get yourself a cool boyfriend when you enter middle school." Aoki tells Rin.
Rin responds by pouring Aoki's hot takoyakis down the back of his suit XD
"What didja do that for?" yells Aoki.
"Ever since you came 4 years ago, I've changed! Reiji changed! Mimi-chan, Kuro-chan... nobody can go back to the way they were, even if you do go off somewhere far away!" Rin begins slapping Aoki, "You're now a part of me! You're an adult, don't you understand that?! And I'm going to an all-girls' school, there won't be any boys!"
"S-Stop!" Aoki protests.
"Have I... Have I become a part of you, Sensei?" Rin asks tearfully.
Aoki looks on shocked. He then collects himself and covers her with his suit jacket. "I will never have another student like you, not even if I teach for the rest of my life." You're not just a part of me, thinks Aoki, you have taught me more than I can ever imagine. "Kokonoe," says Aoki as he strokes her head, "you're the one who made me into a teacher. Thank you."
Rin wipes her eyes. "Okay!" She then turns around, looks at him and gives him a kiss on the cheek.
"Hey!" Aoki protests. "You're the one who made me a teacher, now you want to get me fired?"
"What's the problem! You should be the one providing that kind of service!"
"What am I, a host guy?" At that point Reiji appears at the front door, carrying takeout from the same takoyaki place, hearing Aoki continuing, "Come on, put on something or you'll catch a cold. We're eating some takoyaki."
"Okay!" replies Rin.
"I see..." thinks Reiji as we transition to Mimi's cram school where she's looking up laws regarding sex crimes.
"Excluding those who are married, any obscene acts with a male or female below the age of 18 is punishable by law?" reads Mimi. "I don't want Reiji-san to get arrested because of me.
"So according to legal precedent, even if one person is under the age of 18, if they are married or if they are able to demonstrate that the relationship is genuine and sincere, then it is not a criminal act. But isn't it up to the couple to decide if the relationship is genuine? Does that mean someone else has to decide that?"
Yuuki-sensei then appears out of nowhere. "Hi, girl! Are you researching something? Too much studying is a no-no!" He then looks at the screen and sees the words "Obscenity Laws." "Wait a minute. Did somebody do something to you?"
"Nope!" says Mimi resolutely. "If anything, I'll be the one who's going to do it!"
"What is this girl saying!" says a clearly disturbed Yuuki. The chapter ends with Mimi deciding she's not going to restrain herself for anyone anymore, and with the caption saying "As the adults remain hesitant, the kids are moving forward?!"
Well, we didn't quite get the confession that we wanted, but Rin now knows that Aoki is going to change schools. However, I think this is one of those chapters where all the fanservice actually hindered the story instead of helped it. I honestly felt that a lot of it was tacked on, maybe because there has been a conspicuous lack of fanservice in the last few chapters and maybe she needed to fulfill a quota. Well, I guess you can call it a turning-point chapter in which this is probably the first time Aoki has seen Rin's special area in the flesh, Aoki became at least half-way honest with Rin with why he's been acting so strange lately (although for all we know Rin still thinks Aoki has the hots for Boing), Kuro is now starting to see Aoki as a man, and Mimi is now determined to raep Reiji XD. Four stars, if anything because of the last few pages of this chapter :)
I admit, the fanservice was a bit over the top in this one (not that I see anything wrong with that...) She must really enjoy drawing it, and at this point her editors have to let her do anything she wants.
It's good to see those two can stand to be around each other again, though. And maybe hints of even more character development for Boin?
I guess Watashiya-sensei does like letting that freak flag fly, and she has stated in the past that she intends to push the boundaries with this manga of hers. However, I really want to recommend this manga to everyone I know, the only thing stopping me is the explicit and gratuitous loli fanservice that seems to be targeted specifically at some very unsavory people.
Houin-sensei, well I'm pretty sure she hasn't given up on Aoki just yet. We'll see how she'll react when it comes out his heart belongs to a 12-year-old girl.
I loved the fan service.
And anyways, do you think we are near the end of the manga ?
With that ...
I'm not sure ...
Or she will go in the same school than our teacher !
The lack of Aoki-Rin interactions were filled with this chapter :D.. Fanservice is a part of KnJ so there's nothing wrong for me there, and Lol at Aoki's reaction when he saw Rin in the flesh xD..
And Kuro now thinks of Aoki huh.. wonder if there will be a triangle between them :D.. And Mimi haha..
This series is far from over or so I hope xD
"Please shut up!"
"Nooo! I'm gonna get raped!"
And the absolute best:
"What the hell are you talking about?!!"
Go for it Mimi! XD
That chapter sure was fun :) Though Aoki failed flat and did not tell Rin his feelings properly... Oh, well, I hope they will end up together anyway.
kokujin this manga is part ecchi, part seinen, part comedy... the fact than you dont appreciate the ecchi part make this ever a 2/3 good manga for you, for me this manga is 100% x 100% XD
recommend for who?!?! you want to read this with your girldfriend and son?? this is all mine!! :P
buddies! the AxK wedding is coming !
ecchi is part of everybody, Watashiya sensei show us the REAL mind of a healthy girl (you want seinen dontya?, you need to see all!)
mvfgrant said: kokujin this manga is part ecchi, part seinen, part comedy... the fact than you dont appreciate the ecchi part make this ever a 2/3 good manga for you, for me this manga is 100% x 100% XD
recommend for who?!?! you want to read this with your girldfriend and son?? this is all mine!! :P
buddies! the AxK wedding is coming !
ecchi is part of everybody, Watashiya sensei show us the REAL mind of a healthy girl (you want seinen dontya?, you need to see all!)
Come on, you know the ecchi parts were tacked on just to titillate some fans. Especially the first face-crotch, you can't reasonably say that actually helped further the story along.
True, I like my ecchi just like anyone else, but I also like series that are adult without being gratuitously explicit. And yes, I would also like to read this with my girlfriend, my mother, and my son if I can. It's a shame if I can't share something I love.
i asume the face-crotch like the fact than Aoki and Rin have so damn attraction between each other than eventually they fall in something like this (compromising situations is a fact in love mangas, not real but thats the way all mangaka show us their wish to unite the main couple)
by the way i like to see the aoki moral integrity strong as ever :P...
naughty Rin + correct Aoki = joke spring
Kokujin-kun said: And yes, I would also like to read this with my girlfriend, my mother, and my son if I can. It's a shame if I can't share something I love.
"Have I... Have I become a part of you, Sensei?" Rin asks tearfully.
Aoki looks on shocked. He then collects himself and covers her with his suit jacket. "I will never have another student like you, not even if I teach for the rest of my life." You're not just a part of me, thinks Aoki, you have taught me more than I can ever imagine. "Kokonoe," says Aoki as he strokes her head, "you're the one who made me into a teacher. Thank you."
this part is true gold to me, thats the gratitude of Aoki, hope for Rin and the fact than theyre going in the right path.... by the way i think than Reiji was hearing the whole part... this is needed to make Reiji recognize Aoki... like a brother-in-law :P (yes im touched with this couple!)
mvfgrant said: "Have I... Have I become a part of you, Sensei?" Rin asks tearfully.
Aoki looks on shocked. He then collects himself and covers her with his suit jacket. "I will never have another student like you, not even if I teach for the rest of my life." You're not just a part of me, thinks Aoki, you have taught me more than I can ever imagine. "Kokonoe," says Aoki as he strokes her head, "you're the one who made me into a teacher. Thank you."
this part is true gold to me, thats the gratitude of Aoki, hope for Rin and the fact than theyre going in the right path.... by the way i think than Reiji was hearing the whole part... this is needed to make Reiji recognize Aoki... like a brother-in-law :P (yes im touched with this couple!)
i liked that part but i almost feel like it was canceled out by the ridiculous fanservice that preceded it.
So, that means that there could be a love triangle? (Rin, Kuro and Aoki). We all know that Aoki loves Rin, but will he start to like Kuro a bit? Will Kuro start to see Aoki as Rin does? I prefer all the way Rin x Aoki. Kuro should find someone else!
Ps. I hope there could be Reiji x Mimi scenes in afterwards chapters :)
ShiroiRyu said: I loved the fan service.
And anyways, do you think we are near the end of the manga ?
With that ...
I'm not sure ...
Or she will go in the same school than our teacher !
it was announced that the final arch has started so i think it will end soon unfortunately. Rin was so cute one moment she was embarrased the next she was back to her usually man killer self. Usually the words "Im gonna be raped" wouldn't make me laugh as hard but in thiws situation it was lol funny.