Sensitive Boy

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This is a deconstruction of the typical romance manga, exploring the darker side of romantic relationship. What if someone has baggage? What if there are misunderstandings that are more dangerous than they appear at first glance? Do men and women even need to date in the first place?

These questions and many more are answered in this alt-romance blowout. It can make you cringe with how uncomfortable you will feel, but that's part of its charm. Unlike most romcoms, this story is unafraid to showcase just how ugly interpersonal relationships can get. However, this difficult material is handled with patience and grace, giving every character the ... chance to give their point of view. The characters themselves are multifaceted and easy to root for. There isn't a villain perse, rather people are just the victim of unfortunate and very real circumstances, and are trying to move on in spite of them.

Overall, 8/10. The art is nice, characters don't feel forced, situations don't happen for the sake of driving the main leads together. This is a more realistic and grounded take on romance and trauma, and it is told through the lens of compassion and understanding. Underneath its admittedly scary exterior is a very wholesome and compassionate story.

Sensitive boy is one of those mangas that it's good in concept but it stumbles on very crucial flaws that makes you feel a bit dissapointed.

Art: Very decent, there are some very good panels in this one and character's expression are very much decent and great. On the only thing that it's not that great is on those blacked-out traumatized faces. The first time impact it's decent and not a bother but when you see the same one 4-5 times it feels a bit jarring. Overall an 8/10

Characters: Semi acceptable main cast, while somewhat decent on the surface they pack a lot of inconcistencies that ... does not make them very appealing to emphatize with. The characters are very black and white, there is very little room for originality. Kaede is the most acceptable part of the cast, a very optimistic but "sensitive" boy (good job, author. He stays true to the title). His SA story feels very real and I felt real emphaty with his reaction to his teacher's doing.
Ayase and Koga are fine. Nothing very particular about them, they don't go out of their characters and the only bad thing I could say they are not that deep or even interesting, they are there to support MC and there is not anymore about them to say.
Tsubasa is not that great. While I get that she's dealing with her first relationship she comes off as a very manipulative and one-sided character. That's not an issue but it is when coupled to that you put her in a terribly bad stance on Kaede's situation. She does not feel nor real nor appealing. Her whole catch of disgust against mc's SA feels like it's there to drive the plot more than anything. It's not well written.
What else... Oh the asexual classmate that was just there to say he's asexual and that's it. And the teacher that for some unholy reason appeared to lightly stab someone and get arrested again. Appaling.
Overall: 6/10.

Story:
The story gets the pacing very well but it's very lacking on the narrative.
Let me get this straight first of anything: I know this is a fictional story, but if the author decides to preach on this story about their negative views on SA while putting characters on either very against it or very in favor of it, It ends up very cartoonish. It really feels like people are drives for the author to impose their real views on a fictional story.
While this is not a bad thing and very common in fact, it ends up feeling that the story get’s caught up in the fact that SA is bad and forgets that MC is a person that needs to heal.
The way that the author demonize the perpetrators is so edgy and unrealistic, while trying to tell a story that they want to impose as real.
If you want a good portray on SA and healing, “Jibun no Karada wo Yurusu made” is much better.
Anyhow, MC gets SA’d by his teacher and his friends find him after that, he tells his parents and police caughts her. Then after 3 years MC is still traumatized from it and meets with a girl in the most unrealistic way, they go out after she is super pushy and his trauma ends up in the way of their relationship. They break up and he starts to work on a coffee shop and he feels safe with an adult girl, thing he could not feel before because of the trauma. She rightfully rejects him in the most acceptable dialogue of the manga and then everything is fine.
Then Tsubasa gets shouted out by an ex classmate of mc because of victim blaming, on one of the most terrible scenes of the manga. It does not feel real, it does not feel emotional, it does not feel more than conflict because she apparently was at fault for not being able to accept MC’s SA story. This really felt the author getting angry with their own character for being a bad person rather than two people arguing.
Overall: 5/10

Enjoyment: 5/10.

Final score: 6/10. I got a lot of bad things to say about it because it had the potential to be better. It’s still ongoing so maybe they can expand on the story to let everything that happened so far as a footnote. But as of now, I’m not sure I can recommend it.

I had to revise my review since it got removed literally and figuratively because of a "Sensitive Boy" LMAO.

I've read through many manga with pathetic weak MC but this one really take the cake, i can't help but to NOT RECOMMENDING this to anyone who doesn't like to waste their time, This manga is just poorly written, it is out of touch with reality while true it is still fictional writing it begs to be taken seriously which is unreasonable considering the horrible story telling, the psychological stunts that supposed to serves as shock value are overdramatic and overexaggerating, the interaction feels very shallow and ... immature, it's almost like it's written by an AI or a 12 year old.

Logic, plot hole, missing connection doesn't matter at all in this Manga. as long as Author can shove virtue signaling and social commentary on a, of all things chose the one that is unthinkable for most sane healthy young boy reaction would be lol.

You're telling me that most middle school boys, forget even enjoying getting advances from a hot sensei, they can't even run? or scream at least? LMAO make it make sense. The only plot device is a kind pretty girl who in essence is a God's sent out of no where insensibly throwing herself to a pathetic loser MC, but in the end still made to be a Villain. How can anyone take this manga seriously? is this just an experiment on role reversal? i am convinced now it is.

It's hilarious how it's almost like this manga is objectively made to demonized one of the loveable tropes in out there is in Hentai or Ecchi Manga, perhaps a contrarian writing i would say, and a try hard to be with no regards of closure and ease of mind, or Author simply just don't care lol. The intention are shown when Author ended the first arc abruptly without addressing all the core issues and a lot of unanswered questions. I'm not waiting around and waste any more of my time on this.