Midara na Kimi ni Kamaretai
Bite into Me

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This is actually finished. End at chapter 25 (not counting extra). Available on manga park for free (censored version).

Add “psychology” to the genres.

The main guy used to be dumb back in middle school. Encouraged and helped by the hot tutoring school teacher that he had a crush on, he managed to get in a good high school. Just when he wanted to say thank you to her (and hopefully became her friend), she was gone from the tutoring school. He tracked her down and found her shutting herself off in a dark house. She appeared to be allergic to sun light and had a desire ... for sucking blood. He began routinely visiting her and offering her his shoulder to bite and suck on. Very sweet very happy. As he got closer and closer to her, little by little, he began to see the tragic event that turned her into a “vampire”. Will she be able to accept his feeling and move on from her dark past?

Warning: some people might find this manga inappropriate, or even disturbing because the main guy is only 15 and our beloved hot lady is 29. And yes, there are some sexual contents. If that bother you, skip this one. If you like less conventional romance, this might be for you.

Characters: the main guy (15), hot lady (vampire?), neighbor college girl, the cute girl who sits next to the main guy.

And yes, the two other girls like the main guy. No, it is not a harem because the main guy is fairly certain about his feeling for the heroine (thanks god) despite the age gap and the fact that she is a little broken. They do share lots of sweet and happy memory. The main conflict is that despite how she appears on the outside (smiling, lots of love), deep down inside, she has a hard time moving on from her past and her late husband, and the main guy is unsure about how to confront her on these issues. He wants to support her and show that he is no longer a kid but she remains doubtful, insecure and afraid, or maybe she simply does not think she deserves it. She smiles anyway because she is an adult, which makes the manga a comedy.

As for the tragic event, the manga actually never has a direct narration of the entire event. There are pieces here and there: magazine articles, rumors, an old diary, fragments of her memory from as early as her college days, etc. At the beginning, it looks like the event was simply theft that went wrong, but it was more than that. You can say that in some sense it was her kindness and unconditional trust for her late husband (who was a jerk) that led to the tragedy. That was why she felt guilty for that.

But you know, this manga is a comedy. There is lots of happiness. All those dark stuffs happen under the surface. That is what makes this manga interesting.

What a mediocre series. I had some issues finishing it, yet I pushed through due to a friend recommending this to me. A 5/10 and 'Mixed Feelings' due to some glaring shortcomings.

The premise (trauma->rehabilitation->redemption) was interesting. The setting/context, while controversial (teacher-student relationship with a big age gap), was also an interesting complement to the premise. Ultimately, the series gets ruined by several pretty much dogshit approaches:

1) Pacing. Holy hell, this series went into the weirdest pacing overdrive in its last 10ish chapters or so. It felt borderline like a fever dream (in the bad sense of things), jumping erratically from plot line to plot line, ... from random minor character/situation to another random minor character/situation.

Barely comprehensible, and this terrible pacing was further amplified by...

2) The weird jumping from serious/dark/emotional moments to weird comedy. You can have both of these under the roof of a series, but the constant switch between moods in absolutely inappropriate situations made me cringe. I won't mention specific chapters where this was exceptionally bad so as not to spoil readers.

However, at times it's absurd. With the bad pacing complementing this, some plot points were barely readable and I was at a loss on how to react to what's happening.

3) Absolutely bland and boring side characters. I get it, it's a short manga, but I've seen many short series do side characters justice. Not here. Every single one of them is as 1D as it gets, and they pop up in the weirdest of moments quite often, just to get discarded in a rash way. We were better off without most of them and fleshing out the MC/FMC interactions more or digging deeper into the trauma/redemption psychology aspects.

4) Plot devices. Using rape as a plot device once? Er, alright...it's a cliche, but can still work. Using it several times? Yeah, that pretty much shows you have no idea how to drive conflict and approach resolution.

'Midara na Kimi ni Kamaretai' gets a 5/10 from me, with 2 of these points being given just for the otherwise interesting premise that could have been explored. The setting was perfect for a more psychological, darker, trauma->healing-focused manga. It failed to approach the subject well. A few more points for some genuinely cute moments (if we glance over the age gap involved) and some decent more steamy scenes, but that's just about it.