Personally, I don't like pedophilia, age gap too big, stop normalizing and romanticizing it. She was 14 going on 15, and he was 22. Could've been more comfortable with maybe an 18 year old and a 22 year old but still the teacher-student love groom trop was weird and I don't fuck with it.
After 30 minutes of recap, the movie was maybe 40 minutes long and the same boring trope you see in like every romance. They rapid fired all of the scenes, could have added more intricacy and development into the plot. Very surface level character trope, with Kyoko being the brooding, lonely, sad adolescent, and her teacher is the only one who empathizes. Went no deeper, they definitely could of. So much opportunity they did nothing with.
It was supposed to be a prequel, but so much of it was recap and present events that it didn't feel like so. Wasn't worth the time and money, wish I got more of the movie and more plot.
