Kounai Ren'ai - Vol. 3 Ch. 14

[MangaDex]

 

[HeyJudas]

the idea of a teacher manipulating student is crazy

 

[Tcof]

When we will see the focus story for the suppose main character ???
And this need to be more yuri
Not that the Every girl have turn out gay. But the themes/formula of this is about explore different love and all, Yuri with should have a ton of room and topic to explore on, no ?
Right now this have 1.5 yuri and a yuri bait last arc

 

[sebaasdf]

No no no....

 

[Colonel-Picquart]

Yikes!
Get out of there son she's even worse and more entitled than the last girl! And she's supposed to be an adult!!
I'm seeing distinct themes of the toxicity of love here, so consider me along for the ride.
I just hope she doesn't lay a finger on that poor boy.

 

[UdenEmpati]

I went back to re-read the series again, wondering if Kizaki-san was brand new or showed up before. And, she's a new name as of this chapter, so I wonder if she'll show up again later, given how interwoven everyone seems to be.

Katou-sensei having a partner already makes me think this is more about "latching onto genius", than it is actual affection, or even infatuation, for Nakaoka. Something akin to reliving her "genius kid years", vicariously, through a boy who has confessed his love for her--but not to respond to his feelings directly or in any genuine fashion.
Honestly, she probably wants to ruin him. Kill his spark, prove that he's no better than she, that she was the "normal" one for ending up a slightly-above-average adult. If Nakaoka can be put through the ringer and turn out to not actually be a genius, then she isn't defective. And she can do it herself, thus "conquering" her past demons.
Never mind the very dangerous game she's playing in doing so. We start this series out with confession letters from students to teachers, and in Chapter 2 the principal herself is telling Kaede-sensei to "be careful", with news reports of teachers caught in affairs with students playing on the television in the background of the room.
Which, makes me suspect this won't have a happy ending. Not that we've had too many of those to begin with in this series thus far, but then again I'd argue every story we've witnessed hasn't "ended" yet, so.

But it'll be interesting to see whether this remains a distraction for Katou, or if it'll morph (devolve?) into something more substantial, and extreme. One or both of them will be found out sooner or later though, I wager, and I actually suspect Kizaki will be the one who stumbles across them. Her name dropping here feels a bit of a flag, and she already likes Nakaoka, so she'll have reason to come back around to try again, which could tie into her stumbling upon a tryst between teacher and student.

And then, fireworks.



Thanks for the TL. I quite enjoy the ever-expanding web of characters and stories that are surrounding Kaede. I hope we get more of how she and Nami came back into one another's lives, but I suspect that'll factor in when a current story mirrors that moment in time enough for Kaede to reminisce.

 

[NippleToaster]

I really like the fleshing out of other characters. They feel like real people even if they do wack ass shit

 

[Zura_da]

Why does she look blonde if she has brown hair on the new volume cover.

I can't wait till she dominates him.

 

[trapesiumz]

I SUPPORT PROCREATION BUT THIS IS ILLEGAL

 

[onedumninja]

Where da lesbiam teacher go? Idk if I don't want to watch some freak adult mess with a child T_T

 

[faaresemo]

When we will see the focus story for the suppose main character ???
And this need to be more yuri
Not that the Every girl have turn out gay. But the themes/formula of this is about explore different love and all, Yuri with should have a ton of room and topic to explore on, no ?
Right now this have 1.5 yuri and a yuri bait last arc

even without the themes and formula, the mangaka is very much a yuri mangaka, so precedent would suggest us to expect as much

combining that with opening on a pair of lesbian teachers, and the first vignette focusing on a love web with a mystery student admirer who was a girl at the center, one would expect the rest of the story to follow suit

so for the second vignette to be two girls fighting over a boy, not resolving the love triangle by eliminating the axis, and neither even having secret feelings for the other? it's just kinda jarring

and now...we're getting student-teacher toxic het??
it's one thing for straight relations to exist in a GL story, but they're taking over this one. and when the inverse never gets to happen, it just feels wrong on principle

like I'm legit surprised that Cue hasn't dropped this one

 

[BCS]

"Love at fourteen" ALERT

 

[Loner210]

Wake me up when this is back to the main character's relationship. I guess author wants to try something new but this isn't it.

 

[UdenEmpati]

even without the themes and formula, the mangaka is very much a yuri mangaka, so precedent would suggest us to expect as much

combining that with opening on a pair of lesbian teachers, and the first vignette focusing on a love web with a mystery student admirer who was a girl at the center, one would expect the rest of the story to follow suit

so for the second vignette to be two girls fighting over a boy, not resolving the love triangle by eliminating the axis, and neither even having secret feelings for the other? it's just kinda jarring

and now...we're getting student-teacher toxic het??
it's one thing for straight relations to exist in a GL story, but they're taking over this one. and when the inverse never gets to happen, it just feels wrong on principle

like I'm legit surprised that Cue hasn't dropped this one

I hope Cuetie doesn't drop it because I don't see anyone else picking it up. And it's way too interesting seeing how the main couple is involved in each of these individual stories, to never get a conclusion to the series.

Everyone's criticizing that there's het couple stories that are ongoing, but ...the author is yuri-centric already, as you stated, and the "central" couple is involved in each of the stories that have arisen already.
Why is it such an issue if non-yuri couples are in-play in the story, when it's about relationships in general, and not one specific type or pairing?

Truly, I hope the group keeps up with this one, because there's a fair bit of potential I think in this "quasi-anthology" storytelling motif. Flowers That Bloom has a similar vibe going, and is obviously 100% yuri focused, but I don't think this one fails on the metric of who's being paired with who.All of the characters thus far are being interwoven, as we see the girl who confessed to Kaede reaching out to the girl at the tail end of the previous arc. Katou-sensei was the one who came to Kaede at the end of the first arc, worrying about the student who was 'detained' by police for entering a hotel with an adult man that set up the second arc.
AND, we don't have the second arc fully resolved yet. There's no telling what might happen with Nozaki as she struggles to get over her feelings for Ibuki. There's a ton of stuff left to resolve, and we're still learning about Kaede and Nami through each instance--as in, the "central yuri couple" that are involved everywhere. The more we see of each of these other stories, the more we get of theirs, and their story is important and still ongoing.

I get that people see "GL" tags and want no other form of relationship to exist in that story, but I would be very sad if this was left to rot just because of that.

 

[freyj_certified_ila_fan]

Where da lesbiam teacher go? Idk if I don't want to watch some freak adult mess with a child T_T

if i wanted to read some "freak adult mess with a child" I'd just read flowerchild, otherwise? i wanna see them gay teachers again too

 

[faaresemo]

Everyone's criticizing that there's het couple stories that are ongoing, but ...the author is yuri-centric already, as you stated, and the "central" couple is involved in each of the stories that have arisen already.
Why is it such an issue if non-yuri couples are in-play in the story, when it's about relationships in general, and not one specific type or pairing?

I get that people see "GL" tags and want no other form of relationship to exist in that story, but I would be very sad if this was left to rot just because of that.

I dont know about the others, but for me it comes from a frustration of inequality. straight romances so rarely have side couples that are gay, even when they accidentally write a very queer-coded character. I feel like if characters were allowed to be gay outside of queer literature I'd have no issues here

that said, I don't think I'm dropping this, at least not yet. despite my complaints and frustrations, I am invested in things enough that I want to stay. this chapter likely just flagged more grief than the others because none of our previous characters showed themselves here

 

[Rezuo]

I'm done with this manga. I hate the adult teacher x minor student trope. Seems like the Mangaka has a thing for illegal shit like this. Dropped.

 

[Rinno7]

COPS, THIS ONE RIGHT HERE!

 

[gmanhunt]

God i wish that was me

 

[UdenEmpati]

I dont know about the others, but for me it comes from a frustration of inequality. straight romances so rarely have side couples that are gay, even when they accidentally write a very queer-coded character. I feel like if characters were allowed to be gay outside of queer literature I'd have no issues here

that said, I don't think I'm dropping this, at least not yet. despite my complaints and frustrations, I am invested in things enough that I want to stay. this chapter likely just flagged more grief than the others because none of our previous characters showed themselves here

to your second paragraph - chapters 7-10 didn't have Kaede or Nami in them whatsoever, until the final to pages of chapter 10 when Kaede is contacted because Nozaki hadn't shown up to school for three days.

And that whole arc between Kuritani, Nozaki, and Kaizuka was set up at the end of chapter 5 with Katou telling Kaede about Kuritani being detained by police, with Kaede going and getting Kuritani, then talking with her about why she did what she did--seguing from there into Kuritani's story involving her troubles with love and how she just doesn't feel it, feels left out and excluded because of it, and then her falling into Nozaki's clutches over being spotted going into the hotel. Which lead into the Triangle situation between them becoming friends, until Kaizuka enters the scene and Kuritani realizes she's fallen for him.
And that basically took all of volume 2, with the "intro" to the Kuritani & Nozaki's story from the final bits of volume 1. And even then, we have both Kaede and Nami coming in, to assist both Kuritani and Nozaki (or at least attempt to) with the issue between them and the boy they both like.

And this current arc begins at the end of volume 2, with a harder/more detached segue, but with a character we do have introduced before (Katou-sensei at the end of volume 1). But with volume 2 as precedent, there's no reason to believe that Kaede or Nami are going to be absent from this; it's just literally the first chapter of the third volume, setting up the current situation and conflict. Which, itself, isn't new to the story--the series begins with Kaede herself being confessed to by a student, and the teacher she goes to for help has himself been confessed to countless times--and as I said in my initial comment, we see what happens when "feelings are reciprocated", by way of the news broadcast in chapter 2 playing the background where teachers are arrested for having affairs with their students.
And it is a student confessing to a teacher here. But unlike before, she actually reciprocates--but for reasons other than returning his affection. I'm of the opinion that Katou-sensei is jealous of Takaoka's talents, and the fact that even at his age, she can see that he has something she feels she didn't. There are even other students whispering about how much better he is than their own teacher, and her partner also very much minimizes her abilites.

That all said - this has been foreshadowed to a degree as far back as the beginning chapters, and we have a pattern wherein the "main couple characters"--Kaede and Nami--do factor into the stories of others of the cast. But the scenarios have to be established, which is what this chapter does. From there, the drama can unfold, and as they are undoubtedly discovered, Kaede will absolutely get involved (given she seems to be someone intent on involving herself in others' problems, as she's a "helper", and because she herself has some experience with what Katou-sensei is going through, as far as the student-confession aspect).

Like I said - I can understand the trepidation, and your comments about how there's no real representation in "the other direction" that makes a primarily queer author putting het couples in a queer-centric story "agreeable"...but it wouldn't be the first time I've seen authors known for het work doing queer stuff, or vice versa, so putting both into the same story that works off an ensemble cast makes sense to me personally, I guess--or at least doesn't feel wholly out of left field.

I just very much hope that it doesn't get dropped by Cuetie Scans, because I don't know who else would pick up a story like this or that it'll get an official English translation, and I'm very much enjoying it.