Alabaster no Kisetsu

[MangaDex]

 

[Erosiana]

teacher so bad brooo i need her

 

[princess_daphie]

teacher so bad brooo i need her

I love her so much, fell in love when I saw the first chapter that I jumped on it and translated it all in one day

 

[beep_repair]

After putting this one off for months, I finally gave in and read the first nine chapters today. Though it's more artful and serious-minded than the cheerfully sleazy sex comedies I typically favor, I was immediately seduced by mangaka Takatsu Makoto's gorgeous art. And, I cannot deny, by the misleadingly racy first chapter, which shakes an alabaster fistful of eccentric high school art teacher boobs in the reader's face.

I read on in pursuit of student x sensei lewdness, only to find eros, nudity and romance taking a back seat to a meandering slice-of-life narrative about a high school art club. Which doesn't sound fascinating, I admit, but very much is. The characters are engagingly three-dimensional, the art dazzles on every page (the cats!), the sense of undefined dreams struggling for purchase in a small town is quietly poignant, and something - something both sexy and threatening - seems to be slowly gathering in from the narrative margins.

I'm not sure where things are going, but they're off to a very promising start. And for what it's worth, the muse in alabaster does finally get around to removing her panties for the benefit of her underage apprentice in chapter nine. So if you haven't started reading yet, you at least have that to anticipate (worth it).

 

[Viper4K]

ngl, this is not my type of manga. At all. I usually abandon every manga which uses nudity as it's main point, 's my preference. Idk how i got here, but i got hooked, and i will probably read it until it ends. Also, Daphie, great translating!

 

[laeus]

It is poorly executed, quickly and superficially, all the problems that were created, such as the teacher-student relationship, jealousy of a childhood friend, underage prostitution are resolved and the story begins to focus on art.

As for nudity, it is not erotic. Nudity here is like going to a museum and seeing sculptures and paintings of naked people.

Do I recommend reading it? If you can understand the references to art that the story makes, you might be able to draw a deeper conclusion about things. The teacher is an interesting character, but as a student-teacher, as a romance, as an age-gap, as an erotica, there are thousands of better stories.

 

[Seraphus]

Brilliant.

Thanks for bringing us this mango, @princess_daphie !

I've loved (and sometimes hated) every second of reading it, and every single page.

Totally recommend this for all my fellow art nerds; y'all remember what CAMP was like back in the day, after all....

 

[IamPlenty]

Came here after reading The Day Before Summer. My heart has been mended and healed.