Caught up after binging it all in a couple nights:
1. Looks like Author is setting up the True Harem route allowing MC to get some with all female leads, we'll see how it plays out.
2. Sensei hate is way overblown. Made a detailed post in the Ch. 59.2 thread. Yes what she did wasn't okay but pretending that Shirasawa hasn't also done multiple equally fucked up things is generous. People should calm their tits and let the author cook.
3. Kaho & Touka drama mystery is driving me crazy and I don't know who to trust. Kaho doesn't seem like the manipulator that big sis makes her out to be, yet the bad blood seems too deep to be a simple misunderstanding.
4. Shirasawa is very unclear about what his actual feelings are for Kaho and is letting things get messy between them. He originally put up a dividing wall preventing them from dating as director & actress, but then immediately violated that barrier with physical intimacy, giving her a personal gift on Christmas, etc. She obviously likes him and wants to date, what started as a filming-only relationship quickly became personal for her, she's only doing the filming stuff because it's with him. However he's too dense to realize and is valuing other director's philosophies above his own which is driving a wedge between them. By trying to follow too closely in his father & Saiga's footsteps he's not blazing his own trail based on his own thoughts and feelings.
5. The major theme driving conflict in this manga is Violation of Boundaries. Shirasawa is the main culprit in this, after all it starts with him violating the boundaries of his teachers by filming their affair and showing the entire school. He's an avant-garte thinker/director by nature and that's what led him to start his filming relationshp with Kaho. However it only continues to evolve from there, with problems establishing boundaries to begin with or blatantly pushing them past them. His inability to say no/hold back from sexual advances of Sensei & Touka when he was already intimitely involved with Kaho is a bad look, even if they're not "officially dating". Dude needs to introspect more seriously about what he personally wants, not just as a "director".
6. Lastly, the story has somewhat strayed from the original premise/driving force: Shirasawa & Kaho making avant-garte films to secretly present at the school for shock value and to fulfill their fetishist desires. They have been trying to get back into that but now that the entire situation is more messy after the involvement with Sensei, Saiga & company, and now big sis Touka. On top of that the hot springs commercial gave Kaho viral fame so that in itself throws away the chances of them making their fetish films public since it'd ruin her future career. The plot is getting a little messy and could go in any which direction at this point, but it's been entertaining thus far and the change in direction does somewhat represent the realistic notion that you can't predict how things are gonna turn out in life. I've liked what the author has cooked thus far so looking forward to what is in store.
