Sensei!

[MangaDex]

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

Kawahara Kazune is one of the greats--one of the people who built the shoujo romance genre with classic titles like High School Debut, but also the mind behind the more modern off-beat awesomeness of Ore Monogatari. Sensei! is an excellent example of the more realistic end of the scale in student/teacher shoujo romance. It has a couple of annoying arcs, but overall I found it memorable, well worth a read if you have time for all those chapters.

 

[KamiKira00]

This is quite great shoujo manga with realistic setting and characters. At some points in this manga you can see how start and end of drama is forced but overall this is quality work.
Ending looks quite rushed (at least to me). B
Anyway even if you don't like romance or taboo-like relationships, it is worth a read.

 

[BXP]

After all those chapters, I can say this manga is very good. How everyone helps each other to figure out their feelings and grow, the attachment, sensei's hair... were the best. Of course, it have drama,

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I got sick and tired of so many love rivals, the last one made me really anxious, and I think the story could be shorter,

and you will se my annoyed and annoying comments here and there lol, but the art got better and the end left me a sweet feeling. I just wish a little more about their future...

 

[princess_daphie]

@BXP You're so right, that's exactly what I was thinking for all the last couple chapters, I was like damn the art has finally, really improved! And I'm left with a warm fuzzy feeling after all. It was full of ups and downs, and always so many risks and drama, but it didn't feel like overdramatic. But yeah, I REALLY was hoping for

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a glimpse of their life post-graduation, especially in that bonus chapter, but yappari it was a flash-back into Itou's school life.

Good one still, but our favorite couples!!! What happened to them?!

 

[epistolaris]

I finished the entire thing but honestly, I didn't really understand Hibiki and Itou together. He felt too adult and she was too much of a kid. And their chemistry didn't really make sense to me at all. But I liked the drama of the situation.

 

[iris_19]

I'm in my current reread of the series, and all the memories I had the first time I was reading it are coming back to me. Ughhhhh

Btw, I just found out that a 2 page spin-off was published in Betsuma waaaaaay back when the live action movie was released (2017), and just ONE page of it is archived online. ONE. The basic gist is that this "spin-off" is situated a few years after the events of the original manga.

Spoiler: A very basic overview

According to Google Translation/Lens, anyways, the first page is about Itou telling Hibiki about a student talking about "how gross is that a student was 'friends' with their teacher" or smth that Itou may have talked in class, and Hibiki is all troubled about this, because the student was obviously referring to her. Then Itou responds to her that she shouldn't feel like that, as it was his fault anyway, because he fell for her at first (Hibiki).

I, of course, don't think that this spinoff much changes anyway, it just reflects the point, right? But... you know... Itou and Hibiki "a few years after" the events of the manga series, still together.

And, MAN. If I was more eager about this like, when I finished reading this manga, the first time, ten years ago? I would have bought a copy (it was published in Betsuma Nov 2017) in a heartbeat. Hopefully posting this in English would help in getting some interest for this, because I can't find anything else online (and other fans of the series in Japan seemed to have missed the boat as well, in 2020, given it seems that it hasn't been reprinted elsewhere). Like. I simply love when a manga artist gets another chance to draw their characters, in this particular case, Kawahara's art style was more in line with Suteki na Kareshi (2015-2020-ish).