Yoarashi ni Warau

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"Yoarashi ni Warau" has us view its world through the eyes of a teacher enamored by her student, Yoarashi. Because the teacher views her that way, the way Yoarashi is portrayed is simply beautiful. If not for the art, and how the art supplants the story, I would say it's just okay. It's fine drama. The author is great at building up tension but awful at having believable conclusions to scenes. Often suffering from "Where the fuck are the poilce" syndrome where these outlandish revenge stories have the target of vengeance do outlandishly evil and extremely criminal acts which are simply never prosecuted or prosecuted/investigated ... way later than it should've been.

The characters are fine. Nene Mizusawa has probably the best character in the story and should've gotten more attention narrativewise. Ogino is fine too but her entire personality can essentially be summed up with "punching bad who would do anything for her students". Every single action that she does falls into either the punching bag category or the "I would do anything for my students" category. Yoarashi is the subject of the mystery so her character is naturally more complex but if once you understand her motivations, her behavior is likewise very simplistic. I won't reveal it exactly since it's a major spoiler, but it's very simple what she wants to do, and she doesn't seem to ever, even once, do anything besides pursue that one goal. The reveal of her motivation is actually sort of disappointing in spite of its gravity because it trivializes all of her behavior. At least it was written well?

Back to art, the art is just good with nothing much to say for everyone except Yoarashi, Hoashi(very funny), and Nene. You can tell these three are major characters because their art is simply impeccable. Overall it's a very well put together manga with lots of good points. 8/10