Hoshikawa Ginza Yonchoume

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I read this when I was younger, but I do remember a lot about it enough to write this review: it is terrible and should have never been written. This is just the kind of content that validates pedophiles feelings and desires, also making this great grooming material should they show it to younger audiences.

If you read this when you were younger as I did (I was around 13), don't allow this manga to make you think it's okay if an adult likes you. It never is.

This manga isn't nearly as sexual as Ken's other works but is equally as bad as the rest of ... them. This does romanticize the relationship between a child and an adult--an adult with an authoritative position no less!

It would make any normal person squirm at the fact they make the child the one who wants to be in the relationship, which is what any pedophile thinks a child would want.

This manga isn't explicitly bad like many, but it is a wolf's in sheep's skin as it can make children think it's okay since it romanticizes and glosses over pedophilia as if it's just true love. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone ever.

This was just a little too much.

I'm open-minded, but there's just something about bringing up your own intended spouse that reads as incredibly creepy. I wouldn't necessarily mind the situation quite so much if they were less apart in age, if Otome were at least 16 or so--well, okay, no, that'd still be pretty freaking squicky. But 13? C'MON. It doesn't matter if the relationship is chaste; there's still no way that that's going to work out emotionally.

I wanted to love the characters, and indeed that is a stronger part of the work, but they also wind up too cliche.

But really the last volume just ... killed it for me entirely. I don't know that I can say this without spoilers, so look for spoilers in this section:
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There are a series of Drama Bombs that serve to: 1) Show how fragile this relationship really is; 2) show that Otome has had some psychological impacts from her inappropriate relationship, in that she's willing to accept really awful things done to her by other people; 3) prevent us seeing character development between the two protagonists. I also absolutely detest long time-skips. Our ending features a time skip of ten years. WTF? What have they been doing all this time?? The author's note does not make this any clearer or any better.

Whatever this series had going for it that had me engaged, it lost me through these developments.
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I can't hate this story, but I wish I had back the time I spent reading it.

Art: 4
The manga creator was going for a slightly different character design and it's okay but in some of the cells the drawings of the characters look rushed. It's also pretty obvious the creator can't draw backgrounds, as most of the backgrounds are minimal or are drawn poorly.

Story: 3
I don't want to spoil it in case one would still want to read it after reading this, so I'll give a general feel for the story. The story itself is questionable even for a manga and there are so many holes in it that I couldn't continue. Its implausible but the story requires that you ... think it's plausible, so you're left in a weird position as the reader.

Character: 4
The characters were pretty straight forward and don't offer anything new or special. So the character of the manga itself falls flat, it's suppose to be a romantic drama comedy from what I can tell but all of those fields aren't done very well.

Enjoyment/ Conclusion: 4
I couldn't really enjoy it because of the plot holes, weak characters, and weak art.

Overall: 3.75

This was soooo close to being a nice heartwarming read with a satisfying story. However, in one swift move the mangaka managed to completely ruin the nice warm feeling you get from reading a romance. While the overall story is still decent with a satisfying ending, you are just left with this horrible taste in your mouth thinking about this one plot point. Considering where the story was going up until that point, it was so out of place and shouldn't have been added in.

Excluding that one plot point, this was a great read. The characters and story were great, it had a really nice ... tension to the story that made me just want to keep reading. The art was cute with the exception of one chapter, which i assume the artist ran out of time as it was a mix of rough sketches and final pages without shading.

I recommend giving this a try if your a fan of yuri manga, but this has some strong lolicon themes so if that's something that'll bother you give it a pass.

It's a enjoyable story but i didn't like the end that much.

The characters are both nice. I understand why some people find it weird with her being 13 only. I kind of wish the Teacher was younger around 22 or 23 and have the student be around 16 or so.

The ending bugs me with how they leave it with the mom. I get that the daughter isn't happy with the mom but i don't like how they left her in what looks to be despair. It's honestly really unintentionally sad and depressing. The daughter even mentioned not wanting to leave on bad ... terms with her parents but yet they end the story like that.

I thought the story would be something like the mother allowing her to visit the teacher every now and then and have both the MC's on somewhat good terms with the mother. Hell , The mother must care somewhat sense she even wanted her daughter back in the first place.

Otherwise it's a pretty interest and fun story.