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hello this is my first review!

HnR is a manga which took me three times to actually read to completion, as to why it took me so long, will be explained in this review

synopsis:
HnR takes place in the bustling city of Tokyo where our heroine begins her first year of high school far away from her hometown back in the country. Upon her arrival to this new world, she meets a young man, who is a friend of her uncle, only to find out that he is her history teacher the next day on her first day of school. And thus, the student-teacher ... relationship has begun spiraling off into a story of triangulation, drama, and romance.

plot:
What makes this shoujo manga good is its pure simplicity, the story never gets too complicated nor too boring, rather, it's quite realistic for a shoujo manga. moreover, the most remarkable aspect of this plot is its exploration on the social taboo of student-teacher relationships, which normally is never touched upon with much depth in shoujo mangas. However, the plot is really really slow; at times I felt rather bored because certain developments would take much longer than needed and seemed to have unnecessary developments occur when it was not needed. But the main issue that I have with this Story, is its lacking in built up and emotion when reaching its climax, for instance when a secret was revealed I felt nether surprised nor excited I was just like...oh ok. but despite these flaws, the story manages to wrap itself up nicely providing a fulfilling ending

art
the art work is great and there's nothing bad I have to say about it

characters:
Now this is where the manga is at its strongest and its weakest as it excels in character development but falls flat on making its characters express their emotions. While reading this manga, one can really see and understand how our characters grow and develop through their experiences as they make decisions different to what they normally would have done in the past. In addition, these characters are very relatable, making it very enjoyable for readers to learn about their personalities as none of them are generally annoying. As great as the character development is in HnR, our 3 main characters however, fall flat at times when it comes to their dimensionality and emotional depth. when it comes to the triangulation between the heroine and her two men(?) the love that they all claim for each other at times felt forced and not at all believable which left me questioning why X character loves Y character throughout the story.

Now that the general categories have been discussed, I want to set aside another portion of this review in order to share my biggest disappointment with this manga, which is how it didn't explore the danger of student-teacher relationships as deeply as I wished it could have. Throughout this whole story only but one character objected to this form of relationship because of its unethical nature, and the teacher was even forgiven for doing the things he did because of his "bubbly and immature personality" while completely disregarding his actions of starting a relationship with a FIFTEEN YEAR OLD GIRL. Because of this disappointment, my enjoyment for this manga wasn't as high as i wished it could have been as the thickheadedness of some characters left me face palming at times.

so yea those where my thoughts on this story