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"Sensei ni ageru" is your average student-teacher romance manga.

On one hand, it tells the cliché-smelling story of a schoolgirl who has problems fitting into her class community falling in love with the only person that understands her true nature and values her (and who just happens to turn out to be her form teacher, as another familiar twist); on the other hand, however, the quality of the artwork and the honest and innocent way of thinking of the main characters gives the manga a fresh feeling, thus it somewhat compensates for the "ready-made" story.

To keep it short, here are my ratings with a few keywords:

Story: ... 6
+ logically built, easy to follow; best point: the way they finally deal with the situation when they get found out
- based on clichés; predictable; too short (and too hasty, takes on much more than it can manage in 10 chapters)

Art: 7
+ superior to the narrative
- simply beautiful, but not interesting, it does not build a unique imagery

Character: 3
+ honest, innocent characters; characters are constantly developing (and thinking, reflecting on their situation and actions, which is quite rare among the romantic shoujo manga of the same length)
- the biggest flaw of the manga in my opinion: the characters are undermotivated, flat, one-dimensional figures with no real depth (let us take the older sister as an example: one can pretty much guess what she is thinking throughout the story, but precisely because she always acts kind and is constantly smiling, the reader might feel disappointed, being left without any further insight to her thoughts, real emotions, and -most importantly- her relationship with her younger sister's teacher; same goes for all the other characters as well)

Enjoyment: 6
+ although it certainly has its flaws, it was a good read for a boring evening

Overall: 6
+ at first, I wanted to give it a 4; however, seeing that -surprisingly enough- the average of my previous ratings was a little above 5, I decided to give it an overall 6 :)

Enjoy the manga! :)