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From Now On We Begin Ethics is a criminally underrated manga.

Up until today, I had no clue this manga existed. It follows the story of Takayanagi, a high school ethics teacher and his impact on all the different students he has and their individual struggles. Every chapter (sometimes every few chapters) is about a different student, the thought process going on inside their head, how they see their teacher Takayanagi, and a deep dive into different tropes or issues that not only reside in students, but in human beings as a whole.

It's incredibly relatable, and sometimes, you feel like the author, Shirori Amase, knows ... something about you to a far more detailed degree than you are comfortable with. That if you switched the names, that it would be one of the moral dilemmas you are facing or have faced in your life.

From wanting to be better for one you love, to the ambiguity of family dynamics, tackling self-love and what it means for different people, the hypocrisy of man, this manga is amazing and it's only 24 chapters in as I write this.

I am truly impressed with the intellectual depth achieved with this manga thus far, and I am extremely excited to see the future of this manga. I do believe it is actually getting a live action adaptation in 2021, so hopefully it will grow in popularity, as I believe this could be a much wider received story than the viewership it has now.

Anyway, in conclusion, read this mf.