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I am very grateful to whatever combination of mental illnesses I have that keeps compelling me to read these trashy high school romcoms. The infinite cycle of relationship progression and its imminent negation as just a misunderstanding has instilled bodhisattva-like patience within me, I care not about the final endgame, all I truly care about is seeing well-proportioned anime girls wearing different non-everyday outfits reworked within an updated bikini framework and this manga provides a compendium of such that rivals even my very own pixiv bookmark page.

Takemine-san reads as a confession of not only what the author longs for, but also what humanity itself ... truly longs for. There’s no subtlety within the object of our collective desire but only within the act of desiring itself.

I can only imagine the mangaka as an old overworked sculptor of buddha, each splash page of the titular heroine is a carving, rather dissimilar to those coming before it (portraying heroine in maid bikini, portraying heroine in cat ears, portraying heroine in bunny girl costume etc.) but carrying the same spiritual energy and devout care in each and every single one of them.

To keep up with this metaphor, these wooden statues are not Buddha himself but collectively help forge the greater image of him, an incorporeal manifestation of perfection antithetical of Buddha’s primary teachings, but portraying desire in a similar forgiving light. It just so happens that in this case it’s a female high school council president with an encyclopaedic knowledge of. NTR JAV plot lines.

10/10

I almost have zero words for something like this. I will be taking the fact that i've even read a single chapter of this to my grave. Egregiously lacking in any subtlety or nuance, absolutely no self-awareness whatsoever. Far more shameless and degrading than any asanagi or shindoL hentai doujin, my only commentary is that this manga reads exactly like one of the most pathetic fantasies a horned up 13 year old could possibly conjure. only the sickest, and most disgusting of perverts could possibly glean any type of enjoyment out of something wretched like this. There are designated pit within the deepest confines of ... hell reserved for those that would possibly enjoy this manga.

When I saw the high praise this manga was getting on here I scoffed. How could this generic, morally questionable and just blatant wish-fulfilment manga about a gyaru schoolgirl and her home economics teacher harbour such value among esteemed peers? Reading through it though, I laughed, I cried, I fruitlessly questioned the age-old quandary of what it really means to be a "gyaru". This is not just a gyaru-adjacent harem romcom, this is a densely multifarious genre-defining piece of transcendental art. The author is a master of realising expectations, each adorable costume swap, each inadvertently lewd misunderstanding, each moment of heartfelt sincerity shared between the ... cast is like a soft, tender kiss from a nubile angel planted upon my boyish cheek. There's a heavenly dichotomy played between the demure and delicate student council president and the sincere, yet amorous gyaru lead that one cannot help but harken back to the romantic Grecian tales of old about Leto or Artemis. For such a faceted, multi-layered narrative I can say nothing of ill, if for some reason humanity were to only exist through one piece of art it would surely be this.