Grooming would be to brainwash Endou into doing whatever Honda wanted him to do. Look at Colleen Ballinger for how grooming actually goes down. Honda never even wanted to accept Endou's confession in the first place. Though I would say it's still a bit icky.
I believe that it wasn't grooming BUT was definitely predatory as he was just waiting for him to become 18 and he was previously his student
when did he turn 18? i thought he was 18 from the start
He was 17, that's why the teachers waited for him to be of legal age.
The teacher doesn't mind his minor student liking him, he minds the fact that he might get arrested if he started dating a minor. So he's a predator, not a groomer
but when was he 17?
i thought japanese people were older than americans in senior year so i think he was 18 or 19 from the start
pls the people saying "this isn't a p3do story he waited until he graduated".. that's called grooming honey