muse ✨'s manga / #don't sleep with your students kids(37)

The person who changed a young man's life years ago comes back into his life as the phys ed teacher at his high school.

The first few were cute, but then there was the typical "I shouldn't sleep with my students but whoops" story, and then the style seemed to change, so I stopped.

Two people who meet by chance at a streetcorner one night fall into a casual relationship, but when one takes a job student teaching, he realizes his partner - who had claimed to be a 19 year-old college student - is actually a 16 year-old in his second year of high school. **Spoilers** This is an interesting story with a solid relationship, but I wish Kaga had better explained to Yuuya why, legally, continuing their relationship once he'd found out Yuuya's age was a bad idea. Say what you will about Yuuya's maturity level and ability to consent in this scenario - the school is right that legally, he's a minor. It wouldn't have been the same story without that drama built in, but if they were both willing to wait until after graduation, they could've done that from the start without the forced separation. Still a challenging situation to consider and a story I've happily re-read.

A student struggling with his sexuality it set up by a friend with someone who turns out to be his dorm supervisor and teacher. *Spoilers* I appreciate this story because the issue of the teacher/student relationship is discussed, and both people wait until that is no longer their relationship to take their personal relationship further. I think the student is underage, but he lives in the dorms, so I'm not sure. In America, we're usually 18 when we go away to college. This story has a spin-off about the roommate!

The art style is beautiful and the initial premise - a socially awkward boy who is rescued from a disastrous confession by a teacher - was promising, but this is actually repeated assault on an unwilling minor by a predator on a school campus. I stopped reading after a couple chapters.

The teacher/student grow close but kept things professional (snow day aside), have shared interests, the student makes all advances, the teacher puts a stop to them, and only after graduation do they discuss a relationship or do anything physical. They genuinely cared for each other and I really loved their story. I especially liked that our MC came out to his best friends, who were lovely and supportive. A+ for that. His friends have their own story (and these two have a cameo!) in the manga Bokura ga Koi wo Ushinau Riyuu. I tagged both with this story's title so they're easy to find. The seventh chapter is a story of unrequited love and being someone stand-in. It's bittersweet but not hopeless. Stings, though. The second-to-last chapter is about two men who never told each other how they felt while they were at school and met twelve years later, when one is married and the other thinking about marriage. They have to hurt the people in their lives or recognize this goes no further. The final line is about a fruitless tree making fruit, so it rings hopeful. The final chapter is our MC & his sensei when the MC is away at school, on a weekend visit. :-)

Needed better character development overall but readable. The fourth heir to a yakuza family falls for a con man, and his childhood friend who has a one-sided love for him eventually falls for a teacher at school. Relationships aren't very developed, so I felt little for anyone.

A student is in love with his teacher, who had dated his older sister years before. The final chapter is a quick oneshot, childhood friends reunited as adults when one has become a police officer.

Five years after a sensei blackmails a student into sleeping with him in exchange for silence about cigarettes, they meet at a reunion, and it turns out the sensei hadn't been in control as he'd believed.

A sensitive, well-paced, beautifully drawn story of Katou, a boy inspired by his teacher, who grows up to become a teacher as well. Five years after graduating, they reunite as coworkers, and Katou is still in love.