Hanami's manga / #Students(5)

(1) Yasaka Takanori has been in love with Akikawa Seiji for 5 years until he finds out that he’s sleeping around with the chemistry teacher. At the same time his friend and roommate, Tomori Mioki, confesses to him. This was so good. I liked Mioki, he was cold but also really cute. Takanori made me laugh a couple of times, poor guy really needs to live outside of his head and take a look around. (2) Student Tokura has always admired the school director Shiraizumi Touka. But after Sasamori sensei expresses his interest in Shiraizumi, Tokura has to act in order to not lose the director. At first I didn’t like Sasamori but at the end I wanted to keep him. Gold star for him. The director was too cute and innocent. (3) Hanamura Ousuke is a scholarship student at a school for rich people. He’s stuck taking care of the school president’s son, Tatemiya Soushi, who just came back from America. Tatemiya beats Hanamura in just about everything, a fact that irritates him. Until he discovered Tatemiya is afraid of the dark. Tatemiya was surprisingly innocent and cute, I liked how he admired Hanamura’s dedication. (4) Orihara wakes up next to his classmate and crush Miyagi, completely naked. Miyagi tells him that they are now going out, but they don’t act like a couple. Miyagi acts as if he’s not interested in Orihara. Miyagi was possessive and kind of cute. He also liked Orihara for a long time.

Stories that involve the owner and patrons of the bakery. (1) High school student Mitani Kento loves Watari’s pastries to he visits the bakery every day with his best friend Sakurai Hiro. When Hiro gets a job at the bakery to pay for his crush’s birthday present, Kento begins to feel lonely because Hiro doesn’t have time for him, and jealous of his crush. Kento is so cute and funny, I love all his expressions, especially when he’s eating. Hiro seems like the cool, quiet type at the beginning but he’s really a dork. Their relationship is so healthy and just plain adorable, they were hilarious as a couple. It was really nice how they asked an adult about how to not hurt each other. And the mood during sex was really good, it was awkwardly hilarious, and I liked how they helped and encouraged each other through the experience. (2) Shy and insecure Sasayama gets assigned to sales and marketing under Hanasaki. He fell in love with him but he’s too afraid of confessing. They visit Watari’s bakery every day and Watari becomes Sasayama’s confidant. Sasayama is adorable, I want to pinch his cheeks. Hanasaki is caring and attentive to his subordinates but surprisingly jealous and super dense. I loved how lovey-dovey they were. Also, I liked how Watari messed with Hanasaki’s sandwich. (3) Finally it’s fairy gaymother’s turn for romance. After getting all the ships together Watari needs a man too. After waiting for 6 years Watari Natsuo’s lover and childhood friend Kyougo returned. Kyougo lives with Watari and works at the bakery. Their story is more about getting their relationship back on track. Watari is the perfect man (excluding that part where he forced himself on Kyougo when they were teenagers). He genuinely feels bad for forcing him so afterwards even though he wants Kyougo to stay he doesn’t want to force him. He’s sensitive, caring, and he can bake. Kyougo was childish and hurt himself and others unnecessarily. Though I kind of feel bad for him, he’s lost without a goal or a dream to achieve and he feels inferior to Watari, who knows what he wants and works hard every day. I’m happy all of them were able to find happiness.

Three stories that had the ukes be the sex slaves of the semes. (p.10-33;34-41;101-105). Okano Hiroyuki is a social studies instructor that becomes the sex slave to his student Tokiwa Munehisa, after he is molested in a train. I’m kind of indifferent to this story. The whole ‘I bully you because I like you’ thing is a hit or miss for me, and in this story it was a definite miss. Tokiwa was such a dick, I wanted to jump in and strangle him. To me there wasn’t any connection between those two characters, their relationship just wasn’t interesting to me. I liked Tokiwa’s interaction with the other couple more than his interactions with Okano. 3/5. (p.44-69;70-97). Nishio Atsushi is irritated by the fact that his classmate, Yoshino Yuto is constantly staring at his friend Tokiwa. After catching him peeping on Okano and Tokiwa having sex, Nishio makes Yoshino his slave. This was my favorite of the three stories. While Nishio was less of an ass than Tokiwa I still felt really bad for Yoshino. Nishio has a turbulent family situation, which causes him to take it out on Yoshino. I liked this more than the other stories because the characters and their relationship were more developed. (*Spoiler Alert: At least by the end of it, Nishio realizes he has feelings for Yoshino and graduates him from slave to lover.*) 4/5 (5-6). Shizuki Haru hates his physics teacher, Yamada Akihiko, because he’s convinced he’s gay. He harasses the teacher in various ways and gets divine justice in the form of becoming the teacher’s plaything. My least favorite of the three. Shizuki is a little shit, Yamada is hateful and there was no reason for Shizuki to be subjected to Yamada’s bullying. 2/5 I would recommend this if you like: dominant, possessive semes that like to bully their submissive ukes, bondage and the use of sex toys.

I have read this manga more than five times now and the feeling it leaves me with is akin to biting down on a broken tooth. I felt like I was on a rollercoaster ride that crashed and burned at the end. The story involves three friends, whom I will refer to as seme, uke and friend since none of them have names. The gist of it is: uke likes the friend, seme likes the uke, there’s a weird love triangle and they’re all jerks that deserve no sympathy. Like seriously I couldn’t find anything likeable about any of them. The ending is okay in my opinion, sure we don’t get a clear resolution of what happens to the characters after those last pages, but knowing these characters it’s not hard to imagine where they’re going. Overall, even with that ending I liked watching those three hurt themselves, it was painful but oddly enjoyable. If you’re looking for something dark, bitter, angst-y, with a love triangle and you don’t mind an open ending, this should be right up your alley. Also here is my opinions on all of the characters. I didn't want to put it in here because it contains spoilers. http://www.mangago.me/home/mangatopic/854507/