narutolvr's manga / #teacher x student(23)

Didn't care for the main story- the plot was predictable, the characters were dull, and the ending was just a super boring cop-out time skip. But the side stories were relatively interesting, so I don't regret reading it or anything.

whoa! So many feels, so little time! This author truly did a good job rounding out each character; their joys, regrets, sorrows, and mistakes made them so painfully human that it almost hurt to read. With this sort of emotion packed story, though, I should really pace myself- reading it all in one go is almost too much! Always inspires some good introspection, but I find I'm never really happy after reading such angsty works. Even when there's a "happy" ending, I always wonder if that's really the best (or even a good) outcome. I guess that just adds to the verisimilitude, though: we don't really know if the choices we make are the best ones, we just have to do what we feel is right and roll with it. The happy outcome is entirely up to the people involved.

SPOILER!!!! Like everyone else in the comments, I really had preferred her with sensei. It's not that I'm against her relationship with NAtsu, I just don't think it was ever healthy. I never really saw the transition from childhood bond into adult love, so it was hard to tell where the MC's childish selfishness/sibling love ended and romance began, which made their relationship really unclear for me. I don't mind that they ended up together, I just wished she'd really and honestly tried to go out with sensei and tried to love him, instead of just using him as a replacement father. I'm also not too big on when stories end with a time skip that shows everything wrapping up super neatly- like all of a sudden everyone's married and happy. It's the pain they overcome to become happy that I find more worthwhile to read so it's sort of like a cop out to just give a picture perfect ending lol. But, all in all, it was a peaceful read- I think it expressed the impatience of a teenager really well.