Gal Gohan

Like bro I was reading this manga and like I heard something outside. Like I went to see what was happening and like you wouldn't believe what I saw. Like there was a guy letting out the trash and I was like how about I tell him to like add Gal Gohan there as well? Like I went to him and like after I showed the cover of the manga and like he put it in there without thinking twice. Like was a nice fellow. Gal Gohan has made me sad. Not because it was intended to but because I cried twice at how cringy thewhole thing really was. I've gotten to a point that stories like these get a big NOPE from the get-go. The Gal Gohan case is the same. There is a guy, there's a girl and they end up together in some way. The romance is non-existent yet they fall in love and bada boom bada bing, marriage. What you don't know though is that the love part is just an unconscious subplot. The two characters around the end be like "Hey, we've been together doing stuff for quite some time and you know, I feel like I love you" - "What are the odds, my feelings correlate too" - the manga. How does this happen you ask? That's pretty simple - it's called the art of blushes. It's something one of the two does that's related to and/or is cutesy & delightful & darling so the other will somehow blush and slowly fall in love, unconsciously. It's 100% efficient and knows no bound. I maybe shouldn't be looking too much deep into this since it was never meant to be that way but goddammit if I didn't enjoy reading this nor has anything appreciable to begin with. It's about cooking and by cooking stuff you get a hot girl to your side. Naturally! The characters, unfortunately, don't grow on me since they not only have an average design and they are easily recognizable in other works such as Miku that is Saki's reincarnation from Henshin. They have the exact facial structure, the exact body shape, and both the characters have darker skin, but their personality is nothing short of bad. It's the same though. You know, they just don't change and if they happen to accomplish that task it doesn't flow naturally. It goes from point A to point C without passing to point B first. In doing so it creates a different space-continuum that ashes everything into the 45th dimension that is the place where average characters reside. The art didn't impress me. It's detailed, I'll give you that much but it's like every other drawing-style we have seen before. It doesn't rise into becoming more captivating and unique that would separate itself from the rest moreover it remains in the generic field. Overall this manga isn't good. I didn't appreciate the story - the characters were just there doing stuff but I never cared about them. I'm not a big fan of cooking-related things so that was a big NOPE from the start but I kinda ignored that and gave it a try, as one must. In the end, it ended the way it was written - suffering in pain. Don't make the same mistake I did and skip this abomination.

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 thecast 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.

This manga guys….was literally friggin adorable because I really liked how it was such a slow burn for me to get to know the characters more than just relying on the romance first. Basically to give you guys a idea of what the manga is about, it tells of a schoolgirl Miku who is failing most of her exams and the principal tells her “make cookies for the teachers” as a sort of punishment. There she meets Yaabe, an airhead who is pretty much an “average Joe soap” guy and is a home economics teacher. She instantly falls in love with him but he’s doesn’tlet her do “it” straight away. He is no doubt doing the right thing by waiting for her until she is grown up and out of school! As a non harem fan, this manga is considered one of the decent ones I’ve read in a long time. I feel the other girls Fujiwara (student council president) and Nagisa (chemistry teacher) who had the “hots” for Yaabe, were actually mature enough to not create typical “cat fight” arguments against each other or pressure Yaabe to fall for them when he obviously isn’t (wish it would happen in every harem manga tbh -_-) It’s really a lovely story to read although be warned for those who want to read this manga, there are a lot of “ecchi” scenes in this involving Miku and two of her “gal” friends, including the fact that they are teens so avoid if it’s not your thing. I personally wasn’t bothered because the character development was so good in this. However again, keep that notion in mind if you are deciding to read this.