The first love is by my side.

Hatsukoi no Tonari follows the tried and true plot of "people who knew each other a while ago and meet again." What's more is they had a teacher/student relationship before. This sounds like an incredibly cliche manga, which, to be honest, it is. That doesn't mean, however, that it isn't enjoyable! I'm a total sucker for this kind of thing, so if you want a short, sweet love story, I definitely recommend this. I felt kind of bad for the student in this story because it felt like the sensei was stringing him along, but the conclusion and love confession makes it worth it.

I gave this manga a 4 and I want to explain why: this manga is simply too mediocre and has a story that has exaggerated the levels of simplicity. In the first place, the relationship between the characters develops without properly showing the internal development of their emotions or their substantial motivations, leaving a feeling of emptiness when their relationship is formally conformed. The sample of the previous sustenance and origin of that love dragged with time was executed in a very flat and vague way. When the growth of the feelings of one of the characters proceeds, it simulates lackluster and not very logical giventhe previous events, which were basically very boring and almost without emotion to generate a close bond between the lovers. I think this story had potential but it was not known to exploit it well, as I said: they took simplicity too far and left vanality in its place. It's okay that you want to do a sweet and simple first love story, but instead they just conveyed a story in my opinion lacking the desired emotionality.