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星川銀座四丁目
25
3
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May 12, 2009 to Oct 12, 2012
4.0/10
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I read this when I was younger, but I do remember a lot about it enough to write this review: it is terrible and should have never been written. This is just the kind of content that validates pedophiles feelings and desires, also making this great grooming material should they show it to younger audiences. If you read this when you were younger as I did (I was around 13), don't allow this manga to make you think it's okay if an adult likes you. It never is. This manga isn't nearly as sexual as Ken's other works but is equally as bad as the rest ofthem. This does romanticize the relationship between a child and an adult--an adult with an authoritative position no less! It would make any normal person squirm at the fact they make the child the one who wants to be in the relationship, which is what any pedophile thinks a child would want. This manga isn't explicitly bad like many, but it is a wolf's in sheep's skin as it can make children think it's okay since it romanticizes and glosses over pedophilia as if it's just true love. I wouldn't recommend this to anyone ever.
This story lets us look into the relationship of Matsuda Otome (a home schooled girl) and Nakagawa Minato (an elementary school teacher). Otome has been through a difficult past and is now under the care of Minato-sensei. Otome becomes suspicious of Minato's day-to-day routines and investigates. What will Minato tell Otome when she confronts her?
This was just a little too much. I'm open-minded, but there's just something about bringing up your own intended spouse that reads as incredibly creepy. I wouldn't necessarily mind the situation quite so much if they were less apart in age, if Otome were at least 16 or so--well, okay, no, that'd still be pretty freaking squicky. But 13? C'MON. It doesn't matter if the relationship is chaste; there's still no way that that's going to work out emotionally. I wanted to love the characters, and indeed that is a stronger part of the work, but they also wind up too cliche. But really the last volume justkilled it for me entirely. I don't know that I can say this without spoilers, so look for spoilers in this section: -------- There are a series of Drama Bombs that serve to: 1) Show how fragile this relationship really is; 2) show that Otome has had some psychological impacts from her inappropriate relationship, in that she's willing to accept really awful things done to her by other people; 3) prevent us seeing character development between the two protagonists. I also absolutely detest long time-skips. Our ending features a time skip of ten years. WTF? What have they been doing all this time?? The author's note does not make this any clearer or any better. Whatever this series had going for it that had me engaged, it lost me through these developments. -------- I can't hate this story, but I wish I had back the time I spent reading it.
This was soooo close to being a nice heartwarming read with a satisfying story. However, in one swift move the mangaka managed to completely ruin the nice warm feeling you get from reading a romance. While the overall story is still decent with a satisfying ending, you are just left with this horrible taste in your mouth thinking about this one plot point. Considering where the story was going up until that point, it was so out of place and shouldn't have been added in. Excluding that one plot point, this was a great read. The characters and story were great, it had a really nicetension to the story that made me just want to keep reading. The art was cute with the exception of one chapter, which i assume the artist ran out of time as it was a mix of rough sketches and final pages without shading. I recommend giving this a try if your a fan of yuri manga, but this has some strong lolicon themes so if that's something that'll bother you give it a pass.