Sensei to Watashi

STORY - How many times have you seen this? Teacher & A Student.

ART - Beautiful work, what the manga lacks in character and storyline, it certainly makes up for in art.

CHARACTER - Ugh..The teacher is very realistic in the sense of he acts very mature and adult like. The main character however? She's a ditz who 'fell in love' at first sight. She has no sense of timing with her words, and despite showing worry over a teacherxstudent relationship, she publicly pulls stunts that should get her noticed in no time at all. She's worse than a Mary Sue, she's constantly walking into a line of trouble only to have the teacher swoop her up out of nowhere.

ENJOYMENT - Certainly not one of the worst I've shoujo I've read, but nowhere near the best. It was good enough for me to not want to drop it, in hopes that it would get better. But that was sort of futile.

OVERALL - If you're bored and you're waiting between releases of other manga, you may as well read this. But don't expect anything special. I have to say I was expecting more from Minase Ai based on her other works, but this one can just hardly hold a candle, but to be fair, this one is an earlier release compared to some of the other works she's done, at least there's been some improvement since.

Ahh. How do I describe this manga? The story is awful. There's no depth. The lead characters are, at best, caricatures of the most standard shojo stereotypes. The writing is jam-packed with cheese, the action is ridiculously unrealistic, and the lead girl is so impossibly innocent that all the "romantic" scenes have me checking the corners of the panels for pedobear.
And yet I keep reading it. Not because I'm hoping it gets better. Not because I'm on edge to see what happens next. And certainly not because I find the relationship between the two leads plausible, or refreshing, or even entertaining.
No, I keep reading because sometimes you just want mindless, predictable, "our instantaneous love-of-a-lifetime will overcome all obstacles" shojo. This is the stuff of a twelve-year-old's dreams. It's fantastic in its mediocrity and naivete.
You won't get invested in any part of the story (I promise you). You can read a page, or twenty, and then go back to what you were doing. It's perfect for a quick fix when you're just jonesin' for shojo, but don't have the time for anything good. On that level, this is the perfect read.