Everyone wants the elephant in the room to be addressed but it never is addressed. The first few chapters were def weird, obvious oedipus complex (later on Tengoku is also revealed to have a brother complex), and why was it so hard to clarify that the student wasn’t touched? Like I know Tengoku clarified that he wouldn’t touch a student and was just a psycho asshole that liked making people his playthings (he lacks boundaries and morals to not mess w students), but what really made me doubt things more was when the student saw Aoki’s bruises then commenting on it, I don’t remember what exactly it was but he’s commenting like he had a similar experience. You could try to interpret it as Tengoku finding who Aoki really is and that was his way of doing so, but he never did anything of that nature to the student. Even if I try to interpret it in a different way, it’s still very difficult to see Tengoku as anything but a pedo/groomer (and like another comment said, he can still be a groomer without raping the kids). Aoki is also at fault because of his lazy nature, he doesn't want to be included in bothersome things but he should have reported Tengoku before he even got the chance to blackmail him.
As for the psychological tag, yes, Aoki has a lot of struggles internally due to his mother and we see a bit of the internal drama going on in Tengoku's head sometimes, but we're so used to psychological tags being more messed up and more of a thriller so this is really REALLY vanilla.
Despite all the weird things from the first volume, they actually ended up being a normal couple with realistic relationship and life struggles that it feels like the first part wasn't even the same manga. It really is a shame that the couple stuff was overshadowed by the weird things but that is a very valid criticism.
Everyone wants the elephant in the room to be addressed but it never is addressed. The first few chapters were def weird, obvious oedipus complex (later on Tengoku is also revealed to have a brother complex), and why was it so hard to clarify that the student wasn’t touched? Like I know Tengoku clarified that he wouldn’t touch a student and was just a psycho asshole that liked making people his playthings (he lacks boundaries and morals to not mess w students), but what really made me doubt things more was when the student saw Aoki’s bruises then commenting on it, I don’t remember what exactly it was but he’s commenting like he had a similar experience. You could try to interpret it as Tengoku finding who Aoki really is and that was his way of doing so, but he never did anything of that nature to the student. Even if I try to interpret it in a different way, it’s still very difficult to see Tengoku as anything but a pedo/groomer (and like another comment said, he can still be a groomer without raping the kids). Aoki is also at fault because of his lazy nature, he doesn't want to be included in bothersome things but he should have reported Tengoku before he even got the chance to blackmail him.
As for the psychological tag, yes, Aoki has a lot of struggles internally due to his mother and we see a bit of the internal drama going on in Tengoku's head sometimes, but we're so used to psychological tags being more messed up and more of a thriller so this is really REALLY vanilla.
Despite all the weird things from the first volume, they actually ended up being a normal couple with realistic relationship and life struggles that it feels like the first part wasn't even the same manga. It really is a shame that the couple stuff was overshadowed by the weird things but that is a very valid criticism.