Where did you get that hirose and the teacher are a "ship" (I'm assuming you meant couple)?? I can see the interpretation of hirose having a crush on his teacher, but I don't see how the teacher has acted weird towards hirose except maybe the one ride home he gave him
hi!! i meant the twitter post not in the manga sorry i wasn't clear. that's what i meant by "drew [...] tgt as a ship" https://x.com/iimawa21/status/1848192493244019106
i'm hoping that perhaps it's just non-canon art by the author but it's just not looking that great.
i completely had the same perspective as you too so i understand, it's just that after i saw the ship art i was like "wtf" ykwim? like i genuinely thought people were kind of overreacting from the manga, bc i thought it was just an unrequited love with some questionable acts by the teacher (e.g. the 'if you were a girl' flirting) and then i realised why after i saw the tweet
Okay thay is. Weird. For sure. But I'm pretty sure it's supposed to be non-canon? Like, it's hard to say much of anything when these are presented out of context (not that the context would make 'em less weird, but at least we'd know what led to these...) but I think Syundei knows well enough not to draw something this problematic in her most popular manga. My best bet for this is she started this weird thing between hirose and the teacher in the manga out of plot reasons (giving hirose a male crush just to state he's into dudes) but then uh, got sidetracked on her free time. Yikes. But I'm still pretty hopeful about this not becoming canon.
(If it does, I'll probably just try to forget this manga ever existed )
And honestly I see a lot of people point that scene ("if you were a girl") as flirting but I just saw it as more a joke?? Since what hirose said was a pretty tropey, shoujo protagonist line.
My biggest gripe with him is the ride he gave hirose + exchanging numbers like they're just good ol' pals...?? Bc there's certainly a line there somewhere that otogiri is ignoring, which, yk, doesn't say the nicest of things about him...
yeah i have the exact same view on this. i'm honestly just not sure what to expect now. i don't have a problem with hirose having an unrequited love, i think it's a fine plot point, but if she actually ends up making them get together i will be so upset.
oh yeah i agree with you for sure sorry, it's just that part was on my mind the most because i just can't imagine a teacher making that kind of joke to a student. but definitely, the car and number thing was definitely the most suspicious. at my high school i remember it was literally prohibited for teachers to give the students their phone number so i found that weird too
Wait so this isn’t Nakamuda x Hirose end game but the teacher and (I’m assuming Hirose) Student endgame???? NOOOOOO I get the one sided crush but making them endgame is ridiculous the story been weird with the teacher but I tried to ignore it but if end game is teacher x student im not into it ahhhhhh ahhhhhh ahhhh nooooo
Or are you js talking about the teacher student interaction between Hirose and the teacher? And that they’re not endgame but js the interactions???
I agree with that then, the interactions are weird esp the way they look at each other or well mostly Hirose’s one sided crush it seems. I’m dying choking.
We're mostly gambling, here. We don't know 100% for sure what the exact endgame here is, since I'm pretty sure the author has never spoken out about it, but it IS true that they have drawn art of Hirose x the teacher. That is the most we can day on any front. As I said before tho, the author is probably smart enough not to make that endgame when this series has gained so much traction, so it's... 99% safe to assume it won't be a teacher x student endgame.
But seeing the art they've made makes it weird to read the interactions between them in the manga, tbh, but thess interactions by themselves aren't very "incriminating;" they're probably overly friendly just to give a background for Hirose to get a crush on the teacher-- which, by itself, would not mean the pairing is canon
Thank you for the info and omg yes even tho it’s probably for background like u said, why is their interactions sooo close as student and teacher it’s to the point im reading and i get uncomfortable like teacher aren’t u uncomfortable? But then again maybe the teacher understands and isn’t looking at it as more than a kid love and knows that it’ll change or whatever
now that i just learnt the author actually drew the teacher x hirose tgt as a ship im actually at a loss for words, i dont think anything could describe how disappointed i am. if she made it clear from the start it was teacher x student, ok wtv, not my cup of tea i probably wouldn't have read.
but it's the way she genuinely misled us into thinking this would be wholesome this entire time (and it was wholesome in vol 1), but now all of us are hit with this groomer bs ?? like yes, wtv it's her story she can do what she wants but she surely should have been aware how so many of us who were fans and really enjoyed it would feel about this. like i swear NONE of us were here to see a teacher-student relationship.