Naisho no Jikan

Normally I'm not a fan of Aikawa Saki's work, but this is probably her best one.



I like the premise, but I've seen too many mangas flop on it with overly nonsensical scenarios and blackmailing.


This one was milder and focused more on the interactions - so the pacing is slower but more natural imo.



Also, the girl isn't anything new, but she's not as weepy and useless as other girls, and she made some decent points and remarks regarding him liking 'Rika' only by her appearance with makeup.



Overall, just a nice manga with a cute premise although toward the end it did get more into the 'hero saving the girl everytime' which can get exasperating.



I like the premise, and the mangaka did a decent job.



The oneshot at the end is terrible though.

Le opere di questa sensei mi piacciono un sacco!(๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)

The extra story in chapter 6 is a total mess, though.

From the little author note page it seems it was an early work from when she was 18, being reprinted. So I guess it's understandable.

That was cute enough. The description makes it sound like a blackmail scenario, but it establishes right away that the guy isn't a sack of shit like that, which in turn makes his "ore-sama" tendencies more endearing. Plenty of good banter between an forgettably likeable cast, and the double-life thing is used pretty effectively to zest up the character development and make their prospective relationship more grounded. Overall just a solid, inoffensive take on what is frequently a very ugly premise. Short and fun.

The extra story in chapter 6 is a total mess, though. While the main story is a common scenario done well, this takes another common scenario and completely flubs it. Like, if it had a few chapters to read itself out, then it might've been a bit bland and unconvincing, but compressed into 30 pages or so, it ends up just being really ugly. The girl doesn't seem to have had an actual conversation with the teacher before this point, but this adult man was so into her he deliberately used his family connections to push her into an arranged marriage with him? Her consistent feelings of disgust and frustration at his wildly inappropriate (and borderline illegal) behaviour turn into True Love 5Ever in a single frame for literally no reason? What are you even talking about? Just trash. Such a startling drop in quality from the rest of the book.

I'd explain the 3rd and 4th chapter, but I don't know where to begin.... My three years of French in High school were three years ago... :/

I also checked the Chibi manga page, and it looks like they are working on it and are on the editing stage. I imagine we'll see English translations up soon enough (hopefully). It does look like they need editors (aka cleaners). I'm not sure if it's for other manga, though. If you have the time and talent, consider applying to help them anyways.

I am enjoying this manga, and I look forward to seeing where it goes. I'd really like reading it in English.

unneeded comedy tag...

looks interesting.

Only 2 chapters, but theres a serious lack of comedy here; that is unless you think the struggles of a poor, blackmailed and overworked middle schooler is funny.

the second chapter of it is out on some other manga sites!

I have this weird feeling I've read more of this, but doing a bit of googling and checking Chibi I don't see any more. I guess I've just read something else with the exact same plot.
Seems nice so far.

Needs more chapters

Why hasn't this updated yet?

I really like the art since it's not overly shoujo. The story is interesting too, and the main character is cute in her own way.

At first I though it would like Kaichou wa Maid-sama, but it was actually better than I expected it to be. Though it said comedy above, there wasn't much for me to laugh about with this one, but there's only one chapter out so I'll give it a chance and keep reading the next chapters since the art is beautiful.
I don't feel anything special coming out of this one so I don't know if I should recommend it or not.