Take your sex ed classes seriously, kids!
Creative Staff
Story/Art: Yumeno Tanuki
Translation/Adaptation: N/A
What They Say:
We’re all riled up! ♡
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Originally serialized in Comic Shitsurakuten from the September 2016 installment, Hey, Sensei! is a sixteen-six page story from creator Yumenu Tanuki, who has one other work on the service. This is my first experience with their work and it’s one that’s not exactly going to bring me rushing back to see more. While Tanuki’s character designs are fantastic as I love the curved approach and the softer presentation overall, there’s often so much going on at a time – a given considering it’s one guy and five girls – but it also just has so much background text that it becomes overwhelming. Plus, worst of all, Tanuki works a kind of blend of showing the internal and external of penetration, making for some very bizarre looking sequence.s
The premise behind this one is a school based one where the school nurse, Andou-sensei, has brought three troublesome girls to an afterschool session because they don’t pay attention during class. And with it being a sex ed class it’s certainly important to know how things work. The trio are amusing in how they want to be anywhere but here but end up perking up with Enda-sensei is brought in, a decent looking male teacher that Andou knew that they’d respond to. Of course, it doesn’t take long for the video that they’re watching to bore the socks off of the kids and they get kind of rambunctious by saying they learn better by being hands on. You expect that, obviously, but it moves quickly within the sixteen pages we get as the first four or five are given over to flirting and playful sexiness.
What it does that’s amusing is that Andou kind of takes the lead because she can’t let the kids do too much to Enda since that would be “wrong.” So she takes one for the team and shows them how sex works, and making babies, by engaging with Enda in the classroom. It’s pretty fun watching the two and seeing Enda being surprised it’s happening but we also get a lot of business from the students as they watch and learn and we see creative ways of keeping them engaged until Andou allows them to get totally hands on with Enda. The end stinger is pretty amusing since everyone by Andou gets pregnant and you can laugh about it because it’s just a silly book, but her look of anger mixed with disappointment is just downright priceless.
In Summary
Hey, Sensei has some good stuff going for it but most of it revolves around some great artwork and character designs. The concept works well enough but it’s just so busy, so crammed full of material, that it becomes a slog to read through as it goes on and you disconnect from the characters since they’re such ciphers. This is the kind of story you almost have to zoom in panel by panel because a whole page on a standard monitor just feels so mooshed in that you lose what works from it. I’d be more interested in seeing more of Tanuki’s work with less characters but the way he uses the internal sequences just left me kind of cringing. It’s a mix as to what works and what doesn’t but I’m leaning more toward not working for me.
Content Grade: C
Art Grade: B+
Text/Translation Grade: B+
Age Rating: 18+
Released By: FAKKU
Release Date: September 14th, 2016
MSRP: FAKKU Subscription
