Mafuyu gets kidnapped by Mr. Maki!
Creative Staff:
Story/Art: Izumi Tsubaki
Translation/Adaptation: JN Productions
What They Say:
Can high school delinquent Mafuyu clean up her act and still kick some butt?!
Mafuyu is the no-nonsense, take-charge and hard-hitting leader of her high school gang. But when she gets expelled for being a delinquent, her mother, fed up with her daughter’s wayward ways, sends Mafuyu to an isolated school far off in the country.
Mafuyu’s homeroom teacher Mr. Maki isn’t just a conundrum, he’s also a kidnapper! Right when Mafuyu thought she was getting to the bottom of her missing memories, Mr. Maki spirited her away to an amazing mansion. While Mafuyu is a sucker for mansions, she does have a school to save. But she can’t escape on her own, and all her friends think she’s just home with a cold. Now her only choice is to rely on her enemy!
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Mr. Maki’s exhibited some fairly odd behavior, and now he tops it all by kidnapping Mafuyu. Normally, a high school teacher abducting a student would be really creepy (not to mention illegal!). However, Tsubaki-sensei averts the creepy vibe, partly by making it a place from which Mafuyu could easily escape, partly by using the circumstances to progress her investigation of Mr. Maki, and partly by having Toko stumble upon the kidnapped Mafuyu.
As it turns out, Mr. Maki is a servant to Toko, and the place Mafuyu is held captive is the Hanabusa mansion. Interestingly, Mafuyu was not abducted at Toko’s orders, but that doesn’t mean Toko’s unhappy with the kidnapping. Rather, she seems amused to have someone in the house to mock (I guess rich people in this world don’t worry about legal implications) and goes to taunt Mafuyu whenever Mr. Maki isn’t around. But instead of being disheartened, Mafuyu is actually thrilled. She’s always wanted female friends, and her favorite female type is “an elegant, dignified rich girl.” As a result, no matter how demeaning Toko’s treatment, Mafuyu receives it joyfully, and the kidnapping turns into a bizarre situation where Mafuyu is pampered by Mr. Maki in posh surroundings and ingratiates herself to Toko.
It is through this turn of events that we get a major revelation on Mr. Maki’s past. Although Mafuyu spends much of her imprisonment letting Toko treat her like a dog, she does have a moment of bancho brilliance when she gets Toko to explain how Mr. Maki wound up in the Hanabusa household. And through Toko’s explanation, we also learn how she became the warped person she is.
Although this fills in a lot of blanks about Mr. Maki’s past, the one while he was at West High remains, and thanks to a convoluted pigeon letter exchange, this investigation falls to Takaomi. He returns to his old stomping grounds in Saitama, and it looks like there will be a fateful mingling of past and present as current and former Saitama delinquents cross paths.
Extras include Characters and The Story Thus Far, 4-panel comics, and a bonus chapter.
In Summary
Mafuyu gets kidnapped by Mr. Maki and winds up captive in the Hanabusa mansion! It’s kind of bizarre, but we’ve seen weird goings on in a rich family’s house before so it’s not out of character for this series. At any rate, an entire chapter gets devoted to Mr. Maki, the Hanabusa family, and the circumstances under which Toko grew up. Not all the details have been revealed, but we certainly get a lot in this volume.
Content Grade:B+
Art Grade:B+
Packaging Grade: B+
Text/Translation Grade: C+
Age Rating: 13+
Released By: Viz MEdia
Release Date: July 2nd, 2019
MSRP: $9.99