Sometimes the boss just has to show you the way.
Creative Staff
Story/Art: Kohri
Translation/Adaptation: N/A
What They Say:
Special guidance from my older superior. ♥
Content: (please note that content portions of a review may contain spoilers):
Originally serialized in Comic Bavel from the January 2023 installment, Please Coach Me, Mutsuura-san is a twenty-four-page story from creator Kohri, who has nine other works on the service. This marked my second experience with this particular creator, obviously, as I was looking through new releases looking for something, anything, that didn’t involve high school characters for a bit in. This one also drew some attention with the tags that it has and their small back catalog of things to read makes it easy so that I can have more to check out but not be overwhelmed by their catalog. The preview image had something that played to the wholesome side as well and that’s always fun to watch unfold.
This story focuses on a couple of claims handlers as we see them working through a difficult case. Takatsuki’s relatively new to the company, six months out, and he struggled with a difficult client that his boss Rei Mutsuura had to step in and handle. She wasn’t upset by it at all and the two even laugh over drinks after work about how dumb it was but that you have to massage the clients like this in order to continue loyalty. Takatsuki’s apologetic and all but it doesn’t take long for Rei to make clear that she wants more out of him than talk about work. She’s teasing him just right at drinks and quickly invites him back to her place to spend some quality time together. It’s a quick setup and one that throws Takatsuki off completely because this wasn’t something he ever expected and he even tries to use his work routine to deal with clients to slow things down.
And we do get a slowdown early on because he reveals a bad first-time experience in college that has left him unable to do the deed because of how awful it went. Rei’s in that right position to use experience and a bit of maturity to help him through it and she’s pretty eager – in a restrained way – to do so and comes up with the plan that helps to get him past that bad experience and into her more fully. The dynamic between the two is a lot of fun with that whole senpai and junior thing and her wanting to help him out while also getting what she wants out of it. But like a lot of these kinds of stories, Takatsuki’s more than she expected him to be once he gets comfortable with things and really into it, able to try all the things he wanted to but was too ashamed to even think of approaching it before. And yes, we do get a sequence with Rei being kind of overwhelmed by how good he is, but it’s more that he’s just super pumped up at this point and it’s not coming down soon.
In Summary
While I liked Kkohri’s previous chapter that I read well enough, I didn’t expect too much more than that out of this one. But what we get is something that’s a lot more fun than I expected which delivers on some really good positions you don’t see often and a kind of senpai sequence that doesn’t feel as terrible as some of them often do. The end result is that it’s a vanilla chapter in pretty much all ways it’s also one that hits a real sweet spot in how playful both of the characters are as they get going. And it helps a lot that this chapter feels like Kohri’s artwork has stepped up since what I read of theirs early last year, which has me more curious to check out their stuff.
Content Grade: B+
Art Grade: B+
Text/Translation Grade: B+
Age Rating: 18+
Released By: FAKKU
Release Date: January 2023
MSRP: FAKKU Subscription
