In which we read God Awful Shoujo (GAS) and weep madly/try to figure out what went wrong.

I was inspired to try doing a Let's Read of a manga. I decided that one-shots would be perfect material. I want to start off with a personal favourite trauma of mine:

As other people have stated on this thread, there are A LOT of triggers ahead. Be sure to read the spoiler below so you know what you're in for! Triggers include:

Aishite Kudasai, Sensei

Summary:
(From Midnight Scans):

Kitou Hijiri, a student, confessed his feelings to a Chemistry teacher named Nakatani Ayano whom he had fallen in love with 8 years ago. Somehow when he was young, he lived beside Ayano and bear feelings for her. Ayano, in turn, could not resist Hijiri’s determination and strong feelings towards her. What will be the ending of their taboo love?

It will be an awesome trainwreck, everyone. I'm not LR'ing this blind, of course.

Note: I read this intially since the premise seemed interesting and I <3 yandere males and teacher x student romances and every work with yandere males and teacher x student romance should be spectacular, right?

ಠ_ಠ No.
Since I've never seen a Let's Read, I don't know how it works and ask that people who want to spoil try not to spoil for everyone despite how easy it is to cheat. This is a test run. Besides, it's a one-shot, which means it should be done pretty quickly. :D

Edit: I've catalogued the updates below in order to make it slightly neater.

Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
Part 6 (*Double update for continuity*)
Part 7 (Final)

If you would like to skip this one, the 2nd GAS of this thread is Love Celeb read by Umazes!




Now let's get Hijiri the woman of his dreams and his dungeon.

After scenes of disturbing hugs (Gosh, this manga is able to make a hug look creepy. What potential!), the story begins:



Meet Nakatani Ayano (pictured above). She's your kuu-type teacher. She's a bit cold, but she cares about her students wholesomely. The faceless Slenderman is our hero.



Look! He's got glasses! Kuchiku Megane shout-out? Anyway, in case you couldn't read the text, Valedictorian Hijiri has failed his test without scoring like a typical male lead prince-type. Therefore, the world is ending and Ayano needs to figure out how to stop it.


And three pages in, we already have issues with personal space. Hijiri and the plot conveniently forget that they're in front of all his classmates or maybe they just don't give a rat's ass.



NO Ayano, please don't Edward Cullen this! Don't be fascinated by weird people who invade your space within the first three pages.



"Kyah, I hope senpai notices me~" Wait Ayano, aren't you a teacher? What?

The classmates gush about the cute female teacher and ask Hijiri if she turns him on (I know how to interpret japanese high school boy-speak). Hijiri doesn't answer and chooses to focus on the window.



DUCK AYANO!! He's got sniper rifle vision!



WHYYYYY INVISIBLE MAN?? OUR RELATIONSHIP WAS GOING PERFECT WITH THE YOU NOT BEING THERE AND THE RELATIONSHIP NOT PROGRESSING. WE WERE SO GOOD TOGETHER THAT WE DIDN'T EVEN NEED FACE TIME WITH EACH OTHER!


So Ayano needs to deal with this crap, when



HOLY SHIT, where'd you come from?! Ayano is understandably afraid.

Sorry!Hijiri doesn't seem very sorry (I don't think he knocked, Ayano!). In fact he seems to be proud of his ninja creeping. He follows in the footsteps of a fat pigeon. Ayano asks why he left his test blank, and Hijiri says that he's protesting against her. All the while, he's walking towards the fishbowl in the office (the plot calls for one).

Crazy train in 3...2...1...



Don't reach for the fish Hijiri don't- In case you don't know what's going on (understandable), Hijiri has thrown the contents of the fish bowl at his teacher. And in the process, killed some fishes who are going "flip, flip" in a pitiful attempt to understand the horror of yandere and why it has suddenly crossed paths with them when all they were doing was swimming swimmingly in their safe neat little fishbowl and being fish in general.



Hijiri puts his "Just as Keikaku" face on while Ayano stares at him in shock. This makes me wonder if this is how dating Fat Bird would turn out if he was yan for you. Though this is clearly less than Yuno Gasai level, I am scared for Ayano.

Hijiri reaches for her and of all things...



Reading shoujo is suffering.



After a painful struggle scene, Ayano slaps Hijiri and he laughs. LAUGHS. Hijiri then reveals that he used to be her shota next door neighbour. Them shotas be crazy, man!



As Hijiri pins her down, he reveals the reason why he came to this school.
It was to see her.



O_O Dear mangaka, if you were trying to make him look attractive...you're doing it wrong. I take two seconds to contemplate whether Gollum would be better relationship material and find it difficult to definitively say no. Except for his ring fetish. Oh I can't wait until we get to-I'm spoilering ahead of myself.

Ayano's expression in the next page as Hijiri forces another kiss on her seems like her world's crumbling and I don't have the heart/malice to put that up here.

End of this post/part 1.

Nooooo nonononono
what the hell is going on i'm scared

should i be laughing or crying
i cant even- i
...
why

...

*surreptitiously clicks Watch Thread*

*slinks out*

omg yay you made the thread! Hijiri, you are doing the whole confessing thing wrong.

Please tell me that next page she knees him in the meat n' potatoes and calls the cops.

That would be a satisfying end.

You just wanted to share this pain with the rest of us, didn't you?
Also, constant font size 2 text is a little hard on my eyes, of course it could just be that I've been looking at forum boards for the last two hours.

CHAPTER ONE: THE SAGA BEGINS

Wait

But why did he fail his test

This is leaving all of my burning questions unanswered

OH MY GOD. FerdieLance...Saranghaeyo >////<
LORDY HAVE MERCY THOUGH. You have mad skills in editing, mang.
Also am loving the Phantom Polygons so much because yes.

Ur-Quan City...? Are they talking about... they couldn't be...?

This fills me with equal amounts of joy and pants shitting terror.

No worries, I think we have FerdieLance to soften the horror for us... or amplify it. Who knows?

FerdieLance ,you are a genius. XD

I think he's cute and I do love the creepy stalker type more than I should, but...what?

It seemed like it had potential so I was like how is this bad? But then none of it made any sense at all...??

T_T Poor fish...

Now I know where to go when I come across GAS. I'm pretty sure I've seen this one before though I can't remember if I finished it.

Oh shoujo manga, when you are bad you can be really bad.



/sob

Oh boy, I'm going to end up monopolising this thread.

Edit: Also, I love all of you.

AND THIS MANGA IS TERRIBLE I MEAN JESUS CHRIST

I was in shock when I finished reading it. From disgust. I don't like yanderes, but holy frick do I loathe this particular brand of yandere.

Wait, this is considered being yandere? I thought he was just a creepy asshole...

@jordantigers, thanks for the heads up! I'll try size 4 font this time. Hopefully that's better!
@FerdieLance, all my <3 to you for making this more bearable. I'm surprised this manga lasted more than 20 pages, but more shock (and awe) to go around, I guess.
@Randissimo, you actually read the whole thing? Why would you do that - oh right, M.

From where we last left off, our darling male lead Hijiri had committed a series of criminal offenses capable of landing him in jail/on probation/a restraining order at least. Ayano breaks both his kneecaps, and calls the police to throw his ass far, far away. She lives out the rest of her life staying the hell away from creepy shotas. That's how it ends, right?



HAHAHAahah, of course not! This is GAS.

Ayano goes home to think about where it all went wrong things:



Seven years old?!



At seven years of age, he should've been preoccupied with collecting Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh cards, not thinking up ways to prey on unsuspecting middle-schoolers.


Mew....just Mew. Gets me right in the heart everytime.


WAT is right.



WHY ARE YOU BLUSHING AYANO?!! While Ayano pines after ponders about Hijiri, Hijiri is fast asleep, tucked safely and far away from her, right?



I'm sorry dear sir, but you are utterly and irrefutably WRONG.



Hijiri shows up right outside her apartment complex to creepily stare at it to protect her from creepy people sneaking in. What a prince! I'm just surprised he isn't looking in on her from her bedroom window. The mangaka places shotaface next to creepyface in an attempt to compel us to sympathize with Hijiri.





Ayano falls asleep and has a flashback to moar shota:





Struck by how shota the shota is, Ayano promises to sell her soul take the ring.


[insert continuous screaming] Ayano's dream turns static-y, judging from the texture, and we're informed we have seven days.

Ayano wakes up and muses over the dream. She also remembers her boyfriend dumping her, but that's not important to the plot, so it gets a 2-second mention. At school, she bumps into Hijiri (not a coincidence!) in the hallway and he drops something because it was too heavy (with innuendo):







Maybe a cute Pony picture can take the edge off it. No?




Ayano is hit with nostalgia and a case of blushface at his question.Oh, this is where Hijiri's personality is going to have a sudden 180 and he's going to be a nice, kind gentleman from now on in order to really woo Ayano, right?





WHAT JUST HAPPENED. THE FUCKER BIT HER.
OH MY GOD RABIES ASLDFKASKJDHGAJKSD


NO WE WILL NOT. AND NEITHER WILL YOU EVER GET OUT OF YOUR PRISON CELL AGAIN, SIR.

Wow. I am doing so much recoiling away from the screen while reading this that I can't even mock.

Can't laugh. Cringing now. Appropriate thread title.

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

This ends with them together? How the hell could someone ever justify that? Ayano dislikes all of this why would she ever date him???

Man, and I thought Twilight was creepy. This is just horrific.

I have always been unclear as to the distinction. I kind of thought being creepy was a large part of the point of the yandere type to begin with.

I think it is more towards 50 Shades. Which is, of course, even worse.
This is one of the most horrible things I've ever seen. I'm not even joking.

Oh, god, I had temporarily forgotten about that!

DDDDD:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA just wait.

Well, there are subtypes. What makes a yandere a yandere is that they are convinced you're going to love them back or already do! Generally, though, they aren't fucking

See, the thumbnail description of "yandere" that I have always heard sums up to "very affectionate, but likely to axemurder any perceived threats to your relationship, including possibly you yourself if you don't return an acceptable level of affection," so... still not seeing that much of a distinction. "Unwelcome physical advances" and "you had better welcome those advances if you don't want to get shanked" are a pretty short step apart.

Then again I am not a yandere fan so I haven't made any particular study of the tropes involved, and perhaps I am misunderstanding.

This makes me embarrassed for the author and the publisher and the translator and anyone at all connected to producing it at all.

and now she's a proper assassin
If this ends with the two of them together, I am going to be so disappointed.
Come on, lady, report his ass.

The difference I find is that the yandere is willing to give up their own life since they're that dedicated to their partner. Or, for the, ah, possessive ones, they literally just... Sink all their attention to said LI. It's less about wanting and more about wanting and wanting to give.

The crazy possessive assholes are just... Crazy possessive assholes. It's about pride and about winning and about having.

Yanderes are very firmly driven by genuine affection and their own pride? Willing to throw that away if it means keeping you. Still as creepy, but the difference is still there, if subtle.

How do I know this? Personal experience! AHAHAHAHAHAHA sobbing quietly.

Hm, well. My familiarity with the term comes mostly from the TVTropes definition, which doesn't really seem to match up with the one that you are giving. As I am not familiar with the type myself, I'll just have to refrain from making assumptions.

Well, there's a very wide range of types of yandere and a lot is just personal opinion. I just tend to differentiate the two because, well, there's still the dere concept to consider.

And this is why yanderes terrify me.

I rather like yanderes, but not possessive/obsessive assholes. I'm not really sure where to draw the line between the two, though, so my personal definition is "Yanderes are sexy. Assholes are not sexy." I'm not very good at logical arguments myself. As for this kid, I'll put off judging him until we see the way he interacts with unrelated characters, unless we never see him interact with anyone but Ayano, in which case I'll assume he's an asshole.

OKAY.
SO.
DEFINITELY NOT LAUGHING.
ABORT.
ABOOORT.
*quietly clicks Watch*
*drowns in masochism*

WHAT

THE

FUCK

He liked it so he put a ring on it.
/ha. ha. ha. *punches screen because no*