Content Violations Review: Manga.Kyou No Go No Ni

A Seinen manga that, judging from the trope list, seemingly sexualizes elementary school students.

Where? The entry mentioning the OVA being iffy?

From 238 pages, the sus moments:

• Matsunaga lifts Kumi's tennis skirt with visible underskirt in front of Watanabe as a prank.
• The class hides a gravure magazine and discuss what makes collarbones attractive.
• Yuki leaning to the drinking fountain and Ryota getting distracted by Male Gaze and gets scolded.
• Yuki and Ryota getting trapped in a shed and scared Yuki hugs his waist from the front. When the teacher finds them, it's Not What It Looks Like.
• Megumi comes to nurse's office to change uniform and Satou just happens to be in a curtained bed nearby to see past the Scenery Censor.
• Ryota accidentally spills milk and soup on Yuki's shirt. When he goes check on her at the nurse's office she's nearly undressed and he gets scolded.
• Boys play with springy balls and accidentally lift two skirts with them.
• Yuki falls from a book cabinet on her knees and Ryota and readers get a view of her rear.
• Another Yuki's Panty Shot for no reason, she's just sitting on a chair.
• Ryota walks into nurse's office in the middle of girls doing a medical checkup and gets hit with Unprovoked Pervert Payback. Then he thinks it's smart to come back for a question and gets punched again.
• Ryota is asked if he ever flipped skirts (intentionally) and he says it has not. Then he falls off the chair and accidentally does so to the two girls behind him. And gets beaten up.
• Megu says she lost her School Sport Uniform and later discovers she still wears it under school clothes.
• Yuki falls of stairs with Panty Shot.
• Ryota falls on top of Aihara with Panty Shot and Yuki happens to walk in.

I think it's just a Gag Series where the common punchline is suddenly exposed underwear (not in every chapter), with an eventual subplot of Ryota learning to be considerate. It's inappropriate, but I don't think it's too much on pandering.

So here's the thing: the sense of humor regarding Naked People Are Funny and Comedic Underwear Exposure when applied to children is weird and creepy, but I don't think this is outright sexualization. Unless I'm missing something, based on Amonimus' writeup, it doesn't sound like the manga is like, dwelling on the inappropriate fanservice in a lurid way intended for titillation, it kinda just sounds like it treats those things as "haha nudity/underwear funny" in a relatively innocuous sense. There doesn't appear to be sex (neither explicit or implicit), so otherwise as squicky as it is, I don't think it's strictly cutworthy.

Edited by number9robotic on Sep 29th 2023 at 11:04:22 AM

Keep. As said, while the theme of the series is age-inappropriate for the characters, it's not pandering, and it does sound like stuff that kids do. ("Boys flip up girls' skirts"? Yep, totally normal, even if making a series out of that is cringe AF.)

Keep, with Ramdiel and number9robotic's opinions in mind.

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Agree, sounds like a keep.

That's a consensus to keep. Adding to policy page and discussion.