Hayama-sensei to Terano-sensei ha Tsukiatteiru by Ohi Pikachi is absolutely adorable and I unconditionally adore it.

Hayama Asuka and Terano Saki are teachers at a school and they are going out with each other. The kids know it, their peers know it, the administration knows it and everyone thinks they are absurdly adorable about it. Because they are absurdly adorable.

This series is not about real-world trials of being a lesbian couple in a society that has no legal standing for them. It’s not about workplace harassment or homophobia. It’s a shiny, sparkly fantasy series in which two adult women who never expected to fall in love, have, and are painfully cute about it. Volume 1 details how their relationship begins.

Crises do exist, of course. In Volume 2 they struggle with how will they match their gait in the two-legged race at Sports Day?!? Or what to do about birthday hickeys? Let’s not forget the time that they had a misunderstanding at the school festival! And how about the time Hayama-sensei was late to a date because she was helping a lost child, and then she fell in a puddle and…

As you can see, this series is absolutely chock-full of not-at-all particularly tense scenarios. Instead, it’s a charming, soft, fuzzy series that also includes sex scenes, which are no less sweet and adorable for being somewhat explicit.

Everyone in the school is rooting for them…and so am I.

Ratings:

Art – 9
Characters – 10
Story – 9
Service – 5 There is nudity and sex, but it is sweet rather than salacious
Yuri – 10

Overall – 10

This volume we get Terano sharing an “Ok-saurus” with Hayama on LINE and I think I might have squeed out loud.