Hayama Asuka and Terano Saki are teachers who have found love together. The students, administration and their colleagues think they are ridiculously adorable about it. They can’t help but tease them, but the pure cuteness of their responses is excruciating. So of course they keep teasing. In Volume 3 of Our Teachers Are Dating! by Pikachi Ohi, it’s one adorable moment after another in this series, interspersed by moments of tender intimacy.
In between being squeed at by students and their friends on the faculty complaining how teeth-rottingly cute they are, Hayama-sensei and Terano-sensei find themselves at a couple of relationship crossroads. Firstly and, possibly most important, in what passed for their real world, Hayama-sensei meets another adult woman in a relationship with another woman. I cannot overstate the power of having someone to speak with as a peer – so this chapter was important to me. Yes, they have been accepted by the people around them, but having someone in a similar boat is really powerful.
And they celebrate their one year anniversary together, which ends up with them deciding to move in together. Of course they have a bunch of adventures together which all sound silly when you type them out, and all end up with them sleeping together, so we’ll skip those, but let us wave to those Yuri ghosts as they float by.
This is a delightfully fluffy story that simply and openly celebrates adult love between two women. Because Asuka and Saki love each other so much, we get to just…enjoy their joy in one another. The world is a complex place. There is room for dark tales and tales of childhood romance and action and magic and there is room for something ridiculously adorable and fluffy. This is exactly the ridiculously adorable and fluffy Yuri manga we need.
Ratings:
Art – 9
Characters – 10
Story – 9
Service – 5 There is nudity and sex. They are in the bath on the cover, so…
Yuri – 10
Overall – 10
Our Teachers Are Dating, Volume 3 is available in print and digital now from Seven Seas. No date as of yet for Volume 4 in English, but I’d guess at an autumn release, as Volume 4 just hit Japanese bookstores.
This manga has become one of my all-time favorites. The cuteness is epic and the love and support they get from their circle is just so affirming and joyful that you can’t help but cheer them on yourself.
Bring on the fluff, it cushions the hard edges of an uncaring world.
Absolutely! V4 is super fluff. ^_^
This series ha as been a little too sweet for my taste. This doesn’t mean I’ll stop reading it, though.
Alternating volumes of this and *How shall we relationship?* was a little disorienting, but the two stories complement one another nicely.
Haha!
Your review got me to reread the first three volumes, and I had just read them for the first time a couple weeks back. As you say, definitely fluff, but heartwarming; I can’t stop smiling while reading it… Looking forward to V4, which bookshop.org lists for September 21 — don’t know where they got the date from, so don’t know how reliable it is, but it fits with your estimate.
I’m super glad to have inspired you to re-read them. ^_^