Sex Ed 120% has been a heck of a ride. Informative and highly whimsical, it’s provided a lot of solid information and fair amount of utterly useless information side by side, with a wacky sense of timing and humor that is not actually inappropriate for teenagers, but also would never happen in the real world. I’ve reviewed Volume 1 and Volume 2 previously on Okazu.

Clearly writer Kikiki Tataki knew this series was coming to an end here in Sex Ed 120%, Volume 3, because in this volume, two major school year milestones are squeezed in order to make room for the plot we all had hoped we’d get…Tsuji-sensei’s confession to Nakazawa-sensei.

I’m going to be honest, while it seemed pretty obvious that this relationship was being set up, I was still quite surprised when the narrative decided to center it. And while it was a bit on the nose, it gave the characters the chance to delve into bisexuality in a way that might have otherwise felt shoved into the school festival storyline.

Overall, I actually loved the festival story and the bulletin board of supportive messages. I had the feeling of “this is the world I want to be in” that I wish more manga would reach for. I’m tired of watching characters swim against the tide of sexism, homophobia, transphobia and the like, and am ready for stories that imagine a world in which students worldwide can talk openly about their lives. For that, Sex Education 120% is a pretty fun story that does some important things in an impossibly goofy way.

Ratings:

Art – 8
Story – 9
Characters – 10
Service –  1 A very teeny bit of Tsuji-sensei’s imagination running away with her, but in a mostly harmless way.
Queer – 10

Overall – 9

Sex Ed 120%, Volume 3, written by Kikiki Tataki, with art by Hotomura, is out from Yen Press, available on Amazon, RightStuf and Bookwalker (which is having a sitewide sale right now, just *after* I bought this. My timing is impeccable. ^_^;)