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ぼくたちは勉強ができない / Bokutachi wa benkyō ga dekinai #12
We Never Learn, Vol. 12
Nariyuki Yuiga comes from an impoverished family, so he’s eager to secure a full scholarship to college before he graduates high school. His principal agrees, with one stipulation—he must tutor three of the most talented girls at school and make sure they get into their target colleges!
Mafuyu Kirisu is a strict, no-nonsense teacher who has dedicated her life to helping her students in academics. She has always been dismissive of what she considers hopeless dreams that hinder academic progress, but after meeting Yuiga, she’s slowly changing the way she thinks. What stymied her own childhood hopes and aspirations?
Mafuyu Kirisu is a strict, no-nonsense teacher who has dedicated her life to helping her students in academics. She has always been dismissive of what she considers hopeless dreams that hinder academic progress, but after meeting Yuiga, she’s slowly changing the way she thinks. What stymied her own childhood hopes and aspirations?
200 pages, Paperback
First published June 4, 2019
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March 12, 2020
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Kirisu-sensei get an arc to explore her backstory. This volume is in fact heavy on the Kirisu side. Still, I had my Fumino chapter so I'm content. 4 stars.
Series review:
"We Never Learn" or #BokuBen is a comedy manga that draws its laughs from the interactions of the main character Yuiga with his harem, I mean, his classmates Fumino, Ogata, and Uruka. He tutors them, with a college scholarship on the line for him. There are also two other supporting characters in the periphery, teacher Kirasu, and recent alum Asumi, whose orbits sometimes cross into the paths of the main cast. It has the usual pervy tropes found in manga of its ilk, although toned down because of the high school setting. It was a manga I did not expect to enjoy as much as I did. It gave me that "finale high" which I associate with stories that get me as a reader.
One reason I probably enjoyed this series is the earnestness of the main character. One can't help but cheer for him. He's a good guy and hopelessly clueless sometimes, which is main component of his charm.
My rating for the entire series is 4 stars.
Kirisu-sensei get an arc to explore her backstory. This volume is in fact heavy on the Kirisu side. Still, I had my Fumino chapter so I'm content. 4 stars.
Series review:
"We Never Learn" or #BokuBen is a comedy manga that draws its laughs from the interactions of the main character Yuiga with his harem, I mean, his classmates Fumino, Ogata, and Uruka. He tutors them, with a college scholarship on the line for him. There are also two other supporting characters in the periphery, teacher Kirasu, and recent alum Asumi, whose orbits sometimes cross into the paths of the main cast. It has the usual pervy tropes found in manga of its ilk, although toned down because of the high school setting. It was a manga I did not expect to enjoy as much as I did. It gave me that "finale high" which I associate with stories that get me as a reader.
One reason I probably enjoyed this series is the earnestness of the main character. One can't help but cheer for him. He's a good guy and hopelessly clueless sometimes, which is main component of his charm.
My rating for the entire series is 4 stars.
January 5, 2020
集肥宅幻想老哽賣肉之大成
像是有劇情，穿比較多的出包
我到底為啥會買這套啊....
像是有劇情，穿比較多的出包
我到底為啥會買這套啊....
May 15, 2022
This was another good one. I'm enjoying getting to know each of the girls more, though I do wish the stories were a full volume for each.
I also want to know just how old Mafuyu is??
I also want to know just how old Mafuyu is??
October 8, 2020
In the aftermath of Nariyuki’s momentous decision, has anything changed? What will happen now? Will anything happen now? Stay tuned for both escapades AND ice capades in the latest instalment of We Never Learn.
Starting off right, the art is quite good this volume. There are some lovely shots (especially during the Mafuyu story, more on that shortly) and a couple of the comedy moments are quite well done. Uruka gets the only genuine laugh in the first story, plus later moments of her hiding a magazine and Nariyuki wobbling all over the street are other standouts.
The fan service is oddly mainly focused on butts this time around. I mean, you’re seriously in luck if that’s your thing. Honestly, this book has more ass shots than a drone flyover of a donkey farm. Otherwise the usual antics and blushing and taking things the wrong way.
One thing I can’t fault this book for is the way it occasionally nails a heartfelt moment. The three part story featuring Mafuyu and her previous life as a skater is surprisingly touching and is a very solid showcase for what the series can achieve when it’s working hard.
Even embedded in the wrongness of a teacher/student relationship, plus starting off with the series’ typical nonsense, the way Nariyuki helps Mafuyu and her own actions at the very end make this the high point of the volume. It’s not hard to see why she tops the character polls - the huge panel shot in this one is brilliant.
The rest of the stories vary wildly in quality. The first one is a real dud with a weird sniffing subplot mixed in. The second with the magazine is admittedly pretty funny. Asumi’s one story, conversely, is quite dull (and the entire point of that one is blatantly obvious very early on), while another featuring Ogata’s science rival feels like a waste of time until it’s saved by a surprisingly sweet final page.
One thing that annoys me is how the best jokes are often the sketches tossed in after the chapters (I’ve had this exact same complaint about other comedy manga). I’d like the stories proper to have better comedy than they actually do.
All the sketches featuring Nariyuki’s sister and her godawful brother complex are actually pretty funny (the one after the magazine chapter made me laugh at how incredibly wrong it is). Another featuring her and Uraka “communicating” is also a good bit. It’s more of what the book could use throughout.
3 stars. The series marches to the same drum it always has. I don’t find it bad, but outside a scattered moment of heart here and there it never hits its potential either. You can adjust my grade upward a little if you’re down for butts, I won’t judge.
Starting off right, the art is quite good this volume. There are some lovely shots (especially during the Mafuyu story, more on that shortly) and a couple of the comedy moments are quite well done. Uruka gets the only genuine laugh in the first story, plus later moments of her hiding a magazine and Nariyuki wobbling all over the street are other standouts.
The fan service is oddly mainly focused on butts this time around. I mean, you’re seriously in luck if that’s your thing. Honestly, this book has more ass shots than a drone flyover of a donkey farm. Otherwise the usual antics and blushing and taking things the wrong way.
One thing I can’t fault this book for is the way it occasionally nails a heartfelt moment. The three part story featuring Mafuyu and her previous life as a skater is surprisingly touching and is a very solid showcase for what the series can achieve when it’s working hard.
Even embedded in the wrongness of a teacher/student relationship, plus starting off with the series’ typical nonsense, the way Nariyuki helps Mafuyu and her own actions at the very end make this the high point of the volume. It’s not hard to see why she tops the character polls - the huge panel shot in this one is brilliant.
The rest of the stories vary wildly in quality. The first one is a real dud with a weird sniffing subplot mixed in. The second with the magazine is admittedly pretty funny. Asumi’s one story, conversely, is quite dull (and the entire point of that one is blatantly obvious very early on), while another featuring Ogata’s science rival feels like a waste of time until it’s saved by a surprisingly sweet final page.
One thing that annoys me is how the best jokes are often the sketches tossed in after the chapters (I’ve had this exact same complaint about other comedy manga). I’d like the stories proper to have better comedy than they actually do.
All the sketches featuring Nariyuki’s sister and her godawful brother complex are actually pretty funny (the one after the magazine chapter made me laugh at how incredibly wrong it is). Another featuring her and Uraka “communicating” is also a good bit. It’s more of what the book could use throughout.
3 stars. The series marches to the same drum it always has. I don’t find it bad, but outside a scattered moment of heart here and there it never hits its potential either. You can adjust my grade upward a little if you’re down for butts, I won’t judge.
December 22, 2024
Oh wow, Kirisu not only gets a chapter but a whole arc that doesn't revolve around her being incompetent! She's actually the star of the volume and it's pretty good. We get a bit of fallout from Yuiga choosing to decline the special recommendation but it's obvious there's still a lot more to go from there, though I'm not sure how far there is for the actual plot to develop at this rate.
If the recommendation was the actual 'plot' thing holding them together, now they're just... a harem? We immediately got a chapter addressing this, and how they want to keep helping each other study, but that's basically been the case since the start and some of the tension is gone now. It's not like the recommendation, or the grades themselves, have been the greatest driving force in the past few volumes, but it's almost like things are going too well right now without any looming threat or outside pressure to perform.
If the recommendation was the actual 'plot' thing holding them together, now they're just... a harem? We immediately got a chapter addressing this, and how they want to keep helping each other study, but that's basically been the case since the start and some of the tension is gone now. It's not like the recommendation, or the grades themselves, have been the greatest driving force in the past few volumes, but it's almost like things are going too well right now without any looming threat or outside pressure to perform.
June 9, 2021
Che belle queste due ultime copertine...
Sto leggendo anche Love Hina su raccomandazione di un amico. Sono entrambi harem ma io preferisco questo di gran lunga. Almeno i personaggi fanno cose sensate e il maschietto non viene picchiato senza ragione ogni tre pagine...
E poi c'è anche la prof. che pattina sul ghiaccio....
Sto leggendo anche Love Hina su raccomandazione di un amico. Sono entrambi harem ma io preferisco questo di gran lunga. Almeno i personaggi fanno cose sensate e il maschietto non viene picchiato senza ragione ogni tre pagine...
E poi c'è anche la prof. che pattina sul ghiaccio....
October 7, 2020
I can't get enough of this series.
I absolutely love it. Oh, to be in this lad's place. He's surrounded by gorgeous women everywhere, & they all want him! Gotta love harem rom-coms. This whole series has given me numerous LOL moments, this volume included. There are a lot of genuinely funny scenes. Here's to many more volumes! Totally love the crossovers on the last few pages! Be ready for a real treat! Art, so so good. The facial expressions are hilarious. Especially during embarrassing funny scenes. Dialogue, excellent, feels very true. Characters, believable, likeable, relatable, loveable, adorable.
I absolutely love it. Oh, to be in this lad's place. He's surrounded by gorgeous women everywhere, & they all want him! Gotta love harem rom-coms. This whole series has given me numerous LOL moments, this volume included. There are a lot of genuinely funny scenes. Here's to many more volumes! Totally love the crossovers on the last few pages! Be ready for a real treat! Art, so so good. The facial expressions are hilarious. Especially during embarrassing funny scenes. Dialogue, excellent, feels very true. Characters, believable, likeable, relatable, loveable, adorable.
January 2, 2021
Hilarious shenanigans and misunderstandings abound in this volume, but the core story centers on Mafuyu Kirisu and how she became the (sometimes heartless) ice queen teacher she is today. Let's just say, it's not the fault of the ice skating, and let's see how many people actually pick up on the identity of the mystery sensei.
This series has 21 volumes.
This series has 21 volumes.
June 15, 2021
Like volume 11, this volume had one semi-serious section about Mafuyu Kirisu and the rest was typical harem manga silliness. Nariyuki Yuiga is such a likable character, I'm willing to put up with the silliness.
Volume 13 is the last entry I own. I haven't decided yet that I will continue after that.
Volume 13 is the last entry I own. I haven't decided yet that I will continue after that.
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