Nana to Kaoru

I avoided this amazing romcom for years because of the harem tag not just here but other manga sites so I assumed this was about some loser sadist doing s&m with a bunch of girls obsessed with him but it’s nothing like that at all!!! At most only a love triangle with both main characters having a love rival.
Only decided to give it a try cuz fakku licensed this and I thought why not add the physical volumes to my collection. Got the first 3 volumes and was hooked so I binged the rest online in 3 days.
You’ll love this if you like seinen romcom and don’t mind light s&m (no sex or anything too violent except one unrelated side story which is just author low key wanting to draw hentai again).
If you finish this then be sure to read the sequel as that provides the true satisfying conclusion!

I highly recommend it: the characters are well built, truly human, the story unfolds very naturally and shocases the issues of growing up from adolescence into adulthood, choosing one's future and dealing with emotions when building relationships with those around you. The whole manga is filled with kindness and care for the other together with the hardships of properly expressing oneself. Art is top knotch and very

Amazume Sensei is a sly one; he sneakily does fan service scenes from the POV of the protagonist, making you, the reader, feel like you're actually in the scene (with disembodied limbs à la CS or some hentai game).

If you cannot deal with UST, stay away. This is for those who are into the slow burn.

P.S. The live action film 1 was blah for me. Didn't watch 2 so can't comment on whether it was equally awkward.

Made me laugh, had it's hot moments Nana to Kaoru is pretty much a way of introducing people into the world of bdsm guess it'd be considered light side of it. would love to buy the complete set of this manga if it's ever fully translated into english

to me this was just an awesome read, even if u don't understand their fetish at first you still get shown how it makes them feel physically and emotionally. I also don't care what anyone else says the romance was there right from the start and how they (mostly the mc.) had a lot of conflicting emotions going through their heads over it. My only negative is the more hentaish chapters/filler with the teacher that seemed pointless to me.

The number 1 complain about this series I think is the depiction of the main character : "idiotic", "short sleazy pervert", "pathetic", "chubby orr fat ", "midget alien creep ", "ugly", "retards", "unattractive both Physically and in his personality"
_ "idiotic", "retards", ""pathetic" : Sorry to say this but I think you need to redefines what those words mean because I don't see how it fits Kaoru. He exceled in academics and fitness back when they were kids, but he was lost in finding a purpose for his life and fell short. He feels inferior to everyone. He loses his self-esteem. He acts like a thug to stay away from the people who he thinks are too good for a useless bum like him. I doubt "idiotic" and "retards" can be used on a rational being that can deceive people skillfully like him. I also don't think they can describe the psychological problems of human beings either. Do you call people with ADD, inferiority/superiority complex, or DID retards or idiotic?

"Pathetic", "short sleazy pervert", Pathetic? Are you sure you are not talking about his family situation because I think it should be the case. He lost his father. His family is dirt poor. He was not blessed with virtues like aspiration or bravery or wit. Is his life pathetic? I say yes. Is his personality pathetic? I don't think so. He strives to better himself. He hones his skills. He has a kind heart. If any of these characters are considered pathetic, I guess even Mother Teresa would not be considered a virtuous person either. "Short sleazy pervert"? Do you have a grudge against short people? Sleazy pervert? Are you sure you are using the right words to describe a young man that cries as he hurts his beloved despite their mutual consents? And are you sure you are not pervert yourself by thinking of getting into a sexual relationship with women/men while all Kaoru has done is relieving Nana's stress? Their S&M are even more pure than normal relationship I would say. They expose everything to each other: both the ugly selfish sexual desires and platonic care for others. On the other hand, a platonic and pure relationship we usually see in movie or other manga ultimately lead to visible or invisible sexual relationship (Otherwise, there would be no babies). If both S&M and normal relationship involves sexual theme, there is no way for one to distinguish if one type is better than the other. It is simply a logical contradiction when one judge S&M as pervert and the other type as goodness.

I personally have enjoyed this work very much having read through it multiple times as well as the Black Label Edition. I am just wondering if they will ever make a English Paperback Edition since it is already in German and Japanese. Plus i was also wondering where the author got his ideas for Sarashina Sensei and his ideas. Great read and looking forward for more releases.

I've loved this series all the way up to where I am now (ch. 103). A proud blurb on each volume being put out at this stage says "1.5 million copies sold!"

Why??!

1. Its story presents the fundamental shoenen trope of the inarticulate, socially inept, totally sexually shamed and repressed kid pursuing with endless clumsiness the hot girl in his class....

2. Interlaced with a comprehensive introduction to the titillating subject of S&M!

3. By this means NtK offers us a very standard manga experience: a chaste boy-girl relationship with a substantial addition of transgressive sensual behavior and feelings to keep us interested when the story flags. Often in shoenen manga the transgressive element is incest desires, but that's getting old, and this is an entirely new replacement for it!

4. Nana is so lovingly drawn that she comes across as very hot!

5. Dorky Kaoru is the perfect stand-in for the inexperienced young male reader, yet he shows traits that such a reader would like to believe he would display if he were so very lucky as to find himself in K's situation: willingness to take chances, willingness to work hard to improve himself, and complete, unselfish devotion to his loved one.

6. Acceptable power relationship between the MCs makes the story salable to girls. In the social world of the story, K is so far below Nana that he dare not even talk to her in public, but in the breathers he's totally in charge. If ugly Koaru were good-looking, he would have ALL the power in the relationship, which I think would turn off or even frighten lots of girls to the point where they'd never become readers.

Thank goodness for manga, and thanks to the scanlators of NtK. We in the USA will never see anything like this published there, I think.