Oresama Teacher: Volume 2

by Izumi Tsubaki, 189 pages

Secret former delinquent Mafuyu and her current delinquent classmate Hayasaka get manipulated by their homeroom teacher into joining the Public Morals Club, the kids who usually stand at the school gate and make sure everybody's following the dress code. Their first mission? Nothing to do with uniforms. Crush the toughest delinquent on campus! If Mafuyu's going to avoid (another) expulsion for fighting--and keep clueless Hayasaka out of trouble--she'll have to do a little thinking before she starts swinging.

I laughed at the scene where Mr. Saeki first tries to suggest a club the two could join. They know him well enough not to trust him, and immediately dive out the nearest exit (that would be the window, for Mafuyu) before he can say it. From the looks of things, though, none of the other clubs would have been much safer, anyway. The Craft Club, for instance, consists only of giant, glowering, domestically-gifted boys who try to physically coerce a terrified Hayasaka into joining when they realize he's a natural at embroidery.

Most of this volume revolves around Mafuyu trying to keep her fighting skills a secret, even from Hayasaka, but it's the real reason she doesn't want him or anyone else to know that gives this otherwise slight tale a little depth. Until she figures out what she's really after, however, the reader will be left a little muddled as the field of potential friends / mentors / suitors expands without offering many hints as to who means what to her (or what she means to them).