Review of Sensei Da-isuki
| Subject | Sensei Da-isuki Sensei Da-isuki - Download Edition |
| By | Helpfulness: 1 tomtheerogeman on 2021-10-10 |
| Review | Despite similar yet much more modern VNs recommended to me in the past, I couldn't suppress an urge to read Sensei Da-isuki immediately after I saw the Japanese description in some places, and my jaw dropped right after reading the first word or so. 聖カタリナ学院. Yup, you read that right, that's supposed to be "Saint Catherina Academy" and it's the name of the school in the game. Saint... a Catholic school? Yikes... I don't know if this was supposed to be a jab towards the Catholic Church for its underage sex abuse controversies, but I figured it would be interesting to read it to find out. To make things even more amusing, the description on OOParts later goes on to say that the school has a dormitory called "Little Bathhouse," which could also be a reference towards sexual activity, both with the gay bathhouse thing in the west as well as the term "soapland" in Japanese. I don't know if anyone in Japan that long ago knew anything about Catholic pedophlilia scandals and the nuance of the word "bathhouse" in the west, but being left wondering whether or not these are coincidences is actually quite fun. I wonder what kind of person wrote the script for this game, and whether or not there are any other gems to make note of. The writer's name is listed as K Baggio, but it's still hard to believe that's really an Italian person because it's rare to see any foreigners work in Japan's porn industry or write fluently in Japanese. Very interesting... So Sensei Da-isuki starts off with 25 year old Kazuya Kirishima who had trouble finding a job as a teacher. I'm pretty sure he came from teacher's college or something, because he said somewhere in his monologues that he wasn't experienced in his work. Anyways he gets a call from his aunt, and from there he ends up working at a school she now runs. She's been chairwoman for 4 years there or something. I wish she had a bigger role to play in the story because she has quite the personality. Not only was it fun reading her dialog, but at the same time we find out shortly afterwards that she said Kazuya was something along the lines of "single-minded, stubborn and eccentric, like an old man." God knows what kinds of stories she has to tell of him. I also can't remember any sign of him being a lolicon before the romance starts between him and one of the girls, so it was quite thrilling to keep reading as his monologues reveal how he's turning pedo and what not. I'll leave it up to you to read Sensei Da-isuki yourself to see just how that happens. In short the protagonist will seem kind of promising. I also liked the amount of work put in to the heroines in this game. They aren't just sex objects for him to violate, nor are they 100% pure angels to play with. They have their own stories, their own struggles in life, and they didn't just get sent to that boarding school because their parents think it's a good idea to not see their kids or something. In short, there's quite a few difficult topics that Sensei Da-isuki explores, and it's not really a pedo paradise like the VNDB page leads you to believe. I'd say the first half of the game is almost up there with Ricotte ~Alpenbul no Utahime~ . I won't reveal anything else for spoiler related reasons, but this is actually one of the best stories I've read in a while. Like where it's not complicated, not chuuni or anything like that, but at the same time it explores a more "realistic" relationship, where things don't go so smoothly, there are deep personal problems and the characters have something to strive for. The endings are also well done, especially how most involve Mitsuki finding out about the protagonist's sexual relationship and then tolerating it. Oh God it's been too long since I've seen that kind of ending in a lolige, it makes me tingle inside and I love it. Even better is the cherry on top; Although Mitsuki disapproved at first, she changed her mind after Kazuya showed her that he wants to marry her. It was clear that her problem was with premarital sex instead of pedophilia. I didn't realize it at first because that was a very indirect conversation, but soon enough it hit me as to how mind-numbingly stupid that is. But at this point you could finally tell that the writer's inferences about Catholic institutions were likely not coincidences. In regards to the H scenes, I think they are the weakest part of the game. I don't say that because the art is outdated, it's because the overwhelming majority of them follow the same format; she visits the teacher's dorm before bedtime, and then engages in foreplay. After several sessions it's still very often the same pattern of foreplay but with intercourse afterwards, but more likely a blowjob if you're in Tomoyo's route. CGs are reused many times, there isn't much variety in sex acts and kinks are rare. Loli VNs often explore many fetishes, the most common from my experience are peeing, outdoor sex, lots of different cute clothes/underwear, or even toys, stuffed animals, crayons, and other children's paraphernalia scattered all over the place during sex. Meanwhile in Sensei Da-isuki scenes like this are few and far in between. There are several H scenes that are exceptional and well done to some of those standards, but at the same time they are kind of hard to unlock and you can finish whole routes without ever seeing them, you know what I mean? It also felt like there was too much time spent getting her adjusted to sex, and not really enough of you going wild and enjoying her body after that. Looking back at the few exceptional scenes, the one that stood out to me in particular was the sumata scene with Aoi, you'd think loliges would have more of those instead of intercourse because of the size difference between a kid and an adult, but this is probably the first time I've seen that personally, and I wish more loliges had that. As for whether or not there are any other references to western controversies in this game, the only other thing was that Mitsuki said the school had a big graveyard, and at that point I started thinking about those abusive boarding schools for Native peoples that were run by churches long ago. I read that there were rumors about them having mass graves for years before they were discovered in Canada this summer, so maybe the game tried to reference this. But at this point it's getting a little too far fetched, I think this is more likely a coincidence. There's also other references like you'd expect from a Japanese VN, like how Tomoyo's name is an obvious reference to the Tomoyo from Cardcaptor Sakura, or the time when Aoi probably referenced Super Sentai/Power Rangers. There was at least one last one I didn't get but was clearly a reference to something, so that's all I have to say about it. So that's Sensei Da-isuki for you. I went into it hoping to see some unique reference humor, and the game kind of delivered, but with quality over quantity. It was definitely money well spent and thus I recommend it to anyone who can at least stomach the loli H scenes and the 640x480 resolution. Although Sensei Da-isuki isn't supposed to be free, it looks to me like you could basically enjoy the whole thing by downloading the PC trial version here link , read the beginning and some H scenes there, then get the 3 day free trial for OOParts and then read the rest of it there. Most people may not want to try reading the whole thing in 3 days, so instead you'd use the trial version to read part of it. If I understand it correctly, OOParts games are also web browser only, so you need to be able to read JP pretty well because I don't think text hookers can hook browser games like that. I don't know when that trial version was released so I don't think I can add the release for it to the database. But honestly I didn't try registering for the OOParts trial and still decided to buy the full PC version anyway despite the unreasonable price for it, because in my books this is the kind of VN most worthy of throwing my money at, and I doubt the low scores on VNDB are from people who could read Japanese or anything. And before you read this don't use the quicksave feature because if you unselect the window and select it again, a glitch often occurs where the game registers a mouse click on a random part of the game window. This sometimes causes you to quicksave, overwriting whatever quicksave you had before; so use the save/load menu instead. The opening movie also doesn't play anymore, but can be skipped by clicking the mouse. Those are the only glitches I noticed on Windows 10. PS Okay fine, I'll tell you about Kazuya's mental gymnastics that turned him into a lolicon, but that's only because I can't help but write about it. In Aoi's route he had a few private conversations with her in his dorm about her little brother being bullied and how to stop it once and for all. It was successful, with Aoi being extremely thankful, crying in happiness, hugging him and what not. He then realizes that he's starting to have feelings for her. This torments his mind at first, and uses the term 世間体 (decency/public appearance) to describe why it's so bad. The problem here is that 世間 refers to society at large, so thinking of the nuance of 世間体 he soon justifies his feelings by saying that it's between him and Aoi and that this doesn't involve anyone else. Before you know it their relationship starts. Tomoyo's route was similar, however his feelings were returned much sooner compared to in Aoi's route after Tomoyo asked Kazuya to bend down and close his eyes, then kissed him. She already had a crush on him long before he did, and she took the initiative right after Kazuya noticed that he was starting to have feelings for her. Yui's route was very similar to this. TLDR Basically he tackles one of the girls' personal problems, unintentionally gets touchy-feely overtime and then starts having a crush on one of them. It starts with headpats, then talking about each other's problems and feelings, some hugs, and it goes on from there. He later tells himself that there's no way he's in love, then realizes that he actually is, and then becomes lovesick until he or the other party confesses their feelings. I'd like to see what real life teachers or therapists think of this, because Kazuya's mentality is quite fascinating, yet probably horrifying from an aspiring teacher's perspective. Like it happened to Kazuya, so what if it could happen to a normal teacher in real life, or something. Do teachers in real life get any sort of training as to how not to get too close to their students? How negligent does somebody have to be to himself to end up in that situation in the first place? Probably the longest review I've written in a while, I never thought I'd have so much to say about this game. It's probably unintentional that it was this interesting for me to read, but still... |
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