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Alabaster no Kisetsu ![]()
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Description
Maeda Gin is a student who enjoys drawing graffitis at an abandoned apartment complex building near his school, with his friends and acolytes, Teppei and Kon-chan. One night, while they're at work on one of their masterpieces, they're interrupted by a mysterious ghastly pale-skinned woman who scares them. In the process of fleeing, Gin loses his sketchbook to her and then from this point onwards, his life will change in a major way! Some nude painting with his beautiful and attractive art teacher? Welcome to Season of Alabaster.
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Manga
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Associated Names
Season of Alabaster
アラバスターの季節
アラバスターの季節
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Status
in Country of Origin
3 Volumes (Complete)
Completely Scanlated?
Yes
Anime Start/End Chapter
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User Rating
Average: 6.9 / 10.0 (40 votes)
Bayesian Average: 6.64 / 10.0
Bayesian Average: 6.64 / 10.0
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Last Updated
March 9th 2024, 12:21pm
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Category Recommendations
Nande Koko ni Sensei ga!?
Juggy Girls Who Give in With a Little Push
Sameda Koban no Kareinaru Seikatsu
Boku no Kanojo Sensei
Joshi OtaCir no Ouji-sama
Juggy Girls Who Give in With a Little Push
Sameda Koban no Kareinaru Seikatsu
Boku no Kanojo Sensei
Joshi OtaCir no Ouji-sama
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Year
2022
Original Publisher
Serialized In (magazine)
Young King Ours GH (Shonen Gahosha)
Licensed (in English)
No
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Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #688 
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Monthly Pos #1722 (No change)
3 Month Pos #2110
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6 Month Pos #2599(+52)
Year Pos #2752(-519)
(+17)Monthly Pos #1722 (No change)
3 Month Pos #2110
(-206)6 Month Pos #2599
(+52)Year Pos #2752
(-519)List Stats
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The manga starts on shaky legs, the pilot is one of the least coherent chapters, but could have gone somewhere and ultimately didn´t. The wheels fully come off once the art club gets a focus in Vol 2 with no payoff. The manga even tries to force a love triangle that neither the protagonist nor his love interest discovers! If a tree falls in the woods... only the read suffers due to time being wasted. The bewildering child prostitution subplot that follows and contrasts with the more "innocent" main relationship might as well be set in Bizarro World and as incoherently resolved as it starts. So we end up having the usual double standard of that male teachers who have sex with students are rapists but female teachers who do the same are goddesses. South Park made a now-classic episode about this very topic. Both would have faced prison sentences and the school would have made national news due to 2 child predators being discovered in just one class! The manga´s romance lastly comes off as grooming and is of course statutory rape but no money is exchanged so everyone in the rather small community just goes with it.
None of this works as a romance either as they don´t have a single honest conversation, not even in the open ending. Sakura-sensei´s source of angst which she couldn´t get past for a decade (!) ends up being that her teacher refused to paint her nude when she tried to force herself on him when she was a schoolgirl and the story frames him as a conservative snob. She then insists in the present day that her student needs to have sex with her to become a better artist and that is judged to be an act of selflessness and love. I get that this is a wank fantasy for older teens and 20-somethings but good god, who writes like this while demanding to be taken seriously? A more than justifiable cancelation, no question there. Hentai with much more developed relationships easily exists and the manga´s use of nudity is fairly gratuitous. There isn´t enough of it though for the manga to work as porn. Is that a plus or a minus? Don´t get me started on how little the story engages with its art themes. The solid art is the manga´s one saving grace and the only reason I didn´t completely trash it. The author has a LOT to learn about storytelling and characterization so I will be on guard if our paths cross again unless he isn´t the writer.
Read Blue Period. if you want to see what a manga about art for actual adults is supposed to look like and Natsu no Zenjitsu to read a proper age-gap romance with partners on unequal footing in the world of art.
... Last updated on March 25th, 2024, 12:37pm
None of this works as a romance either as they don´t have a single honest conversation, not even in the open ending. Sakura-sensei´s source of angst which she couldn´t get past for a decade (!) ends up being that her teacher refused to paint her nude when she tried to force herself on him when she was a schoolgirl and the story frames him as a conservative snob. She then insists in the present day that her student needs to have sex with her to become a better artist and that is judged to be an act of selflessness and love. I get that this is a wank fantasy for older teens and 20-somethings but good god, who writes like this while demanding to be taken seriously? A more than justifiable cancelation, no question there. Hentai with much more developed relationships easily exists and the manga´s use of nudity is fairly gratuitous. There isn´t enough of it though for the manga to work as porn. Is that a plus or a minus? Don´t get me started on how little the story engages with its art themes. The solid art is the manga´s one saving grace and the only reason I didn´t completely trash it. The author has a LOT to learn about storytelling and characterization so I will be on guard if our paths cross again unless he isn´t the writer.
Read Blue Period. if you want to see what a manga about art for actual adults is supposed to look like and Natsu no Zenjitsu to read a proper age-gap romance with partners on unequal footing in the world of art.
... Last updated on March 25th, 2024, 12:37pm
Well, could be better but still a solid read. Better than drag it for 20 volumes like most series.
The first chapter, or maybe first couple chapters, set up what could have been an intriguing yet simple story, replete with forbidden love, highbrow art, and lowbrow nudes. Then comes the interference.
Do I recommend Season of Alabaster? Well, the first couple of chapters piqued my interest the most, but after that I was left wanting. Now that it's complete, I think it's a little easier to swallow, but it is by no means a great work, nor one that delivers on the initial premise that it promised. Disappointing.
... Last updated on March 8th, 2024, 11:20pm
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I really don't know what else to call it. I suppose there's the caveat that the wild swing in the story from "student draws nudes of attractive sensei" to whatever the hell this manga eventually turned into could be pinned entirely on Takatsu-sensei, and the end result was the axe.
At any rate, the manga would've been much better off sticking to the premise it set out with. Would there have been less drama, and thus less readers? Yeah, probably, but I would've enjoyed it a hell of a lot more.
Also, the rest of the art club didn't add much of anything for me, other than being obnoxious time-wasters. Yukari in particular, being the bad "childhood friend" archetype doesn't help matters.
The next problem is the incredibly stupid ending. Obviously, there have been much worse endings, especially recently, but this one brings us no closure on the MAIN POINT OF THE STORY, that being the relationship between the leads. What the hell is the point of reading this then? I have no idea, and that's why my rating dropped from 10 to 9, all the way down to my current 5/10.
At any rate, the manga would've been much better off sticking to the premise it set out with. Would there have been less drama, and thus less readers? Yeah, probably, but I would've enjoyed it a hell of a lot more.
Also, the rest of the art club didn't add much of anything for me, other than being obnoxious time-wasters. Yukari in particular, being the bad "childhood friend" archetype doesn't help matters.
The next problem is the incredibly stupid ending. Obviously, there have been much worse endings, especially recently, but this one brings us no closure on the MAIN POINT OF THE STORY, that being the relationship between the leads. What the hell is the point of reading this then? I have no idea, and that's why my rating dropped from 10 to 9, all the way down to my current 5/10.
Do I recommend Season of Alabaster? Well, the first couple of chapters piqued my interest the most, but after that I was left wanting. Now that it's complete, I think it's a little easier to swallow, but it is by no means a great work, nor one that delivers on the initial premise that it promised. Disappointing.
... Last updated on March 8th, 2024, 11:20pm
If i could remove chapters 11 thorugh 13, i would.
Those chapters just seemingly forced in unneccessary drama. There was no indication or foreshadowing of the events that were going to transpire in those chapters. Another thing is how quickly it gets resolved. Like for situations such as this, you would think they would take multiple chapters solving this paticular issue.
Another thing i really hated was chapter 13, the mc dunce moment, where in order to refute someones claim about something, he accidently reveals what he has actually been doing, which while it is less bad that what he was accused of, is still seriously bad. He could have just outright denied her claim and just made a side story, like how he stayed behind as he needed help with college applications or something like that.
Regardless, this manga is a great read, i really liked how everything wrapped up in the end and the author was not afraid to do what they did
... Last updated on April 23rd, 2024, 9:12pm
Those chapters just seemingly forced in unneccessary drama. There was no indication or foreshadowing of the events that were going to transpire in those chapters. Another thing is how quickly it gets resolved. Like for situations such as this, you would think they would take multiple chapters solving this paticular issue.
Another thing i really hated was chapter 13, the mc dunce moment, where in order to refute someones claim about something, he accidently reveals what he has actually been doing, which while it is less bad that what he was accused of, is still seriously bad. He could have just outright denied her claim and just made a side story, like how he stayed behind as he needed help with college applications or something like that.
Regardless, this manga is a great read, i really liked how everything wrapped up in the end and the author was not afraid to do what they did
... Last updated on April 23rd, 2024, 9:12pm
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