I admit, the first time I watched it, it was super cute and I was in a romantic mood, and it just seemed so enticing.

But guess what, people, there's still the insane craziness of a high schooler falling in love with his tutor who is FOURTEEN YEARS older than him. Only in fiction would this ever be remotely thought of as okay. In real life, it's not okay, will never be okay, and shouldn't be okay. If he was 24 and she was 38, yes, probably, because at least then he's an adult. But he's barely 16 when they meet. It doesn't matter that Junko is the most clueless female lead on the planet. It means I don't hate her, but it doesn't make it okay.

And I wholeheartedly disagree with folks who want to pretend this is just a drama for entertainment purposes. Entertainment shapes our thinking and before you know it, we've compromised. So no, despite the cuteness of the drama and the actors, this drama is not okay. It's helping to spread the lies that relationships between students and teachers might be fine under certain circumstances. Which means it's actually lowering the expectation of child protection.

In a real-life circumstances, Junko and Yamashita would have been together because they're the only actual LOGICAL match. And he would be so damn easy to fall in love with for practically any woman. She wouldn't have been such a nitwit, and she would have caught on to Yuri's feelings long before and set him straight or found him another tutor. But nope, we're in dramaland which means reality can sometimes take a break at the door, like in this instance.

I wanted to keep loving this drama, but I can't. Which depresses me slightly, but is also freeing in that I can now discern what I will accept and won't in dramaland based on my own moral center.