By Buncololi and Kantoku. Released in Japan as “Sasaki to Pi-chan” by Media Factory. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Alice Prowse.
(This review discusses the dialogue in Sasaki and Peeps 8, which uses several sexual slang terms, and I mention them towards the end. Be warned.)
This is my own fault, I suppose. Last time I suggested that the middle part of the volume was a bit boring, and I said that Sasaki and Peeps was at its best when it was ridiculous rather than down to earth. Given this volume takes place at Kurosu’s school, I was perhaps not overly optimistic. Oh, foolish past me! This is easily the most off-the-rails volume of the series to date. I’ve also talked before about how the series is a harem series that doesn’t really have its lead be interested in anyone, and that’s done away with here as well. Sasaki manages to have a libido. When you add to this horny middle school students, numerous people being paid or threatened to act as “honey traps”, and a truth serum that also doubles as an aphrodisiac, and you have all sorts of no. On the bright side, at least for me, this volume is easily the shippiest he’s gotten with Futarishizuka, who, in age and compatibility, is Best Girl.
Type Twelve wants to experience school life so she can learn about humanity – and, in particular, she wants to learn about love. So they fake her family register, change her name to Twelve Sasaki, and she transfers into Kurosu’s school. Along with Sasaki, her new math teacher. And Futarishizuka, her new English teacher. And two of the other new teachers are Mason and Inukai, the ones working with the magical girl. Oh yes, and the magical girl they’re working with also transfers in. Naturally, with so many World’s Most Wanted girls in one location, every single enemy sends their minions to kidnap Twelve, kidnap Kurosu, kill Sasaki, etc. And that’s not even counting the pink magical girl, who as always, wants to kill all psychics.
There’s quite a bit of death and gore in this book, mostly due to the magical girl, who is here to kill psychics and chew bubblegum and she’s all out of bubblegum. the final scene with her and Futarishizuka is actually very sweet, and possibly the nicest Futarishizuka has ever been. Kurosu, aka neighbor girl, also gets a much larger role than usual, though for once she’s too busy being the straight man (and tsundere, as Twelve correctly notes) to try to get into Sasaki’s pants much. Unlike many other women in this series, who are trying to seduce him for money, because their parents are being threatened, or because all their inhibitions are down. And then there’s Type Twelve, who is the reason that I think this book needs a bit more of a content warning than other books. She’s trying to figure out human love, and is very good at making boys her “simps” – but when she gets an actual confession, and uses truth serum to verify it, things go bad fast – and we find out that Kurosu’s classroom is a hotbed of sexually active teens. In addition to simp, ‘fuckboy’ is used here, and there’s also mentions of spanking and anal sex, though only in conversation, not in actual content. Basically, teens are horny and awful.
Fortunately, this seems to have stopped Twelve wanting to learn what gangbangs are (oh yes, that’s mentioned as well). She now wants to drop out of school. Where to next? We shall see. Honestly, I would not mind going back to isekai world for a while, which seems a bit less unhinged. Till then, boy, this will be fun if ever animated.
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