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“Art student Izumi discovers her professor's sexual fetish, sparking an awkward, tense relationship.”
DoLL
ドｰル
6.19
20,834 rank · 1,107 readers · 2 favorites
Seinen
Comedy
Drama
Slice of Life
Ecchi
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Synopsis
Art student Izumi discovers her professor's sexual fetish, sparking an awkward, tense relationship.
Izumi, a young art student goes to visit her old professor who is living out in the country. Izumi is trying to get away from something and wants to take a break at the professor's house for a while. When she stumbles on Sensei's secret sexual fetish, it sets off a tense relationship full of awkward moments and weird demands. (Source: MangaHelpers)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 3 sampled reviews
5.7
/10
What 3 readers settled on.
0%
recommend
Score distribution
median 6
mode 4
σ 1.25
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.25 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↑ 1.67
Running avg · Aug 2022 → Jun 2023
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 7 “tl;dr: A manga with no substance whatsoever but decent comedy centered around awkwardness. This manga is about a young woman named Izumi who goes to visit her art now retired art professor. The...”
- 4 “DoLL is weird, but underwhelming. To its credit, DoLL is at least unique and I can't think of any similar work off the top of my head. It succeeds at invoking a particular kind of awkward...”
- 6 “I honestly didn't get this series. What did it want to show or tell? A girl is attracted to her old art sensei and makes a trip to his house to stay there a few days. From day one, they keep...”
Verbosity
Short · 67%
Medium · 33%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Format 14 × 2 ch × vol
- Total read 1h 52m approx
- Published Jul 2008 – Aug 2009
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M9123 catalog