I've read this while it was being released and recently got to re read it again. I was surprised to see there was not that many positive reviews so decided to leave my own. The last arc of the original series is SO bad and random I remember how excited I was when Last Year was announced. Black Label is still the peak of the series for me story-wise, but I feel this is an integral part of the Last Year developments. And it closes the series with a satisfying development and ending. What I like the most is how it gives a lot more ofNana's perspective than the original series, especially after Tachibana gets more and more involved in the story. Also, her and Sarashina's addition addressed one of my biggest pet peeves in the original series of how it never actually presented actual S&M. This is actually mostly in Black Label but Last Year develops on it, how now they're both looking into new stuff, and shows how their experience with S&M is also improving along with their relationship as Nana gets more bold and trusts Kaoru more and more. I love that. Also, the complications in this run seemed more interesting than just the "school social status" from before.

The art is very inconsistent during the original run, but in Last Year the author is at their best. I still dislike Kaoru's gigantic frog mouth but especially Nana's expressions got a lot better since the first volumes of the OG series.