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Draw This, Then Die! (TV).

I didn't see any spoilers and it was still obvious she'd find the teacher signing the manga so don't feel too robbed. If you want to surprise people who watch a lot of tv shows I think you'd have to deliberately *not* do the thing a tv show would do in that moment.

I don't have a problem with the unsurprising "twist", sometimes it feels nice to get what you're anticipating, but I really don't enjoy the trope of the super mean character you're required to warm up to later. They made her so unlikeable that I really don't want to hear the inevitable back story/trauma dump we'll be forced to sit through that explains her rage at manga.

I wonder if the imaginary flying raccoon will disappear at the end of the series. Like the main character has fully grown, she doesn't need it any more?

While I understand the idea behind her character – that she struggled and ultimately convinced herself that manga publishing was either not for her or the reason she was unhappy – she reminds me of every unsupportive or outright terrible teacher my sisters and I encountered in school. Having her realize that Yasumi is drawing manga from a place of pure, unfiltered love for the medium is not enough to make up for how she behaved prior to that point. There's no excuse for teachers like Teshima to speak to students the way she does to Yashima. Yes, this is fiction, and Yashima isn't likely to suffer any long-term effects, but this is one area where I cannot suspend my disbelief.

I didn't see any spoilers and it was still obvious she'd find the teacher signing the manga so don't feel too robbed. If you want to surprise people who watch a lot of tv shows I think you'd have to deliberately *not* do the thing a tv show would do in that moment....