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Oct 6, 2025
Preliminary (28/? chp)
Fair 4. Kinda enjoyable before the not that short fall from grace. The usual adults act adult in an office setting for a bit until it is time for drama and we are back to first year high school just a bit more egregious.
The work does pick up "adult themes" like toxicity(mostly her), uncomfortable necessary talks, catching yourself emotionally cheating and, related to that, work spouses and how to deal with them.. just really poorly. The female lead is ruined in the process and the outcome is mostly unsatisfactory.

The major problem is, the series has a strong start with quickly established but still quite enjoyable ...
Sep 26, 2025
Preliminary (84/? chp)
I gave this manga dozens of chances over multiple years and now that it finished I feel the time is right. After dropping and picking it up over and over simply due to being too annoying (cheating just isn't for me, I guess) after a while, I bumped my rating from a 3/10 to a 4/10, a very fair and objective rating.

The start is weird and wacky but you quickly get into it. The usual shallow series driven by characters and their interactions + events. There are some layers that could've been used to open the path to some more complexity and the shoujo bits ...
Sep 10, 2025
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Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (208/? chp)
Manga is good overall, gonna skip the obvious stuff that has been stated a million times over. There are some major issues, most simply due to questionable decision making by the author. I would go as far as to call some of them amateurish and straight detriments to the overall enjoyment while adding absolutely nothing narratively. I will focus on the IMO most important one.

First off, the big glaring one that affects all others. Tatsu keeps splitting the crew. "Okay, everyone! Let's get it! Momo, you go with x and x. Okarun, you go with the others!". And repeat at the start of next arc. ...
Aug 31, 2025
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Preliminary (51/? chp)
tl;dr: Read this if you want a series with no identity and no respect for established characters and invested readers. This manga and author try a lot but nothing even remotely good enough. This is low effort throwing shit and praying some of it sticks.

This is one of many covid manga. Mask. Virus that changed earth forever. Seeing someone's face in person? Blasphemy. Criminal.

This one had a following behind it before ultimately falling into obscurity. The bit with the virus was properly used to establish an interesting setting with many ways to expand and tell a story. Even when dropping the covid bit, it was ...
Aug 21, 2025
Preliminary (19/? chp)
At first appalled, I now enjoy this manga after its vision was revealed. A generic setting and characters played out in a truly fresh and intriguing way. This is Shoujo done right!

He is a player that can only love multiple people. She is the epitome of pure, wanting to devote herself wholly to her one true love. But as people in love do, they start copying their target. They pass by each other while splendid character development takes place- and we end up with him seeking true love while she learns the appeal in loving and dating multiple people at once.
That is the overall ...
Aug 15, 2025
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Preliminary (93/? chp)
Yes. A 1/10 rating with 93 chapters read. Unironically. Thought I'd take one for the team and what can I say, I dropped this as of chapter 93. I lost. I am weak. Disclaimer: I do not mindlessly hate on this genre and type of content. I have read similar works and wasn't nearly as appalled, mostly due to the abysmally low effort and quality.

"That's it?"- the manga. She is, just like all other women in the series, a promiscuous sexdoll the viewer is waiting for to fall. And god fucking damn it did this end up a flaccid and unsatisfactory experience solely due to ...
May 24, 2025
Preliminary (40/? chp)
This manga is annoying. Not the good shoujo annoying, mind you, this manga plain sucks major dogshit at conflict- setting it up, introducing it, characters reacting to it, it being interesting or not and how it plays out etc. This manga suddenly turns absolutely terrible at everything as soon as the tiniest hint of drama drops. And it actually manages to ruin characters and most of the "story" when it comes up.

How? As for the story, let's say there is some teasing and hinting at MC's mysterious backstory that is majorly important to the main pair's relationship from the very first second. You are super ...
May 6, 2025
Preliminary (40/? chp)
10/10. Godly. The holy grail. Organic. Delightful. I am no fortuneteller. This might age poorly. But I believe chapter 40 of this manga to be one of the best placed and thought out chapters and endings to an arc in any romance manga possibly ever. I kneel.

If you're looking for consistent characters, wholesome relationships, some actual realism, a low risk story, some nostalgia and none of the bullshit that most romance manga come with, then search no further. This is the best thing at this point in time.
The series could be considered a slow burn but both high schoolers grow and develop with time and ...
Apr 24, 2025
Preliminary (29/? chp)
Do you enjoy normalized and downplayed misogyny? Authors taking actual recurring sexual assault, sexual harassment, kidnapping, home invasion, coercion, stockholm syndrome and NTR lightly? Putting absolutely no research into said contents and rattling them down in the most dismissive, harmful and disgusting way possible?

This is your holy grail. But not only that! You get one of the most egregious bait and switches possibly ever, the godly combo. The author doesn't even bother hiding their troubled mind behind the veil of sweet shoujo after a certain point.

Don't get me wrong! Yeah, you get a pretty damn good shoujo for about 20 chapters! Until his brother appears, ...
Mar 29, 2025
Mixed Feelings
Preliminary (12/? chp)
First off, I did quite like this series at first. Not a 10/10 but I would have rated it good for what it was. The most recent chapter completely ruined most of what the manga worked on setting up to this point. (genre switch, female lead behavior + mental, low effort and quality content/drama to easily get a conclusion, MCs relationship)
It feels like a weird time to review but the thing is, this is a somewhat controversial work. If the author handles something this important this poorly and this early, even if just once, I am dreading the future and when it comes to turning ...


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