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This story is so good just like Re:life and the reason for that is I can relate to how some these characters feel and they actually feel like your normal everyday person. The drama was interesting too and it made sense for why the character would act a certain way.

As for the art I love it and it's easily recognizable to me and the characters reactions to me were realistic since I feel I would act the same way in the situations they were in especially the feeling of overcoming a huge test.

The flow of the story was predictable I only mean where they ... solve everyone's problems dealing with the Mc last but not the actual problems themselves those were not what I expected and the reason why I enjoyed it so much.

Overall just an enjoyable experience! I live for these normal types of stories!

If you had told me this was the author's first work, I probably would have liked it better. However, considering this came after ReLife... it's very much a downgrade from the quality of that story. Thing is, characters do get time to develop, but there isn't a single like-able character in this story. I think that's the biggest thing it suffers from.

The sudden closeness of the characters, is a bit weird. You're not usually like that with someone after three months of hanging out with them. It just doesn't feel right. There are good parts mind you, but I'm rating this on the merits of ... the work that came before it, and how good it was.

I came into this with high hopes having just finished Relife, but was disappointed. I'm not sure why it is so much shorter than Relife is, but I really feel like this could have been so much better if it was twice as long, as it felt so rushed. I might talk about light spoilers so stop reading if you don't want to see anything. If you're just looking for an opinion to decide whether to read this or not, I would recommend not to.

It's kind of just forced on you that the 5 main characters become friends. The first arc feels so weird, ... as it just moves the plot along without giving any time for the characters to interact normally and just get to know eachother (I guess this is implied to happen off screen, but that's not really what you expect from a slice of life). By chapter 17, which is around the climax of the first arc, we see one of the girls trying to talk the other out of killing herself. What makes this sudden is that the girls have literally said a maximum of two lines to each other before this. They have definitely never had a conversation just the two of them. This kind of rushing of the plot without proper time to develop the characters and their relationships is consistent throughout the story.

It also just feels so much less realistic than Relife, which is strange considering the premises of the two stories. In Relife, the characters seem so much more realistic and relatable (to an extent obviously, it's still a manga) but here their thoughts and actions are so baffling sometimes. For example, early on Seto tells yuuhi that her dad left and implies that her mum is now working as a prostitute to support her, resulting in her never seeing either of them. You would expect Yuuhi to try and help comfort her or something, but instead he just drops that both his parents are dead (which we had never been told before) and that she's in fact lucky because at least her parents are alive.

So much of what the characters do and say just doesn't make any sense. And maybe it would, if the manga was longer to allow the reasons for their behaviour to be explained. But it's not. So it isn't.

If you've read Relife and are looking for more great stuff from the author, I think you'll be disappointed. If you haven't, read that instead, it's so good.