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This manga is a story ecchi comedy masterpiece. If you expect hentai scenes you're in the wrong section here. There is nudity and softcore sexual scenes but nothing that would make you want to stop and fap. There's legitimate nsfw doujins if you want that. I don't get why this manga has such a low rating. It's a slice of life ecchi manga with some focus on sports. It reminded me of my school days. Bunch of horny guys trying to date the girls in their class.

The artwork is also great and very consistent!
The characters feel realistic with minor chliches.

Loved it!

A bit of ecchi, water polo, drama, it's not the best at anything, but it somehow keeps you engaged to the end!

Unfortunately the author got sick and struggled about half way through, hence you will notice the ecchiness drops off at this point.

I came for the ecchi, I stayed for the ecchi + story. I wish there was a hentai version of the manga too!

If you don't enjoy oppai, then don't read this manga. If you love water polo, then don't read this.
If you don't like mostly one-dimensional characters, then don't read this. if you don't like bad quality art, then don't read this.
IF none ... of the above bothers, then get to reading!! Especially if you love boobs... including rocket boobs!

tl;dr: A decent manga when it’s just dumb ecchi and half assed water polo, but unbearable when it tries to have a plot.

This manga is about the protagonist Hamaji joining a water polo club. Water polo is focused on at times, especially towards the beginning of the manga, but overall it doesn’t matter that much. There aren’t really any rivalries or epic matches or even any ability growth. To be honest, even after reading the entire manga, I’m not entirely confidant that I actually understand how water polo is played. So I absolutely wouldn’t consider this a sports manga. The primary purpose of water polo ... in this manga is just to have an excuse for everyone to constantly be splashing around in a pool. Did I mention the water polo club was co-ed? So there’s quite a bit of ecchi and the art is fantastic at ecchi so that manages to work out quite well. Throw in a healthy dose of good comedy, mostly ecchi comedy, and the manga could certainly be enjoyable at times.

The problem is that the writing is atrocious when it’s taking itself seriously. For the first half of the manga it doesn’t feel like it takes itself seriously very often, but during the second half there is quite a lot of drama. The majority of it revolving around a love triangle between Hamaji, Hagiwara, and Hayami. Hagiwara is his senpai in the club and someone that he develops admiration and a crush on. Hayami is a girl that joins the club later in the manga and falls in love with Hamaji. It’s not like I dislike love triangles, but this one was just awful. The way things progress makes no sense and is miserably infuriating. The way characters behave at critical moments makes absolutely no sense in the context of the sequence of events that led them there. It half feels like it’s trying to gaslight the reader or something. Pretty much everyone comes out looking like an unlikable idiot. I liked Hayami and really wanted to keep liking her, but I just couldn’t. The ending is ultimately completely unsatisfying. Also, the art has much less ecchi when it’s trying to take itself seriously, and the art isn’t all that great outside of ecchi, so that results in the art being worse as well.

I will add as an addendum that according to the afterword, the mangaka had health issues during the second half and he too seemed unsatisfied with the series. So I don’t blame him. But as far as the manga goes, it is what it is.