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tl;dr: A character focused story with an interesting premise but all terrible main characters. 

The general premise on this is pretty interesting, which can be summed up as a strange relationship triangle that involves a guy being pursued by a yandere girl who herself is being pursued by another yandere girl. That is enough to have most of the beginning of the manga where things get setup seem interesting and it also allowed for some good moments and scenes throughout. However, beyond that, in terms of the finer details of what was done with the setup and where things went, the implementation was pretty terrible.

The biggest ... issue is that all three of the main characters are awful. The protagonist is supposed to be smart and cold at first, but he just suddenly stops being so when the plot requires it. It’s attempted to be explained away as character development, but it's so rushed that it just feels really random and makes him feel inconsistent. Similarly, the relationship development he’s involved with also feels rushed to the point of being random and it doesn’t feel right how invested the protagonist ends up in the relationship. As a result, his actions feel more and more inconsistent as the plot goes on as the character the author intends for him to be and the character that the reader has in their minds end up diverging. Heck, even taking into account what the author intended, some actions still don’t make sense. Thus, it’s really hard to stay invested in his story.

The other two main characters also feel kind of random and inconsistent, but they’re yandere, so that isn’t as much of a problem for them as they’re supposed to be crazy and hard for normal people to understand. The issue with them though is that they’re both terrible yanderes, who even I whom am generally fond of yandere’s in fiction ended up disliking completely. The trait in yandere’s that’s supposed to make them likable and not just crazy villains is the extreme love aspect, the extreme dedication and loyalty, but neither of the yandere in this were shown to have any of that. Rather, their dedication and loyalty actually seems to be really lacking. Thus, the main characters overall were lacking tremendously.

Beyond that there were various side characters that had minimal importance and felt like they weren’t used very effectively, a plot that was badly paced, and an ending that felt kind of absurd in how unsatisfying it was. The art was pretty good though. 

I thought some of the others reviews had to have been exaggerating. I find a lot of series, particularly on sites like these, tend to either have wildly inflated scores or exactly the opposite. It's rare I come across one where the score seems appropriate and is exactly as I would judge it. The series is fine. Or, well, it's hard to say. If the first of two volumes is good. Interesting, entertaining, and so on, but the second has some of the most garbage, nonsensical, irritating, and otherwise annoying, infuriating, and aggravating writing I've ever had the displeasure of reading, then how exactly do ... you judge that? Does that severe drop-off in storytelling retroactively make the first part any less enjoyable? I can't answer that, because I don't think you could even really call the second half a story. At least not in any meaningful sense. It's intangible, insubstantial, and ultimately just a waste of my time. The MC, Amane I think his name was, has no personality. He's introduced as cold, logical. A smart, no nonsense kind of guy, and he is... until all of a sudden he isn't, then he is again. It feels the mangaka didn't really know what kind of character they wanted to write, or maybe just couldn't commit, so they made him a complete, indistinguishable mish-mash of whatever the story needed him to be. The female lead, who I thought had more than a bit of potential, also ended up being kind of lame. Less than the MC, and certainly less than she could have been, but the brightest spot in a series like this isn't hard to find. So, it's not a horrible series, but there are other, much better ones. This one was only alright. Just stop reading mid-way through volume 2, you'll know what bit I'm talking about when you get to it, and in some respects you'll probably end up enjoying it a whole lot more than you would have if you had continued. Not as much as if you'd just refused to pick up the series in the first place, but I digress.

The story itself for this manga isn't the worst and starts of as a pretty typical yandere romance. As someone who have read his fair share of yandere manga the storyline is pretty mediocre and the development of the plot felt so predictable and bland.

The art itself isn't anything special and I would even call it mediocre in a way , you can still see expressions drawn out of the characters but only to a certain extent which is unfortunate but it is what it is.

Next the characters , if I'm being honest the supporting characters almost felt like they weren't there at all. The ... mc itself has some interesting elements but sometimes his decision making really makes no sense at all. The FMC is just a mentally ill person and I wouldn't call it bad since it's a yandere but there are definitely better written yandere out there for sure. The supporting characters didn't play too much to the overall development of the story and was only used for that shock factor in the ending.

For the ending this was by far one of the most ridiculous ending I have ever read as it made no sense at all and just ruined all the development of the past chapters which is astounding why the mangaka decide to do that. The ending made my enjoyment of the manga dropped drastically just to highlight how bad it was for me. The shock factor at the last two chapters wasn't packing a punch due to how the story was predictable and felt even lackluster in a way.

My enjoyment for this manga was a 3/10 and I was just pushing through to see how it would end for such a story.

Overall this is quite a short read since it only has 18 chapters but I still would not recommend this manga to any reader even if your a yandere enthusiasm like I once was.