Tonikaku Kawaii
Fly Me to the Moon

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This is probably one of the cutest romcom manga out there.

No drama BS, no stupid cliches, no massively dense character, no school romance, no NTR (so far) just about vanilla romance from day 1 with tons of sweet, cute, comedic, and heartwarming scenes. This is just the perfect manga for all romcom fans like me. Each chapter is just like a complete healing from stressful, lonely everyday life.
One thing i'm worrying is that the story might be going into fantasy-fictional direction in the future so i hope the writers won't ruin the slice of life elements in it.

Overall 8/10 from me so far.

If you're one to judge a book by its cover, then at first glance, Tonikawa appears to be an interesting romance manga. But after going through a few chapters, you start to realize that it isn't what you thought. Instead of an interesting romance manga with character development, relationship development and depth/substance, you see a pattern of nonsense equal to a longer version of a 4-koma. For me, I thought it felt familiar and saw the person who made it: Hata Kenjirou! I knew it!

That's right, much like his 10 year long, going nowhere fast romance manga Hayate Combat Butler, Tonikawa too is following in ... Hayate's footsteps. Of course, it's different: We have a relationship to kickoff things instead, but the same stale stagnant writing attached to well drawn characters that Hata loves to do. So I was pretty disappointed to say the least because chapter after chapter after chapter after volume, the relationship of the two man characters goes absolubely nowhere.

So if you are looking for a romance manga with no depth or substance outside of moe moe fluff fluff, where the romance between these two is similar to the "romance" between two little kids then you'll enjoy this. But if you are looking for a serious romance with characters that are memorable, that undergo development overtime and deal with other things we see in a realistic relationship, look elsewhere.

It isn't worth trying.

Lets get one thing out of the way, it's a series about a married couple. They get married in the first chapter and they enter their married life. Somehow, this setup gets equated with an amazing rate of relationship progress, where the story skips the awkward will they or won't they. Yet despite that, it's still the series about two milquetoast, awkward teens who struggle with the basic intimacy so much you'd think that they are grade schoolers.

Reading this series is like seeing a beautiful bird stretch out his wings, fly up high and then fly head first into a window and break his ... neck. It has all elements it needs to success as a romance and chooses to waste them for being just a cutesy slice of life. To elaborate, it's a story about the married life of the two extraordinary people that bends over backwards to keep their relationship from properly developing and to squash the actual interesting parts about their characters. In the 54 chapters I've read, the series somehow manages to actively add elements that seem to serve no purpose other than acting as random roadblocks to ensure that main characters relationship stays at the level of teenage dating, despite them living together. They are much closer to roommates than any married couple.

This series is ultimately a rather mediocre slice of life, made worse by all the wasted potential it has. Yes, I've only read 54 chapters and I'm aware that this series teases some greater secrets. But lets be honest, if a series feels like a boring chore by the chapter 54, it's not worth reading more more of it.