Kaette Kudasai! Akutsu-san
Please Go Home, Miss Akutsu!

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I’m sick of the endless onslaught of romance series where the female lead for no reason or believable set up is drawn to the male lead.
The excuse given in this manga is Akutsu uses Ooyama’s bedroom as her after-school hangout spot because his parents are never home. How she came to find this out is that she HAPPENED to be standing, waiting for no reason in front of his house, and Ooyama was forced to let her in. Why though, Ooyama even states she had never spoke to him prior to her barging into his home.

Ooyama, the male lead, is the typical typecast ... cowardly male student who can’t stand up for himself, and throughout the series is intended to slowly become more confident. This has been done multiple times in better, yet still flawed series like Nagatoro for instance. The primary issue I take with Ooyama is that he's a poorly written lazy attempt at a self insert character. Ooyama's personality boils down to he likes manga, anime, and big boobs. If this were any more self insert Ooyama's character would be replaced with a dotted line and text inside that states "You, yes you the reader". Overall I've noticed that male characters in these 'teasing' 'gal' or 'delinquent' genres are rather lazy self insert attempts at romance which seem to exist only to fulfill some audience fantasy.

Art in this series is really nothing that special, if anything it comes across more lazy than anything else. A majority of the series takes place in Ooyama's bedroom so I wouldn't be surprised if the mangaka reused the backgrounds. Also, Akutsu basically has only 2 facial expressions, one with a closed mouth flustered look, and the other a gaping mouth expression that is used in every other panel.

Akutsu-san is presented as an ecchi manga, now I’m not opposed to an ecchi series if well done, however this is more of a perverts attempt at a rom com. Akutsu will flash her panties or bra and joke about charging Ooyama for a peek, fine whatever it’s already established that she’s a delinquent.
The moment Please go home Akutsu-san crosses over into a series for pervs is when Ooyama gets horny from smelling Akutsu’s armpit sweat. Ooyama’s air conditioner was broken in his room, but they remain in the hot room. Other, more competent romantic comedies would take this opportunity to have them go outside together on some kind of unofficial date, or accidentally run into their classmates while out and rumors begin to spread that they’re dating, therefore advancing the relationship. Instead they remain inside a hot room with a broken A/C, Ooyama smells something, realizes it’s Akutsu’s sweat. She proceeds to rubs his face in her armpit, Ooyama gets horny and subsequently faints from his excitement.
Immediately after this chapter I dropped this smut series, don’t try to defend the events that unfolded due to a broken A/C with something like natural pheromones or whatever, you’ll only call yourself out that you’ve never been with a girl before.

Please go home Akutsu-san is a lazy self insert series, and a perverts idea of what romance is, aimed at desperate mouth breathing weebs hoping one day a girl will spend time with them for no reason or effort on their part.

Story
A delinquent girl (our FMC Akutsu-san) uses our MC's room as her daily hangout place when she's skipping classes. She's often bullying him and somehow, we see some romantic feelings develop between them at a snails pace.

Review
The "hook" for this series is the popular delinquent girl bullying our loner "nice guy" MC. If that tickles your heart, then you should try giving it a try.
As with every fetish, there's a limit. When you keep repeating the same hook for 100 chapters, its bound to get boring. When the story barely changes for 100+ chapters, it gets simply annoying. When characters keep chickening out at ... crucial times, you even start hating them to some extent. This is my problem with this series.

The series starts out fine. Its pretty generic in terms of characters or content. But did any of you look at the title and thumbnail and think "wow, this seems super unique"? Of course not. Its a comfort trashy series. And the series delivers exactly what it promises. You can easily read around 20 - 30 chapters. Its just the same "badass delinquent girl" being a pure maiden at heart cliche, where she falls in love with the loser classmate... for reasons.

But before long, you start to feel saturated. It starts feeling right nothing really changes in the series. And you are absolutely correct. Its the same shit every week. You can skip 50 chapters, and you won't feel any difference except for maybe some new side character. because its still the same shit.

Its not like the manga became low quality with time. Its still roughly the same quality (and may even have improved). But its just so repetitive and the progress is so slow, that you are more than happy to keep it on hold or drop it.

Also, MC is a boring cuck, whose entire role is being a doormat for our FMC.

Read the first couple of chapters. If you don't like it, then drop it.

I would stay away from this if you're looking for meaningful progression between the leads.

Manga like this create meaningless barriers to prevent characters from getting closer to one another, rather than actually putting thought behind what might stand between them. As an example, Akutsu not wanting to reveal her feelings could - in a similar story - be based in pride, given the fact that she is a delinquent and Ooyama is on the wimpy side. And, Ooyama, despite being wimpy, could have redeeming qualities that Akutsu might find attractive. Instead, Ooyama remains a dense cardboard cutout for self-insertion, and Akutsu can't admit her ... feelings out of a vague sense of embarrassment that is never really explained. At some point, you would imagine these characters would break past these trivialities given their interest in each other, but it has yet to happen.

"Please Go Home, Akutsu-san!" acts as if a confession is a requisite for dating someone. Sometimes, relationships just happen; people spend time close to one another, develop feelings, and eventually romance is born. A confession is not needed for this connection to proceed - but in stories like this everything comes to a stand still. It's quite obvious by observing the relationship that the feelings between Ooyama and Akutsu are mutual. Both leads know about their shared interest in one another - so why harp on a confession? Well, the answer is simple. The author wants to milk this for as long as possible. This is likely because the author believes that interest in the story is sustained by the "will they or won't they" aspect of the narrative. While this is correct, it is not the only method to keep people reading. How the relationship develops after both characters come together (whether it is "official" or "unofficial") is plenty interesting - as long as time is taken to develop these characters. It is, however, easier to keep interest hinging on the "will they or won't they" aspect. All it requires is for the author to keep doing what they are doing. Unfortunately, this leads to a loop. And this is why stories like this are frustrating. We, as readers, simply want to proceed.

With that being said, my recommendation is not to waste your time. That is, at least, if you are looking for something that gets to the point.