Majime dakedo, Shitai n desu!
I'm a Good Kid, but I Still Want to Do It!

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Imagine a typical shoujo manga, but the male and female lead actually seem to have an equal investment and mutually enjoy each other. Radical, I know. Now imagine that, but also the female lead has actual romantic and sexual agency. Borderline revolutionary. (It's not even 'strong woman, submissive man,' it's just...two equal partners, who both want each other and both occasionally make a first move. A feminine girl who doesn't just exist solely to cry and swoon over a cute boy.)

Now make it a little erotic, a bit naïve, and you have this comic. It follows a lot of the usual narrative beats of a ... high school romcom (and some of the same silly tropes...why are they hiding their relationship?), but it feels so much better because the relationship is healthy and realistic. Both parties act like normal people...I wish more f/m romance was written this way.

Info: the other reviewer goes by comico releases. Online rips are up to 103 so that checks out. I would be at ~ch120. I am reading manga releases (47 just released).
First off, I feel rather strong about this manga and have a strong opinion on what (sadly) happened towards the later chapters. That is due to me actually paying (LOL!, I know) and waiting for releases, even through the long hiatus.
Quick summary: starts off generic but strong, gets better by the chapter until Miyata is "introduced", downward trends until ~ chapter 90+ where it writing wise (story, characters, consistency) turns dogshit bad. I wouldn't call ... Kaori fully ruined as a character but what is done to her around ch42 (I think? The talk with her mom etc.) is abysmally inconsistenly embarrassingly terrible writing and made me question the author's knowledge about their own work and overall writing skills.

Now, I couldn't disagree more with the (at this time) only other review by CyberpunkBoyToy.
Yes, it is a typical Shoujo. It has all the tropes, cliche and formulaic story + character writing. I would call that aspect generic and even weak at times- it does take away from its strong points and originality more often than not. It boils down to the manga not knowing when to shoujo how hard.

The characters, they are (not Miyata) pretty complex and have a nice depth while staying believeable high schoolers... until they don't. One is able to make assumptions such as "equal investment" or "mutually enjoy each other" but the author can decide, on a whim with no proper writing to make it happen, to fully change a characters feelings (Kaori ch42+).
The ML is the only consistent character but the weak overall writing punishes him for it and his "consistency" feels more like he was forgotten, e.g. things that weren't a problem before and rather one of his strongest points turn into something that is hugely disliked by Kaori. It is incredibly stupid and frustrating, yeah.

As for the talk about the FL having "romantic and sexual agency" or her being equal, that just factually is not the case. She has moments of clarity and actual agency where she is that perfect and strong FL but most often is the usual run-of-the-mill damsel in distress meek weak shoujo-princess that lets herself be manhandled by any male stronger than a raccoon. It does become jarring at times. And yes, she actually does cry and swoon over another cute boy. It is dogshit writing and I still shudder when remembering how poorly forced written that all was.
Sad reality is that authors can't just let a FL be strong. Editors exist.
Also, another fact is that the boy does most of the heavy lifting and has to go out of his way to solo progress or even save the relationship. She initially does seem "equally invested" and to be "mutually enjoying" the relationship but her (sudden without writing to easy into it) changes in character show something completely different later on. It does go a bit too far in that regard until the whole thing ends up going past believeable but endearing high school feelings of 2 people. It strangely ends up reading like age gap romance with the boy being a mature young adult and her the selfish, egoistic, useless and mentally unstable emotional cheater. Something not unusual in Shoujo but the whole vibe from that point onwards (right around the talk with her mom) is just so uncomfortably weird.

The rest is a bit out there, too. It isn't too erotic or much better than most other series. It just isn't. It went ahead and tried to be something that it isn't and failed miserably.