Risou no Kareshi no Hazu nanoni

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Fully agree with @Ramms_73's review. This is one of the new age Shoujos where random (mostly male) stranger characters are given incredible amounts of agency all to push forward the independent and strong female lead! Ugh.
Here, just like in most of these cases, it is done by having her realize what she really wants by heavily engaging with another male cast member and really being talked into by a stranger that should never be allowed to give this important of advice. But she got there, I guess...
From here it spirals into the most generic of its type. The stranger is let into her heart ... instantly and incredibly deep at that- they seem to be just as important as the boyfriend even after only interacting ~twice. I would call it unhealthy but not rare at all, it is a staple of the aforementioned type of Shoujo.

Some emotionally cheating on her part? So open and spicy. Any interaction with another male cast member? Better compliment them and send super positive signals to make them fall, too! Neglecting the boyfriend? Willingly flirting along in front of her boyfriend to get stuff for free? She is in her right to do so, it is empowering and she is only teasing!! Him being not really jealous but actually irked by it but is not allowed exclaim it? Classic. Manly. Love to see him jelly uwu.

This all climaxes in the aforementioned agency given to the stranger being used as a tool to insta progress the female lead, possibly one of the worst ways to go about it IMO. It is pretty egregious and disgusting in this here case, tbh.
Her character is changed once and then twice to explain everything happening and it just as quickly, two chapters later, will be reversed again and be of no importance. Whatever. It is the usual case of FL being randomly declared braindead and put into a permanent state of being drunk to enable the stranger having this much impact and creating such a relationship with them- otherwise it could never happen simply due to her established character. This shit happens so often and I won't lie, it is as interesting as it is bizarre and dogshit.

I personally do not enjoy this type of Shoujo. The setup is cute and enjoyable and it gets better again in later chapters but what is shown in these ~5 chapters is a very particular style of storytelling. It is hard to put into words what it comes across at.
The best possible description I could come up with is that this is exactly how a hardcore radical feminist would write their female lead and story+boyfriend in tandem with her. Meh.

You were looking forward to a deep and complex work? Leave. You want a wholesome story with consistent characters that stay true to themselves until the end or at least act in a human way? Leave. You want a good Shoujo? Also leave.
Tbh, only stay if you have nothing better to do and are down to go through what is the worst kind of force changing a character to do some pretty cringe stuff to artificially "progress" something that could've been done as a main focus across 20+ very enjoyable chapters. It is weak to say the least.

READ: THIS MANGA WOULD BE GOOD IF IT WASN'T FOR THE RIVAL.
I fully agree with the other two reviews. This series would have been a super fluffy and entertaining (albeit a bit average) shoujo romance IF it wasn't for the rival. First of all, why is there even a rival in the first place when the two main charactersare already dating from like chapter 2?!
Also the rival's just weird, why bother hitting on a girl with a boyfriend? And why did the author make it seem like he had a chance?

Art's an 8, fluffiness is a 9, story is a 1 solely because of rival. ... Otherwise, the story would be an 8.
Oveall, 6/10, you can still enjoy it, just be noted that the rival WILL piss you off. A lot.

NGL the setting on this one was weird , it started of the FMC getting her first Boyfriend and that sweet vanilla stuff with Childhood Friend , but then it took a weird turn where she and the waiter started flirting on her date with the boyfriend.

I understand that there should be a Rival or whatever but his introduction was weird AF and his approach was straight up creepy, he kept hitting on her during her date with her boyfriend and later followed her to her school cause she dropped her Student ID and gave her his number on a coupon telling her to come ... again.
They tried to make us sympathize with him cause the FMC complemented his drawing which he drew on the menu and no one had done that before so he started getting serious about her but it felt weird.
Also He's a scum before he got serious about the FMC

My main problem with this series is the Waiter , the rest was fine
Art 8/10
Plot 7/10
FMC 5/10
MMC 9/10
Rival 1/10