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To start off, at the time of writing I have watched 6 of its episodes and I expect this series to end as at least one of my memorable ones. I'm going to break down my content.

Story: 7
The premise of the story is strong. It is one of those scenarios where the rules are very strong within the setting but also does not have serious implications should something go wrong. The starting few episodes tries to ease you in to the setting. However, it does feel like the pace for first few episodes is slow with small new things being revealed. The story really feels ... like someone's perspective as they slowly learn about their new surrounding. Things are starting to change with recent episodes so i can only think good things are to come.

Art and Sound: 9
Not much to say here the art and sound are amazing at times but as a whole is really great.

Characters: 9
I really really liked the characters. There are some parallels to be drawn between oregairu characters here. The characters so far have more than one side to them. So far they have not been introduced much as its only 6 episodes so far but it does feel like they'll touch upon that in a manner that does not feel like forced exposition.

Enjoyment: 10
I really am enjoying this. I would recommend this to everyone if the series at least holds this quality. HOWEVER, i would not recommend everyone to start watching right away and wait till more episodes are out for those people who need to see substantial progress in the story of an anime.

** To explain properly i might need to go into a little bit of spoilers. Although, for this manga you might just want to deal with the spoilers in this review so that you won't have to waste time reading it.

My context -
First of all, i started the series with anime. I instantly loved anime and i jumped right over to read manga. It was painful to read after some chapters.

Review according to aspects -
Story - 2
I have to say the story started off great. It gave off the vibe of all the great music anime that aired recently. It was blatant about ... where it was headed with the fuuka and koyuki angle, which I was okay with. In fact, it was like other manga with "childhood friend who is popular" angle and it was well executed as well. The story was well paced and it felt like it progressed well. Then why i gave it a low score? Because things turned sour pretty quickly. It started around episode 33 ish where readers will know what happened. At the time it felt so wrong and forced but i thought that it was probably a necessary predicament for the protagonist to aim higher. But the story gets so boring and so bland. After that chapter i found myself cringing and trying to step away but the first few chapters had me hoping something like that would come up. And it actually did for a few chapters when the manga stopped trying to focus on the ill scripted love triangle and instead just focused on the music aspect. The fact that they introduced the "really similar but not same" missing character was so frustrating to watch. And this happened twice!! (trying to avoid spoilers)

Art - 9
The only thing that i enjoyed throughout was the art. It was a 10/10 but sometimes it was hard for me to tell characters apart so i gave it a 9.

Character - 5
This one is tricky. There are times when the characters all feel genuine and there are times when they are just dreadful. This is best reflected by the character development of koyuki. She was a "childhood friend who is a love interest" at the beginning and in the manga/anime world that is the worst position to find yourself in. I was rooting for her from the beginning but i had accepted that she'd never get yuu. However, her character was strong and she used to inspire yuu to get better and vice versa. How she got to "i will make you fall for me" to "i don't care if you don't love me, just go out with me" is beyond me. Same thing happened with almost all characters. These music loving, passionate and strong female characters all became a fanservice bait which is just sad to watch.

Enjoyment - 2
To be honest, i did enjoy the first part of the series leading up to the event. But not much unlike how deathnote transitioned after the death of L, fuuka went from great to hard-to-watch as the events felt forced and underdeveloped. They played the 'coincidence' game way too much.

Overall the manga is a good music manga with loads of bad drama, underdeveloped romance and out of context fan service (i guess being ecchi justifies it though). I don't know if anyone could enjoy this except for the artwork which clearly took a lot of effort. If the story aspects were worked on as much we'd probably have a masterpiece.