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"We Never Learn" is not a good romance story. It is neither good, nor a romance, nor a story.

tl;dr:

Story: 0. This isn't a story, there is no story. There WAS a story but it lost its legs ages ago.

Art: 4. Same as everyone else's. Nothing special. Just like the Japanese masses like it.

Character: 4. What started off as promising devolved into tropes and cliches rather quickly.

... Enjoyment: 2. There were some funny jokes that got to me every once in a while, but "some funny jokes" can't save this trash heap.

Overall: 3. The definition of bland. So scared of being different it erases everything that made it special. What a disappointment.

There are many aspects that one comes to expect from romance stories. At least two complex characters that, by bridging the barriers that separate them, learn to accept each others' feelings and help one another become better people. A romance story is like any other story in that it comprises of a status quo, a conflict, and the most important part: a RESOLUTION.

It is this lack of such an essential piece of storytelling that prevents this cookie-cutter harem trash from being enjoyable at all. Instead, insisting on brutally twisting the legs off an otherwise interesting premise, leaving the story spitting blood as it gingerly limps itself forward, dragging its two gnarled leg-stumps on a circular path, forever going in circles until the day the Shonen Jump gods become tired of planting their seed all over what used to be a promising premise, now a bloodied, beaten, broken shadow of what could have been.

Shitsurei kamimashita. I shouldn't be rambling so much.

"We Never Learn' is yet another "harem manga with a twist" designed to go on for ages without any actual payoff. As it progresses the characters, art, and humor slowly reveal their hidden forms as cookie-cutter anime tropes and cliches, copying situations from the harem manga bucket and tweaking them to fit the premise. At this time the inventive story and characters from ch. 1 have been replaced with a typical harem plot where nothing happens, following the high-school adventures of Harem Protagonist no. 8713 and Girls no. 1, 2(my personal favorite), 3, 4, and 5 as they do literally nothing for however many chapters Master Shonen Jump wants.

This was fun, can't wait to do it again. Writing reviews I mean, not reading this trash.