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Gather 'round, for I will tell you a story about a manga so horrible that it made kittens spontaneously combust out of horror.

I will spare you the reasons and give you the verdict right now, this absolute shit. I have never stumbled across anything quite like this. Reading this makes my stomach turn and my ancestors roll over in their graves.

The story is that the most timid guy imaginable has a secret relationship with the leader of the female gang of delinquents, and she therefore has to keep up her image which leads to supposedly comical situations. That's it in a nutshell.

The author is very ... much alike the poor contestants applying for Idol each year. You know, those that sing like Britney Spears knows geography, e.g. horribly. As soon as you see the first page, you are instantly struck by how horribly drawn the manga is. I've seen kindergartners draw at that level. I was hoping that it would improve over time, but it seems like the author is busy staring at his navel instead of actually looking at the crap he's drawing.

Each unfolding episode is equally terrible. The story in itself is not so bad, but the author has no clue as to how to properly structure the story, and instead just tries to pile chaotic jokes onto each other. The result would be like emptying the entire contents of a fridge into a pot, which is an complete mess. It might have helped a bit if the jokes were actually funny, but they unfortunately aren't. Each chapter is incredibly dull and boring and makes me want to headbutt a porcupine.

Don't read this. Save the pain for some time when you'll actually experience it for a good reason. You'll have a hard time finding a larger pile of shit than this. But let's be honest. It can't be that easy for the author to write a good manga when his head is stuck so far up his ass that the Midgard Serpent is put to shame.

I expected this to be better than your average love-manga, and I was right. It wasn't all that I hoped it would be, but it still provided a good read.

The story is centered around a clumsy, yet sympathetic boy (Akitsuki Yamato) entering high school in Tokyo (where have I heard this before?), where he almost immediately proceeds to fall in love with a girl (Asahina Suzuka) in the track and field team. The story then pretty much is all about how he tries to win her over while dealing with additional love interests and the ever obstinate Suzuka herself.

The story in itself isn't very exciting, ... but the author has still managed to make good use of it. A story like this is built on individual scenarios, all of which seem to play out in almost the same way. I applaud the author for skillfully repeating the same two patterns over 166 chapters without me noticing it too much.

The repetitiveness of each scenario is linked to the character design, where the titular character, Suzuka, is too "complex" for the good of the story. Most of the scenarios start out with Yamato trying to do something good towards her, while she somehow always takes it in a negative way. The frequency of which she does this is staggering, and it feels like the author has clearly gone out of his way just to think of new ways to misinterpret the intentions of Yamato. Whenever Yamato interacts with Suzuka, you can expect her to get frustrated in response to his actions at some point later on, it's just a question of when.

Other than that, I think that the feelings of the characters are conveyed well. Some actions and feelings are a bit questionable (yes Suzuka, I'm looking at you), but it's mostly the opposite. As the characters develop, so do their emotions, which gets portrayed relatively well. Story-wise, the strongest side of the author is probably the romantic climaxes (dramatic more than sexual), which are delivered with great timing and feeling. Thankfully, these are not as forced as many other story-related components.

The artwork is great, with nice backgrounds and well done characters. It shows that the author is already a skilled with the pen, and there is really nothing to complain about in this aspect. The good art is a solid cornerstone for this manga, which made it much more enjoyable than it otherwise would have been.

All in all, I did not feel that I was let down by this manga. There were some parts which could have used some work, but they weren't too much of a nuisance. I can recommend this to fans of high-school romance mangas, but perhaps not to people not already indoctrinated.