At first, I thought this story had potential. I've read quite a few manga now where the male lead is mean at first to the female lead before gradually letting his soft side do him in.
However, the amount of abuse in this story is appalling. You think that he's going to admit his feelings, then he treats Sumi like garbage and expects her to understand that it's because he's so into her despite his history of verbal abuse. Of course she isn't going to realize his true feelings when he blusters and insults her.
With the supporting characters, too, it's hard to understand their motives at times, and many of them are equally abusive. Maybe the psychosis of a couple of them makes you want to excuse them, but then Sumi just takes the abuse and actually comes back for more. Her naivety is too much to be believable.
Basically, I could not get past the abusive nature of so many of the relations of the characters.
Tl;dr don't waste your time with this manga. The only reason I read to the end was because I had a sort of morbid curiosity for how much worse this manga could get. I honestly don't understand why it has such a high average rating or why so many people enjoy this, it's seriously so awful.
