Art was consistently good, details and background drawn well although some female characters shared the same face. Chapters continued off from a different viewpoint and didn’t feel too redundant. Dialogue, majority of the plot and pacing of the story were forced, overdramatic, not believable, and just kept dragging endlessly in circles and nowhere in particular. There’s a lot of fan service and ecchi scenes that eventually fails to be entertaining. Thinking or even believing that this manga is filled with romance is a misconception. Comedy was nowhere to be found, I haven’t laughed once.
Side characters were treated with indifference and degrades its subject. The way some of the female characters were portrayed in this manga was crude and creepy. Such as a 16 year old who was made to pose seductively in a magazine to promote a school drama club that was barely shown in the entirety of the manga and art was used twice as an excuse for nudity of 16 year olds. On the other hand, some of the male students in the beginning were portrayed as predatory made evident by them creating a fake pageant to record female students changing infront of a hidden camera then later on a fake photoshoot to target the school’s idol. New characters were introduced here and there for no apparent reason and just as quickly retired from the story. The beginnings of the male portagonist’s definite character development only showed up at chapter 77 then proceeded undetected.
I’s is an exercise in telling a shallow story in a complicated way. The author seems unwilling to tell a story in a straightforward manner and drowns the relationship in a series of uninspired disturbances dragging the story like a dead body. It was overall an unrewarding read.
