However, the development is extremely slow and far and few between. Every step taken there are 3 steps taken backwards. The main girl literally asks the wimp out on a date, and he confirms its a date, and is a nervous, but one verbal slipup from the girl erases all that progress completely back to square 1.
Not only that, the author feels the need to insert a bully semi-yandere girl whose sole purpose is to bully the MC. But its past basic wedgies or laughter, and to the point of daily painful pranks (hitting him with a eraser, filling his shoes with slime and tacks, KNOCKING HIM UNCONCIOUS AND KIDNAPPING HIM...). Its obvious this has a defined psychological effect on this trauamtized MC who openly hates himself/ has no self confidence, but the manga offensively handwaves it as no big deal. And this mangaka has the fucking balls to try to 'redeem' her by having her state she liked him this whole time and just wanted to push him to make him happy. Which, on a face level, makes no fuckin sense since you actively trauamtized and made him miserable, but also makes no sense from a storyline perspective, as this is a girl torturing the MC so we want to see her get punished. But no, she is completely forgiven. What she did is the equivolent of a murderer giving puppy eyes and saying 'sowwy' and the judge going 'yknow what i think he learned his lesson'. Her saying 'i did these terrible things to make u happy' is textbook abusive behavior, and it was disgusting to see the author treat it as if it was fine. Its maddening.
Aside from that absolutely maddening character, the progress here is almost comical. its almost as if the author hates his work and is just actively trolling his audience. Theres also 2 other side characters, one who has a crush on the mc's gf, and the author who has a crush on her. All they do is halt progress and get in the way, annoyingly.
it fails at a romance your supposed to take seriously due to the poor writing. It fails on the fluff aspect due to the insane woman and trauma of the MC/ incessant drama. It fails as a drama due to the fact its a romance. This is overall just a failure. Maybe its due to me heavily relating with the MC and liking the girl a lot, but i felt extremely personally dissapointed at the way this manga fell apart.
I give it a 2 isntead of a 1 due to the few fluff moments it has being very cute
