INITIAL THOUGHTS:
okay so i recently just saw bunch of tikoks recommending this manga, so i decided to start reading it. let me tell you, i was very much binge reading it through for like four days straight, it was great. i thought that the female lead, Yuki was very much like misaki; headstrong, responsible, reliable, helpful etc. i especially liked how she wasn't easy to give into any men (how i was wrong..), how humble yet hard working she was.. basically i thought she was a better version of misaki.
(my opinions) THE PROBLEMS.. :
Great, so this might be a whole essay so be prepared. there are so many things wrong with this manga that i believe isn't addressed enough. it was good to start off with mainly because it hooks the audience right in with naruse and yuki's intimate relationship with their main common interest of basketball. but then to be honest, looking back on when i was reading it; i believe that the main problem started when yuki started to avoid naruse's confession. don't get me wrong, it's normal to give some thought over it when someone like naruse decides to confess to you.. but it's the fact that yuki left it out for so long to the point where naruse just kept messing with her (including literally sexually harassing her.. ?); that part just didn't sit right with me. i honestly thought that part was just annoying, i thought that naruse constantly kissing and annoying yuki would make her want to pull back even more from him, but your cliche generic shoujo head strong main lead girl just becomes damn submissive.
i know its a common troupe to come across, but i was just honestly looking for something a bit more refreshing. unlike maid sama, who had misaki fall in love with usui due to the amount of times he had also rescued and helped her, naruse didn't do any of those things really. he kind of just was there, stalking and sexually harassing her. i didn't like how yuki was so submissive, i'll say that again sorry.
i just think that their relationship to start off with went way to quickly, which resulted in their official boyfriend/girlfriend relationship seem too rushed and problematic. i mean, let's literally talk about how cold yuki would always be towards naruse. i would of liked to see her kind of have a soft spot for him, and nobody else.. but it just felt like she would always be passive aggressive and over think things, when in reality; all she needed to do was show a bit of communication skills with him.
that brings me to another point; the LACK OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN NARUSE AND YUKI. it bugs me so much to this day, i know its a common thing in the shoujo world; but it felt like they just took it to a whole new level. i just got so fustrated when yuki would just overthink everything and anything about naruse, it would of been nice to have a few perspectives of naruse's thinking too i guess.
this review may not make any sense, since im literally just ranting randomly at this point... but i hope you get the point.
**SUMMARY**:
- Yuki got NO character development (other than being able to show a couple more feelings towards naruse)
- The lack of communication
- How Yuki would always become submissive towards naruse, even after being CLEARLY SEXUALLY HARASSED MULTIPLE TIMES..
anyways, thank you for looking at this. and if you are planning on reading this, i recommend you read the first like 20 chapters before deciding if you REALLY TRULLY LIKE IT OR NOT.
