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Nov 14, 2021
This manga depicts the relationships of our main character, Heisuke, with his schoolmates and a kid that he has to take care of after school. In theory, this could be pretty entertaining setting, in which you can have your emotional moments, as well as calm ones, while having the realistic and believable background of a story. Did this manga provided something close to this ? Not really.

Story wise, the start and the pacing was interesting, new characters were added, they had their short cameos here and there, and initially it was entertaining. But then again, into it's mid-point, some characters are straight up thrown away, for no good reason, and instead we had a bunch of chapters, that feels like they almost repeat themselves, since the character's banter and the situations they get into are extremely same-y, to the point that you feel that as you see a character, popping up, you know what will happen to the end of this chapter. Sometimes, this may be taken as praise, but certainly not in this case.

The manga provides very simple, mostly based on quirky facial expressions kind of presentation, which is certainly fine enough for stories of this genre, but then again it's nothing to be remembered of.

The characters of this story are extremely trope-y, very one dimensional and straight up boring. Everyone can be explained by one sentence, and the same goes for the main character, which really doesn't help the reader to be immersed or represented into the story. On the topic of main characters, Heisuke is probably one of the least likable characters, since his relaxed and laid-back pace of doing things eventually can end up making the readers annoyed and dejective of him.

The series more or less depicts realistic settings, but the characters feels like cardboard cutouts in them. After the repeatable concept of almost all of the chapters, you can actually ask yourself why are you even reading this work, considering there is zero to none emotional or relatable value, as well being absolutely predictable to a fault.

I do believe there can be people that could enjoy this manga, if they are having disjointed reading schedule, and feel problems with picking up story driven manga. There might also be people who enjoy the semblance of chemistry that our characters have, or people who can feel that they can get into the main character's shoes.

But this manga is a perfect example of a work, by which the people, trying to get into the slice-of-life genre can wholeheartedly say, that this genre is too boring and has no coherently established characters, nor they are able to channel any emotions to the reader.
Reviewer’s Rating: 4
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