I liked how the protagonist was so disinterested in our male lead. Ririko initially sees Minato on the train when she sees him giving a cough drop to a lady who's coughing on the train; everyone else is stepping away from her. Ririko helps her dad out in their handyman business. Her dad gets sick, so she steps in for her dad and works for Minato - from moving his boxes to making meals. Minato helped out that lady because his mom had died from an illness where she coughed a lot. Then Ririko opens up about her mom who had died.
In the beginning, Bland-kun, Minato I mean had a personality somewhat. He was sorta a Tsundere. Affectionate but acted really cold and uncaring.
So the first couple of chapters were done well. I thought yes this'll be a good shoujo. But nope. The rest of the characters, aside from Minato's male friends and Ririko's two besties, are all in love with Minato. Not gonna lie.
Once they got together, Bland-kun, I mean Minato became so bland. He became a Yuki-kun, no joke; affectionate all of sudden and very open with his feelings.
It was rather infuriating to read. Bland-kun had like 4-5 girls who were all into him. Like every girl, who was not Ririrko's friends (which was just 1 girl) was into Minato. No lie: you've got childhood second cousin, a stalker, and a bunch of love obstacles meant to deter our lead couple and create misunderstandings that get resolved in a few chapters.
It started off really well and I was engaged until the manga realized the only way to tell a story is having almost every other female character be in love with Minato...
Completely disappointing. Art is alright, expect chopstick proportions.
