Most of my issues reading "Meguro-san wa Hajimete ja Nai" stem from the fact that the writing is incredibly trite. Anime and Manga sometimes have the issue where characters don't talk like real people, and this has a very bad case of that. Everyone is incredibly descriptive of how slutty Meguro is and how much of a loser baby Koga is. No one talks in vague nothing terms except Koga, who aptly attempts to hide anything that would make him a more interesting character. In an early chapter, Koga is confronted by Meguro's generic gyaru friend who is constantly aggressive and unreasonable. Never at any point do this gyyaru or Koga display any complex character motivations aside from base character traits. Aside from Koga mysteriously hiding information to be revealed in a later chapter about how Meguro probably said a nice thing to him when he was probably getting bullied or something. They speak every bit that's on their mind and Meguro blankly talks about what a nice guy Koga is for displaying common human decency in world of people who love shouting rumors out loud in front of the people that they're about.
Reading this manga I feel like I'm watching two people, each of which only have one or two personality traits, bounce off against each other in the middle of a cold and unfeeling world. Sure, plenty of other manga I like have some of these issues, but most of the time they have some other interesting quality that makes up for the dumb and annoying bits. There's nothing interesting here that you can't find in a number of other generic high school romcom manga. Just go read Horimiya or something.
