It starts cool, but the drama that will last the entire manga already has a resolution practically at the beginning. The author forgets this to develop other things, and only then comes back to the subject. About the three main characters: they are all cute, a crossdresser, an apparently bisexual girl, a gay boy. This is the premise we have right away. But then the romance ruins everything.
The boy who is a crossdresser and the girl who is bisexual suffer from the stereotype of being indecisive, so their attitudes end up hurting everyone. That's why I ended up getting too attached to Ryunji. His development, for me, was the best. I got goosebumps, laughed a lot and cried a lot with him. He's a great boy, but he's not rewarded for that. While the other two are very contradictory. Makoto doesn't take much into account people's feelings, because he's too focused on his and still doesn't know what he feels. Saki can't decide anything, she says and cries that she's alone, but because she wants to. She has people around her and doesn't know how to value it. She doesn't want to bother people, but then she feels alone because of it.
That's why, when the issue of the romance arises, which is already well clarified at the beginning, I couldn't root for them. The happier two were, the more I cried because it made the best character in the manga (for me) sad.
After this beginning, the story begins to focus more on Saki and the thing about her parents that, honestly, I couldn't care less. It also develops a little of Makoto's relationship with his mother, who also couldn't sympathize no matter how hard the author tried. The only thing that interested me, Ryunji, was already solved. And, in my view, it was resolved in a very disappointing way. I cried a lot, he didn't have the focus he deserved, nor a conclusion that clarified that he wasn't what he thought he was. Seriously, I didn't understand the purpose of involving him in the romance and developing his entire relationship with Makoto for so long, so much flashback, to end it that way. I don't feel that he really came to the conclusion of accepting himself as he is, he felt wrong and the whole context around him only reinforced that yes, only a man-woman relationship is right.
The whole concept of crossdressing, the non-binarity and the breaking of the gender pattern is too cool. But because Ryunji gained a bigger space in my heart, I expected a little more focus on that too. I feel it wasn't fair to him when Makoto and Saki had such a long development. And it made me sad cause they are two cute, Saki is a very good person, Makoto also deserves a lot of love, but I couldn't be happy for them. And that makes me angry.
I think it was the romance that ruined everything, it would be a much better story if it was just friendship and self-discovery.
