I have read 23 chapters, and I legitimately cannot tell you what the central theme of this story is. It's not girl love, it's not civil conflict, it's not friendship, it's not a fantasy adventure, it's not a coming of age tale... it feels like an amalgamation of tropes from various genres married into what is, quite honestly, borderline insulting narrative.
There hasn't ever really been a clear direction letting you know how to read this story as, so you blindly try to figure it out only to be blindsided with, well, stupidity.
I don't consider this a love story, and if you do, then perhaps it's good that you're reading this review: what you have here is a borderline psychotic case of love-bombing. You have one character who is clearly not interested, and one who is desperate for attention, and even if it's played off for laughs and wholesomeness and as though it's sweet, it's... well, it's really not. While at the start it may have worked as I simply believed the chick was just hard-simping for her favorite character (where the comedy would work), when it became clear that she is legitimately, unequivocally *in love*, whatever little was working in the story just... stopped. It was no longer funny, it was sad. And then from sad it became depressing, and from depressing it became, well, worrying.
Then chapter 22/23 came, and I was just kind of done. Not only did we get introduced to a trope so boring it was outdated in 1987, it was the story's last chance to actually go back to the roots of comedy, and it just didn't. It fully embraced the melodrama, and whatever little it still had going for itself (which was honestly almost nothing at that point) was just... gone.
So, ultimately, what you have here is some psychotic, perverted version of a love story that, quite frankly, isn't even a love story (and it shouldn't be), with a set of simple, one-note characters, and a world beyond inconsistent and full of logical holes. You have a main character that goes from being a comedic self-insert into... I don't even know anymore, to be honest.
This is not a love story, this is not a 'villainess' story, this is not girl-love story, this is just... annoying tropes inked with increasingly inconsistent art.
