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In summary, I really enjoy reading Kakao 79%. I know I haven't even read up till the latest chapter and I'm probably really biased now, but I just wanted to write a review.

You'll probably enjoy this story very much if you love cliches, childhood friends falling in love with each other and some drama and angst threw in there (mmMMmMmMm angst). The female lead is strong and independent and I love her for that. The male lead is handsome and I love how precious the lead female is to him. Bonus: He's hot (Of course he has to be).

You probably WON'T like it if the ... girl is dense and takes her 100+ chapters to realize a dude is attracted to her, and if you're used to reading black and white manga you might not be used it because it's full colored.

Without further ado, let's start the review!

Story:
It's the same old cliched story where a character falls in love with their childhood friend, and they try to make them see that they "don't want to be just friends" and stuff. You know, the normal. The male lead falls in love with the female lead and he's absolutely smitten... I LOVE IT.
From young till present, Yuu and Tsubasa have been neighbors and inseparable. Due to Yuu being extremely popular with the girls, Tsubasa has been bullied quite a lot because she's by his side due to their jealousy. Therefore when they got into high school, she's determined to make female friends buuuuut...

ANYWAY, one of the reasons why I REALLY love this series is because of the pacing. It isn't too rushed.

Art:
To me, I think it's cute! It's actually like the normal manga art, but full colored. It's more like a webtoon? Kinda like ReLife. Sometimes when there are funny moments, the artist draws them really funnily and I have so many screenshots of them.
As you read on, you can actually see the development in the artist's art and there is nothing more satisfying about that. The colors become so much more vibrant as compared to when I first started it, in which the characters look kinda dead. The characters all looked sickly due to the coloring but I'm glad it improved.

Character:
Tsubasa: Strong, athletic, always helping others, really puts herself out there. Innocent. PURE. Super cheerful and loud, sometimes very awkward around people, can't lie well, the opposite of her childhood friend.

Yuu: Glutton, seems collected and calm but is actually not (It's kinda like a RBF). Have I told you he's really smart? Basically in love with Tsubasa. Has been trying to contain his affections for her but it's no longer gonna work because it's been too long, and when I say too long, I mean from kindergarten to high school. He's trying to be gentle and not rush things but sometimes he really can't help it.

Enjoyment:
I really enjoy reading this series. It may be too soon for me to review this, but I will come back and review it if I feel like the story slowly turns bad. So far so good, as stated above, the pacing is good and the development as well. I'm really enjoying it.

Overall, I give it an 8. I don't want to be overly biased and give it like a 9 or 10, because it's a simple love story, and because it hasn't ended yet.

I hope that if you read this, you'll enjoy it as much as I do!

The best way to describe this Manga is average. Everything about it is nothing special and especially the pathing is so slow and repetetive that you will get annoyed at some point. The Manga infact gave me flashbacks to one of the worst mangas ever written called "school rumble".

If you in there for the comedy you'll get disapointed. I think I only chuckled 2-3 times trough the manga and that was not because of the MC's but because of class reps Yayoi fantasies. The author did try hard to make jokes about the love triangle/harem genre which where funny for the first time but certainly ... not at the 5th time.

The same thing goes for the romance. There is no romance at all untili around 150 chapters in and when it does happen it will get set back to the status before right in the next chapter.

Another issue is the story itself. I know that it is kinda slice of life and I shouldn't expect too much but works like "ReLife" or "Horimiya" showed that you can do an interresting backstory even in this genre. The story here is just uninterresting and the "huge" plot twist was obvious like 100 chapters before.

The worst thing about the whole manga are by far both MC's I never felt any attachment to one of those because they're kinda generic Shoujo characters without any depth. The Male MC gives me infact creeps for the first ~130 with his obsessive, stalker attitude while the female is the typical dense lead without any personality.

"Frustrating" is the first word that comes to mind reading this story. It started off good, but as soon as the chapters went by, it is just filled with "self-blaming" and "regret". from the two MCs. I feel like there was not a single chapter where Ayano doesn't bring up her past to justify all her current actions that are "questionable". Don't get me wrong, looking back at your past actions to question your current actions is "not wrong" per se, but if you bring up the same flashback time and time again, get over a problem, then proceed to bring the same flashback ON ... A DIFFERENT issue, then you are basically just restarting your progress. What I dislike the most in any romance story is the fact that they can't move on from the singular aspect in life just to give drama to their current situation, when they were shown to have already learned from it.