Hino-san no Baka

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This is deliciously cute, rapey, and manages to keep the progression of their relationship going at exactly the right pace, for me.

The setup is that we have a pushover good guy, who was elected class præsident for no other reason than that no one else seemed to want to do it, and a bad guy delinquent that constantly skips class, whom the former is to convince to join class initially. The latter enjoys teasing the former with various sexual requæsts in exchange for joining class and trick him with ambiguous language, yet they of course become very close friends and lovers through all this.

There are ... two main characters in this:

Koguma: short, meek, cute, a pushover, deliciously flat-chested always out to help other, severe self-confidence issues. Starts the story getting constantly tricked and molested by Hino, but of course secretly comes to enjoy being the object of Hino's sexual exploitation and teasing.

Hino: somewhat taller, a self-loathing delinquent with little sense of self-worth, not necessarily out to help others but Hino, very little concern for his future. At first convincing himself that he's merely interested in teasing Hino for shallow entertainment, but later comes to realize how much he cares about him.

The art is nice and delivers what is important about this strip: Koguma being cute and embarrassed over being tricked by Hino once again into being molested, or expecting molestation of some sort. Story-wise, it's mostly slice of life, but it's not a status-quo-ante comic where the reader might feel there is no progression; their relationship constantly progresses to a deeper form of intimacy and confort with one another.

It's a girl's love manga that for the most part is formulaic. To be honest, it can be a boring read because it starts off every chapter with Koguma having to do some potentially lewdish task for Hino, only for Hino to then reveal that she wasn't intending for her to do it that way. After the first chapters, the plot does pick up with Hino realizing that she was burdening Koguma, but Koguma was willing to do so because she was...her friend. Yeah, sure, let's go with that. Afterwards, they exchange phone numbers and refer to each other by their first name. Their interactions ... thereafter become legitimately sweet as you can tell that they both care for each other. Maybe as more than friends.

Characters...they are the main ones. Koguma is the typical good girl who tries to be the motivator. Hino is lazy, outrageous, and has that morbid love of teasing Koguma. Out of the two, Hino is the one that has the most character to her. Especially when she began to realize that she was burdening her after seeing what kind of life she had in the classroom. And her interactions with Koguma - when she isn't doing lewd things to her - is truly sweet. Despite her trickster nature, she does truly value Koguma as her friend. She was even willing to cut ties with Koguma so that she wouldn't suffer more. Koguma...sadly, has less characterization. Aside from getting flustered easily, she comes off as being too flat. She starts to question whether Hino has feelings for her, but she comes off as too one-note.

The art is bland. It was obviously drawn by someone with skills, but it isn't awe-inspiring. The shading often feels off in places. It doesn't overall distratct from the rest of the story, but I feel like that should be noted.
Overall, a pretty average GL manga. While it has some pros such as Hino and the gradual development of the girls' relationship, it is otherwise a forgettable manga that becomes too formulaic and tedious of a read.

TL:DR: Straight up starts being a pedo story do not read this it's a waste of your time.

I wasn't going to review this manga, but after reading the more recent chapters I just feel like people need to know about this before even trying to read this. So this is a manga about two girls who slowly become better friends and eventually start to like each other more and more. Pretty standard romance stuff, it's even hip with having the the main love interest make the mc do embarrassing things though I guess it's usually the other way around. Now where things start to become ... weird is the appearance of the mc. While initially, atleast to me, it seemed to be more so caused by the art style, it's a pretty major plot point that the mc has a childlike appearance. Not only does she look like a grade schooler, not my words btw it's said in the manga multiple times, she also often acts like one. But ok, this can still be summed up to cutesy shoujo ai stuff however, not after what happens a bit later in the story. Around the 100 chapter mark a literal grade schooler gets introduced as a rival in love for the love interest. And not only is she considered as a viable option, and is applauded by the characters for her guts to confess even though there is so many societal issues standing between Hino (the love interest of the mc) and her, another girl in the friend group Chihiro Omi who has like 2 total conversations with her just out of nowhere confesses to the grade schooler and is apparently in love with her. Not only did they have absolutely no build up for this, it's also just straight up creepy. And the reaction to this puts basically everything else that has happened into perspective. And let me tell you the light the entire manga gets painted in is not great. Now every single thing that has happened comes of as creepy and all the themes which are pretty common in the genre of youngish girls discovering themselves start to seem more like a self insert for the author. It's just really creepy and I really wish I hadn't already spent like 10 volumes reading this manga. It's worth writing this review simply because the more positive reviews mostly seem to have been written by people who didn't read past the first 50 or so chapters. In my opinion this is reason enough to just not read the manga at all. Even if we disregard the pedo stuff it's not really all that outstanding of a story. The characters are pretty one dimensional and uninteresting, everyone is weirdly accepting of girls liking eachother though that does seem to be a trend in these types of manga, but it always bugs me a lot, and it's mainly just a softcore porn gag manga with some story elements sprinkled in as an afterthought. So yeah, please do not read this, even if it's just purely out of principle.