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To make a long story short: The first half is good. There's plenty of drama, and a few strange choices to be made here and there, but a story about a woman coming back to rebuild her old broken family, and rebuilding her new broken family in the process is sweet, and suitably dramatic. The problem is that the main conflict of the story is solved halfway through, and the author then changes the premise.

There's this in-universe story that's used as a parallel to the one we're reading. Once the main conflict is over, the ending for the story changes, and suddenly FMC starts ... experiencing more and more child-like episodes. These become especially noticeable when the author dead-ass stops the story to tell us that all the conflicts are solved, and there's no more drama to be had. Then the story clearly tries to change from "Wife comes back from the dead. Rejoice!" to "The past should stay in the past" in a jarring theme shift that affects not only the main couple, but even the side couple!

At that point, I don't know why I bothered reading so many chapters of this thing if I'm just going to see it burned down and read a second story halfway through anyway.

It's got a slow start, but the story won me over on chapter 4, where the author actually creates an actual issue between two Human Beings and resolves it in a natural, satisfying way. She and her sister don't get along. Her sister is harsh to everyone, and FMC herself doesn't like sharing her art. Problem is she took up art to get closer to her sister. The most FMC would manage to do it sneak a drawing into her sister's hands, then run away before hearing anything. She asked her sister why she likes drawing so much, and when she said she likes seeing ... people react to said art, it all finally clicked. She already experienced that herself, which was the push she needed to finally show her sister her work and bond.

BAM. See? Nobody was just a dick out of nowhere, and we didn't solve years of abuse, neglect, and alienation with some retarded little speech about family, or forgiveness. There was a small clash in personalities, and the the story naturally bridged the gap without trying to force the audience to "Forgive" anyone for anything. They just finally saw eye to eye, and they got along better.

TL;DR: This story has MASSIVE plot holes, abandons its premise unceremoniously, doesn't solve the mystery it sets up, and the timeline doesn't make sense (Which is basically just the plot hole complaint again)

The author basically set up a big mystery, then kept playing off it to serve as an obstacle to our main cast. And it served that purpose wonderfully. But here's the problem: The author really likes movies. He likes to include real-life movies in the story, and that causes problems. Namely, that since the movies actually exist, you know roughly what period of time the characters are in, or talking about.

Which leads ... us to the next problem:

In chapters 11 and 16, the author had FMC's mom outed as a major movie nerd. Mom then went on a whole speech about how the movie Constantine, featuring Keanu Reeves (She's a huge fan) was a big part of her youth (Literally 青春/Seishun; roughly: Adolescence). She outright tells us that she saw this movie when she was her daughter's age. The problem? Her daughter is 15, Constantine came out in late 2005. She got the DVD mailed to her, so add even more time for shipping, handling, etc.. This story takes place in 2021, at the latest. Mom would need to get pregnant RIGHT THEN AND THERE, POSSIBLY VIA REEVE'S UNBRIDLED MANLINESS LEAKING INTO HER THROUGH THE DISK, if her child has any hope of being the canonical age of 15 the story set her as. But she doesn't. In fact, we know she doesn't for a while (More on that in a second). To boot, chapter 16 has her making a reference to John Wick, which came out in 2014, when her daughter was already 8-9 years old! So either she's banned her daughter from watching TV, movies, and using the internet while she sat around indulging, or movies were actually fine up until some point after John Wick, and FMC should have memories of watching TV, movies, and browsing the internet

Even if we're unreasonably generous, and assume the DVD she'd gotten mailed to her was actually THE MATRIX in 1999 (Which opens a whole other can of worms, since DVD players and DVD's were luxury goods, and nobody sold them via mail), that means all the events that happened in the next three years, which are presumably what the author is going to use to justify her problem with media, STILL wouldn't work, because these events would be happening around 2002, and Constantine, having come out in 2005, was explicitly established as a part of that "青春" (Youth/Adolescence). So despite everything we're seeing, she's not only still into movies, but she's so into them, she'll actually have her chuuni phase 6 years late because of how much she loved the latest release. And then, right the instant she has her late chuuni phase, she gets over it, then has her daughter like I described earlier. All while going on to watch John Wick when her daughter was 8-9.

Chapter 16 does us a double disservice by spending the whole time setting up the resolution to the mystery, and the series' whole premise right then and there... only to cut away when everything is explained, then never touching on it for 51 CHAPTERS! I'm serious. The story gets mom and MC in the same room, she literally sits down, gives a little preamble before explaining herself, then... we cut to the daughter, who is in the next room, who forgot to listen in. And then we cut back to the guy telling her that the explanation was entirely convincing, and he understands why she would go so far as to ban all media for her daughter.

The story then spends a couple more chapters rubbing it in our faces that he knows, and that the main conflict of the story's been resolved off screen, before moving on to focus on an entirely different girl.

51 chapters and TWO YEARS later, we finally get a flashback of the mother's youth in chapter 67. She's 17 here, has no kids, and joins a small talent agency. Stuff happens, things look hopeful, then we get a bit of mood whiplash where she's barely conscious, being kissed by some middle-aged man in some drinking party. You think "Oh, so this is the incident that made her hate movies". NOPE. Next chapter comes in, she's immediately saved, she learns her lesson, she graduates, then spends time working as an actress.

Enough time passes that she's over 18 now (She's 3 years too late to have a child that can be 15 years old in 2021). She's still an actress, she still doesn't hate media, and she's got a thick spine. Case in point: She's at an audition, and the people in charge are trying to get her to strip for them. They then invite her to a room in a casting couch situation for the role. She turns them down. Her friend ends up being cast at the end of the chapter, which obviously comes as a shock to her, but that's the latest I can access at the time of writing.

EDIT: New chapter comes out, and it turns out her friend's been sleeping with everyone to get the agency its business, despite said agency being made ostensibly to "protect women" from exactly this. Mom was the only one not in the loop. Then we finally cut back to the present day- with the events we just saw presumably being the explanation for her hatred of movies... that happened either in 2008 (Which makes her daughter too old), or 2002 (Which means she kept watching with cringey enthusiasm for YEARS afterward. Not to mention it means mom's age watching Constantine was retconned)).

P.S.: This author seems to have a running thing where women are just automatically exploited sexually the moment they start acting. The mom's exploited, the mom's friend is exploited, and then also at least one high school girl is almost exploited. Every actress is a victim, and every man casting them is an evil rapist. Not a single woman ever thinks "Sweet! This is a great opportunity!", and not a single man ever thinks "Let's maybe not try sleeping with the actress".

The story starts off fine enough with a quick en medias res, before moving on to setting up the actual story. FMC's character is a little inconsistent. She starts off by being a weirdo with a camera, then we quickly transition to her being an ice queen, and then a couple more things afterwards.

I'll get to the point: Volume 1 is fine. Volume 2 has Bullshit Drama. It involves the other girl in the club trying to hurt MC, revealing FMC is already into someone else, and then the rest of the volume is literally just everyone coping with their unrequited loves. To add ... insult to injury, FMC just plain uses MC to try winning over her crush. The ending gives you an extra gut punch by reading out a speech to us from the camera girl about how she ALSO has unrequited feelings, which we only see long after she's disappeared.

You're best off just not reading past the first volume and saying they live happily ever after.

The series takes the all-you-can-eat buffet approach to storytelling. Rather than refining what it already has, it chooses to add yet more to keep your attention. What starts off as a main couple, with a cast of side characters popping in to spur change, turns into an ensemble cast who's been made quirky for quirky's sake (According to the author). In particular, Forty was supposed to be a little sister character, but the author thought that was too dull, so he made her also turn into a boy sometimes, but that was also too dull for the author's tastes, so he ALSO gave the boy ... a stern, conscientious personality (Which was meant for a girl. It'll make sense if you read it), and then the flirty party boy personality to the girl (Again, makes sense in context). The issue? The author apparently didn't have as much fun writing the boy, so he almost entirely dropped the bit. To add to that, the character suffers two full retcons, wherein the transformations between boy and girl are literally explosive, and then the girl's personality changes to "Kawaii imouto", like the creator originally intended.

You'll basically get one of two storylines:

1) The AI is bad at simple Human tasks, and we need to cope with whatever the Human problem of the day is.

2) A woman shows up and is an absolute nuisance. The most horrid examples are:

2.1) "Cindy", a rich, famous celebrity that shows up and makes an absolutely brain dead with with Saatii that whoever MC picks in a play (Playing the part of the prince) keeps him, and the other disappears. Cue three solid chapters of her being a slimy bitch, and then realizing she did wrong after Saatii tries to kill herself because MC, entirely unaware of the retarded bet they made, chose Cindy to keep the end of the play consistent with the source material, and keep her around (Because she threatened to leave if he didn't, to boot).

2.2) MC's sister shows up, blabs about the AI to the world the moment she finds out, then, to boot, tries to wake a fourth one, and manages to install literal malware into it in the process. Cue immediate disaster as it then infects everything, possibly kills countless people, and triggers a rushed, confusing ending to the story. All the sister had to do was stop touching things!

To sum of a very long, confusing story, it basically starts as a comedy, then it turns into a drama. And it spends a LONG time spinning its wheels, focusing on side characters, at least one of which is an objectively awful human being. Halfway through, the quality of the art just stops off a cliff for no apparent reason, to boot. But if I had to point to its biggest sin, it's the fact that the story actually ends two or three times. Seriously, the main conflict is resolved, everything's set for the end card... and the author just pretends it didn't happen. Especially ... nearer to the end, we've got a character lamenting that something didn't happen WHEN IT SPECIFICALLY ALREADY HAPPENED AND THEN SOME!

P.S.: There are 71 chapters in the pre-ser version.

TL;DR: This show features garbage so-called "people", and you're supposed to be ok with them.

I dropped it. And it's a 3 to me. The only reason I can't outright warn you against it is because the main girl is very much the embodiment of the perfect woman. But besides that, the show regularly introduces pieces of shit, and then, after an episode or two, with barely even a "Sorry" (Literally none, in the bitch sister's case), we're supposed to ignore everything they've done and just move on like nothing happened; they're "Forgiven" now.

MC is literally abandoned by his whole family, his own sister ... outright tells him she doesn't give a fuck if he leaves. One day she just randomly shows up, stays with them, and decides to tell MC how little she, and the rest of the family, actually care about him. She screams, and whines, and even throws away meticulously crafted food because she insists everyone needs to be as mean, and petty, and selfish as her. She pisses herself in the middle of a thunderstorm, and when Yuzu takes care of her, we have a magical 180. But only for Yuzu. She keeps treating the brother like shit until the absolute last second. Meanwhile the brother's somehow not mad at her, spends 2-3 minutes monologuing about how much he loves her while she's asleep.

Then comes Ryou. She literally breaks into MC's house, steals his money, along with the bookmark Yuzu gave him as a birthday present, and almost literally laughs her way back home, proud of the fact that she managed to rob a stunned shut-in. Immediately after, we see her acting like she's being forced to do this, suddenly seems to have a conscience (Since the dad's also in on this, boasting about it, and she's telling him not to talk about that in front of the boys). The whole time, she's also talking about how the dad's a worthless drunk, and how she's going to use the money to feed her three little brothers. Already we have the show trying to suck and blow at the same time here: First she's an unrepentant thief, and then she's a self-conscious sister just doing what she has to to protect her brothers.

It's already bad enough, until MC decides he's going to go get his bookmark back. She holds it hostage, makes MC tutor her brothers all day, and then, after kicking out MC without giving him his bookmark back, she goes to his house, immediately starts lying to Yuzu by making herself out to be a mistress, and telling her that the bookmark was a gift from MC. Her only reason for doing this is sheer spite for a girl who's found happiness despite having been bought.

What does the show have this paragon of morality and virtue do to earn forgiveness? She shows up after her little shit brothers drag every child in the village to MC's house for lessons, makes a bit of food, and apologizes once to Yuzu (Not the guy she robbed, threatened, and whose relationship she tried to destroy). And not because she thought what she did was bad, but because Yuzu literally tore the bookmark right in front of her face instead of crying, somehow convincing her that she's not "some pampered princess" (Her words) and how that makes things interesting. And now that she likes them, she's apologized... but, again, only to Yuzu.

EXCEPT NO. THE RIP HAPPENED BEFORE SHE WALKED AWAY AND GLOATED TO HERSELF ABOUT HOW SHE DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE HAPPY! THERE WAS NO CHANGE IN ATTITUDE HERE, AND THIS APOLOGY MEANS NOTHING!

It starts off good, but the moment the dog slug splits, the story suddenly has to juggle the obvious implication of an anti-slug breeding out in the wild, the redemption arc for a LOT of really shitty people, a romance arc, managing the original dog slug's reproduction, and wrapping all of this up in two volumes. And frankly, it falls flat on that front. The ending boils down to a Deus Ex Machina, and a "ooo, we're mysterious and beyond your comprehension".

Almost everyone kind of just sucks here. FMC is the least unlikeable out of the lot. But everyone around her is some variety of ... shit. Her "friends" constantly insult her, and leave her out, everyone in her club constantly abuses her, and her own brother is an annoying brat that eventually gets his own sister attacked by an old man, and their house burned down. At the story goes on, a couple of people apologize, and the mega bitch from the club actually has a redemption arc, but it sounds like the story wants us to lump individual characters atoning with everyone atoning. Like, if mega bitch is nice now, then all her problems in the club must be resolved. And if one of her bitch "friends" apologizes exactly once, then they must both be clean now. The story even has the audacity to have the second bitch friend call the first one out like she wasn't ALSO doing the exact same shit. And they're just "friends" in the end like nothing happened.

Thing is, the story starts out great! You quickly get the sense that this is basically going to be "Sassuga Mia-sama!": The Series. And they really work the joke, while making FMC believably flawed. Just because her personality got her killed once, doesn't mean she's suddenly going to pull a 180. She's mean, childish, and manipulative, and this time around, she has her execution as a fantastic excuse to be that way. The issue is that somehow the show peters out as time goes on, with issues coming to a head in Episode 8. I can't put my finger on it, but after seeing her ... failing upwards for three quarters of the series, I'm not invested enough in seeing her do the same for five more episodes in even less believable circumstances. If this series had ended at episode 7, I'd give it a 5 and move on happily.

The story has an extremely strong start. And if this was all there was to it, this would be a great work. The problem is the author decided to move away from the dynamic between the two main characters, and decided to change the genre several different times. The story expands to explore all the different outcomes of Vampire's various relationships with Humans, and by god, they're all sad.

Without spoiling too much, there's this MASSIVE digress where both main characters are presented as some kind of exception to basically all the rules established. Then, after the author spends literally over one hundred chapters setting ... it all up... we end up with a disappointing wet fart of an ending that just tosses it all aside and goes on to actively destroy everything that's been built up. This author hates ending his works, and it's twice now that we get such a disappointing waste of time for a conclusion to a series.

But hey, I finished it, if only through sheer stubbornness. There were some points where I almost stopped reading, but I guess it's not all that bad if I finished reading it.