Feb 8, 2024
being very honest, i found it an extremely mid story.
i started reading this after i saw someone posting a few panels on social media and i thought it looked cute, so gave it a try. up until a bit after the main couple got together, i was enjoying the story a lot. it was fun, the characters were cute, the writing was nice to read, but after that it was just too many lows and too little highs. the main couple got together pretty early on, which isn't necessarily a bad thing if well executed and there are more things to talk about later, and
...
that is the start of most of the issues i had with this story.
[spoilers from here on]
the main couple is cute sure, but every single little thing that happens has the FL feeling like an intruder in her own relationship when the ML has absolutely never given her reason to feel so. she keeps listening to words of people she doesn't even know nor are close to the ML and getting sad and frustrated about herself and creating scenarios in her head out of no base whatsoever, simply bc some random person said something ambiguous. it's not even like when the ML gets jealous, bc he has actual reason to do so considering one of her friends has confessed to both of them that he romantically likes her and sometimes does get a little bit too close for comfort. it was alright the first few times considering it's her first relationship and what (was perceived to have) happened with her first love, but after a while it got tiring and frustrating. every single chapter got me wanting to grab her by the shoulders and shake her until she learns to at least try to trust her boyfriend, specially when he never gave her reason not to.
the second main issue i had with the story was the plot with ML's brother. the whole thing with him trying to set up his own girlfriend with his brother (who was never interested in her and is now happily in a relationship) just felt creepy the entire time. it is explained that the brother is fake-dating the girlfriend so she could get closer to the ML but he also says that she "never understood that what she felt for the ML was love and not hatred", which just makes things weirder. i'm not sure if it's the execution that simply did not work for me or the theme in general, but every time it was brought up i felt like dropping the manga and that surely says something about it. and considering that when the brother finally called his "girlfriend" after years of being MIA she started crying, i'm sure there's going to be a point in the story in which she'll tell the brother she has been in love with him for a long time and he was trying to set her up for nothing, but to be honest i don't have the patience to wait until then, considering it will probably take a few more chapters.
[end of spoilers]
although i'm dropping this story, i'm still tagging it as average and mixed feelings bc aside from all the problems, as i said before, up until a certain point i was enjoying myself by reading it, and if that was the end of the story it would be a nice one. it is simply that the rest of it just haven't been it for me.
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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