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Breaking apart from the usual innocence of shoujo anime this show indeed set itself a very high pedestal.

The series starts off strongly and isn't afraid to voice teenage hormones and awkward situations which made me laugh at, resent, cry for and cheer on all of the characters.

However, about halfway through the show is where it starts to lose that initial charm it wanted to show off, the show starts to go down a different path altogether, couples are formed but it feels very hollow as none are really explored past the subject of confessing. And I don't think I've hated a character as strongly ... as Niina since Ume from Kimi ni Todoke.

Overall the series was great to look at, the OST was cute, the characters felt real and I wanted to give everyone a hug but I had to knock it from a 9 to a 7 due to a lackluster finish and a derailed story. If this got a 2nd season I would like to see every character and relationship fleshed out more and to bring back some of that charm and humour it initially had.

I'm 60 chapters into this and I had very high hopes due to all the 9 and 10 scores but I just cannot stand the main character Yuki. She continues to repeat the same mistake over and over and over again and she is so high strung it's frustrating to read. Naruse is an absolute gem of a guy and I think he can do a lot better.

The story is decent but it is very sports oriented, the romance scenes are the most enjoyable.

The Art is beautiful and all the characters are attractive looking, action scenes like basketball matches are also drawn very well.

I'm not ... sure whether I'll drop this or hang on till the finish but I'm pretty disappointed, that being said it is different from most shoujo I've read in the fact it doesn't take them 30 chapters to do anything.