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I loved Maki Youko's older works so I thought I'd give this a try. The story is lighthearted but without much substance. It's mostly pure fluff and shoujo sparkles. I'm kind of surprised that it had this much chapters because the MC's are so bland. I actually only stayed for the 2 beta couples.

Perhaps to make her appealing and relatable to its target audience, the MC is a girl who loves manga - but that's where the resemblance ends. She fully embodies and exhausts the "cute, innocent, pure, sparkly-eyed and accident-prone" trope that goes with your typical shoujo heroine; I find that there's no unique ... thing about her. Of course, eventually, she would grow a bit of backbone, but she mostly remains a doormat who, even toward the end, needs to be looked after by her friends (even the younger ones) because of how she is. Her excessive clumsiness is also annoying, NOT cute. It's just so over the top, so unrealistic, like the author made her that way just so she could get caught, rescued, hugged and intimately touched by any good-looking male in the area, particularly the MC boy and the rival.

The MC boy is your typical cool guy who has a flatter personality than the girl, Miwa (at least she *tries* to be cute and lively). He's basically the satellite love interest whose main purpose is to look effortlessly handsome and cool as he literally sweeps the MC off her feet. Put them together and you get a snooze-fest of a hormone-driven teenage couple without much to go on.

If the story concerned just these two, it would have concluded in much less volumes. Thankfully, we have 2 beta couples (and 1 other that seems to be heading there in the future...) with much more interesting issues, more enjoyable moments and more realistic chemistry with each other.