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My initial love for this manga was high. If you had asked me to rate it when I was 20-ish chapters in, I would probably give it a 7 or 8. But, I've reached this point and have changed me outlook. Some slight spoilers. Do not read past this point if you have yet to reach chapter 47.









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Ok, assuming you've come this far, I still won't be spoiling anything, just that this chapter was what made me drop this manga. Up till this point the male lead was pretty solid and the female lead was an idiot, but still lovely. This chapter shits on all of what we know of the male lead's character and what improvements the female lead has made.

It was very hard dealing with her being so inexperienced and unsure of herself, but he works with her and we see her character grow to the point where she accepts that she likes him and wants to be with him. During this whole time, he's mature, calm, etc. and handles her inexperience well.

Then this arc happens where his co-worker (which he doesn't even like) goads him into going to a dating mixer with him and he agrees? Why? The way he agrees goes against everything his character has been so far. A friend who's read ahead tells me it's just going to spawn some more drama, and I can't handle more drama after the previous mess it was to get her to like him.

It's a shame because there was some potential here and I like the art, the character designs are pretty cute and well drawn, and I like a few of the side characters, but the main relationship is a patience tester, and I've run out.

I will preface this by saying that this is based on the first 24 chapters, and also, I'm a fan of Yoshikawa Miki 's prior works. I think she's a talented author and has a good head on her shoulders. That being said, why.........

Some light spoilers.







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So, here's the deal. The initial premise of the manga (and the one shot) sells us this story of two families who's children were swapped at birth, something they don't realize till the start of chapter one when the kids are now highschoolers.

Our Male lead is raised by the poor family and to compensate for his background studies super hard. He has this weird rivalry with a girl in his class who he's crushing on as well. They make some odd deal that if he takes first place, he will ask her out, which ends up happening, but they don't actually go out. Instead they bond over collecting stickers and studying in the library.

The Female lead is raised as a lone rich kid. She's currently some sort of SNS celeb and goes to an all girl school.

The kids meet first, don't really like eachother, and then the parents later introduce them to eachother and surprise surprise, they're now engaged. Que the "WTF", etc. the parents tell them to move into a house that her dad (his bio dad) has prepared for them.

Ok, so far, so good. This is where shit goes south super fast. Yoshikawa clearly isn't a harem writer, she has no sense of balance for character pacing where there's multiple love rivals. Hell, they each just disappear for entire parts to focus on the other. No one gets anywhere.

She does this thing where she tries to tell us that they're perfect for eachother instead of actually showing it and it comes across as really forced.

Now the most annoying part, suddenly his sister (who's technically not his bio sister) is crushing on him despite there being no mention of this for fucking 16 years of his life?

This manga started as a 7-8/10 and has quickly dropped to a 4 for me. I will keep reading because I like the designs and if Yoshikawa gets back to her roots, it can be good (She wrote Yamada-kun which I was a huge fan of, and it was legitimately good). But in the mean time, be warned. If you like badly written drama, terrible pacing, and the most generic and overplayed harem tropes, you will like this. If not, you won't.

So, this is my first review ever, and I feel compelled to write this for anyone who wants to start this, don't. Seriously, save yourself the trouble and just don't.

Starting off with the art and visuals, the artist is super talented. The art is beautiful, the designs for everyone are great and every chapter has amazing shots. Unfortunately, the talent department is lacking majorly when it comes to writing.

The intial 30-40 chapters are pretty solid, even a 7-8/10 on average. But then for some reason I cannot fathom, the artist starts this insanely stupid character arc which extends to literally the end of ... the first "season". One of the characters turns into an absolute child, and no one acknowledges this, literally no one. The blame is laid on the other character despite not being the fully responsible party for the absolute shitshow that is the second half of the first story.

The most annoying thing is, the end of the arc doesn't even resolve anything. The characters basically learn nothing, get even more stupid and it just ends with that as the status quo. I initially looked forward to new chapters, but after that arc started I just dreaded each new chapter. The only thing keeping me from dropping it was hope that the arc might end well and then carry on from there, but those hopes sank faster than the Titanic.

I've dropped the manga at the start of "season" 2 as I don't want to get invested in new characters knowing how this artist writes.
tl;dr Save yourself the frustration and just go find something better to read.