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So i gave this a rating of 5 why? I came into this series in the 1st couple of episodes and i loved the concept country girl out of her element in the big city and meeting of childhood sweethearts add in the trauma faced by the male lead and it has all the ingredients needed to tell a great love story. What is the finished product Cliche and bland.

I was hoping for Aoi that away from the live she always had in the country we would see her struggles maybe have to get a job to make ends meat. None of ... this happens and she takes to the city like a bird to flying. I like all kinds of female leads tsundere, sporty, nerdy etc and this one had potential at the start but there is only ever 1 thought on her mind our male lead. Nothing wrong with being in love but this is the kind obsessive, can't live without you kind. The manager also mentions this point towards the end of the series. I don't mind love but i need character depth. What does she care about besides him? who are her friends? What are her hobbies? Whats her goal for the future? The answer to all that is our male lead or have his friends.

Kaoru is our male lead and he's as dull as a plank. We see so much potential from him in the start with all the problems he's faced and they go nowhere with it and any time he's facing difficulties with his past they run the same scenes over again. Does he deal with this trauma to overcome it, face his past and move on. Nope every chance from beginning to end he runs away from his past never facing it. He seems to be in college but there is no direction to his life i mean he wants to take care of Aoi but he never once mentions what job he'd like. He has a hobby in the photo club but he puts 0 effort in and the series never gave the impression he even cared about his hobby. He love Aoi supposedly but what's not to love when a gorgeous woman is practically throwing herself at you. They set up the reason why she loves him but never really why he loves her just always there for him that's about it.

As for the other characters when they started being introduced is when it really went down the drain and turned into a harem situation with our ML sometimes having perverted thoughts about them. The series spends 90% of it's time on side stories, minor characters or slice of life episodic moments that don't add up to much. Only 10% is good quality story stuff so if you can stick out the boring for the occasional sprinkle of good, go ahead.

When coming to my conclusion i'd like to mention a manga series i enjoy Hajimete no Gal. This is 100% what i wanted this series to be - ecchi stuff such a good story that focuses on the main couple despite there being many other characters. What we get reminds me of when the same series go an anime adaptation it went to hell focusing all it's attention on the minor characters much in the same way Ai Yori Aoshi has. There's nothing special about any of the characters here, nothing of note in the story you can say it's average and that's about it.

Saw the anime adaptation of this series get a lot of negative reviews so i though i'd do a review of the source material the Manga.

Story (8): a man in his 30s who has had no luck with women and is a teacher. He feels his name is the reason for all his suffering. Upon touching a teacup one of the wives of Oda Nobunaga from the Sengoku era has come and her goal is to have a child with the teacher, is his dream of graduating from virginity going to come true there's just one major problem, she's 14. It doesn't ... stop their as other people connected to the great Nobunaga enter into the picture.

Art (9): The artwork in this series is done very well: there is lovely contrast and the expressions of all the characters are done so well. The flower design on Kichou's yukata is amazing and also the amount of effort put into her hair really shows.
The artist is Konno Azure and he's not new to to realm of ecchi with series such as: Koe de Oshigoto! and Shiritsu Hakanai Gakuen so he's used to doing things with a spin.

Character (8): I will only say the first 2 because anymore would be a spoiler. The main character is as mentioned above a 30 something teacher with no luck with women who one after another gets either women reincarnated from the Sengoku era or the spirits of those women inhabit regular women. He is faced with the temptation of women throwing themselves at him and has to keep his dignity while working on getting them to pass on or go back to where they belong.

Kichou is one of the wives of the great Nobunaga and is brought to present day Japan. At first she thinks they are playing tricks on her but as time goes by and she sees what has happened to her land and the people she cared about she admits the truth. Now will she chose to stay with this new Nobunaga or does she want to return to the Sengoku times and marry the Nobunaga her father wanted.

Enjoyment (8) I first got into the series after the start of the anime adaptation. While i enjoyed the fan service elements the length of the episodes always had a feeling of something missing and that is the drive of the story. The Manga has roughly 50% more material than the episodes and it really goes into what the main character, the love interests and the side characters like his family are thinking. I will give 2 good examples of improvements from the early chapters: 1 it really dives into why he's had no luck with the women and with the flashback i feel sorry for the man. In the anime the primarily reason why he can't be with Kichou because of her age and while that's still a major factor in the manga because of the law there is the added issue of if he were to have children with her would it remove himself and his entire family from existence because it's believe she could be they're ancestor.

Overall (8) Yeah its an ecchi series with some shameless fanservice but it's also fun and has a decent story to tell, the characters are all well drawn and you can tell a lot of care has been put into each chapter.
p.s. this was my 1st review hope it turned out ok.