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this manga had its moments, some of the male characters are pretty, but it just runs on for far too long. there is a story somewhat unique in the shoujo romance genre based around the whole hacker thing, but the main team is basically invincible and the solutions to all the problems are almost childish. think like, the solution was love the whole time! stuff like that. i did enjoy the beginning, it seemed like a classic sweet shoujo, but then the back and forth of doubting themselves and each others feelings (due to misunderstandings and miscommunications, of course) and the constant "kurosaki is a ... p*do" jokes turned me off of it completely. there's a degree to which i can pretend that they're around the same age, but the amount of times kurosaki freaks out about not having a "loli complex" makes it impossible. at the end of the day, he is a 23 year old and she is 15/16, and they remind you of that a lot throughout the story. it's kind of gross.

there is some potential there, however, and if you're used to reading basic shoujo stories maybe this could bring some excitement for how different the main storyline is from the usual. but i can't recommend it, especially if you can't stomach adult/minor relationships.

this is genuinely one of the most frustrating anime i have ever watched. take the "miscommunication / misunderstanding" trope from every romance ever and that's literally ever episode so far. i'm only on episode 10 as of writing this, and i wish this was the love triangle anime that it appeared to be, but so far it's really not... i'll keep watching just to see if it gets any better though.

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the story thus far revolves around Momo, our main girl, and her boyfriend Touji, as well as Momo's conniving "friend" Sae and a boy who likes Momo named Kairi. Momo & Touji are ... sooo lovey-dovey when things go right, which is almost never, because Sae is constantly thinking up dumb plans to break them up and what's annoying is that it always works. her plans are usually things like "i'm going to tell Momo that Touji wants her to meet him somewhere, but when she shows up, it's going to look like Touji was kissing me because i'm going to trick him into doing it!" and then when Momo inevitably sees this, she's heartbroken, runs away, and thinks its over. then they make up when it comes to light eventually. and the cycle repeats over and over.

the only character worth watching for is Kairi, who is funny and silly and super sweet. but unfortunately he hasn't shown up much since like episode 3. but Sae is so annoying and Momo & Touji are so dull and brainless that it cancels the good characters out. it's really tough.

there have also been episodes so far involving sexual assault and implied r*pe as well which is crazy. so just keep that in mind if that is a trigger for you.

the good parts though is the art style is pretty cute! and the music is fine. and the moments that aren't insanely stupid are fine, classic shoujo moments. but they're so few and far between so far!

This is another one of those quick manga that you can read in a few hours that I do think is worth josei/romance fans time. The characters are a bit frustrating, but not in any way that I haven't seen or behaved like myself in real life. It deals with jealousy, the cycle of abuse, and toxic relationships (both the high highs and the low lows) in a straightforward way just through character behaviour and their inner thoughts, which I definitely identified with. There are some really nice moments of good communication between couples, but also a lot of instances where those communication skills go ... right over the MCs head which I think is very realistic. She isn't an amazing person, she has her problems, and life isn't going to be perfect all the time.

The art at first is a little bit shoddy but improves significantly very quickly as the manga goes on, the girls are absolutely gorgeous with their big eyes and long eyelashes. So it is worth reading past the 3rd chapter if the art is what turns you off—it gets MUCH better.

The ending felt rushed and confused me. I don't like endings like this one, that just seem open-ended and make very little sense. It ended abruptly and I remember reading the last page, realising that was the last page, and being incredibly confused like "no way it just ended like that..." but alas, a lot of these short josei romance's seem to end like this so nothing that hasn't been done before.

I think this manga is just fine. It's not long and it tells an interesting story and has important themes. Definitely try to find a good translation if you're reading in English, the one I read for the first few chapters was dubious and it was really hard to tell what was going on but that only lasted for a short while and then it all made sense. It's short enough to just get through it and see how you feel for yourself.

All I can say about this was that it was...fine. The art was fine, the characters were fine, the story was just fine. But it wasn't outstanding and I found myself finishing it just because I got so far I might as well have kept going. The story hits all the classic anime romance clichés: they see their partner with their ex/someone they're jealous of, then assume the worst, and instead of talking about it they just walk away silently. The one thing this manga does right is the couple actually talks about it and they get through it every time. However, it could have ... ended so much sooner; they get back together and decide to actually get married and it could have ended there. For some reason the final volume is about some side characters (who coincidentally are also childhood friends who decide to get together but instead of having steamy sex every chapter, it follows their escapades as two virgins who are working towards having sex) which begins and concludes so quick that it feels like an afterthought to fill the rest of the volume.

Overall, this manga is short enough that if you want a quick, saccharine romance story about two adults who deal with balancing work and their relationship as well as having lots of sex, then this will be perfect for you. It's not bad, but it's not groundbreaking either.