As an avid romance manga lover I couldn't believe there was a "gem" out there I hadn't found out about (there's a bunch I haven't read yet, but I do know of their existence). I saw this in a review youtube video I won't mention just in case, and decided to give a shot after hearing many good things and reading the same in that video's comments. Following that, I gotta say I was a bit disappointed. The writing was meh most of the time, with characters needing to lie, hide stuff, or jump to conclusions in order to drive the plot, which is an automatic "lazy writing" characteristic in my book.

I can see how if this is one of your first romance mangas you can get hooked, cause it has that good "keeping you engaged" situations, with fun "accidents" and interesting side characters. But as for plot, it's just another typical dumb, clueless protagonist archetype (I might be being a bit too harsh, he's not stupid, it's just hard to explain, his decision making based on assumptions is horrible) falling for every scheme and dumb conclusions he can think of, this guy literally can't be more impatient. Instead of solving situations in a logical sense (even for a 15-17 year old) he keeps assuming and assuming and acting based solely on his assumptions. There's only so much as a reader that you can take. It's absolutely ridiculous.

It is basically held together by love triangle situation after love triangle situation. A lot of times actually making you think the protagonist should really just go for the other girl; beause he's definitely too insecure to be with the female lead. And the female lead on the other end, does basically everything thinking of him, which is dumb, even sacrificing her career at the end, when you know she's only unhappy because of how it's hurting her relationship with him. She would actually be fine otherwise with a little grinding on her part. Instead, she keeps getting cheated on, and conveniently never finding out, and trusting this dumbwit blindly and thinking her happiness will be with him. Honestly, it would've been better to have them actually get together a year sooner, instead of just at the end of high school, because that way they could've develop a better system, which would've make the ending with her sacrificing everything for him a bit more believable. But the way they went about it, you know in real life they would've just broken up, and then spend a few months grieving and that was that, they're still super young, people get over stuff at that age in short periods (a year or 2 at most).

If you're an avid romance manga reader, you'll find it meh, okay at best, lots of the secondary characters were way better than the protagonist, and his proper growth doesn't really keep up with the situation, he's always behind in the character development department and that gets annoying. The artstyle is fantastic though!