Azadarake no Classmate

Nah this just wasn't it. Lets talk about things other than story, then firstly its the layout, and its the usual web manga 1-2 pages per chapter. I have always disliked that format because it often results in weird pacing, where its just easy to assume to have read a certain amount of chapters but actually the content is not worth any more than a chapter or two in the normal format. This one is not anymore than 2 chapters in a weekly manga, so naturally the pacing is also incredibly fast. It is an episodic manga written in a way that the main character issupposed to be you, somewhat of a first person POV manga, if that exists. Also most of the dialogues are just her repeating phrases which were said by the mc. Art is good. While you will only see the girl for most of the manga, her design is decent and the little details on her makes it much more visually appealing. I liked the thing they did with dialogue boxes, changed its colours, depending on how much she is opening up to the mc. Backgrounds are kinda basic looking for the most part where they are not needed, but at times where they do play a part to convey something, they are drawn well. Now about the story and you know it has a premise which is sure to generate curiosity, kind of a cheap and easy method, but hey, it works most of the times. But the author approached the starting of the story in a way which made it look a whole lot different than what he would have expected. The main character came off as exploiting the girl considering her an easy one. Surely a mismatch between author's thinking and its implementation. But that first impression helped setting up a thought process which ended up impacting the enjoyment for a decent chunk of the starting. My curiosity got the best of me, and I accidently ended up reading a not so flattering hentai of this, produced by the author himself, which further diminished my enjoyment. Anyway talking about the overall storyline, if you just looked it up from afar, very linear. It thrives from the sympathy of the readers (I mean you have to be kidding me if you didn't root for her recovery) and rewards them with a wholesome gift at the end. Story development isn't much focused on. The ending was all too visible the moment I read the first page, so there wasn't much room for other shenanigans. A bit conflicted whether to give it 5 or 6, but I am leaning more towards a 6, considering I did root for the girl and enjoyed it a bit.