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My feelings for this manga are very complicated. Overall, I really did enjoy it. I didn't love it, but it was really good. I can say as far as shojo goes it's a very unique story. I never expected the plot to become a fairly realistic look at temptation in a relationship. Truthfully, I can't see why everybody blames Mio for the events of the manga. To me, it seems like learning through your first real love for all three of the main characters. These young teenagers have never felt these emotions or gone through these things before, so they all made mistakes. When Ilook at it in that capacity, and seeing that everyone learned from their bad choices in the end, I can be happy with the ending to this bittersweet story that made our protagonists grow.

This manga was very good when it came to drama content. I miss it(it was that good), but i don't miss Mio at all. She was so self centered and didn't even think about how Taki felt when she was all friendly and cute with Marui, and when she watched him with an intense longing. I hated Mio, but i guess that was what made the drama so strong...she felt jealous and insecure, angry and envious about the Hatano or math girl ..but when it came to her and her similar actions with a guy she dismissed them until the very end when she finallyrealized her stupid mistakes. This was a manga were i'd have been more happier to see the girl getting the stick from both of them and leaving her on the curve for a bigger sucker to take her on. She deserved nothing for the way she acted but her guy Taki was a perfect gentleman to her and stayed true to his feelings. As for Marui, i wouldn't want to have a guy like that as my friend or in my circle of acquaintances, his hypocrisy levels were off the charts and made him a slimy character that wanted what others have by any means possible(stealing). This is a great manga if you want to hate some of the characters for begin selfish and duplicitous to damn right hurtful to the ones close to them.

When i started to read this manga i wasn't fond of any of the characters, Mio is just like any shoujo heroine: plain and falls in love with the first guy who talks with her, and then starts chasing after the guy. now about the guy, Taki, i liked him even less than Mio, because he doesn't have any kind of spark, he's just plain boring with plain black hair, and kinda weird, but at least he's not a douchebag, so i continued to read. Later Marui appeared in the story, he wasn't the perfect prince to sweep girls off their feet, but i justliked him from the very beginning, he's a good guy, i didn't want him to be the third wheel in this story, but he had to fall in love with Mio so he can be the bad guy with zero chance... (i was rooting for Marui and Shimizu to end up together the entire time from the beginning) The main couple didn't grow on me, i still have the same opinion about them as i had in the beginning: plain with no spark (the same as the couple from Orange). This manga isn't that bad, but i think is kinda disappointing.

For Romance shojo style with a bit of slice of life manga, the series as a whole has been mixed for me personally. A good start with a clear establishment of a set relationship is always a fun read. Especially the aspects of being in relationships and the struggles with it. And this was for the first 10 chapters. The rest, well mixed. The main two leads were, for me great at the start. Getting their feelings across straight with the Male lead having the past problem while the female lead accepting those problems and moving on together. Then Marui came along. Look, I get it.You need conflict, drama, and tension to move a story or narrative forward to lead into something. And I also get those feelings don't easily disappear, but the author during the second act practically went with a pretty bad way in terms of showing and handling it. The two leads are not in the clear either seeing as both of them made some pretty dumb decisions that only confused everyone around them. Overall, it felt like to story was dragging out a conflict that really should have taken a chapter to address and iron out. And in doing so possibly moving on to the aspect of the relationship the two leads themselves face while also having the cast getting into relationships themselves that would better support the leads. Like you know, communicating your feelings, still having Marui have felt but moving on with the new 1st year girl, go into more aspects about male leads past relationship while the two leads coming to terms with each other and growing together. Tldr, First half was intriguing while the last half dragged with the conflict being painfully obvious on all sides. Still though, it was inoffensive and was just average overall.