Goddess of the Glass

STORY: 6.5/10 I'm not quite sure how I feel about this area of the manga. Let's see... the premise of the story takes place in a college setting, meaning more mature characters, experiences and interactions. Fine by me, I'm a fan of that anyway. The story revolves around our male lead, how he has a chance encounter with a female student which eventually leads to him spending the night with her. Not long after (read: next chapter) he re(?)encounters another female student and decides to spend the night with her as well. But wait, there's more! Female student A and B are actually good friends! Lookinglike School Days huh? To wrap it up, basically the majority of the story is spent on the male protagonist being indecisive and reflecting on his true feelings for student A while dating student B. I did appreciate the fact that there was an solid ending where he comes to terms with himself and chooses a girl. They deserve that much at least. ART: 7/10 Our characters were drawn to a pretty realistic scale and it definitely meshed well with the overall atmosphere of the story. The male protagonist is drawn a very typical young adult/college student and the pair of female leads were attractive and very easy on the eyes. Of course, being an ero-manga there were PLENTY and I mean a plethora amount of sex scenes (semi-censored) and money shots for the readers to enjoy, so it did deliver on that end. As far as the sex scenes go there were standard-fare but I will admit they did have some passion behind them, especially towards the end as the story developed. CHARACTERS: 6/10 Our male protagonist Sakura Keita in a nutshell? Defenseless, indecisive, borderline pathetic MC #83799. Despite having some moments here and there where he shows a bit of affirmation, he still falls back into being the typical guy who gets swept along by the plot and every female he comes in contact with. Just the type of character I hate watching. The female leads aren't extremely praise worthy either. Without spoiling too much, one of the female harbors feelings for Keita but she tries her best to put them aside because he is already in a relationship and wants to maintain a proper friendship between the the group. The other female lead has a debatable character assessment. In short, she comes off as nothing but a lustful creature and I believe in all, if not most of the scenes she appears in leads to sex with Keita (the MC). Despite that I could not get myself to dislike her. She does whatever she can to make him happy and I'd be lying if I didn't feel an ounce of sympathy for her as the story progressed. I will give them this much though, the characters behaved rationally and to some degree, realistically. ENJOYMENT/OVERALL: 7/10 Despite my obvious flak with the male protagonist Keita, the overall story was still enjoyable from start to finish. Putting aside the fact that it's a ero-manga and it might sound like I'm letting that aspect cloud my judgement, rest assured that is far from the case. As I mentioned earlier, the presence of an absolute ending is very appreciable. If you're able to enjoy what this manga has to offer without stopping every chapter to get yourself off, then surely you will come to appreciate the effort the mangaka put into this work.