This is the best romance I've read in a while

Drought of good things to read August 9, 2025 1:52 am

Ughhhhhhh
All the pairings are so cuteeee like agahaahahvd, I need to take a bite out of the ships, like a frickin cookie.
Tetsuo and Sumire didn't convince in the beginning, but, they've convinced me and I love love love their dynamics. Her love language of just baking a bunch of things, and give it to him, so cutee, I want that in my life. And Tetsuo is just chill, and quick to shot down any kind of misunderstanding. Like it can be cold, but, king ain't gonna make his queen worry about anything.
Hana and Yousuke are just relatable, first relationship and all, so adorable, and the mutual understanding of each other and all, ahdhxhdhdh, shoot me.
I can see Shinbashi and Sayana, but, it needs a lot of work, especially on Shinbashi's turn. It better not be just because he likes her, because she was nice to him in a moment where he got indirectly rejected by Sumire, and he's falling bc she nice to him. I want it fully fleshed out and making as cutesy and tooth rotting like the other two!
I don't really give AF for the little brother one sided crush, and it is pretty normal for his age to fall for someone older, he's probably in elementary school/middle school, and grow out of it.
As for the other characters, I like how the author includes them in the extras, like it actually makes you care for them and to me makes the school and classmates fleshed out, like actual characters and not game npc where they only speak if the main cast interacts with them.
Over all the story, art and characters are simple to understand, and for a high school romance, it is so calm and wholesome. Nothing big or dramatic happens, just actually believable miscommunication and misunderstanding that get resolved instead of getting bigger and bigger till the reader forgets what was the argument even about.
I feel the pacing of the story is just right. Especially for our main characters. They're shy and inexperienced, of course it's going to take them a long time to get comfortable with each other, but, them already voicing their desire of getting closer to each other and voicing it to each other is a great step.
Just, this manga is so non problematic, and also I love how the author is encouraging talking things out instead of being drowned by one's own doubts.
Overall, great manga, I've probably said this way to many times, but I don't care. In my personal ranking, it is pretty high up there with A Sign of Affection.

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