Cute as f**k, If you just want to read a fluffy romance, this is for you.

The MC is laidback and somewhat dense, but he doesn't get all flustered 24/7... Tbf, I don't think he has been flustered by the FMC during the whole novel up to where I have read. He also doesn't shy away from throwing compliments, telling the FMC she is cute and beautiful, etc... It is nice to see, as you don't really see that from most Japanese rom-com protagonists.

The FMC is a ''Yankee'' though she is... more>> never really shown to do ''Yankee'' things; she just looks somewhat scary to the people around her. She is a tsundere, though luckily not a violent one; she just finds it hard to accept compliments and accept what her feelings actually are.

It is a cute story where the FMC hears what the Mc's (physical) preferences are about the type of girl he would want to go out with.

E.g.

•Black hair

•Neat girl

•Half-up hairstyle

•etc...

This leads to her dying her hair back to black to appeal to his likes and then also changing her hairstyle for a consecutive number of days.

So far, it's just a cute story about a girl trying to get a guy's attention and then forming a friendly relationship that will most likely lead to love. <<less

So far this novel has only been okay. When reading I can tell what the author is going for but the writing feels stiff and a bit unnatural which makes me think the author is somewhat new. This story is your typical romance fluff type, but at least for me I haven't been able to get immersed in it, the general plot line is fine but the execution just makes it come off as a bit unnatural. So far v1c1 and v1v2 have started with his friend asking him something... more>> about love, him answering, then that answer is what ends up happening with the love interest. V1c3 is the female leads pov.

Now with context out of the way an example of where the story feels a bit unnatural is how the best friend keeps asking about love while she is in earshot, with how the friend was acting I assumed that the best friend knew about her crush on MC and was trying to help her but with v1c3 having her pov it didn't give the impression that they were working together which makes the friends sudden asking about love life feel awkward.

Another point is it just instantly jumps into the story without very much fluff around it, the story has the friend ask, him say that he likes black hair ect, then the next day her hair is dyed black. Up to this point its fine since its the introduction but there is no slice of life expansion on that (Simple things like conversations or little interactions that aren't related to the loop of friend ask>answer>event occurs) which makes their interactions come off a bit more unnatural. The reason why I think this is a big issue is because it makes the MC come off as very dense, because there is very little to no ambiguity in her actions which makes it very clear that she loves him. There isn't any kind of justification for it (An example of a justification for being dense would be insecurity, where the MC feels they aren't worthy so they deny the possibility that the beautiful girl likes them) and the author also makes the MC do things like pointing out that her face is red or other things that make him feel observant so when he doesn't notice it makes him feel dense. Something that would also help is if its a 3rd person pov reacting to their relationship since that would allow the author to demonstrate the female leads embarrassment/love while avoiding making the MC feel dense. This could be executed with something like the best friend, where he found out about female leads crush and is trying to help her and we get a pov of him watching their interactions or him messing with MC and getting their reaction.

Overall I think that the story has potential and the further we get into it the author might start getting use to executing their plot causing the story to feel more natural, but at least right now while the story isn't bad it isn't something I would necessary recommend. After the author gets use to creating conversations and relationships more naturally if they re-write these parts then I think the story would be pretty good since the framework is good, but at least for now I don't think the story has been able to reach its full potential. <<less

I love both of the leads. The story is cute, and the leads are cute. It should be a good book. And yet....

Well, let's start with the leads, shall we?

First, let's describe the ML. From what I read so far, the ML is super dense, but also quite bright and unrestrained when it comes to expressing his feelings. He's also quite handsome. As someone said in the comment section of the fan-TL site, he looks like the protagonist's best friend in the "introverted boy x popular girl" romcom novels. Weirdly... more>> enough, he's not popular, as if invisible to other girls. He's like a neutron star in that matter: bright, dense, hot, but invisible to the naked eyes if you don't get close enough to see him. Not sure if that's actually scientifically right, but ML is really just like that.

Now, about the FL. While tsundere, she is NOT exaggerated. She's quite shy and dishonest. She blushed alot and tended to mask that shyness with tough front. A typical tsundere. However, she never hurl insults or physically ab*sed ML like other tsundere characters. She's, instead, very lovely and adorable. I'm firm in my opinion that she should be a paragon to every tsundere in existence!

Aside from her adorable personality, she's also quite beautiful. She looks neat and cool, like a kuudere, while also not looking like a boorish honour student, thankfully. Tho, what I'm really thankful for is that for once, we have a FL who's actually beautiful but not labelled as "the most beautiful in the school." It's quite distasteful to label girls as such in the first place. Which is why I desperately want to love this novel.

But not all is good, though! Shall we talk about the way author writes the story?

I'm not a writer or anything, so I don't think it's appropriate of me to criticise his techniques. But I do have an opinion about it, based on how I felt when I read the novel. To put it simply, it's boring. To expand on it, the way author writes the story does not fit the theme more often than not. And I'm not talking about the prose! I'm talking about the execution in general. Like, the flow is too jumpy, especially at the start. Aside from that, the feeling I felt when reading the novel is: it feels like eating a brownies that's not rising to the max. It's sweet, but not fluffy. It feels half-hearted, or half-baked.

I can see myself pushing through to the end in the future. But right now, I don't think I have the will to continue. Let's just say, I might eat the brownies when I got nothing else to eat while I am starving.

That's all I can say. It's a shame. It really is! I love simple fluffy and sweet romance. I hope the next volume gets better, because I desperately want to love this novel, too! But, as of now, it's 3/5. Sweet, but too giung to read in one sitting. And that's coming from a guy who enjoys a novel that's all about kissing! That should mean something.

(Uh, in my language, giung is that taste when the food is nauseating to eat because it's uncomfortably sweet or umami. You might know the taste if you don't like sweet food.) <<less

the novel is nice the tsundereness if the fMC is great and the m is so straightforward that he dont even realize what he said always makin the fMC blush but not realizing 😂😂😂 it wil be awesome once they start dating will the fMC still be a tsundere I hope she turn into a clingy gf