I’m usually an advocate for longer manga series; in fact, I typically won’t pick up a manga narrative if it is less than one volume, but this story, this story—! It would have been sweet and innocent and tender, a lovely one-volume first love, young love story if it stopped at one volume. Three stars!
But it’s stretched out into four volumes! Maybe it improves in volume four, but two and three are a drag: predictable and completely uninteresting ‘conflict’ for the established couple. The introduction of a new character, who is solely and obviously only a tool for (forced) relationship drama was the downfall of this story. I’d prefer if the mangaka continued to focus on the natural evolution of their new young love, simply navigating between the two of them and their existing friends.