grimwhimsical's Reviews

This review contains spoilers. I love this manga and every time it updates I slam that "Unlock" button. It's an enjoyably-executed reverse harem isekai and I love that there's a woman interested in Tina! Tina and all the characters are engaging and distinct in personality. The way the characters all work with her in her endeavors is warm and cute!

My only gripe is that Tina holds the oblivious ball too much, but even then it's still fun to see the aftermath.

This review contains spoilers. Up to ch.33. I have been reading it because I like the art and enjoy the fun wish fulfillment in these types of stories, but it's been getting harder and harder to enjoy it as the plot goes on.

I don't think either of the leads are very interesting. Everyone either extremely loves or unreasonably hates Yuzu and it's often hard for me to understand why. She's a fine protagonist, though doesn't really do much on her own. Things just...happen to her and that drives the plot; she gets kicked out, she is put into the ayakashi school, someone hates her and it leads to her getting kidnapped.
I CAN understand why people dislike Reiya. The man is standoffish and not super likable outside his interactions with Yuzu. I'm not really a fan of the trope of someone being awful to everyone but their partner. His warmth towards Yuzu doesn't really make me like him that much, especially when it's placed next to all his other tendencies.
I'm also not entirely convinced of the chemistry between Reiya and Yuzu outside of being mates.

This review contains spoilers. There's a marked tonal shift between the first 75% which leans into an interesting and well-illustrated psychological horror, then the last quarter that just turns the story into a twee melodrama.

Even putting aside that Tsutako faces few repercussions for her actions apart from a slap from Azami's mother and the disappointment of her friend, the sub-plot of the doppelganger who hit Azami with the car just vanished in the middle of the story. There was so much buildup to who hit Azami, this guy who's essentially Evil Azami threatening her, her threatening Evil Azami back, then ... nothing.
It led for a pretty unsatisfying ending.