Yokoyari Mengo knows how to draw manga; not so much writing manga.

The whole premise is that unrequited love hurts. A lot. Been there done that. This manga really puts into illustration that pain one receives. However, the characters and the relations between those characters makes the plot redundant and long for no reason. What could've been summed up in 4 or 5 volumes turned into 8.

Some good things about this manga:
Art: Yokoyari Mengo knows what they're doing, no problems here.
Theme: I like manga that take a darker tone because we all know how many copy and paste romcoms are out there. Something like this is a breath of fresh air, the theme of unrequited love.

Now to the bad things (Trying to keep it spoiler free)
Characters: Man, it's bad. Some characters are a saving grace, Like Hanabi and Sanae, but everyone else is bad. For the first few chapters, Hanabi and Mugi couple is something that ACTUALLY happens in real life, although it's not stated. Not really dating, more of just having sex to cope with something they can't have. Sanae isn't that bad of a character, her relations to Hanabi is something realistic when you're in that situation. But, why does Noriko exist? You're taking a for the most part dark realistic story and throwing in... her. No girl actually acts like that. It's the ultimate manga girl romcom BS that i hate. Remove her. As soon as we find Akane's personality does thi smanga take a nose-dive. Why do Narumi and Mugi like her? Knowing who she is? And why did they write Narumi like that? Once he really met Akane? God i hate the relationships to each other in this story. The main relationship I understand, but everything else is either eh or bad.

Now for the glaring problem of this manga. The middle part. Why, and i mean WHY, is the story so damn confusing? It goes back and forth between past and present constantly. I had no idea what was what until it continued to present after a fest of confusion for about 8 chapters.