Please don't be scared away by the "10" I gave this. If you check my profile, you'll see I rarely give 9 to manga/LN I've read, even less 10.

This blew me away. This is a manga that made me consciously think about how goddamn good it was while I was reading it.
Since I don't feel like writing full paragraphs, I'll be listing bullet points.


If you don't want spoilers, skip to the TL;DR at the end


Notes:
- MC / main girl = Yuu
- even though I write off Yuu as being the "main", Touko is also really important


Initial reactions (feelings I got while reading)

- started manga for feels and fuzziness of the heart
- stayed for story, character development, art, feels and fuzziness of the heart

- wow main girl isn't some perfect / overly timid / gutless / annoyingly self-conscious shoujo character

- had she not had a pretty face (dammit, I know, I'm shallow), I most probably would've still fallen for her

- woah this is strange. The story's romantic progression is probably as slow when measuring its romprogress/chapter average compared to other romances, but somehow it isn't because of misunderstandings / fucking interruptions / cockblocking (btw this is shoujo ai) love triangles (more on this last point later). It is slow but not crammed on "comedic" filler.


Memorabilily

- I'm going to be sad when this manga ends, it's truly one of a kind


Art

- Clean and soft and simply cute but not cute to the point that you think the author's trying to manipulate your feels

- the girls are simple but they are cute

- there is enough background to not feel lost (I know, it's important), but it's still so cleaan

- I know I've said this before, but the MC is really cute


Characters

- Yuu, the main girl, isn't not confessing to her love interest because she's shy or because of some plot created cockblocking, it's because she just hasn't yet fallen for her future love interest
- She's not based off of a "dere" type and she's not timid when simply talking to her love interest

- Touko is Yuu's partner in their destined pairing.
- I'll be honest, she takes from the trope of the "perfect saint social nice girl but on the inside she isn't as strong as she shows, she's only forcing herself because of pressure".
- she declares her love early on (yay)

- other characters aren't dicks
- even the girl who creates a love triangle since she likes Touko isn't one, she takes her simple and clear rejection which doesn't create drama like a responsible teenager
- they don't create drama, even the love triangle girl


Synopsis

- clear one-on-romance.

- side character aren't dependant on main character

- girl 2 and girl 1 meet
- girl 2 falls in love and confesses to girl 1
- girl 1 doesn't feel love for girl 2 (yet), so she rejects girl 2 for now
- girl 1 and girl 2 have progression, on the way there's character development on them and also side characters (who are important)
- girl 1 eventually confesses to girl 2
- girl 1 believes girl 2 rejected her
- after 1-2 chapters of running away do to a misunderstanding of a promess (it's only 1-2 chapters, calm down), they are together
- [rest are chapters not yet released]

- you don't feel constant anguish for the predictable rejection to the side-love-triangle-girl since you know she won't be emotionally destroyed and won't wail in self-pity when she'll be rejected

- cute


Recommendation

- read it if you want clear one-on-romance.

- there is more fluff than in romcoms

- steady progression that isn't side-tracked by drama/interruptions

- cute


TL;DR

- clear girl1xgirl2 romance in typical school setting

- no drama nor cheap plot interruptions

- all characters are likeable

- story overall is filled with moments that make you go "yes!", "great assist!", "woah, she made a move this early?!", "hmm, clever wordplay" and "cute!"

- gave this a 10 because of how frequently the moments mentioned in the previous point appeared