Notes: This review doesnt contain spoilers beyond a broad description of the horrible romantic evolution This review was meant to be a note but it became far too unwieldy for AniLists current note popup. Youll have to pardon the unfiltered janky nature of it but at least you get my authentic writing style ACTUALLY HEARTBREAKING DISAPPOINTMENT Volume 1 Practically FANTASTIC its almost as cute as Super Secret my favorite static work with an art and writing style as pleasant as Nichijou my favorite animated work and it has a great name and practically exactly my kind of humor I mean furiously cut off from the rest of the class Shoot for the incinerator Exciting?? What kind of genius thinks of that stuff? Me I do that The art style is so incredibly cozy which really complements the sweet nature of the story and characters. I think Kanna is a fantastic main character as she tries to figure out Yuu in this volume and the four stooges are great addons that really lighten the whole thing up Before moving on to the second volume I reread the volume three times at a rate of like 3 minutes per panel probably would be my favorite piece of media if it kept its pace TT Instant failure volume 2 and 3 Volume 2 was the immediate switch to hard yuri as opposed to the light yuri it was before as stated in the postvolume author notes... Now if youre any sane person like me youll notice that that sounds horrible and youre right for the wrong reasons What this change introduced was every boring trope in the high school comedy romance playbook and totally diluted every character by putting them aside for nonsensical drama or seriously disinteresting sidecharacters with one character trait. The main duo? The four stooges? Yeah no forget those guys and their character development just throw in some garbage throwaways and give everyone a crush for drama for no reason Its crazy how little character development happens Hell they barely even bring up older character development its all just thrown away for nothing This might be just a reflection of other aspects but the art style died too Instead of being nice cozy detailed pages of three or so panels its now like six panels per page that look like.. well not trash but not fun either The humor faces the same problem though the humor was pretty tied to the art style... The ultimate state of romance review exclusive The ultimate state of the romance nonsense is trash Id say After the first volume its either totally baseless disinteresting boring romance or just fan service I mean they turn the most innocent characters into overbearing tactless flirts instead of properly developing their relationships Why? I mean I get that the whole GL community is wild over there in Japan but I honestly dont get how anyone could prefer degradation over growth like that... Actually this might be why it has such a low score... Final thoughts review exclusive I would love to touch on some of the more horrible crimes it commits some of the fan service the series ends on as well as the horrible character polls but theyre really just too awful to mention I have a very low tolerance for pervy garbage... but uh yeah this was really disappointing Like super disappointing But... how can you tell how youd like it? Well heres my recommendation criteria: Volume 1: Nichijou anime softhearted humor with a warm art style Volume 2: Toradora anime the complete degradation of characters Volume 3 and extras: Toradora and Whisper Me a Love Song manga the complete degradation of characters in favor of salacious garbage I realize that this criterias pretty biased I dislike TD and WMLS but it probably holds strong? Let me know Ill probably never forgive the high school comedy romance genre for this