Regretted re-reading after all these years.

Surely piqued my interest because of the art. Hands down for me. There's also a nice variation of character design and you can recognize them properly.

Started strong, with female MC having a unique character unlike the overused weak type, but then ended up not facing the issues head on as opposed to how she's supposed to be. I appreciate how the author weigh in the consequences student-teacher relationship hence Shishio's path of action. The issue is with how the 2nd male lead was developed, it's shallow, his actions doesn't go well with how his character was built.

I'd say the final chapter was forced when clearly the few previous ones shows how much the FMC still has strong feelings to her first love. Contrary to the popular opinion, it's not realistic at all since no one will definitely do what the FMC did on the last part.

Overall, it felt like a tragedy, where you don't end up together even though you have strong feelings for each other, felt like the FMC chose that guy at the end just because she's in a commitment with him at the moment.

I recommend reading Tsubaki-chou Planet by the same author to feel a little bit better after reading this series. Feels like this is how she originally wanted this series to end. So much similarity except almost totally remove the idea of other love interest.