I will preface this by saying that this is based on the first 24 chapters, and also, I'm a fan of Yoshikawa Miki 's prior works. I think she's a talented author and has a good head on her shoulders. That being said, why.........

Some light spoilers.








So, here's the deal. The initial premise of the manga (and the one shot) sells us this story of two families who's children were swapped at birth, something they don't realize till the start of chapter one when the kids are now highschoolers.

Our Male lead is raised by the poor family and to compensate for his background studies super hard. He has this weird rivalry with a girl in his class who he's crushing on as well. They make some odd deal that if he takes first place, he will ask her out, which ends up happening, but they don't actually go out. Instead they bond over collecting stickers and studying in the library.

The Female lead is raised as a lone rich kid. She's currently some sort of SNS celeb and goes to an all girl school.

The kids meet first, don't really like eachother, and then the parents later introduce them to eachother and surprise surprise, they're now engaged. Que the "WTF", etc. the parents tell them to move into a house that her dad (his bio dad) has prepared for them.

Ok, so far, so good. This is where shit goes south super fast. Yoshikawa clearly isn't a harem writer, she has no sense of balance for character pacing where there's multiple love rivals. Hell, they each just disappear for entire parts to focus on the other. No one gets anywhere.

She does this thing where she tries to tell us that they're perfect for eachother instead of actually showing it and it comes across as really forced.

Now the most annoying part, suddenly his sister (who's technically not his bio sister) is crushing on him despite there being no mention of this for fucking 16 years of his life?

This manga started as a 7-8/10 and has quickly dropped to a 4 for me. I will keep reading because I like the designs and if Yoshikawa gets back to her roots, it can be good (She wrote Yamada-kun which I was a huge fan of, and it was legitimately good). But in the mean time, be warned. If you like badly written drama, terrible pacing, and the most generic and overplayed harem tropes, you will like this. If not, you won't.