I’m fucking disappointed I’m not going to lie. It’s rinse and repeat at this point and not only is the romance slow asf, their personal character progression is also non existent. Rhito slightly changed but everyone is still a weirdo wile being obsessed with noa and noa is a crybaby obsessed wi the Rhito while also being horrible at communicating. It’s funny but like that’s all it is and it has gotten stale for me
I like this series and i feel people dont give it enough credit sometimes
With most chapters being literally the day after the chapter before it, you get a live feel on the progress on their relationship, there are subtle parts where you can tell they act different with each other:
Some noticeable would be "How does rihito tolerate such bullshit from noa?" and then they introduce his sister, or "Does rihito even like noa at all?" And then an entire chapter where he narrates how they met, pretty much saying that if not love yet, he most definetly admires her
I think because noa is so flashy youd end up ignoring when she straight up spells out that she loves him, but how she treats rihito has also progressively been more extreme on the love side, she constantly wants an indicator from rihito to where their relationship is from just "friends" to "best friends" to "special best friends" to the now "i'm a man" all answers from rihito, she's a ball of complete denial whenever she gets confronted by other characters to the "do you like him romantically?" question too
What i like is that if you are actively reading the story you get to all of these parts and interactions and as the reader should understand "oh, these two most definetly like each other" giving the usual tropes of romcoms a nice twist from the usual, "you read the characters thoughts" "they held hands and she/he got embarrased" "they confessed but they didnt listen" "they chickened out from a proper confession" "third girl appears" "one suddenly hates the other from some mundane reason" to indicate progress, while keeping the characters personalities, they dont suddenly do a 180 because the person they like said/did something good/bad to them
I feel some people treat it for what the romcom naturally is but somehow completely ignore or even dislike that the rom and com parts is somewhat more subtle or extreme to the usual tropes, with them saying how they dont like the main girl or the main guy, how little progress there is and so on
You signed up for a slowburn romcom where the characters "will theys won't theys", progress every chapter is written in days and events, you are expected to pay attention to the narrative and characters have personality traits that define them; there are much more dramatic series out there that are more worthy of arguing about serious romantic pointers and you chose the one that is about a cringy and a serious adult ocationally hanging out after work