even then, it doesn't do it that well since the fan service that always gets in the way so much, it gets repetitive and tiring. it's almost impressive how the author turned masachika and alya's romantic development back to square one literally right after she kissed him on the cheeks to pad this...
it's leaning hard towards yanami (you probably already expected that), but nukumizu is still ambiguous towards the rest of the girls (aside from lemon ig).
for real. i don't get why fans of this shit try to make this better than it really is. it's like they're ashamed of saying that they like gooning to high school girls so they have to do olympic mental gymnastics justifying "certain" story elements as if they drive a moral life lesson home, yet...
there is. sevenseas licensed the series somewhere in july, and released official translations up to volume 3. the fan translations are up to date to volume 7.
way ahead, anime adapted 3 volumes of the ln. latest episode was even written by the original author (as a kind of filler, but i mean that in a good way).
i stopped reading the ln by volume 6, since i found more fun just reading the manga despite how slow it is. and as i read through the light novel, it was leading into some sort of... psychological warfare, type shit??? i dont fucking know, but it certainly wasn't enticing enough for me to keep...
masha is barely written, so there's still a chance the author could somehow fuck up her character. but yeah, with how little she's been developed, she's somehow more well written than the rest. no wonder people root for her than the person in the fucking title lmao
the thing is, side characters to support the main story is absolutely essential to creating a good story. everyone knows that. however, there are so many ways to fuck it up, thus ruining the good story.
one of them, is what the author is doing in this manga. unnecessary, and two dimensional...