This manga started off really strong for me, a full 10/10, but around the middle chapters (while still wholesome) it became a little too shounen-ish for my liking. Machida started to talk in ways that felt overly sweet and eloquent, falling into that shounen-style of writing. He went from letting actions speak louder than words, to speaking a whole bunch of words.
I think one of the things that threw me off in the later chapters was how Machida's self-deprecation just randomly disappeared for like 10 chapters, only to be reintroduced in the final volume. It was part of what made him highly relatable and likeable, and I do not think it was properly addressed for a large chunk of the middle of the manga.
(as someone mentioned below, I also wish that the story focused more on developing the relationship between the male and female MCs. Pacing wise I probably would have preferred a reduction in introducing new characters,and instead more focus on developing characters we have already met. But I guess that's the whole theme, "Machida's World" after all. The final chapter where a lot of character's pop back in for a single frame just tickled my itch to see more character development, and reminded me of what could have been.)
Regardless, I feel like Machida and Inohara were characterized so well in the beginning that it was easy to commit to reading this manga to the end. I left it with a final 9/10. Still a very, very strong manga.
P.S.: Also the hand fetish was kind of weird haha.
I think one of the things that threw me off in the later chapters was how Machida's self-deprecation just randomly disappeared for like 10 chapters, only to be reintroduced in the final volume. It was part of what made him highly relatable and likeable, and I do not think it was properly addressed for a large chunk of the middle of the manga.
(as someone mentioned below, I also wish that the story focused more on developing the relationship between the male and female MCs. Pacing wise I probably would have preferred a reduction in introducing new characters,and instead more focus on developing characters we have already met. But I guess that's the whole theme, "Machida's World" after all. The final chapter where a lot of character's pop back in for a single frame just tickled my itch to see more character development, and reminded me of what could have been.)
Regardless, I feel like Machida and Inohara were characterized so well in the beginning that it was easy to commit to reading this manga to the end. I left it with a final 9/10. Still a very, very strong manga.
P.S.: Also the hand fetish was kind of weird haha.
