Yoooooo holy lord above, a genuinely decent work-in of star-crossed lovers, with reasonable angst of both class separation and the perception of fate being against them. And despite their humorously stereotypical personalities, they actually managed to confess to each other beforehand, so the inter-character tension isn't just about uncertain feelings.
It's such a great feeling when a series actually has story that wouldn't be awful if put into a standard book. Manga is great fun, but the storytelling standard has always been compromised by the difficulty of replicating the details and complexity a book can offer in art and text-box narration. This ain't no Anna Karenina, but I could see this novelization on a young adult fiction bookshelf as a pretty decent read for teenagers and college kids. Someone get the WN author a good editor and a publishing deal stat, they're missing out on a good audience.