yes yes yes,Obvious bait and switch is obvious, still shitty. The whole interaction was made nonsensical all for a sake of pointless cliffhanger (was it also at the end of a LN volume or is LN author not as cheap?).
I don't like the sister, she is too self serving and overbearing (not in anyway good, despite what Renako tries to claim)
Ye... there is no way Kaho plot wist can not be stupid. Even if Renako also changed her family name there is still no way neither of them would have recognized each other - seems like a ad hock addition and bad one at that. I guess if they were in cramschool together for only few months and met at most once a school week... tho I still don't buy it. also also: cramschool in primary school?! has the world gone mad??? Unless she means learning french after school or something extracurricular like that, but I don't think you would call that cramschool.
On a positive note "I don't really want anyone to love me because I hate myself; I just don't want them to hate me" is a really good motivation for our protagonists actions and the self loathing was done quite well, A+ for that.
PS: I am perpetually baffled by people rooting for Mai, Ajisai is just better in every way and the MC likes her and being with her
( heck Mai isn't even in top 2, and that is despite Satsuki being sabotaged by the author by getting no screen-time [page-time?]). On that topic "I can't accept Ajisai's confession because it wouldn't be fair to Mai who has been confessing to me since the beginning of the manga and I have been rejecting her since then" is a moon-logic that only work as an excuse. Despite that Mai's accusation of being "led on" is not meritless (which basically never happens as 99% of the times when someone says they ware being led on they mean a person was nice to them or some shit) because of the events of the chapter in which Mai searches for the new partner in the most bat-shit way possible.
Mai bad, Ajisai good!
We get it, you people have been spamming the same shit for the past 9 years.
It's gonna be a poly ending prob anyways (see harem tag) so stop whining or go read oneshots