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Fun and cute, but an SNS manga first and foremost
A gag manga with the premise of 'what if the shoujo rival character instead had a crush on the protagonist'? The first half of the volume is very SNS-like, with each short chapter ending with the same punchline; it's only in the second half that the story seems to 'reboot' itself and become a bit more contemplative about why exactly the rival feels this way towards the heroine. The language is a good primer for school and shoujo stuff, with many repeat situations and opportunities to internalise some common shoujo trope manga expressions and so on.
You do have to accept a certain level of comedy stupidity, particularly regarding the denseness of the protagonist, but frankly shoujo protagonists of the type this manga is parodying are frequently dense as bricks anyway so I didn't mind it. 月刊少女野崎君 is definitely a higher-quality shoujo parody overall, but this isn't bad, even if it is a bit amateurish.