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Overall: I'm somewhere in between the other reviews here. There's some stuff this story does really well, and also some stuff that's terrible about it. Overall I enjoyed it a bit more than some of my ratings suggest, but am not sure I'd recommend it. It was the cliffhanger at the end of vol 2 and it's subsequent development that got me hooked. The story kept making me think of Ranma 1/2, with the extreme side characters/rivals, and occasional martial arts stuff. That's about where the commonalities end though.
Good: the main character, and watching their experience, development, emotional struggle, and growth is really enjoyable and relatable. The main trio / love triangle is really enjoyable, and the series makes great use of the tension between "friends or more?". A few of the rivals are enjoyable. As other reviewers mentioned, there's a lot of ecchi and fan service in this - and I think that actually works in its favor. I'm usually not into that sorta of thing (because it's disruptive or out of place), but it felt like it organically belonged to the story here. The times when it uses miscommunication as a plot device after generally done well. The art and fashion are really great as well.
Bad: some of the characters in this are just terrible, and should have been very short lived, or just not there in the first place. Occasionally there's a good one or two that it really would have been great to see more of. Almost all of the rivals are beyond warped, to the point of not being remotely believable. It was funny once or twice, but the author seemed to want to add a new gag rival almost every volume, with little benefit to the plot. Sometimes things felt a bit contrived or pointless.
Ugly: the series has little to no concept of consent, and makes frequent use of sexual assault, unwanted advances, non-consensual groping, etc. Sometimes it actually works well as a plot device, but more often it's just there for gratuity. While the offending characters are usually punished/ejected for their actions, they still stick around in the setting, as if it's natural, often well past the point of believability.
Anyway, if you like the genre (TSF ラブコメ) and don't mind ecchi, you'll probably find at least some things to enjoy... But there's probably better entries in the genre (like ぜんぶきみの性 | L21)