Having caught up with this series, I cannot recommend it. Its main strengths are that it is sometimes funny (as someone who likes idiot protagonists) and the cute bi reverse harem, but the series is repetitive and full of filler. The books are short and yet teeming with alternate PoVs that retell the story's events verbatim with only slightly altered internal monologues. This barely improves over the thirteen volumes currently published and is very tedious.
The romance, which is heavily deemphasised in the second arc but very saturated in the first arc, is lackluster as well, and doesn't really go anywhere. The characterisation is a bit shallow and often relies on a single running gag of them all being unbelievably clingy. The relationships are all predicated on characters with samey sob stories, whose hearts are all healed by the main character via shoujo-trope interactions (fitting for the title) that are implausibly simplistic. If you like romcoms or otome games, this still might be worth checking out for you, though.
A lot of the characters from the first arc recede to the background in the second arc, which may be unrewarding for many fans. There isn't much in the way of worldbuilding or description (a small pet peeve is that one of the few details given about the world is that it it is like medieval Europe, but the books are overrun with anachronisms, magic or no magic).
The writing style is very simple (making this series well-suited for a beginner), but in my opinion it errs on the side of being boring. You are unlikely to learn much new vocabulary or grammar unless you are very new to Japanese.
Sometimes funny but repetitive and full of filler
Having caught up with this series, I cannot recommend it. Its main strengths are that it is sometimes funny (as someone who likes idiot protagonists) and the cute bi reverse harem, but the series is repetitive and full of filler. The books are short and yet teeming with alternate PoVs that retell the story's events verbatim with only slightly altered internal monologues. This barely improves over the thirteen volumes currently published and is very tedious.
The romance, which is heavily deemphasised in the second arc but very saturated in the first arc, is lackluster as well, and doesn't really go anywhere. The characterisation is a bit shallow and often relies on a single running gag of them all being unbelievably clingy. The relationships are all predicated on characters with samey sob stories, whose hearts are all healed by the main character via shoujo-trope interactions (fitting for the title) that are implausibly simplistic. If you like romcoms or otome games, this still might be worth checking out for you, though.
A lot of the characters from the first arc recede to the background in the second arc, which may be unrewarding for many fans. There isn't much in the way of worldbuilding or description (a small pet peeve is that one of the few details given about the world is that it it is like medieval Europe, but the books are overrun with anachronisms, magic or no magic).
The writing style is very simple (making this series well-suited for a beginner), but in my opinion it errs on the side of being boring. You are unlikely to learn much new vocabulary or grammar unless you are very new to Japanese.