This is quite possibly the most average shojo manga I’ve ever read. It hit every plot detail and story beat you’d expect to see in a series. Two popular boys fall in love with a clumsy, innocent girl? Check. Secondary Boy™️ assures the Male Lead that “he won’t lose” in winning the girl’s affections? Check. A minor female character ends up being the Plan B romance for Secondary Boy™️ when he inevitably gets turned down? Check, check, check. It’s also part of the “girl manages a boys’ sports team and romance ensues” subgenre that’s been showing up these days, so we get some tropey plot stuff about some big sports match and the power of teamwork thrown in there as well. Unfortunately Waiting for Spring has already done a similar type of store, and that author did it first and more skillfully.

I can’t give this a bad score, because even thought it was a snooze to read it really is totally basic and average for a shojo story. But dang… I can’t believe this thing went on for 8 volumes. ( )