Look the problems are all are really realistic but the author made thevstory in such a way that it's a bit too sentimental. I don't know how to say it but the emotions are so exaggerated. The first few chaps it was pretty good but now sometimes it kinda seems like a drag.
But everyone interprets stories differently , it's ok.
I think it's a bit much but you can like it a lot and think it's realistic.
the author probably accentuated the emotion to make it interesting to read, in the end it's a story and the readers want to see the characters grow as people. it would be hard to show that without making their feelings clear
This feels realistic. Sure, it's very friendship-based atm even esp when we look forward to romance, but I feel like this is how life really is. No one goes through things fully one at a time, while ML has this budding relationship with FL, he's got a proper personality because he's human. He's got a responsibility as a baker, he's got friends to grow with, and a future to think for himself.
He has his own shit to worry about OUTSIDE of this whole ML and FL romance thing. There won't be constant chummy things every chapter because it's something that's supposed to happen naturally, not like a written plot with romance sequences at every turn because it's a romance manga.
Anyway, that's what I feel about this. It's so refreshing and it's not sparkly doki doki at every chapter, but it's also not some super dark someone-got-murdered backstory. It's a literal slice of life abt growing up, making friends, finding yourself, and forming new relationships.