I humbly disagree with you. But to each their own :)
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Dude the romance is just generic and mid. I want some spice she's the white bread of love interests and he's a fairly interesting character. Let me guess when they get together it's going to be the "too shy to hold hands and kiss" all dragged out and junk. It's just a waste of a good premise.
I understand that it's a cliche but you're making it sound worse than it is. It's basically expected at this point. The Japanese audience loves those tropes so it's risky for any story there to deviate from the normal. They are just remixing and remaking what is familiar. The biggest one just so happens to be "The journey of Romance" trope. It's not designed for impatient people who just want them to get it over with and start dating or for people not into romance.
I can tell glasses girl is going to be endgame. This has a really interesting hook but oh my god glasses girl is so boring and basic it's annoying. Glasses girl is shy, polite, secretly beautiful when she takes off her glasses so only MC has to fight for her, low self esteem, unathletic, no friends, cute, in love with MC from the shadows(she fell in love with his gardening(wtf),pure and innocent. She has nothing personalised, no personality, no quirks, no hobbies, no friends and who knows maybe the author will give her a brother for the classic trope "Guy gets jealous over guy with main girl but plot twist it's her brother". I just wished she had something to give her some flavour cause she is so bland basic.