Mimi's manga / #multiple stories(24)

I need to stop getting excited about things. Ch 1-2, 5.1: Didn't like this story that much. It had an off-putting start and weird visual jumps that felt like I was skipping pages. I know this book has 2 stories in it but keeping pace with the writing got confusing sometimes. This couple I ended up not giving a shit about by the time ch. 2 ended. Would've loved to have seen more of them getting to know each other so that the end of ch.2 could hit harder. I also didn't like that they did nothing with the main mc's philophobia be a topic of discussion. I thought maybe their extra chapter might go into more but, no, they just decided that the conversation at the end of ch.2 just didn't happen. Like, HADA WHAT DO YOU MEAN??? HE STRAIGHT UP TOLD YOU WHAT HAPPENED WHEN HE WAS A KID AND YOU'RE JUST GONNA FORGET THAT?! Ch 3-4, 5.2: A a better story but not by much. I liked the characters a little more, they were more interesting to read about. It still had the weird visual jumps and too fast a pacing for me to completely keep track of what's going on, but I actually felt another emotion that wasn't "anger with a side of what?" and that made reading this story a better experience... Slightly. Seeing how this was the story on the cover, I kind of wish this would've been the 1st story we read so I wouldn't've felt like dropping the book 10 times before chapter 2.

Update: Looking back, I still don't know if I actually want to drop this series. I finished this vol but thought about dropping the series because I didn't like it... but apparently it's still on my mind and I'm thinking about reading vol 2 so idk. - Another book that took me WAY too long to finish. Started reading this in August and didn't finish it til right now (December). It was so boring, there were these weird jump cuts(?) that had me thinking I might have skipped a page or something so it felt confusing at times, and to top that off with some less than stellar translation. I do feel like, if the translation was better, this would be a 3.5 for me. Yeah this was boring, but there were times I would've found this "boring but sweet" here and there. Besides the typos, the way they spoke felt so robotic. Not in a stiff robot way but in a "real people don't talk like this" robotic kind of way and that had a hand in why it took me forever to finish this. I'm not actually sure if I want to continue to the 2nd vol because of that main reason. And then there's chapter 7 which had a character who was defiantly 18 and the other person defiantly over 20 and I was defiantly not here for that so I skipped it.