This review was made until chapter Ch.9.5, if the story improves from there on then this review probably would be invalid (probably, it may or may not get better), maybe someday I will come back here to update my opinion, but I don't see it happening anytime soon.
I didn't enjoy this manga, so therefore it means that I didn't like it, this is probably the last chapter that I'm going to read, but I wanted to understand myself what I didn't like about it...
First, I don't get why he's so inlove with her, yeah sure, she's cute, but the way he treats her is like she has done something special for him or like she is really unique; But she barely speaks, she's always blushing and they have never had a real conversation, I just don't get it.
Second, it feels like this story is just trying to fulfill a "female fantasy". Thing that I dislike, it's like "50 shades of Grey" in that regard, they just put in a lot of ideas of what they think a girl fantasize about in order that the reader can think of herself as if she was Risa (put herself in her position, kinda like in "Diabolik Lovers" where the protagonist had 0 charisma nor personality in that regard), and that's something that I don't enjoy at all, yeah, sure, everyone wants romance in their life, but in order to make a compelling story the characters must have something [at least] resembling of a personality. Like a comment that I read before:
"Funny to see... That she doesn't need to have confidence, intellect, personality, common sense or social skills to land a high profile, competent and clever CEO (who must've fired people like that at some point in his career). I guess a pretty face and excessive awkwardness sufficed ┑(￣Д ￣)┍"
- Poseidon
Third, there's no real plot. What is the plot? What is the conflict? I feel like this story was meant to be a 5 chapter thing (or a oneshot), and now out of nowhere they are trying to make sparks of little conflicts just for it to keep going, when it's not even necessary. For the first 10 chapters I remember that in this comment section we were all thinking that he was hiding something, some people were even saying that he could be a murderer, but we were reacting like that because there was absolutely no reason to why he fell inlove with her at THAT DEGREE, she was not even a crush to him, he acts like he is really inlove with her & he doesn't even know her! He hasn't had a real conversation with her neither! And because this manga has absolutely no conflict at all nor character development we were trying find a reason to why he was so obsessed with her, it felt (still feels) empty.
And finally, the pace is ridiculously fast. You could have fixed my first three problems and specially this one (obviously), if the pace wasn't so freaking fast; The plot could have been about [this girl with countryside mannerism that starts feeling something for this guy in a café & he for her too, so they start meeting once in a while until she finds out blah, blah, blah], that's a plot, and it was not hard at all, the same story but with better pace (and let's be honest, way less creepier, cause he would have had a reason to fall in love). They could have developed it in order that this didn't feel like "50 shades" or "Diabolik Lovers", with just a shallow protagonist with a vulgar/cliché story of fantasies-fulfillment, because it could have had a real plot & not an excuse to just show a perfect rich guy giving it all for this incompetent girl who he barely knows, you know, she's not even that beautiful, in manga sometimes there are characters that when you see them drawn you can't avoid thinking "WOW, she/he is really beautiful", Risa has never made me think something like that. And if they have met slowly (and make them help each other in some situations, like, you know, having a real plot & character development) I would get why he's so in love with her, but no, no, no, no. Like another comment here said:
"This romance would take 1 year development for any of this
To happen in the real world -_-"
- KyokoRM
And that's just true, almost all the problems with this manga comes from that core (and Risa's lack of personality).
I'm just going to say that in my opinion this manga is not worth your time, the only good thing about this is the art, is actually decent but not particularly beautiful. I would recommend this for a light read, but do not expect a deep story and character development, because this doesn't have any.
Art: 7 (It's okay, not unique nor particularly beautiful, but is not bad, I will repeat it, it is not bad)
Plot: 0 (Plot?)
Enjoyment: 2 (I was just waiting for something to actually happen)
Panel distribution: 7 (they have good placement, so it's easy to follow)
Dialogue: 3 (Dialogue? Barely)
Total Rating: 3.8/10
Goodbye people & have a nice day
P.S. Sorry if I had bad grammar, I wrote this really fast & english is my third language.
Coffee & Vanilla