Honey Lemon Soda
Dropped at ch. 28. ML falling for her ruined it. The message was nice, the FL character development going from weak cliche shoujo girls to stronger version of herself was really refreshing. She did not need the most popular boy in school falling for her to validate the struggles she went through to become stronger. In fact, breaking away from him, learning not to fall for the first hand reaching towards you but to value friendships as they are would have been a nice development arc too. And also let's face it, there was no reason for ML to start "protecting" her to begin with. Shoujos are hard to believe, but this one had some promise which ultimately was not realized. Shame.
Promise Cinderella
Dropped around ch 70. Too unrealistic Reverse harem of sort. She sure does not behave like 27 yo
hotaru no yomeiri
I almost put a psychological tag on this thinking it was delving into psyche of a murderer and his attachment issues. Little did I know within 20 chapters it turns into a romcom with childish highschool energy. It is truly a shoujo.
Cat And Dog (park Hee Jung)