Reviewed by Kana
Who it's for, and whether it holds up.
This is a standard JP romcom with an MC who leans hard into shamelessness. He's not a naive do-gooder. He's a leech, and the story knows it and plays the dynamic for laughs, which mostly lands. The childhood-friends-turned-idols setup exists mainly to justify increasingly absurd situations, and the comedy works better when you stop expecting the characters to behave like actual people.
The harem elements are present but don't feel aggressively crammed in, at least early on. The whole thing reads like it's aware of its own genre and winking at the reader, which is either charming or tiresome depending on your tolerance for that kind of self-aware JP romcom energy.
What it isn't: deep. The plot doesn't reach for realism and gets what it aims for. The MC's behavior will put some readers off entirely, and that's a fair response. His shamelessness is the engine of the humor, but it's also the ceiling on how much you can care about him.
A 3.5 feels right. It's a functional, occasionally funny comedy that doesn't overstay its welcome if you read it in the right mood. Go in expecting lightweight absurdity and you'll probably enjoy stretches of it. Go in expecting growth or stakes and you'll bail early.
