Lots of sex, very little story.
I take exception to the assessment that Comaku is incapable of writing stories. Is My Hobby Weird? wasn't particularly deep storytelling, but the narrative structure was very much there and mostly coherent. I Want to Be Your Kind of Girl is also passable as a story, though it's less developed than the former. The bonus chapter of Hobby was similar to this: straight up porn with very little in the way of narrative. But at least that didn't have have any pretense.
Their (English translated) ouvre isn't large enough to make a definitive judgement, but Comaku seems to have issues with pacing in shorter formats. He or she doesn't know how to compose story development and erotica within a very small space, and in that situation foregoes the former for the sake of the latter. This series had the setup for a narrative arc, but jumped straight from the exposition to the resolution in the last chapter.
The sex was all there, and if that's all you wanted as a reader then you can walk away from this fairly satisfied. But if you were expecting a story - even a simple one - then it's lacking. I can't blame you if you're part of the latter group, as the series seemed to be building up exposition and conflict in the first two chapters, then abruptly ends everything in the third.
I liked this a lot. I read the protagonist as sexual but aromantic and that's something you don't normally see in yuri stuff?
This was the main redeeming quality for me. The main character was a relatively novel take on the harem protagonist role. She's actually very interesting: an aromantic, polyamorous, nonexclusive lead with a Buddhist underpinning that manages to pull off the "I choose every girl" route without making it skeevy.
On the other side, the series falls into the ruts of the genre when it fails to develop any of the other characters. The boss started out with some, and the second chapter made me think there'd be some development there. But by the end she's been homogenized into the harem as her only defining trait is her attraction to the protagonist.
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