I think this is an okay one-shot with an interesting concept. It's criticizing the social pressure where high school girls think they have to grow up and is about how shit that concept of what's mature is. The protagonist is messed up by it and doesn't even have a framework to understand what she's done wrong and that's the perspective the story is told from but the reader is supposed to obviously understand better.
I'll give you that. The concept is interesting, but the author fails to utilize it fully. The story never gets to explore the fallout of Hana's actions and how she and Nozomi's relationship would change after that. I was eagerly awaiting those things after the climax, but was severely disappointed when the story just abruptly ends.
Lame, just leave a bad taste in my mouth, but in reality people like her exist, so just get over it, strange world, isnt it?
It's reflective of a real-life scenario. That doesn't mean it's automatically good storytelling.
I'm honestly not that mad that the protagonist is a horrible human being; she had the potential to be a compelling character. The author just didn't fulfill any of that potential.
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