What's up with people in these forums lately? Does anyone get this mad at comedy shows and movies whenever they depict a murder and play it off for laughs, but they don't condescend to the audience enough, lecturing about how murder is bad and wrong and we absolutely should not emulate the murderer in real life? Is this a thing that I am unaware of? Or is it a unique phenomenon to Westerners that pretend to like Japanese content, but really don't?
That's usually the case, the problem is that this manga in particular has a mood problem, where it doesn't understand how it should be read by readers: Light romance with a bit of side jokes, or a manga where characters discuss real life problems that resonates with a lot of readers. It's cool if you didn't take the manga seriously, heck I don't take it seriously anymore. But in my opinion, it's such a waste, because I know there have been some scenes in this chapter where I didn't know I was holding my breath because of the characters' deep conversations, only to be kicked on the ass because some character mentioned a joke that was placed horribly.
It's literally just that, a mood problem. It doesn't know when to add the perfect kick, doesn't know when to slow down. I have never read the LN before, but I'm guessing the problems arise solely because the manga is a more condensed version of the novel itself.