These foodie slice of life manga have a reputation that they are relaxing... Well, chapter 3 features the annoying brother (no personality other than "I am a heterosexual man") and cuts away to focus on a random het couple's fight for like five pages... That bit didn't even have anything to do with the MC's epiphany, since it was only showed to the reader.
What makes it worse is that the dynamic of the two leads was pretty good in the first two chapters. But as soon as the MC's new friend is not around, the MC immediately gets surrounded by the miasma of clichéd (put presented as cute and wholesome) heterosexuality, which is quite the whiplash.
Edit: well, the series is already complete at 3 volumes, so it's best not to get your hopes up about the "subtext" going anywhere
last edited at Aug 11, 2024 2:40PM