I am a regualar BL watcher, but I decided to start watching some straight ones even though I dont like them that much. I dont know why, I just wanted to give them a chance. In such an attempt, I watched kakafakaka & sweat and soap which was horrifying to say the least. Really held me from watching straight ones for a while. I have watched Ao Haru Ride which is also very similar to this story; which made me realise that the japanese society really loves hot, aloof and smart male leads. They dont want their male leads to be nice, sweet and anything normal like that...

To say this was a dissapointment is to say the least... I mean, it took them 16 episodes to get together, which is fine, but asking me to believe that the male lead likes the female lead without any actions leading to that point is such a bummer. Its like he did a 180 in the last episode; I mean, there are literally no scenes which show that he even remotely likes her... ultimately, it is a story about a girl, who gets her hopes high, for the littlest acts of kindness, more like pity that he throws at her, and finds her feelings come crashing down, when he shows her how much he cares for her, which is really really negligible, almost at a 0.0000000000000000000000001 %.

the female lead gets her heart broken for almost 50% of the entire series, and for the really, really rude things he says to her - I mean, not caring is something else, he is blatantly, unrepentently rude to her all. the. time. - I am just really surprised how she okayed their marriage.
And because of such a horrible foreword to their relationship, I dont feel happy for them at all...

The worst part is they killed kin-chan in their already fucked-up relationship... I kind of agree with Irie-kun, she is most probably the dumbest person on earth... I mean, she chose you instead of kin-chan, so yeah she is dumb... he is such a sweetheart! he makes her the choicest of foods, gives her enough emotional support, takes her to movies and arcade to cheer her up, even yells at Irie-kun for her!!! If that is not boyfriend material, I dont know what is... and when she utimately chooses Irie-kun, I wanna kill myself for still watching this; I wanna kill her for not treating kin-chan right and I wanna kill Irie-kun for being such a smug bastard.
He is like one of the assholic husbands, who knows their wife wont leave them no matter what, so he can confifently continue to treat them however badly he wishes to. Its like at some point, he is trying to see how much can he hurt kotoko-san, until she finally folds... he hurts her, continues to hurt her and will continue to hurt her till posterity in my opinion... he is sooo not a great male lead... I wanted kin-chan to be the one for kotoko-chan... ultimately goes to show that in japanese society, nice guys always finish last.

I do realise I am an outlier, but this is not a drama for me. I want lots and lots of affection and sweet moments for me to be happy for the couple under consideration. And I am not asking for smut, but I must feel some sort of love between the two, for me to be happy for them...