Its the romanticizing non-consent for me.
It's the fat phobia for me.
It's the glorifying of the absolute bare minimum for me.
It's the fanfic vibe for me.

110% not for me.

I give it a bit of grace for having been written in 2009, the values reflect that. There's a lot of misogyny, the bar for men was on the floor and there's some fatphobia as well for a bit of flavor. The characterization of the main character felt more appropriate for a 15 year old girl, rather than a woman. It also falls in line with my least favorite romance tropes: total asshole ML but he shows consideration for the FL 1% of the time, so you'll believe there's still good in him, you know? I won't bother reading on for the inevitable part where they explain some childhood heartbreak that led to the ML being the way he is.

As it stands, I don't like the FL, I don't like the ML so there's nothing here for me personally.

Super sweet (and steamy) manga. Gave me warm fuzzy feelings for the characters. The only thing I did not like has a slight trigger warning:

Spoiler

he hits her TWICE and there are NO CONSEQUENCES??? She's not even mad??? I guess one of them you could argue he hit to to snap her out of hysteria, but wow rude. Did NOT like that at all. Both instances showed up in the last two or three books so they had me utterly in love until then

and it would have ruined the series for me if it had happened earlier. (As it stands, this would be a five star manga if it had been left out entirely)

I read it many years ago
In my memories it was an average shoujo

now it is very average but there some details that I could not oversee this time around
a couple of time she is a bit nagging to shut her up he says: shut up or I'll rape you

~3.5-4/5

[Read more at my blog, Geeky Reading!]

I was really excited for this to come out. I’ve read a couple other Enjoji titles and really enjoyed them, although I don’t think I got to this one. I really enjoy Enjoji’s characters and art and humor. This has been compared to Butterflies, Flowers, one of Shojo Beat’s earlier josei titles, and I can see the similarities particularly because they’re both work romances (as is their other josei title currently being released, Midnight Secretary). But the biggest difference, to me, is the humor, along with probably the characters. Because I like Enjoji’s humor a lot more than Butterflies, Flowers', as well as the characters.

So, this series stars Chiwa, a woman working in a big company office, trying to help pay off her father’s debt. The company president, Hokuto, then ends up pushing her into marrying him, because his grandfather wants them to. He convinces her because the debt will get paid off, and he can fully inherit the company.

Chiwa is reluctant, because she believes that marriage should only happen between two people who love each other. Hokuto doesn’t particularly care about love, but has already decided that he wouldn’t cheat or fool around with other women, whether there be love or not. He only cares about getting the company.

The two don’t get along particularly well, but they marry and start living together. There are several mishaps already, of course, but they’re obviously growing closer. Chiwa is still hesitant, and hugely embarrassed with anything physical, and very inexperienced. Hokuto is rather brusk and straightforward, not embarrassed, enjoys teasing Chiwa. They’re getting used to each other, including living together.

This was a pretty good start to the series, I think. I’m mostly looking forward to seeing their relationship grow and develop, as well as themselves as characters.

This rating and review are for the completed volumes.

The plot is pretty much your ordinary "forced/arranged marriage with hate to love couple" trope. The characters are not significant and pretty much stay true to the trope--and drama. Several earlier volumes are boring, but once they finally admitted that they love each other, the plot is getting more interesting, because instead of "misunderstanding drama", the plot moved forward to "how we solve this and that problem as a married couple", which for me is quite nice and realistic.

My favorite character is Hokuto, because despite his indifferent (earlier) attitude towards Chiwa and despite him going along with the arranged marriage for gaining position on top of Mamiya Group, he's wholeheartedly loyal to Chiwa, even tried his best to "act" like how husband supposed to be. He could be a jerk character who had many affairs with other women or simply ignoring Chiwa, since he didn't love her in the beginning, anyway, but no, he's so attentive to her and really tried to make her happy. Kudos for that!

I've been out of the manga game for a long while. Like, maybe 10 years long?
So when I started reading them again, & I decided I would go back adding to my meager collection, my eyes always went to this series.

That being said, I'm glad they did. This story begins fluffy, and comical, and maybe even a little bit sad. But I'm definitely looking forward to reading & acquiring the rest of the series. (:

Definite recommend.