tl;dr: An incredibly generic rom-com in which very little romantic progress is made and the comedy gets pretty dull. The original premise of this is that a girl named Yui as the ‘Seatmate Killer’ tries to make boys that sit next to her fall in love with her just to shoot them down, but is unable to make a guy named Yuuki fall in love with her. This premise isn’t quite accurate though, and the reality of the situation results in a much more bog standard rom-com without any particularly interesting gimmick to it. It’s the typical story where one-character falls in love with another butis incredibly slow at actually advancing their relationship.

Yuuki is an emotionless airhead that’s also pretty dense. Yui is an overtly energetic girl that’s trying too hard to get people to like her. There’s some background given to flesh them out, but it’s mostly just described in passing and doesn’t play much of a role in the actual story. It also doesn’t feel like they grow at all over the course of the manga despite the attempts at making it seem like they have. A lot of the side characters in the manga also have attempts at character arcs, but they either go nowhere or they make progress in such a way that it makes their whole story feel meaningless and like a waste of time. Early on things feel like they are progressing steadily enough, with Mina’s arc feeling especially solid, but it’s all downhill from there as it continues to throw things into the mix.

The manga ends without much progress having been made. And honestly, when I finished the manga I didn’t even mind because I didn’t care about the relationship at all. A rom-com where you don’t even feel like rooting for the main couple is just broken. It’s hard to get invested because the characters have zero chemistry and just overall aren’t very likable. Honestly, I think it was more amusing watching things fail than it would been satisfying to see relationship progress. The reason they aren’t likable is because the writing doesn’t really do anything properly with them. This is a partial adaptation of a light novel so I understand that it isn’t adapting the entire story. But even considering that, far too little of substance happens.

The comedy is also pretty weak. It’s almost entirely of the type that has no wit to it. For example, the type where making references or breaking the fourth wall is supposed to be funny in and of itself without any further joke to things. Or the type where characters just being overtly exaggerated or unexpectedly stupid is supposed to be humorous. I think such comedy is fine in small doses, but with it throwing so much at you it actually got kind of annoying. The art style is pretty generic, but the quality was pretty solid at first so it’s decent enough. It gets worse over time though, with an over reliance on chibi and just in general a lot of low effort art.