Mywifesson made an amazing review on the context behind this manga and it made me appreciate it a whole lot more than right after I finished reading it. The story talks about a young mangaka and his teacher, a former mangaka, and their collaboration to draw a good manga. The teacher is Watashiya Kaoru's self insert (the mangaka for Joou-sama no Eshi AND her hit piece Kodomo no Jikan). She breaks the fourth wall a lot by telling her struggles with Kodomo no Jikan and after it got published overseas. I think this context makes the manga incredibly fascinating, to see the point of viewof the author and her displease over how things were handled with her controversial series.

For the manga itself, 2 years can make a big difference but I feel like the quality difference between volume 2 and 3 is insane. The first 2 volumes felt slow and genuinely directionless. It felt like the storyline had nowhere to go neither did the characters.

However, starting from volume 3 it almost did a full 360. Shifting focus from the young high school protagonist to the teacher. The inclusion of their finished mangas and the development of the girls were great as well. I feel like volumes 1-2 and 3-4 felt almost like 2 different mangas. The quality shot up not only in art but in story, characters, comedy, and pacing. Sadly, I felt like those two first volumes were just so lackluster the last two didn't make up for it. I wish there was a couple more volumes of this after those last two.