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Finished Tsujido-san no Junai Road. Hmmm I actually liked it better than Takahiro's previous stuff, specifically Majikoi. IMHO The Shonan setting is more interesting than power level martial arts academy. And having less characters and only 3 heroines instead of 5/6/12 was better. I took Maki first then Renna and lastly Ai, and that's also the order of the routes I like from the most to the least most. Not that I dislike Ai but Ai in Maki's route was well done. Character preference is Ai>Renna>Maki. Besides the heroines and Azusa, I also liked Tiara alot. Not in the heroine target sense but I thought Tiara was a very good support character for someone with no development.

Hmmm, though if I gotta say one thing about it, I gotta say I felt like there was a big chance missed here. It's a yankee setting and there's also talks about getting beat up so badly people get hospitalized but it's shrugged off shonen manga style. Specifically there's a scene in the prologue where Maki was about to seriously beat up the MC, a step further and the story and tone could've gotten darker and more serious but then it's like the writer woke up from having to seriously write an adult story and quickly switched the mood to happy go lucky moe moe time. But well, whatever I guess they're happy with this style of shonen jump writing but the setting was there for something better to happen if they wanted to.

Good read, I give it 9 butts out of 10.