the main characters, Natsuho Nekogasaki the Hateful Cat and Kyouichi Nekimi, in a story that revolves around their struggles to understand each other.Story: 8Have you ever heard of "curiosity killed the cat?" Well that is an important detail in this manga. Natsuho and Kyouichi do a lot of things out of pure curiosity and each of them take this trait differently. One is to afraid to take on new ideas while the other is openly free and bold, or stupid. Natsuho's and Kyouichi's past is more intricate than expected and that was relatively interesting to watch it play out. It's interesting because you can't just read the first couple chapters and say that will be the tone of the story throughout the entire manga. With the cute and playful parts bring forth serious and unexpected results. What's also great is that every chapter is not a filler. This means that every chapter will be recollected on and won't just be passed on like it never happened.Art: 7The artwork is like any generic anime or manga and that was ideal for this story. The artwork was done with a good and satisfying feeling to it. When characters' made sad faces or angry faces, the point was shown. It wasn't too difficult to understand what the character's thoughts were. This, itself, passes the acceptable line and what brought forth more points was the smooth transitions. There were no rushing or too much confusing parts. Out of all 64 chapters, only one transition brought upon confusion and that was because of bad transitioning to the setting, since there wasn't a box saying ten minutes or how long ago it was. Well in this story, there are no boxes telling you that you're in a flashback at all, but there's not much need as you can tell when there is one taking place.Characters: 8The characters themselves were great. You can tell who each and everyone of them are by their silhouettes and that itself is great character designing. Knowing a character based on their silhouettes in a manga means that the character designing was perfectly executed. This also brings forth that each and every character had their own and very unique personality. There is a broad amount of characters in this manga and you can tell how they would talk and how they would sound based on their designs. As the story progresses, more characters are introduced and that makes the manga feel very lively. Of course, the manga can't have too many characters at once as it's too difficult to keep them all involved in the scene, but the author is always saying their excuses of being unable to help the main characters. The only downside to a vast amount of characters is that only some of them will be chosen to get close to the main characters and show up a lot more than others. It's understandable, but as you read, you want to get to know them better and have a better understanding of who they are and how they got there.Enjoyment: 8Enjoying as you read is very important as you wouldn't enjoy reading a book you're forced to read. This story should definitely be given some thought as there is always something happening. There are always new characters that liven up the atmosphere of the story and bring joy. To there being plots that always make you focus on what will happen next which brings anticipation. Every chapter opens up with a powerful opening and at the end, you'll end up wanting more. There aren't too many chapters that make you end with you saying that was a good place to stop reading for the day. Opening up powerful and leaving you to yearn for more is an excellent way to hook readers to continue reading.Overall: 8From the beginning to the end of the manga, "Akitaka" brought forth a manga that made me regret procrastinating reading this story earlier. I haven't read too much manga with a variety of character and art designs, but from reading past manga, manhua, and manhwa, I can say that this was a great story that isn't too long.I encourage you to at least read the first two volumes before you decide that it's not your type of story as manga aren't always the same tone as the first volume.