ralen356 's review for:

The Wallflower, Vol. 1 by Tomoko Hayakawa

DID NOT FINISH: 10%

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I wasn't sure if I wasn't gonna like this, so I decided to try reading the first volume, and it didn't go so well. First, the manga panels are super busy with lots of stuff filling almost all the empty space. And a lot of the speech bubbles as well as other stuff overlap into other panels, so individual panels kind of meshed together, so I felt overwhelmed. I won't say I had trouble following what happened, but the art itself was almost distracting from the story itself. Second, the humor isn't great. I think I've heard the same lines from the girl and the boys a million times. It's almost always something along the lines of "I can't look into the light, I'm a pitiful girl" or "She's a pitiful girl, complain complain". I'm already tired of it. I'm painstakingly aware how "pitiful" she is. This leads into my next point which is the lack of individuality between the four boys. I mean they are almost always all four together. Maybe it was my bad for not paying attention to who's who, but again, it feels like they're all the same person. Except for this one scene where one of the guys is

taking the girl home from the playground.

Which I really did appreciate, and felt it was spectacularly swoon worthy, but then the next scene was back to all four boys again. I think, if my memory is correct, this did lead into character development for the girl, but still, I was hoping for the focus to stay on the boys for longer. I will say they did make some atrocious comments towards the girl, which I really didn't appreciate. Though I'm not knocking the idea that they grow from their mistaken ideas. 
I do want to emphasize that despite the character flaws, I could have read on longer if the art style wasn't as distracting as it was. I don't doubt that these characters could have phenomenal character development later on, but it's not worth it for me.