Reception
The series was received negatively by Mangacritic.com where it was listed as fifth on Manga Critic's "The 2009 Manga Hall of Shame Inductees". Mangacritic criticized the series' lack of comedy, art style, and the personality of girls stating the author must hate girls. Kurt Hasseler of Yen Press rebutted Mangacritics review and disagreed on all the points and praised the characters and the art style. Joy Kim of manga life also praised the art style saying the characters were distinctive. She criticized the relationship of the lead couple, Si-Joon Lee and Mu-Yeon Park, saying that Mu-Yeon should not be so sweet and protective of someone who does not return her feelings. Manga life praised the character Ji-Oh Yun as the most interesting character in the series and that his relationship with Mu-Hwa Park is interesting.
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