The story has spend a great deal of time laboring two themes that have already been belabored by many other manga (aspiring mangaka; two passionate, nervous, restrained lovers), and has not added anything new to the treatment of either theme as such.
Meanwhile, the theme of a superheroine coming into the life of a girl who long needed and wanted a hero has been largely unexplored.
The rôle of Nikaidou-san seems now only to be to validate Tadokoro-san as the real hero. It seems to me that Tatsubon has fallen for the temptation of making himself a hero in this story by making a proxy for himself a heroine.
@Oeconomist
While I see the point of your critique, I can't share the feeling that the quality of the manga has dropped.
At least not yet. I still enjoy this a lot.
As someone who draws manga, I can relate to wanting to throw the background art to someone else to handle even without determining if they can draw first... drawing background sucks...
I think part of your dissapointment comes from the odd pacing of the series. Odd in the sense that it dosen't really fit its format, it's paced like a weekly 20 page manga not a weekly 5 page one, thus things are extra slow and things you want to see happen even slower.
I have no reason to belive that developments on the plot threads you want to see WON'T happen, but it might take a while.
Your view is operationally equivalent to a claim that the series can recover. And, yes, it can. I hope that it does; but my current expectations are that it will reach a stage at which it seems to stall out, then be declared to be on hiatus, and eventually be abandoned.
@Oeconomist The biggest problem is that there is no real plot or problem. I don't think it will be abandonned, it will most likely finish when Tatsubon will run out of idea for blocking Nikaidou doing nyan nyan with Tadoroko, i mean her gay level is about the same as her homonym in Futaribeya.