Please Put Them On, Takamine-san

It’s rather a commentary for those who read at least some of this manga.
(I’m at 57th chapter while writing this.)
Some potential spoilers, you’ve been warned.

The tiddies are nice, the story sucks. No character development, no relationship development, it all feels like a perpetual humiliation ritual. Shirota-kun is stuck in the information noise, not knowing how to tell a taunt, a trap, from a genuine, honest signal. Honestly, he should have flipped the table at least a dozen times, turned back and walked away, consequences be damned. I don’t think he’s low-T, but he certainly lacks dignity, and, unfortunately, he`s not too bright. He never seems to catch up in the right moment and simply ask some clarifying questions: “Do you want me to look?”; “Do you want me to touch you? How?”; “Are you honest saying that?” The ball is in his court all the time and he seems unable or unwilling to do anything beyond a desperate save.

The prez on the other hand is a dishonest, lying coward, cheater and fraud, using her ability for the most petty crap imaginable, and the fact that she’s never been called out about it poisons the story almost beyond saving. She toys mercilessly with Shirota, stomping on his feelings, destroying what’s left of his confidence, making him question his every word and action. Vague hints of her supposed love and lust for Shirota are of no consequence to their relationship whatsoever and certainly do not make up for all the humiliation and stress she deals towards him. Moments of slight warmth get immediately cowardly covered up by another abusive comment or action, only adding to Shirota’s confusion.

At 57 chapters, the story is unsalvagable, with the exception of a major table flip: Shirota finally snapping and walking away (extremely unlikely, as much as I’d like to see it), something happening to the prez’s ability rendering it unusable or at most erratic, appearance of someone other than Shirota immune to the power of panty time machine who could call the prez out for the fraud she is, or maybe the time police finally locating the perp responsible for all this petty time jump crap, stripping her of the ability, maybe imposing heavy limits on usage and/or delivering a couple dozen of much overdue bitch slaps.

All above boils down to the author’s inability to write a meaningful development of characters and their relationship. It’s all stuck much like it was in the beginning. When starting this manga, I hoped that over time the prez will relax to the point of being more honest with Shirota, promoting him from a de facto slave to a trusted companion, limiting the usage of the panty time machine and/or using it for, say, some hilarious mischief instead of nurturing a swollen ego and, in the end, some laid back sexy times. But here we are. I lost much of a hope for any meaningful development when in the 12th chapter the prez did not tell Shirota that she was the girl from the park. Instead she chose her power trip.

Rant over, I’ll show myself out.