This is quite possibly the worst example of friendship ever. I'm the kind of person for whom friendship is important(not more than love though), not feeling I had a place in my family, friends were the only place I could relax. I consider people my friends regardless of distance or time, even without talking to them for decades. I've only come to dislike people after feeling that they weren't friends, regardless of big fights, my friends are my friends. But this is a story about a really shitty friendship actually. The girl loses interest in someone just because of one comment... that's ridiculous. In life people have to criticize you, and you have to take your flaws. And you should have to work on mitigating some of them. The idea of you being whatever and people having to like you anyway is ridiculous. It just shows what a bad person they are. Not to mention how would he had known how she felt, all he knew was that she wanted them to spend time together. Later on, she even points out how ridiculous it would be for someone in love to put another person aside from their lover as their top priority. Both friends end up being too needy, and both from complexes about not being liked or by being liked by a "superior" person. I had friends I saw everyday, them getting girlfriends would have been something I'd be glad about for them. There's plenty of people who's boyfriends or girlfriends hang out with their friend but she couldn't even make one day for him even after getting to know him. The girl in the fourth story would call her a wimp!*I really like the girl in the fourth story apparently!
The second part of the story starts off with a very real thing guys see if they hang out with girls(or girls see if they hang out with girls). And he's right as far as the girls feelings towards the guy were, neither of them cared one bit about him as a human being at all. That guy really was too good for her, and her friend was dumb about giving them space too. The second boy starts off lashing out at her(Like a little baby, though why not her friend, I figure it's because her niceness seemed fake to him but still off the mark there) but it turns into an interesting story around here. The third one just has an explanation from the girls side but it doesn't add much, since it's still more about the other girl's relationship with the boy, we do see her realize that she can't complain about the boy though. She also explains people only like her for her face but they don't, they dislike her for her personality and you can't blame them. They try to bring it up as her just saying whats on her mine but we see at the start that's mutated into her closing off everyone for the smallest thing.
There's no fourth continuation, the first boy could have used one, and that's a shame. The Fourth story is a pleasant one about a girl who helps one of her friends knowing she'll probably hurt her by discovering the truth about a scummy guy. She meets a decent boy along the way, while talking about people, why people would two time, date a cheater, and whether it'd be better to not say anything. I like what she said in the beginning about people who don't break up being wimps, totally agree, but the boy in this is even worst since he's not someone that fell in love and doesn't back out but someone who does it deliberately. Her friend's ending has her being an idiot but you've probably seen this in other manga or perhaps in person, luckily I don't care about her friend and the main girl ends up just fine.
One of the problems with this, in general, is that in the first three stories the friendship is twisted into almost/pseudo shoujo-ai territory. But it'll leave people who like that peeved(some people may feel down right insulted). It kinda screws it up for everyone by getting what a good friendship is really about wrong. A good friend doesn't just accept you, they try to help you by giving you advice, even if that means pointing out how you were wrong, and like I mentioned, if one little criticism is all it takes for you to come to hate everyone, then you are a pretty crappy person that no one can ever say bad things about(assuming it's to your face, people who talk behind other people's backs are crap). The boys in this are a better example of a good friendship(till one of them drops out of focus), almost every shoujo is a better example really. that sisters over misters is ridiculous and unnecessary, friendships don't always last forever(seeing as both characters only have one good friend each), and a lover is someone that gradually becomes as family in terms of importance, some friends can also reach that pleatau, so it's more a matter of who it is. So you have to wonder if it's suppose to be funny. If you read into it too much maybe, maybe only one of them, or maybe the writing just screwed that over. There aren't any answers since we aren't able to read their thoughts once they get a chapter. You can call it open ended but I wouldn't, I don't get that feel. It just isn't clear enough because it didn't bother or the writing fumbled.
The story telling is marred by stupid behaviour in the first chapter in a big way. The story telling itself seems good, and it starts to find some equilibrium by the second story. But it's still the story about people acting overly stupid. especially the second girl who's overly sensitive, insensitive(unable to sympathize with a friend that was hurt and crying!), and closed off.
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