The manga relied heavily on time skips and frequently failed to convey character development through showing instead of telling; major examples are failling to build the chemistry between Takigawa and Nagaoka, the author expects the reader to fill the void of said development that supposedly happened during the 40-day summer vacation; it doesn't matter whether the author intended to withhold the information about their relationship for the sake of 'plot twist' reveal, it's still a lazy writing and forced, and cheap plot progression for the sake of shock value.
Another example is the author conveniently placing that two-dimensional bully tsundere bimbo; Sugawa, in a situation where she seeks help, and Kurosawa happens to be there at the right moment, and coincidentally with the girl with whom she arguably had the worst relationship, and what a coincidence that she broke up with her boyfriend who beat Kurosawa and being available at the right time. Yet people think it's cute and natural. I'll return later to talk about Sugawa.
The manga contains a number of contradictory double standard messages, such as the author comparing Kurosawa's situation to Kitahara's because both were bullied. Are we supposed to forget how Kurosawa was ostracised as a form of retaliation? And how several other students began to sympathise with Kurosawa and assisted him in overcoming bullying, such as by providing emotional support or cleaning up his desk. Yet we are expected to be proud of Kurosawa for overcoming his own adversity while pitying Kitahara for not adopting Kurosawa's mentality and perspective on bullying.
While the manga effectively depicted the negative consequences of child bullying, it failed to maintain a sense of authenticity; we have Kurosawa's friends who supported him, such as Nagaoka, Takigawa, Pizza-ta, and Kobayashi and Erika (who were both presented as the class leaders and mediators), that's nice and all, but they all did absolutely nothing for Kitahara! All they did was watch the girl being constantly hurt and abused, the only one who noticed this was Kurosawa, who also did nothing but preach to the victim, this is an outright double-standard and makes the entire cast hypocrite.
And now back to Sugawa and her minions, who were constantly bullying Kitahara to the point of worsening her social anxieties; skipping school and being shut-in, and developing suicidal tendencies, yet Sugawa and her group, like the rest of the class, did absolutely nothing to show remorse and responsibility by reaching out to Kitahara, visiting her house, and self-admitting to that they were fully responsible for the way she acts, yet we are supposed to disregard all of that with an off-screen apology and believe that they have matured. What happened to "show, don't tell"?