This manga is the kind that you either end up liking or not. I ended up not exactly hating it but not liking it either.
I jumped onto reading this because the art looked nice and the premise(though it's been done before) might turn out interesting with the mangaka's creativity. It's pretty average, I guess.
Our female lead, wanting to belong among her peers who've all had boy-experience, lies up an imaginary boyfriend(with the aid of her bestfriend) to impress the 'it' girls (who, amusingly, the hero comments to himself as the 'bitch duo').
Pressured into showing evidence of her boyfriend, she takes a picture of a hot guy she happens to pass by. Things happen, he blackmails her into being his dog, yadda yadda, he helps her pull off the fake relationship. So far, the story goes like that.
There's bullying of the heroine, an a**hole of a hero, a he's-so-mean-but-oh-noes-I-love-him heroine, and so on...the usual shoujo stuff.
I could have looked past it all if only it was written better. I really liked the art and really tried liking the characters (which I did around the beginning) but this just turns out pretty 'meh' for me. I'll come back if the plot gets interesting, like, Oh I dunno, some hero groveling maybe?
I'm a huge fan of hero groveling (because he's freaking lucky to have some girl, albeit a pretty wimpy girl, put up with his shit) and I love seeing it in stories where there's such a huge imbalance in the dynamics of the relationship. I hope it happens here and soon because I'm on the edge of dropping this.
As the reviewer below me said, I too would like to see some backbone from the heroine. This story can still be saved and maybe the comments in the future can read "oh, it was bad in the start but turns around around chapter bleep". Hopefully.