I read through six volumes of this series in three days, and I'm giving it three stars overall, but mostly on the strength of the first and last volumes and the Barakamon series of which it is a spin-off. This series is actually pretty disappointing. The set-up seems humorous at first, with our hero believing himself to be the most hated person at his high school, while he is actually admired as the coolest. But the repetition of all the gags around this single theme stretches the limits of my patience by the end. I like the introduction of the side characters in the first few volumes, but then the creator flounders about, filling the latter volumes with high school manga cliches such as a class trip to Kyoto and a school festival. And having introduced the side characters, all the creator can think to do with them is pit them against a set of exact doppelgangers from another school for several volumes? Wasted potential. ( )