[1] Leroy Douresseaux, writing for Comic Book Bin, enjoyed the setting of the manga and found Sohei in particular to be an interesting character.

Lawrence enjoyed the varied flashback techniques, including the all-black panels with objects drawn in white for painful memories.

[3] Holly Ellingwood, writing for Active Anime, felt that the art had "a sense of roughness" to it sometimes, despite being generally "clean" and showing attention to detail in the backgrounds.

[4] Katherine Farmar, writing for Comic Village, found Yamada's artwork and character designs offputting at first, but grew to enjoy the story.

[5] Shaenon Garrity, writing for Graphic Novel Review, described the manga as an example of modern series showing "more realistic gay characters in plausible modern settings",[6] and later called it "nicely-observed, unusually realistic story about a group of bohemian twentysomethings putting their lives together.