It was serialized in Akita Shoten's seinen manga magazine Young Champion from 2006 to 2009, with its chapters collected in eight tankōbon volumes.

(ROMAN here is a rendering of romance, vernacular fiction; the club's supposed purpose is the search for ghosts, UFOs, and the paranormal.)

Manga Worth Reading's Ed Sizemore commends the first volume's artwork saying, "Where it really stands out is in the emotionally (sexual or otherwise) intense moments.

He further comments that Hideo "reminds me of the Mark Heard lyric, “You will weather well, in a climate of love.” I can't help but hope that he will rises from the ashes of this relationship.

[23] For all its kinks and fetishes, Sundome is surprisingly dull when it comes to plot ideas: a challenge against the brawny martial arts club, a creepy nighttime ghost hunt, a sneaky attempt to get into the nurse's office, and other paint-by-number school comedy scenarios.

Enjoyment of the story is further hindered by the crowded, frenzied layouts: a lot of essential action is crammed into painfully small panels, with big blocks of dialogue to make things even more visually strained.

And if that doesn't hurt your eyes enough, then the designs surely will: it's a fool's errand trying to tell the male characters apart (as if they even had personalities in the first place), and the only way Kurumi would be considered attractive is if you have a thing for oddly skinny girls.

Kevin Leathers reviewing for the UK Anime Network criticises the artwork for exaggerating "certain aspects of the body".

[26] Pop Culture Shock's Erin Finnegan criticises the manga by saying "I found the book neither funny nor titillating.

He further comments that "love comedy fans will shy away from the general mood of degradation, not to mention the grotesque art, but to its credit the manga never pretends to be cute; it’s florid sex-obsession and adolescent angst from beginning to end, and gradually it turns into a psychodrama about Kurumi’s upbringing and the connection between these two lonely souls".

Much of this book revolves around sexual situations and fanservice, which I don’t feel works as well with a ‘comicky’ art style.

But for now, the art and story seem to wrestle with each other during the sexual situations.The Japan Times's Mark Schilling condemns the first Sundome film for trying to be a pink film by illustrating "its fetishistic eroticism and raunchy sense of humor" through "Atsushi Ninomiya as the hugely frustrated hero, behave as much as possible like the manga originals, which involves much exaggerated posing, moaning, howling and other hormone-driven behavior".