Tonikaku Kawaii is okay:

I needed something to read, so I went with Tonikaku Kawaii even though the anime is coming this October.  It's not like the anime will cover the entire manga so I'll get something out of the experience all the same.

The manga started off strong, but faded into irrelevancy once the plot (and the romance) stopped progressing.  It's ridiculous for a married couple to stay chaste on their wedding day much less for months or years like with this manga.  It's just stupid.  Marriage is about sex and children.  Anything short of that isn't marriage.  In fact, according to the Catholic church, if you haven't consummated your marriage it never actually happened and can be annulled at whim.  So the whole premise of the manga is a bait and switch.

It isn't a story about newlyweds, it's a story about a couple that lives together but for whatever reason doesn't have sex.  It's false advertising.

So this flirty couple, the only two characters essentially in the entire story, who have absolutely no problems in life, flirt with each other every chapter, but it's all meaningless because their flirting will never amount to anything -- ie, no sex and no kids, so why even bother?

Am I supposed to think that getting cockteased by a girl every day and every night where we sleep next to each other is some sort of enjoyable relaxing slice of life?  More like hell.

Boys do not want to take girls out to the aquarium or the amusement park or go shopping together.  They want to have sex and children.  All of the above flirting activities are, at best, payments in exchange for sex and children.  If the girl refuses to do her part and add anything to the quality of your life, you're just a sucker wasting your time and money.

Honestly the only reason you would ever go to an aquarium or amusement park is to take your kids on a family outing.  Adults are not interested or impressed by this nonsense.  It's incredibly boring.  All dates are boring and way too expensive -- that's why given the choice to do what they want, people stay at home and watch tv or play video games.

Another problem I have with this manga is they've lived together all this time but there's absolutely zero communication about vital issues.  Nasa should be asking why they aren't having sex from night 1, much less months later.  He should demand a clear explanation for all of her secrets and mysteries (of which she has many).  He hasn't asked her if she wants kids, how many, if she intends to work or stay at home, what kind of income stream they need to support a house with x number of kids, nothing.  There's no communication about anything practical or important.  He hasn't asked her what religion or politics she has, and if they disagree, how they will raise their kids together.  This is absolutely essential stuff.

All they do is flirt with each other, taking trips, going on dates, going to the movies.  It's all so juvenile.  If that's the sort of relationship they wanted, why marry?  Why live together?  Why not date like little kids do?

The girl is cute and the many references to other series are funny.  I'd expect as much from Hata Kenjurou.  But with such a meandering, lifeless plot -- supposedly focused on this couple's romance but actually not romantic at all -- it can't compete with Kanojo mo Kanojo much less my manga hall of famers.

When I think of the substantive conversations in '100 Waifus' between Christopher and HaruHaru, or Christopher and Kokona, or Christopher and Kirino, or Christopher and Wendy, or Christopher and Rose, or Christopher and Himeno, or Christopher and Nemu, or Christopher and Akane, or Christopher and Mirajane, or Christopher and Asa, or Christopher and Cute, and the meaningless fluff this couple talks about, it's such a letdown.  In my book, the married couples pour their hearts out and leave nothing secret.  What they're happy about, what they're sad about, what they're thinking and what they want.  Their views on life and the world and each other.

Instead, in Tonikaku Kawaii, all we get is vapid stuff like 'let's make this buffet more fun by you choosing what I'll eat and I'll choose what you eat.'  What does it matter??  In the end all food tastes good, especially anything served at a restaurant.  Is this really worth fussing over? 

Still, it's all I've got, so I'll go on reading all the same.  A shame the Olympics were cancelled. . .