After Coincidentally Saving the New Transfer Student’s Little Sister, We Gradually Grew Closer Chapter 26 Discussion

A couple of the negative reviews here are... well totally wrong in super weird ways.

I have no idea what they are talking about with the MC suddenly changing or being self-insert tr*sh. Yes, he's disliked in the classroom... but what does that have to do with being infatuated with a pretty girl at first sight? How is that changing? And his behavior all seems pretty consistent with what we're told about his past - willingly being the wet blanket on the rampant escalation of social pressure. We've seen him do it, and are told that's how he's been. It's all consistent.

Yeah he's also a top student, but it seems his life mostly consists of school, tutoring, and studying. He's obviously being presented as intelligent, but he's not walking around discovering new math every time he gets a little bored. I really wouldn't describe a character in this situation as a Mary Sue. He's a bit mature for his age (highschool) but seems likely to have a past that forced him to mature faster. It hasn't been said yet, but he lives alone (again, in highschool) and doesn't want to talk about it, so... being a bit mature seems fine.

As for the teacher talking so awfully about the MC? I have no idea. The teacher in that scene literally told the FML that she should look for the ML if she has some trouble because he's reliable. The rest of what she said was basically semi-ambiguous advice about how to get along better with him. How is that talking awfully about ML? It's on-point enough that it's obviously not talking about a different novel, but it's so entirely the opposite of what the actual chapter said.

Anyway. So far it seems pretty good for what it is. It's sickeningly sweet. The MC is a bit dense but, again, overly mature over-thinking highschool guy. It's not so bad at this point that it's remotely unreasonable. The teacher feels like she'll probably push things along if she has to. The MC is also going out of his way to avoid the really dumb typical misunderstandings or situations in these sorts of stories. It does a good job of capturing the typical feeling you'd expect for this sort of thing, without just being another retread of the same damn thing again. It's nice and refreshing. I enjoy it quite a bit.