History YMMV / TheresNoFreakingWayIllBeYourLoverUnless

** There are also plenty of discussions about whether Satsuki should be shipped with Renako or with Mai.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Mai is the biggest one. Some fans find the way she tries to be compassionate and romantic while remaining smug to be amusing and enjoy the depths given to her characters. Some readers, however, can't stand her arrogance, feeling she is too self-centered to be in a relationship, and arguing that the attempts to show her more sympathetic side are just there so the series can pretend her worst flaws aren't real flaws.

* GrowingTheBeard: Reactions to Volume 1 were... divisive, to say the least. The plot centered around the bet between Renako and Mai is seen as either a inventive way to develop their relationship or a contrivance to get two incompative characters together so the plot can happen, Mai is a huge BaseBreakingCharacter, and [[spoiler:the attempted sexual assault]] at the climax of the volume wasn't handled very well. Still, readers who remained for the following volumes tend to have better opinions of the series. Expanding the scope of the plot to the entire quintet instead of just Mai and Renako is seen as a plus because it allows the author the explore their characters in new ways that wouldn't be possible with just the two, and the net of relationships between five friends is given lots of attention, instead of just focusing on the feelings all the girls have for the main character as some Harem Series do. Finally, Volume 4 showed the series can handle more serious subjects like [[spoiler:Renako's self-deprecation, which is explored in detail in this volume.]]

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Mai is the biggest one. Some fans find the way she tries to be compassionate and romantic whiel remaining smug to be amusing and enjoy the depths given to her characters. Some readers, however, can't stand her arrogance, feeling she is too self-centered to be in a relationship, and arguing that the attempts to show her more sympathetic side are just there so the series can pretend her worst flaws aren't real flaws.

* GrowingTheBeard: Reactions to Volume 1 were... divisive, to say the least. The plot centered around the bet between Renako and Mai is seen as either a inventive way to develop their relationship or a contrivance to get two incompative characters together so the plot can happen, Mai is a highly divisive character that many readers judged to be unlikeable, and [[spoiler:the attempted sexual assault]] at the climax of the volume wasn't handled very well. Still, readers who remained for the following volumes tend to have better opinions of the series. Expanding the scope of the plot to the entire quintet instead of just Mai and Renako is seen as a plus because it allows the author the explore their characters in new ways that wouldn't be possible with just the two, and the net of relationships between five friends is given lots of attention, instead of just focusing on the feelings all the girls have for the main character as some Harem Series do. Finally, Volume 4 showed the series can handle more serious subjects like [[spoiler:Renako's self-deprecation, which is explored in detail in this volume.]]