YMMV / I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up

• Broken Base: Readers are divided over whether the manga's brevity helps prevent the story from getting too drawn out or keeps it from going anywhere.
• Funny Moments: When Machi and Hana are meeting with the Morimotos, as Machi explains that she isn't into guys, she's awkwardly reading off a cue card that Hana is holding.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: Some reviewers are critical of how short the manga is, and believe that it never seems to go anywhere. A few readers expressed disbelief that it ended so soon.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • Machi doesn't believe Ayaka for a moment when Ayaka claims that Hana's having a one-night stand with her. She asks Ayaka to put Hana on, then gets the location and goes over to pick Hana up.
  • Machi finally gets the last laugh over her controlling and abusive parents when she and Hana send a "Just Married" card to her parents.
• Spiritual Predecessor: To Roomshare, another Kodama one-shot. In Roomshare, Tomoka, having signed a lease on an apartment only for her boyfriend to dump her, asks her friend Saki to stay with her to split the rent. When the landlady sees the two women and recalls that there was supposed to be a married couple there, Saki lies and says that she's Tomoka's wife, a lie Saki hopes will come true.
• Woolseyism: The original title referred to Hana as Machi's kohai, a primarily Japanese term that doesn't translate well into English. The localization changed it to "Best Friend," which makes their relationship easier to understand for Westerners and emphasizes that the two women had a close (if platonic) relationship prior to getting "married."