Ogami Tsumiki to Ki Nichijou.
Tsumiki Ogami's Not-So-Ordinary Life

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Lately, I've been feeling like these kinds of manga are changing a bit. They still aim at the same audience, but the tone feels a little more grown-up. Maybe it's just me, but this one didn't come off as super childish, and I liked that.

Like people often say, the art is really solid. The characters look great, and the scenes are nicely put together. It's just fun to look at while reading.

Honestly, it's just a nice read. There's a good mix of lighthearted moments and cute stuff, but it also has some depth. It's not just fluff. I don't think you'll get bored, I definitely ... didn't. It has a nice vibe and something to say without trying too hard.

Tsumiki Ogami & The Strange Everyday Life is a romcom manga which presents us with the typical trope of a bland male protagonist meating a quirky girl, and how their relationship develops through everyday life.

Yutaka, the main protagonist is a boy who just entered highschool and finds himself lost in his own feelings, as he's been living just to fit in through the entirety of middle school, and so he chose to enroll into a high school full of Genjins or Mythfolk, which are as the name entails, mythical creatures that nowadays walk and live along humans, although they're kind of rare.
The other protagonist ... is Tsumiki, a werewolf girl who is direct, easy-going and frank with her feelings.
After the two hit it off nicely, Tsumiki promises to help Yutaka find his own feelings (what he likes, what is precious to him etc.)

The art is fantastic, it's not like it's deserving of a museum but it works really well for this story, it's cute and well done. Nothing to add in this department since it's just quite good.

Overall, I think it's a really cute read. It reminded me a lot of Komi-san with the side characters that have very straight to the point personalities and gimmicks, but well developed conflicts, and with the dynamic duo of one MC helping the other.
While it's full of typical romance tropes (nothing burger boy meets quirky girl, the girl is really popular -although this isn't a main stay of the genre it's quite typical- and the boy is kind of a loser but through sheer kindness and genuinenity he wins her over, there's a flirty side character who wins over girls but that doesn't affect the heroine, there's a flirty girl that falls in love with the MC despite him being really boring just because he didn't fall in love at first sight like every other NPC) and the structure overall is really typical, the conflicts and good writing are enough to make it really enjoyable. It's not boring at all at first, and the side characters while simple can be really endearing at times (Senga and Mirei really won me over).

Sometimes the cute moments and misunderstandings get a little on the nose, but it's usually well done. My favorite thing about this manga is how beautiful the emotional moments are, and how genuine the characters feel. It's really cute.
Also I enjoy that most of the misunderstandings don't get you thinking ''well that's just stupid'', the characters are mostly pretty emotionally and socially inteligent, Tsumiki herself surprised me in this department. That kind of changes with the succubus character, I felt like they kind of dumbed down Yutaka for that but the rest of the time they feel real.
Also, to the people that say that Yutaka should be removed, I disagree, he adds to the experience of meeting the Mythfolk and his conflict is well done enough. In most anime romcoms it's usually the bland MC helping the girl out, but I aprecciate it being the other way around this time, he feels like a good character even though he falls into the boring loser archetype kind of. Tsumiki is also kind of a ''everything always goes well for me'' character, but because of her role in the story, mature personality, own feelings and position in life, it feels correct. I really aprecciated her personality, she feels like a very direct girl but nothing too moe to make it feel super unrealistic.

So yeah, kind of a typical romcom so don't come in here expecting to find something crazy, it's just a cute slice of life with well written characters, not interesting enough to give it a 10 but it has sauce to be enjoyable. 7/10 for me.

8 chapters in and its bang average. While the art is fantastic, its a fairly generic comedy romance manga that doesn't really appeal on any one front.

Particularly its protagonist. I'm not exactly sure what the point of even having his POV is. His motivations to better himself with the help of Tsumiki is clear, but he's relegated to the side so often, that I really doubt this could even be considered a shounen.

Because it really isn't. The main star and focus of conflicts and also the person who resolves all issues is Tsumiki. While our protagonist is simply incredibly passive with little to no ... unique personality or any significance added to the plot.

Which is a shame because this is marketed as a Shounen. Media aimed towards young teen boys, however the work is far far from it. They should've scrapped Yukata and should've had Tsumiki as the central protagonist. And also do away with this awful romance writing which is simply the MC overreacting a bunch of times and Tsumiki being "cool". It comes off very obnoxious.

Overall bang average. Average protagonist, decent comedy, great artstyle and finally average characters.