YMMV / Bouquet for an Ugly Girl

• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Opinions of Akabane are divided between those who see him as a sympathetic atoner or a validation-seeking coward that should grow a pair already and properly apologize to Tabata.
  • Keisuke is either a flawed but likeable child or an insufferable brat who treats everyone but Kanda like garbage. Alternatively, there's those who like him but feel he's not interesting enough to deserve all the A Day in the Limelight chapters he has.
• Broken Base: Out of all of the romances featured in the manga, Keisuke's Precocious Crush on Kanda is easily the most divisive. While many fans think is adorable and that Kanda is a likeable character, other fans aren't fond of it, either out of finding the chapters uninteresting, feeling their relationship is doomed to never go anywhere for obvious reasons or feel it has too much screentime dedicated to it. There's also those worried it may end with a Maybe Ever After conclusion which is not an idea the fanbase is fond of.
• Hollywood Homely:
  • While Tabata does look less traditionally pretty than Sumire, Otsuka or the average animanga protagonist for that matter and definitely sells her part as an isolated introvert with No Social Skills, she hardly lives up to the "ugly" part of the title, with a major part of the readership seeing her as The Cutie or average looking at worst. It's a bit of a justified example however in that besides the occasional Jerkass extra, no character seems to call her ugly as much as they are indifferent about her, and most of the time it's Tabata herself who is proclaiming herself ugly in her thoughts.
  • Yoshida Dai, a coworker of Ueno and Akabane is mentioned to be overshadowed by both of them but he doesn't look particulary bad nor worse that neither of the two. In fact his design is quite close to how Ueno looks.
• Narm: The ending of Chapter 40. Tabata is about to answer Ueno's confession only for a new Bishōnen to appear out of nowhere, recognizing Tabata, heavily implying they had history together . It sounds like the type of contrived development that you would expect from a Soap Opera in an attempt to prolong the story. Thankfully the following chapter revealed he wasn't a Romantic False Lead but a Innocently Insensitive ex-classmate that accidentally awakened her insecurities.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Sumire wasn't well liked at first, given early chapters portrayed her as a False Friend to Tabata whose only intention was to steal Ueno for herself and her overall unplesant inside thoughts towards anyone that wasn't Ueno. As the series progresses, the manga started showing her Hidden Depths and she gained Ship Tease with Gotanda setting up her Character Development to Becoming the Mask which gained her some fans who saw her as a compelling Jerk with a Heart of Gold instead of the Bitch in Sheep's Clothing she looked like in early chapters. Once Ueno finally rejects her and she becomes a true friend to Tabata, the animosity towards the character was gone with many readers actually feeling sorry for her.
• Take That, Scrappy!: Those who dislike Keisuke were cheering when all the girls in his class called him out for his bratty attitude towards Kanda in Chapter 57.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The Secret Relationship between Ueno and Tabata is revealed to most of the important characters in the following chapter after it starts, is still secret for everyone who's not close friends but still comes up as a letdown that all the possible shenanigans this could have lead to, only lasted one chapter.
• Values Dissonance: Chapter 53 involves five high school students and one college student going in a group date, besides the latter one feeling the age gap is causing some distance with the girls, no one seems to find nothing odd about an adult going on a date with a lot of teenagers with the intention of getting a girlfriend.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Little Girls?: The art style, archetypes, and constant mention of shoujo romance manga would make this a fit in any shoujo magazine, but it is a seinen manga.