it was actually the exact opposite for me lol
i read this first and didnt know it had an anime until recently. i loved the adaptation but i feel like it didnt really convey the silliness and awkwardness between the characters as well as the manga. i do like them both for different reasons but i feel like the manga just handled the comedy a little better and definitely had me dying of laughter the whole time

I actually finished the anime first and can I just say this is one of the few cases where the adaptation is better than the manga cause genuinely watching the anime first, the emotions I felt was crazy and how they depicted it in the anime like especially the scene with Akira (junji ito guy) and Metaka. When akira was smiling and hiding it with his hand and him thinking if they still had a bandaid when I SAW THAT IN THE ANIME?? It was beautiful also because they're moving you know whereas in the manga it's just panels. Anyways besides the format or whatever I really love the anime and also the manga I genuinely wished there were more and as to whether it is bl or not...well I'll just leave it to my imagination. They are all so cute I also can't believe I almost shipped Yamada with his bully, now that was interesting too lol I saw in the anime Yamada was carrying 2 bento boxes chasing his bully and his bully was running away. The scene with Hayashi and the girl too was cute as well as with Ema...now I'm sad cause I'm genuinely going to miss these characters :(