First Few Episodes:

At the beginning, most of the humor in this is dependent on homophobia. Once again, all the characters "straight" except for one openly gay person who has a woman's voice (it's even explicitly stated it's a woman's voice) and touches the main character inappropriately whenever he's within range.

I don't understand why a genre that is about male-male love has to use homophobia for humor. It's dangerous to promote the that gay = predatory woman in a man's body and that homosexuality is a choice.

There are way too many scenes that flashback to the previous scene, as if we can't retain info from 30 seconds ago. This happens constantly - by the end of the second episoode it already felt like I'd rewatched this three times.

So far, this is a regressive checklist of tropes with no originality or anything of interest except for how the two mains look shirtless, which is admittedly impressive.

Remaining Episodes:

I actually dropped it but a friend here convinced me to give it another chance. I did, and it did get better, in a both "so bad it's good" way as well as in actually good ways. The homophobia fell away - except for one character's father, but that's OK as it was part of the plot. However, it does involve violent assault which is handwaved away with a brief apology. "Sorry I tried to beat your kid to death". "It's OK, he lived."

Here's the confusing part: The plot revolves around one of the characters being a great singer. But the actor is a terrible singer (or is acting a terrible singer). And the song he writes must be intentionally awful - the lyrics are about someone's mother selling chicken rice before she switches to clothing - so I'm not sure what they're aiming for. Also, most of the characters burst out in song at least once, usually sad ballads, which is hard to take seriously, but these are generally sung, I wouldn't say well, but not awful, either. Maybe I'm just putting too much thought into it.

The acting of the main characters is good, the pairings all have chemisty, and the two leads are very hot, individually and together (and the villain is really, really hot), which is what made me endure this - if you're not enjoying the series but find them appealing, I might suggest watching with judicious FF - you won't miss much as their romance doesn't really have much to do with the plot, i.e. although the romance itself has a story, it doesn't really connect to the main story about the band and male cheerleading club. There are side couples, but they are also not connected to the story, so you can fairly easily follow the couples you're interested in.

The main couple have a scene towards the end that is... steamy. Not porn-ike, it's quite romantic, but yikes, you won't be disappointed. And almost a BL first, they don't wake up fully clothed the next morning! The enormous size difference between them is super-cute. The smaller one has to get on his tppy-toes to kiss the tall one. And yet, it's not the formulaic seme/uke thing - in fact it's a comedic point that people keep asking them - they're both just... guys. In fact the small one is a much superior athlete and very feisty.

Also unusually, there is humor in this that's actually funny - most of the actors have good comic timing. I'd say overall that I recommend this - it's a little too much of three series rolled into one, and the story could have used a lot more focus, but the actors are not holding back and really commit. There's a lot of heart in this that overcomes its shortcomings.