sakura eries felt the first volume was "pure and simple romantic comic fluff, and it's a lot of fun". she enjoyed the comedy of the second volume, and found ito and makoto's developing relationship "endearing". eries enjoyed the amusement park storyline which derived its humour from makoto's cross-dressing, but found it implausible that ito could not rescue herself from toki, and felt this situation was out of place with the tone of the rest of the volume. eries enjoyed the introduction of makoto and ito's families, which she felt allowed the two to expand their own roles in the story aside from student, actor and boyfriend/girlfriend. by the twelfth volume, carl kimlinger felt that "w juliet" toed the line "between comfortable and stagnant" too often, and felt that the story had no "real suspense", as each character has "a certain core decency" that can be reached.