I'm interested in this. If Keita doesn't wallow in self-pity for a dozen hundred chapters, and they don't let total ambiguity wash away any interest their relationship could have, this could go somewhere.
That's a lot I'm assuming about what could go wrong, but I've seen so many romcom manga...
I feel like Tsuda supporting her is setting up for the two of them ending up together, eventually. He seems like an okay guy, and the introvert/extrovert pairings seem to make the most sense.
"No, we actually had over 300 chapters of unresolved will-they-or-won't-they 'romantic tension', with at least five other romantic interests introduced and summarily dismissed, each treated as though they had any chance of winning the Naoto Bowl, for some reason."
Is Hosoda's line in page 20 about "I love him" and "convey[ing] these feelings to him" one of those things where the subject of a sentence is ambiguous, so she could have just as easily been saying "you" (referring to Kei) instead of "him" (referring to somebody else), so the comedic...