Also, a semi-unrelated thought: I think a decent gauge for how you feel about where this story is going is how you feel about Yukiko's Room for Two / Futaribeya. While this story is about dealing with feelings too big to manage for too long a time, that is a much lower-stakes story about people...
I've been thinking this for a while, but with this chapter (which I loved) I feel it much more strongly: the story this reminds me of the most os Shuninta Amano's The Feelings We All Must Endure. This chapter in particular feels like the penultimate chapter of that work, and the feelings it...
In the doujinshi version of this, she's constantly getting Murata to buy stuff for her with his relatively huge IT guy salary, which he grumbles about but almost always does. I guess for serialization the mangaka decided to make her less of a mooch. But yeah, Uniqlo is pretty cheap but it's also...
So far this version has filtered a lot of the more porn-brained logic out of the doujinshi / webcomic version. And with its pacing, it's still a long ways away from some of the wackier hijinx that happened later on in that version.
The thing about "free friends" is that neither Murata nor...