I can't disagree more.
Hikari was never really that passive about her feelings for Yuu.
She started liking him after he had already dated (and broken up with) Yami and around the same time that she met Yami. However fast or slow nothing would change the starting condition, and going from...
At this point it's a character trait that Hikari is perceived as perfect in every way by everyone (especially Yuu), so it's not out of character that everyone assumes she's probably doing better than the known landmine that is Yami.
It would be interesting if Hebikawa's "plan" to seduce Keisuke keeps failing, while Hebikawa still gets to see the "darkness" in Kusunoki due to her conflict with Otobe - all the while Hebikawa forgetting why she started trying to seduce Keisuke in the first place.
I understand your point, but that doesn't really work. The place where they're spending time is a family restaurant. While sometimes you can find them inside larger buildings (like shopping malls), usually they're just single buildings with 1 story, at most 2 including their parking lot. And...
She's mentioned to have good athletic ability since childhood, and most of the things you mentioned are either athletic in nature or it's just her putting into motion what she learned from Keisuke.
She's bad at studying that subject until she learns from Keisuke, and the difference between a 95...
No, I already explained why using your brain makes this story not work at all.
Like I mentioned, big sis finding Kohaku could have been explained through a gps or hiring an investigator or something. It's never explained but I'm willing to give that one away.
But Kohaku finding her big sis makes...
We'll learn more about this later on but I doubt he was a "best friend". He was probably one person in a group of friends that Kusunoki had, and his words when he got rejected ("no guy could ever be friends with you") probably became a sort of trauma as she wasn't yet mature enough to understand...
All I can say is... of course this party is doomed to from the start if you can't open up about your relationship with one of the party members with another party member, or if you can't tell your partner that you were almost raped by another party member, let alone if you're considering...
This chapter is the one that finally sold me on this series, and I'm glad it's gotten such a nice reception now that a translation is available.
I was wondering how they were going to translate the botched confession. I'm a bit disappointed but honestly I can't figure out how I'd have done it...