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"We're a bit similar" is a hell of an evolution from the "we're from completely different worlds" attitude he was displaying as recently as the date chapters.

It's another few chapters before he acknowledges it but this is really the point where he starts to believe that he actually has a chance- he spends the whole chapter thinking about what the Proper Things To Do on a date are.

Page 3 makes me wonder if her friends already suspect that Yamada has a thing for Ichikawa at this point.

I guess this is a hindsight thing but I don't get how anyone would be surprised that the manga doesn't go further down the "Ichikawa wants to kill people" chuuni path when it's flagrantly obvious even from the first chapter that the whole bit is just a coping mechanism for his social anxiety in...

It's adorable how excited Yamada is that her shy crush is about to say a thing in page 5.

I like that Ichikawa's speech bubbles immediately stopped being wobbly when he was talking to Yamada instead of Chii.

That's definitely the same brand of milk tea that Ichikawa got her in chapter 27 in the background of the meat bun picture. Guess it became her favorite after that.

Great chapter. It shows our boy's character growth that after he realizes that onee-chan was initially reading the situation as "he has a one-sided crush and Yamada at best is just putting up with it to be nice and at worst is using him like a simp" it mostly just bounces off of him rather than...

@cor3zone Chapter 14, the one where Yamada gets hit in the face with a basketball.

@Dmi I wouldn't say she's yandere, she just has typical teenage girl insecurities. If 5-10 years pass and she hasn't grown out of them, *then* I'd say she's yandere.

@pipopo I would put Yamada's jealous/possessive side in the realm of behavior that would be a red flag if an adult did it but is probably fairly normal for a middle schooler.

Thinking more on this chapter: There's a pretty high likelihood that Kimioku has a scene that strongly resembles the milk tea moment here. Not enough of a resemblance for it to come off as "this only hit her that hard because it was like that part of that manga she likes," but enough that we...

@Psychronia Chapter 19 (when Ichikawa and Yamada bump into each other at McDonalds) is her first proper appearance, but she also pops up for a panel in extra chapter 17.3 when he's recalling what she said about blood types.

@Dmi I feel like the straight shota energy the two of them give off is mostly just because of the lens the readers view them through- I doubt any adult in the "real world" of the manga sees the two of them as more than a year or two apart.

>that feel when you go from "he's a sweet guy and kinda cute too, let me get to know him better" to "OH GOD OH SHIT I'M IN FUCKING LOVE"

@Kazeiro Going by the chapter where they finally exchange LINE info Yoshida definitely suspects something is up, at the very least. Would not surprise me if all three of them know what's up, but Yamada definitely doesn't know if any of them know. EDIT: Thinking more, there's a decent potential...

@openeeyes I read that expression as more expectant- she's hoping that Ichikawa will say something that makes her feel better, a test he passes with flying colors. Mostly because of the framing- if she was reacting to what he said in that panel I feel like she'd be to the left of the speech...

@So-chan Yeah, she seems to have enough of a grasp on his issues to know that if she tried to push it too hard he'd just retreat back into his shell even if he did feel the same way (we know for sure he does, of course.)

In the parallel universe version of this manga where we're inside Yamada's head instead of Ichikawa's she was definitely in the middle of a "wait shit why am I getting feelings when I look at him" epiphany scene that was comically cut short by getting hit in the face with a basketball.

Thinking more, I feel like the real worry here is not how onee-chan handles it (she'll probably at least play it cool enough while the call is still going and save the teasing until afterwards) but rather that Kyou "SHE'S NOT MY GIRLFRIEND"s a little too hard and hurts Yamada's feelings (or...