Adachi to Shimamura - Vol. 8 Ch. 52 - Our First Journey 5

[Lowfyie]

“Oh, she’s not gay, sexual, or romantic, she’s just in the midst of a romance with a girl she lets check her out naked. This conversation with a side character must be taken completely at face value as narrators can and should always be trusted.”

Honestly sums up like most of the criticism people have on this manga lmao, the unreliable narrators are such a big part of why its good, so you can look into their flawed psyche! Shimamura so clearly has so many walls put up between herself and everything else that its debilitating her attunement to her own emotions, and people give up on teying to figure out "why" or how it reflects in her actions, and just fucking call her a sociopath! WHEN SHE SO FUCKING CLEARLY ISNT!

 

[Lowfyie]

It was shown a little differently in the manga, but in the light novel, shimamura compares Pancho's and Adachi's chest size before asking if she could touch them, and when Pancho calls her "hardcore" ("are you like, big into it?") shimamura describes feeling a strange tremble running through her that she thought best to keep to herself.

Additional note! In the bath scene, she paid a lot more attention to adachi than she would admit. "So she's got curves there too, huh..." Fucking FREAK!!! Adachi seems so tame in comparison