@KAFi yes, everyone is a coward and akari more, so cause she understands what she feeling but refuses to be honest, Jirou HAS to be dense because this series would lose it's tension if he wasn't, well he'd get with Akira during the beach arc or he'd confront Shirou properly and ask her to stop fucking with his emotions, the story would be over in a couple of chapters possibly lol.
@XaneKudo: It's both of their fault, Akari for being the annoying tsundere and unhonest and Jouri for actually picking up, she may have feelings but lacking the courage to just ask, I especially blame the entire tsundere archetype because they suck at communication, I rather the character be upfront get rejected then move on and find someone else or something else but this is a romcom and we gotta milk every second of drama, using illogically collusions, well mangakis gotta make cash somehow.
@Kami_Nana I strongly disagree Shirou entire stick is, she thought Jouri would always be there, so she'd never make a move, she completely and utterly shutdown the confession talk when she quite possibly had a inkling he was going to confess, she kissed him in the nurse office because she saw him getting closer and closer to akari and this VERY CHAPTER, she admitted, her very thoughts, no screw Shori, she's just a little worse than Akari (see my earlier post on akari) both main heriones and main hero are cowards, all of them, need to nut up or shut up but this manga entire premise is a race to see who nutz up first.