If you haven't read Koisuru Metronome yet, please do. It does a LOT of stuff right to the right charactersI'd said it once and I'll say it again: BLOND TWINTAILED CHILDHOOD FRIENDS DOESN'T DESERVE HAPPINESS
exactlyKind of shocked Kyouka hasn't been aware of Shin's feelings. It felt fitting of her character to have that level of social awareness, but just mental-block those feelings since she felt he was already an item with Hinaki. So this really decreased her character writing in my eyes. Hinaki trying to do a take-baksie now is also a pretty shitty thing to do that I think decreases her as a character.
So, at least in my view, this chapter did a lot of damage to the quality of writing in this series. With Shin being a moron anyways, this now makes all 3 characters kind of silly Oh well :/
THE GASLIGHT ZONEWill our main guy Shunsuke ever manage to escape the gaslight zone of friendship and make some progress with his suppressed feelings that are slowly beginning to run rampant with nowhere to go? We can only hope.