Tonari no Neko to Koi Shirazu - Ch. 21

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Woah, the quiet female lead is actually getting serious character development and has actual depth to her character outside of just being cute and shy? In my manga???

Seriously though, while the chapter is a little sad, im glad the author is actually tackling her personality, rather than just leaving it as a predefined character trait. Her being so into cats and so not into people isn't 'a cute quickly side of her', it's a symptom of her issues socializing.

When I consider a similar manga - Komi-san, that one really just used the social awkwardness as some gimmick for laughs, if never really got the heart of it in a serious, realistic manner.

What's happening here is much more real and isn't about awkwardness or just being bad with people, she's clearly 'running away', it's asocial behavior. Something really interesting to seriously tackle in a manga. I'm all here for it!
 
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Woah, the quiet female lead is actually getting serious character development and has actual depth to her character outside of just being cute and shy? In my manga???

Seriously though, while the chapter is a little sad, im glad the author is actually tackling her personality, rather than just leaving it as a predefined character trait. Her being so into cats and so not into people isn't 'a cute quickly side of her', it's a symptom of her issues socializing.

When I consider a similar manga - Komi-san, that one really just used the social awkwardness as some gimmick for laughs, if never really got the heart of it in a serious, realistic manner.

What's happening here is much more real and isn't about awkwardness or just being bad with people, she's clearly 'running away', it's asocial behavior. Something really interesting to seriously tackle in a manga. I'm all here for it!
Yeah I was hoping it'd give some amount of backstory on why she's like that. Early in the series I was thinking "huh, she's a bit like me but with cats instead of machines/computers", then remembered that I'm that way because my childhood was pretty fucked lol.
 

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