You can hear the gears turning in Shouko's head. Maybe she finally realized Yukari has a crush on her?

What a rollercoaster of a chapter, loved it. :D

Also, when Shouko described her ideal date in front of Yukari, I couldn't help but think of this one-shot...

I felt waves of cringe

She has a chance tho!

Such is the way of the autistic rizz. One moment you're hella smooth, and the next you catastrophically drop your spaghetti.

It was monthly but there was a 5 month gap between this and the previous chapter. Not sure what happened to cause the delay.

Giant rats.

The facial expressions in this chapter are amazing, ha-ha-ha

In the cover art for this chapter is girl supposed to be Stevie Wonder playing the piano. :D

One moment you're hella smooth, and the next you catastrophically drop your spaghetti.

I'm stealing this phrase, thank you very much

I love how Yukari just keeps unintentionally taking chunks out of Shouko's internalized homophobia

Yukari puts herself down a lot but I think she's plenty cute lol

I like how we constantly get to hear Yukari's mind racing at a million miles an hour, meanwhile we get plenty of shots of Shouko thinking but don't get to hear exactly what's going on in her head.

https://dynasty-scans.com/chapters/the_truth_is_i_want_to_enjoy_my_youth_too_ch08#9

"Well I guess that means we're just too"

TOO WHAT
WHAT WERE YOU GOING TO SAY

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DATE ALREADY DAMN IT!!!

There are quite a lot of characters nowadays of the "literally me" loser introvert archetype. And I do enjoy them quite a bit, even if they're not my most favorite trope. But out of all of them, Otobe-san has got to be the one I reeeally felt on a spiritual level, terrifyingly so.
Berating myself in my mind and then quickly shutting it down, trying not to spiral. Overthinking things and assuming to the point I forget to even reply to them. Agonizing over (often imaginary) things like "AARGH WHY DID I DO THAT?! I REALLY SHOULDN'T HAVE SAID THAT..." before quickly going into acceptance "well it's over for me anyways, might as well forget it".
Orrr trying to help someone or make a point while also not being confident enough in yourself, so you just end it off with "...or something like that.".
Even if I'm definitely better now, and in a process of breaking out of my introverted shell, I can still very much relate to her simply by remembering how I was in the past...
A true "literally me" moment... or something like that.

Wait, hold on. Is it Otobe or Yukari. I'm genuinely confused

Otobe is her family name, Yukari is her given name