^ Actually, nothing really changed. We first see Yuri when Tomoko is organizing the group for the Kyoto trip. She's being jilted by Mako and she won't talk to Tomoko. Until Mako and she make up, she's morose and withdrawn, welded to her headphones and not talking to anyone. After that, for a few chapters, she finds herself making new friends and gets relatively cheerful. Back in school, she's cheerful when she sees Tomoko.
After that, though, things start to change. She's resigned to sharing Mako with Minami, but her new friend Tomoko starts making new friends and there is less and less time for her. At the second year wrap party, she gets very insecure because she wants to be with the friends from the trip, and leaves early. Along the line things happen like her crashing the meet up with Tomoko, Yuu, and Koto, where her insecurity about friends gets harsh. Slowly but surely, Hina and then Asuka start crowding her out with Tomoko, Mako is growing more distant, Yoshida is in another orbit. She starts getting morose and more alienated.
Yuri was never different. She was just at her best when we first met her. Like Tomoko, there's just an undertow that leaves her depressed and sullen when she doesn't fit into the world of other people.
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