aside from looks, introspective Yokoe vs normal Yokoe don't seem similar in the slightest
I wonder how the author plans to execute the serious aspects of the plot like hiiragi and hinase's strained relationship, kei and Yokoe's love drama, and Kaname and Yatsude's past, whatever it is
plot progress hype
I think Yokoe's personality is going to be a big plot progression point, because I think that the super-aho Yokoe we see most often is mostly a facade. She is, of course, by and large, an idiot (2 hours looking for a remote? You dork...), but she's a lot sharper than she lets on. We see snippets of it here and there--such as aceing a science exam collaterally, or being far less silly in flashbacks, or her introspective bedroom chapter. But from what we've seen so far, Yokoe changed a lot from the crucial "it's just a joke." Even Kei notices how, in the chapter early on about cutting her hair, Yokoe has somehow become "like this." It's Yokoe's defense mechanism for keeping the status quo, because if her love and everything else is all "just a joke," then she never has to confront the possibility of Kei's serious answer. Yatsude, too, in this latest chapter comments on the peculiar distance she has felt between the two of them; a distance that Yokoe is maintaining on purpose.
I can't wait to see Kei's side of all of this.