Hmmm, so there’s an emotionally stunted woman with black hair who doesn’t know how to relate to others because of a hyperfixation on her sister after an accident. She has a best friend who’s secretly been in love with the woman for years but was too afraid to confess, but suddenly feels compelled to state her feelings after she sees a new woman with pinkish orange hair (who has never fallen in love and thinks she can’t until she meets the black haired woman) getting closer to the mc, and makes the friend realize the black haired woman is changing with or without her…
Gosh where have I seen this plot before? Jk, in all seriousness I love the series but wow do the parallels keep piling on.
Wow, I never noticed that comparison until you mentioned it like that. It really is similar, though a lot more mature and focused on some of the difficulties of adult office life.
Yagakimi but adults
In the interest of factuality, I feel compelled to point out once again that in YagaKimi, Sayaka has known and been in love with Touko not “for years” but for precisely one year longer than Yuu has known her. I’ve seen Sayaka characterized as Touko’s “childhood friend” more times than I can count. But she is not.
(I am on record previously as stating that I think some parallels between this and YagaKimi are present, but they can be, as here, seriously overstated—it’s possible to paraphrase both stories so they’re almost nothing alike.)