To be honest, i can understand how Tsukushi didn't get it. I mean, Sara act the same with all the girls. hugging, being physical and all. So i can quite get why she would think those two were only friends because only us reader could see them acting like a couple. but the "we could go on a double date" was still a big give away...

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Surprise! Surely no one could have seen that coming! :P

double date incoming

Tsuc is good in school, kind, athletic, tomboy-pretty. If you buy all these perks with your points when you create your character, you have to get some serious -4 yuri intelligence flaws too to fit it all in.

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If the bakkapuru didn't realise Yuu and Sara are going out, I am starting to worry what their grades might be like.

I have felt all along this is a strange manga, tbh. They're such a weird combination of effort and timidity, both of them.

The art is really beautiful, by the way, especially the main pair.

Is the moral of the story going to be that if you suffer along the way, your love will be all the more precious?

TBH, the fact that Tsukushi somehow still thinks she's getting rejected might be the biggest dense moment of them all :P Also, she obviously didn't factor in that her crush is going to be in a freaking bathing suit at the beach, which isn't exactly going to make it easier for her to think straight (pun very intended) :P

Tsukushi's mind is stuck in a pretty bad loop, Hinoka might have to do something intense to break through all that fear lol. I wonder if the wingwomen tell her about it or keep quiet

Also, she obviously didn't factor in that her crush is going to be in a freaking bathing suit at the beach, which isn't exactly going to make it easier for her to think straight (pun very intended) :P

Maybe that's exactly her point. :P

Tsukushi's mind is stuck in a pretty bad loop

That's actually a great description of the main crux of this manga. Tsukushi's brain is caught in a recursive self-reinforcing anxiety about fictitious scenarios of getting rejected. This ultimately pointless exercise consumes so much of her brain energy, the brain subsystems responsible for observing and interpreting the social situation around her are starved into atrophying, leading to an almost complete disconnect from reality -- particularly from that of how down bad Hinoka is for her...

Tsuc is good in school, kind, athletic, tomboy-pretty. If you buy all these perks with your points when you create your character, you have to get some serious -4 yuri intelligence flaws too to fit it all in.

Y'know, I haven't thought about it like that, but I like this idea. Girl's gotta have dump stat of sorts.

In any case, even if it were as obvious as could be both in-universe and to us readers, I still appreciate Sara directly telling Tsukushi about her and Yuu. Actually, I'm not so sure it was as clear in-universe as it was to us, especially considering how hard both Tsukushi.exe and Hinoka.exe have been malfunctioning. So I definitely do appreciate this being explicitly mentioned. Now I'm looking forward to the double date(s).

...Also, she obviously didn't factor in that her crush is going to be in a freaking bathing suit at the beach, which isn't exactly going to make it easier for her to think straight (pun very intended) :P

Oh my god I have not thought about that. This will be torturously amusing.

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Shouldn't this latest chapter have Coming out and Gyaru tags since Sara just admitted she was dating Yuu and she's usually tagged as as Gyaru?

OOH!
Another couple will inspired both to go quickly

Surprise! Surely no one could have seen that coming! :P

At first I thought for sure Tsukushi was going to say: "Well yeah even the fishes know that!"

Then she went: "WHAAAT!?" Oh, so she didn't know. Right, okay, makes sense.

Yeah, I think it's important to remember that:
1) Dramatic irony is a thing. The characters don't have shot framing, an omniscient view of the situation for events they weren't present for, nor all the time in the world to review the situation. Their information is pretty imperfect.
2) On top of that it's also very hard to gauge situations you yourself are in because...you're in them. Not to mention the characters in question are teenagers who have all sorts of weirdo things going on with their brain chemistry going crazy, and their brains actively in the process of growing entire new sections.

plot twist of the day wow

Hammer to the head for Tsukushi

I think it absolutely makes sense that Tsukushi and probably Hinoka are clueless about Sara and Yuu's relationship.
Sara and Yuu may not exactly be hiding it, but they'd obviously not openly announced it previously and close (s)kinship is to an extent less conspicuous among girls, which is an excuse Tsukushi herself very often uses. When they more or less explicitly stated that they were going out by asking about a double date, Tsukushi was in no position to actually notice what was being said and completely absorbed in rumination and self-doubt.

As such, I'd say LTalon's points are particularly applicable here.

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always love a good yuri side pairing

Goddamn, I was just making a joke... ಥ⁠‿⁠ಥ

I remember at least a couple people mentioning getting this mixed up with "How Do I Get Together With My Childhood Friend?" I can't imagine them both releasing beach chapters close to the same time will help with that.

HDIGTWMCF has Hinori, the competent one, to act as wingwoman. That's an important distinction.

I remember at least a couple people mentioning getting this mixed up with "How Do I Get Together With My Childhood Friend?" I can't imagine them both releasing beach chapters close to the same time will help with that.

I honestly had to take a moment again with that one's latest chapter and remind myself that it does not, in fact, follow the events over here. :D

I remember at least a couple people mentioning getting this mixed up with "How Do I Get Together With My Childhood Friend?" I can't imagine them both releasing beach chapters close to the same time will help with that.

You mean they're not the same??!!

I always forget people have trouble making a distinction. But in their defence, I'm probably in the minority regarding downloading one series but not the other.