Look at this pair of platonic friends just having fun.

At this point, this isn't just being on the attack, this is attempted fucking murder. And it's even killing me here, good lord that smile. I'm loving it.

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Hinoka, chill, for gods’ sake! At this rate she’ll die before she can actually become your girlfriend.

Holy crap, full steam ahead!

Look at this pair of platonic friends just having fun.

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Hinoka is killing it, literally.

She turned into quite a femme fatale once she stopped holding back. Parental influence...

She's flaunting that raw sex appeal just as her mom said. Good job

She's making her moves, now is on you Tsukushi

Hinoka is lighting up a flare, just beaming the Lesbian Signal straight into the clouds.

Still not workin'. This is pretty advanced levels of ignorant about someone being into you. She's almost as bad as me.

Gonna kill her at this rate

The offensive has begun.

Oh boy, Hinoka’s going all-in. Wonder if Tsukushi’s even going to last until the beach trip.

Hinoka is lighting up a flare, just beaming the Lesbian Signal straight into the clouds.

Still not workin'. This is pretty advanced levels of ignorant about someone being into you. She's almost as bad as me.

I mean, you’ve got to cut Tsukushi a little slack here. It be like putting a maxed-out loudspeaker next to a music aficionado’s ear. It doesn’t matter how good they normally are at picking things up, they’re going to be completely overwhelmed. And Tsukushi wasn’t even that good at picking up signs to begin with.

Blatant flirting, the girl is on the attack. :D

She has been on the attack ever since mom gave her advice

Tbf, Mom had solid advice. Dad never stood a chance.

No more effective tactic than showing the other party what you "have" to offer ⁠(⁠ ͡⁠°⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ͡⁠°⁠) it works with everyone but asexuals

I'm aspec. The intimacy pulls a lot of weight when one does not give a bat's lass about titty.

So it turns out snorting powdered Anime to fortify yourself doesn't result in progress. Next time, try using simple, unambiguous words. (⁠-⁠_⁠-⁠;⁠)⁠・⁠・⁠・

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I think Tsukushi is gonna be in trouble once they start dating lol.

It’s really interesting to me that the same moves in a het manga would feel so gross to me, like “Ew she’s pressing her boobs against him, yuck! Stop that!” But when it happens to Tsukushi, it feels so sweet and precious. I think just being able to imagine such a situation happening to me as a woman… “Yes, flirty scenes in a changing room are entirely acceptable. Please proceed.”

It’s really interesting to me that the same moves in a het manga would feel so gross to me, like “Ew she’s pressing her boobs against him, yuck! Stop that!” But when it happens to Tsukushi, it feels so sweet and precious. I think just being able to imagine such a situation happening to me as a woman… “Yes, flirty scenes in a changing room are entirely acceptable. Please proceed.”

You are gae.

Haha that's totally because it's not so out of place for two female friends to do that even. I mean sure, she's crossing the line a little bit in this specific context but there's no context in which a girl pressing herself like that on a guy could be read as not provocative. With another girl it's just a mild sweet thing, it's not provocative like that haha.

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I love how Hinoka's being so awkwardly forward while still being hard to read.
Honestly, I think her communication (or lack thereof) has been really confusing in these chapters.

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It’s really interesting to me that the same moves in a het manga would feel so gross to me, like “Ew she’s pressing her boobs against him, yuck! Stop that!” But when it happens to Tsukushi, it feels so sweet and precious. I think just being able to imagine such a situation happening to me as a woman… “Yes, flirty scenes in a changing room are entirely acceptable. Please proceed.”

You are gae.

I cannot denie

It’s really interesting to me that the same moves in a het manga would feel so gross to me, like “Ew she’s pressing her boobs against him, yuck! Stop that!” But when it happens to Tsukushi, it feels so sweet and precious. I think just being able to imagine such a situation happening to me as a woman… “Yes, flirty scenes in a changing room are entirely acceptable. Please proceed.”

This doesn't apply for every Het (bleh!) manga but at least in this case it's something friendly (two girls appraising looks in changing room) being turned by one person to be flirty. If a het couple got into the same changing room, it'd be pretty suspicious and tense from the jump.

Similar things toe the line of flirty and comedic, like when the little sister said 'too late, she's mine', you wouldn't normally expect that, so it's funny...but because the two MCs are a romantic interest, and it's yuri, then the big sister felt that anxiety/jealousy from that otherwise comedic moment.

This girl is really going all out in her mother's advice...

She’s EX flirting now. Love that for her. Go get your girl!

Haha that's totally because it's not so out of place for two female friends to do that even. I mean sure, she's crossing the line a little bit in this specific context but there's no context in which a girl pressing herself like that on a guy could be read as not provocative. With another girl it's just a mild sweet thing, it's not provocative like that haha.

Lot of hetero stories don't do good job at setting the stage. You'll just have a crazy woman or women throwing themselves at shy MC who doesn't even know who he likes, and it gets unpleasant. It's such a popular trope these days, with many many stupid examples of this same thing.

But if there are two people who have mutual attraction, then some skinship or cute seduction isn't anything terrible, it's just normal. Something like Karakai Jouzu no Takagi-san is more sensible than most of the trash I mentioned earlier, but that's not exactly the way those things usually go.

We've known from the start here that Tsukushi and Hinoka are not only super duper childhood friends, but also in love with each other. So if anything, reader will think it is high time they start going out. There is no way any other person could get between them anyway, Hinoka's mom and her memories contextualized that. So you can enjoy the ride of Hinoka being good at seduction almost naturally without any big game plan, at least so far.

Somehow they remind me of Chisato and Takina.