Ohhhhh wow. I don't even need the kiss, that scene about their eyes was enough for me. You don't typically get lost in someone's eyes if they're just a friend.
Next time someone asks if this manga is yuri, tell them "87, and enjoy the journey".
When everything has finally released, the best journey for lategame komieri focus would be to start from ch78 (but Hiro definitely started committing to them since they switched uniforms in ch69-). However in reality, nothing beats starting from ch0 and reading the entire manga for that sweet sweet sports festival -> culture festival relationship development and seeing the manga grow in real time from cute girls doing cute things slice of life to coming of age yuri.
Tbh I could even push the chapter number back further, you can tell yuri wasn't really meant to be breached past subtext for the first 8 volumes but then volume 9 starts and yuri moments start coming out in droves. All of a sudden we have an explicit in text yuri crush, komichi learning that experiencing romantic love isn't exclusive to the opposite gender, and setting up komichi and erika as romantic leads. I mean yeah at the time we were undoubtedly skeptical, but now its been over 2 years since Hiro started unravelling this arc and the yuriful emotional highs between komichi/erika and oshizu/mai show no sign of slowing down.
I'd like to believe that by now we'd all have unflinching faith in Hiro. Simply because if he fails to commit now after pushing not one but TWO yuri couples in this culture festival arc it wouldn't just be bad, it would be a devastating waste of payoff that over half of his manga has arguably been building up towards, and would scar his readers from ever trusting another one of his works again. To me this isn't something you can feasibly half ass or bail out of without severely sabotaging the whole manga
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