Description: A girl holds her head performing intense mental gymnastics. She thinks:
What love? We’re friends, JUST friends!
I mean sure, Kaede is a cutie and has a great smile and an awesome personality and I have lots of fun with her and she’s so super cute even though I’m a girl sometimes my heart races when I look at her…
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Sauce: Don’t Become an Otaku, Shinozaki!
A solid series with the most abrupt happy ending imaginable. The plot is more about coming of age than romance. Truly slice of life.
Oh, shit. This is the first time I actually recognized an image in this community from something I already read. Feels like I’ve come a long way.
I feel you. For me, it’s thanks to the same hyper-fixation tendencies the protagonist has. She’s almost certainly autistic.