#and who is to accidentally overhear this fight but shima whose abusive single mother remarried and had a baby when he was in middle school
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lately i've been totally devouring the skip & loafer manga - it's such incredible character writing i have no choice but to devour it. each individual character is so fleshed out and interesting but the writer has this amazing knack for placing them together in situations that create a lot of intrigue. just like constant interactions where each character's motivations and reactions are really well-thought out. this is pretty late into the series so really deep in the weeds of spoilers/character drama but the whole gang is roadtripping to protag mitsumi's countryside hometown during summer vacation and as you can see in the first panel mika (girlfailure i love her) recently confessed to + was rejected by the main love interest shima and their other guy friend mukai consulted with her through it (though he has not let on to shima that he knows anything), so sitting in the backseat with the two of them sounds like a nightmare. so she suggests that mitsumi takes the seat instead, since she knows mitsumi has a crush on shima and that unlike her own crush mitsumi's is definitely returned in some way, but little does she know that mitsumi and shima actually very recently tried going out to test the waters with dating but shima as a teenager (former child actor also) coming from a dysfunctional family doesn't know anything about relationships, not even how to tell if his own feelings are romantic, so they realized pretty quickly that it wasn't working and agreed to return back to being friends while ignoring the awkwardness left in the room, none of which mitsumi has told anybody. such a tiny passing little interaction but so much driving the way the characters act in it
#there's a different scene later in this volume where mitsumi has a fight w her little sister#because her sister is 12 and doesn't like the countryside and is embarrassed that her sister's cool tokyo friends are seeing their ugly#countryside house and also jealous of how proud her family is of her sister for going to a fancy tokyo school and tired of everything being#about her and also 12#and who is to accidentally overhear this fight but shima whose abusive single mother remarried and had a baby when he was in middle school#mitsumi who's booksmart and awkward and from the countryside stresses about how she feels behind her tokyo friends in fashion and romance..#and she has the conversation about it with her transgender aunt#who hasn't been back to the countryside in years and years because tokyo is where she's found space to be herself after a stifling childhoo#like just every single scene the author chooses such perfect characters and situations and creates so much depth#god#personal
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