【クラスで2番目に可愛い女の子と友だちになった 第4話】海外「朝凪海はwife material」「告白いらんキスしろ」テンポ早すぎる急上昇ロマコメ

Asanagi is so wife material

The way she is so assertive that she wants to protect their time with Maki is quite great. Honestly peak best girl material right now.

I mean, she has the same seiyuu as Mahiru. Definitely waifu material

Find a girl who looks as lovingly at you as Umi does Maki, or who has your back even if she can't be as overt about it as Yuu can.

Man being turned down by people who you thought were your friends and only to see them hanging out with someone else without your knowledge is a literal fear that Umi sadly had to live through. Its no wonder she'd hid her friendship with Maki from others, though now even that safe space is ruined. Hope she gets to confront her trauma next episode with that ending.

This whole episode was basically an intro into Umi's state of mind. She does have wants outside of being second fiddle to Yuu, but that social role has been ingrained in her. Fake friends only wanting to actually be friends with Yuu probably don't help the inferiority complex either.

Always the wingwoman bestie, never the true Heroine or center of the friend group, at least up until she met a guy who treats her definitively as the Main Heroine.

Essentially the second prettiest girl, or more accurately, the introvert curse, huh? She's not the more popular between her and Yuu, and thus everyone gravitates to her best friend, and maybe she's just a stepping stone for others to approach her best friend, huh?

So, Yuu had to apologize to those idiotic classmates because they were treated the same way that they were treating Maehara. Just WOW.

genuinely no reason for Yuu to apologize for calling out their bullshit

Like they could have at least told her that they had already planned to do something with Yuu, even if it might've stung that they're doing something with Yuu instead of her they at least would've been honest about it instead of lying to indicate how much they don't want to hang out with her.

Dang, everything is working at a fast pace. Almost all in a single episode, too! Pretty shocking, Yuu brought the exact friends in the situation too. Holding hands, LEWD. With Maehara's can idea, I was expecting a small one for the classroom not a giant one on the side of the school.

At this pace I think we will have a confession during this season. This two are really adorable, I want to see them happy together

this season? i call next episode

At this point do they even need to confess lol, just skip it and kiss already.

It seemed like she was about to confess before Yuu showed up at the apartment. It's clear she likes him romantically. If she's exposing all her feelings she might as well tell him her romantic ones as well.

I'm enjoying the pacing so far. It's setting up for a really interesting rest of the story if they're already together in the next ep like they could be

The handwritten "winning" lot Maki gave to Umi was a beautiful move. The amount of thoughtfulness some characters display in this anime makes it very unique in my eves.

Maki just casually suggesting handholding on the school roof? How bold.

Inferiority complex and short blue hair usually go together in anime. At least Umi isn't Maki's childhood friend too.

Cue Maki's flashback next episode to a blue haired, whip-smart but somewhat insecure girl he used to play with in kindergarten.

Well, that's pretty awkward for Yuu, especially after she volunteered. But Umi didn't actually win it huh. Personally, I liked the way Umi handled the situation. Those two "friends" are bad. Turning Umi down only to hang out with Yuu only is such a scummy move. This explains Umi's inferiority complex. Also, Maki got a hug from behind from Umi. That was cute. Btw, that cliffhanger is evil.

You got a taste of it with last week's episode but this episode starts showing the stuff that I think makes this story stand out amongst the usual 'loser guy/popular girl' romcoms out there in that it is willing to have actual character drama.

I think she was giving way to Yuu, since it seemed like Maehara and her were becoming friends and as "#2" you naturally give way to #1. She didn't look happy to be doing it.