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@Dirtbug I think that's meant to be the point. Saijou and Shinonome are two weirdos who overthink everything (including love) to the point of absurdity.

tfw Aki Eda will never make a manga about your love life, to be handed out to wedding guests.

Is this the first time we've seen any internal thoughts of Fujiwara in the entire manga? I remember seeing lots of specualtion about how this was all hinting that her internal thoughts were going to be super different than her outward behaviour.

That's the point isnt it? When you're young you get overly obsessed with fears of appearing cringe or chuuni. Teens get so obsessed with internet cringe culture, that they become afraid of actually enjoying themselves. Being an adult is about not being afraid to give a cool sounding name to your...

While normally I dislike this sort of worry 24/7 trait in characters, I think its been pulled off pretty decently here. It's fun watching the MC's increasingly elaborate date prep and research, and it shows how much he genuinely wants to make things work.

This manga says a lot about our society.

I don't get it. Is the MC deliberately written to be a completely unlikeable person, or are we actually supposed to like him?

The Samovar anecdote is from Chekov's travel account of his visits to Sakhalin/Karafut from the 1890s. Its little stuff like that, that shows the mangaka's done a lot of reading/research in the area.

@BigCoffee: I can't tell if its intentional on the mangaka's part or not. Sometimes it seems like the message is supposed to be "shut in NEET life is amazing and cool", but the overall atmosphere of the manga just comes across really depressing.