
oh, so chase acts out like that bc he has an inferiority complex abt people seeing him as a charity case bc of his dead parents :-( that’s kinda super fucked up and sad. i was always kind of indifferent to the joel-chase ship, and i never really minded it, but joel’s been getting to be a huge asshole to both jesse and chase and they both deserve better.
it’s so refreshing seeing a shoujo mc that is willing to communicate her feelings and insecurities, y’know? usually there would be a whole ass volume dedicated to her “pretending to be strangers so that he stays popular” and all that unnecessary miscommunication drama we’ve seen before. sometimes in shoujo manga these couples like to dance around their feelings so hard that it doesn’t even feel like they’re a couple in the first place.