this on purpose, but Tsubaki, like Reiichi from the second installment, is not really that terrible. Then again, we are comparing them to Sagami ‘Badly in need of a roundhouse kick to the face’ Eiji of volume 1. But even without the looming shadow of Eiji, there were moments where I actually thought Tsubaki was pretty cute as a character, and a plus is that he has an actual reason beyond ‘randomly being a jerk’ for doing what he does.
The script….well….I have a lot of problems with the premise of this series. Namely the whole ‘I will tell everyone that you can read people’s minds’ thing. I mean, think about it: People that go around telling other people that are what we laymen would call “crazy”. (Then again, the protag is an idiot in this. It probably never occured to her. WHO KNOWS.) Terrible attempts at blackmail aside, this script is actually okay. And the good thing is that it doesn’t hinge on the blackmail like volume one does, so it’s much easier to ignore it. Pacing is kind of confused in the middle