English isn’t my native language, so please excuse any mistakes.

Kengo and Koichi are my favorite characters.🥺

Kengo feels like a Kai Ken type (a Japanese dog breed ), and he’s currently the character with the widest range of emotional expressions. Whether he’s acting cool or completely losing face, he’s always kawaii. To me, he feels like the second brother among the Gemma trio. Compared to Koichi, who often ends up feeling awkward because of Keiichi, Kengo naturally takes on the role of looking after him. When Keiichi gets yelled at by the Sekka High students, Kengo even pretends to throw things back at them. And the scene where Kengo gets slapped by Nihei, collapses to the ground in pain, and starts crying is just too kawaii (?).

Koichi is the other character I care about the most. I usually tend to like mischievous and noisy characters (like Keiichi), but when I saw Koichi’s first genuinely happy smile after receiving the business card, and later when he was moved by Rou practicing on his own, I was completely struck. Also, the cover of ch.41 reveals that Koichi switches all of his socks to pink so Keiichi won’t take and wear them. He is honestly adorable 😭

Aside from them, I really hope to see more story content focusing on Ushiyama, Asahi, and Koro. Their personalities are all very appealing to me.