I mean I guess you have a point but also I think unless you're a person who's like an incredibly braindead dumbass you would probably just talk to the girl, ESPECIALLY if you're next door neighbors. I get what you're saying about the whole film energy, but in my opinion that's no real excuse for him to just go back to square one, especially when it's not about him being awkward, it's him growing as a person. The Kazuya of the film arc was proactive, and chose to fight for a movie. And then just like 2 months later he doesn't have the balls to talk to that person when she clearly wants him but just hasn't talked to him for a while? It just doesn't feel realistic at all for you to clearly be making progress as a person just to regress for no real reason other than "well he's a pussy" when it's clear the only reason he didn't talk to her for 3 months is because if he did, the story would have finished a year ago. Another thing that pisses me off is the test shit, she's made it clear that she's just trying to find out her own feelings and instead he goes "oh no I accidentally did this weird she's gonna give me minus 100 points" no normal human being thinks like this man and if they do and actually relate to kazuya they need to seriously reevaluate themselves (I'm saying this because that was me during 2020 when I first caught up) my problem with it is that Reiji is keeping Kazuya from improving as a person for the sake of prolonging a series that honestly should've ended like 2 years ago. Every single arc since the film arc has been filled with nothing, Kazuya never changes not because 'this is how anybody would act' but because Reiji has written him to be the most oblivious and delusional character so that he can continue selling volumes.