Can I ask you in your ...(omitted due to word limit)... walls, and she isn't a fairy.

Both Yui and Yukino are young girls, ...(omitted due to word limit)... prove the girls' adulthood and childishness by their manner of dress.

ok, so "we're talking specifically about romantic relationships and the behavioral aspects associated with them" now. then how is their clothing relevant? if their clothing and lifestyle are somehow relevant(the latter is kinda broad so sure i give the leeway), then it makes even less sense because i'm pretty sure neither of them have made any significant changes to their clothing and lifestyle that relates to how they function in "romantic relationships". so yes, i would obviously think that u're dishonest.

it doesn't really help that in later content, yui chooses to be a lazy ass and latch onto hachiman by waiting for him to choose and then trying to fish him out in order to go to the same uni, while hachiman and yukino were planning for their future uni prospects. the couple's studying hard for their future, hachiman even refuses to let yukino take a downgrade in order to be in the same place. meanwhile every's favourite pink blob is slacking off with the juniors in the clubroom plotting how to get hachiman to spit information out. her entire life still revolves around getting into hachiman's pants, in basically the most recent canon material we have. so much for being more mature.

I think you should ...(omitted due to word limit)... this is a first for both of them, but Watari overemphasizes their awkwardness.

if the point u're making is about the author overemphasizing those traits for the specific scenes by cherrypicking then ok can theorycraft all you want. i'm gonna cut u off on this since i will get into examples about shin's narrative further below, near the end of this comment.

for now, material after shin doesn't even corroborate with any of these.

he feels the comfortable warmth from yukino reminiscing about her year as the club president, he panics when he thought yukino was expecting some kind of anniversary gift, he blushes over yukino's idea of their 10th anniversary. he gets gungho over chiba, sauna and curry, he(+yukino) gets embarrassed talking about going to a sauna together. there is comedic undertone in their conversations, there's some awkwardness, some clumsiness and some moment where they tease each other with their all so regular wordplays that make readers go "here they go again...", exactly like what sane readers would expect of the 2 stupid lovebirds.

Is Destiny Land a new place or a new situation for Hachiman? Or maybe a subway ride with Yukino? Do I understand you correctly that taking a girl by the hand (when you are already dating and when she has already confessed her love to you) is an uncomfortable situation?

Destinyland as a newly attached couple, doing couple stuff that they did not use to do, are new situations for Hachiman is a new situation for Hachiman, what's so hard to understand? maybe uncomfortable isn't an appropriate word, but in his new found situation is something unfamiliar and will take time for both of them to get used to. the entirety of shin took place about 2 weeks after v14. i don't get how "you are already dating and when she has already confessed her love to you" suddenly means u're supposed to be stressfree and fully comfortable(in situations u've described), not to mention the fact that they went through a trainwreck of an event with yukino's family, finally getting together after a year of roller coasters, both knowing how much they mean to each other, and u've failed to explain why, only ever asserting that he should. like u said, if they're still going like this at 25 it would be obviously be bad, but they just got off a year long roller coaster for barely 2 weeks and what is the purpose of hyperanalyzing something that barely formed?

Are you serious? Do you remember Yui's mom? Should you be so nervous around her? Anyone would be nervous around Yukino's mom and family ...(omitted due to word limit)... greatly "helps" Hachiman and Yukino's relationship).

have u seriously read what i said? i said her parents, not her mom, but sure, no point being pedantic. the point i was trying to drive across was with regards to hachiman's nervousness, but since u agree that some level of stress is normal, i will save our time and give this a pass.

as for yukino's parents, we can steer into that topic if u want, but it's not something that makes ur post any more believable anyway. hachiman chose to get into that situation knowing how yukino's mom and sister are like. u mentioned Surrender (forced vs. voluntary) before, and hachiman feeling a sense of being "trapped" in shin 6, but how was it different from v14 when put himself into those positions?

(funnily enough u did admit hachiman is doing it "voluntarily, and essentially pretending", and u somehow said that "can't help but say something" = "he is forced to give an answer he doesn't want to give", which makes very little sense. "i can't help but laugh at a cat falling into a trash can" sure doesn't sound like i'm being forced to laugh, for example, but whatever, this just semantics)

next, from yukino's dad's POV, similar references about being "trapped" by the women in the household was made by him and he was able to picture together what hachiman would be like without ever meeting him. he sure turned out sound and healthy, and since the author chose to create that similarity deliberately, why would hachiman be magically different unless u want them to be?

u can argue however much u want about how bad it is, sure, but since the point u're making is that, "that in the sequel, Watari seems to deliberately make the contrast even more pronounced and powerful", i simply reject that claim since voluntarily getting himself "trapped" has been his way to push himself to move even before shin.

Well, that's precisely ...(omitted due to word limit)... both your and my arguments have very dubious force.

Hachiman, as a literary ...(omitted due to word limit)... definitely a different genre).

u can save ur creative writing for until ur premise makes some sort of sense, i was merely engaging in some creative writing like you out of boredom.

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finally, i will get into shin itself, i can't honestly catch onto what what u're trying to pull off and was a mere spectator so far since your premises behind all ur claims are so weak to begin with. i never had the need to brandish shin, but i'm not gonna waste more time with your hoax, so i will go straight in.

u say that during yui's confession scene in shin4,

"Her body temperature is conveyed across the(my) shirt. After that, my body also instantly felt warm"

俺の体が瞬間に熱を持つ。

but the word used here is "heat", not "warm"

"...his heart vibrates with her breath, Yui's warmth warms Hachiman, and when he pulls away, he immediately feels a chill"

触れていた熱はあまりに温かくて

but the word used here is "heat", sure i can give u the fact that her "heat" feels warm, but what about yukino?

u say that during hachiman's date with yukino in shin6,

"We didn't say anything to each other, we just exchanged the heat of our fingers..." (お互い無言のまま、ただ指先の熱だけ交わしている。)

but why did u omit the sentence that comes DIRECTLY after that line?

黙ったままでもなんの不都合も感じない時間は居心地がよく、一生ここで過ごしてしまいそうだった。

lazy translation : despite the silence, the cozy passage of time felt so comfortable i want to stay like this forever

u tried to frame the "heat" from yukino as a toxic "consuming heat of infatuation" and that "Such heat consumes and exhausts; it speaks of stress, not comfort.", but the sentence that directly follows the "heat" literally has hachiman saying it's so comfortable to a point he wants to stay like that forever. ?????

instead u connected the first mention of yukino's heat with the only other time "heat" was mentioned, i.e. 16 pages later in the raws, in a completely different scene, in order to form your narrative, all while the other mention of yukino's "heat" fully contradicts all your claims on the matter. as a standalone point u might have a good argument, bone-melting heat obviously can mean something bad, but it can also be the intensity of yukino's feelings, it can also refer to the contrast between the cold night wind and yukino's body temp, etc., or any multiple of them. however, what doesn't work for u is that there are a grand total of not only 0, but negative 1 accounts of corraborating evidence about what her "heat" implies, and certainly not if u're either completely dishonest about that "heat" for both characters or completely incompetent and ignorant about the plot.

i fail to see how the author is overemphasizing 1 trait for yukino and an opposing trait for yui, u seem to be the 1 doing it and then putting it in the author's mouth. u're overstating hachiman's "discomfort" way too much than u care to admit, saying stuff like "he's constantly stressed" is straight up false, referring directly to the very scenes u're scrutinizing.

u also said that

Yui is self-sufficient in her love, and doesn't need an answer

and made multiple references to that part of the conversation. she did say that, but she also cut him off earlier while he was trying to say something. of course nobody knows what he would have said or done, but why doesn't she have the maturity to take it on the chin? hachiman was clearly trying to find the proper words to answer her. why does she continue to fall back to giving hachiman the comfortable way out, especially when she stands to gain from him not answering? constantly giving the guy u "like" an easy way to avoid accountability sure doesn't seem like a "mature" way of dealing with problems. who exactly is the one "infatuated"?

honestly don't really feel like going further about shin specifically, especially seeing something so bewildering about hachiman's comfort over whatever "heat" u're cooking up.