You Should Read "You and I are Polar Opposites"

I'm not sure when exactly I was clued into this super cute high school romance manga, but I've been a huge fan ever since. It follows a pair of high schoolers who are, as the title teases, polar opposites, but nevertheless are attracted to each other and make a good couple.

And then, slowly, you see another polar opposite pairing growing. And another is being teased.

I love that this series is absolutely mundane. There's nothing here that strikes a person as being wildly unrealistic. There's nothing supernatural, there's no wildly wealthy characters or stupidly powerful student council. There is angst, but it's realistic angst.

And it has this guy:

Meet Taira. You know how relatable a lot of people found Ishigami from Kaguya-sama? Taira is like that, but more realistic. He doesn't have that massive moment of trauma: he's experienced many little moments over the years, moments that taught him to keep his mouth quiet and do nothing to make people notice him.

He's come a long way since his first appearance, when he was saying some incel-ly sort of things, but he grew from that immediately. He's still got a way to go, but he knows he's got problems and he wants to deal with them, even if he has no idea how to.

Anyway, it's a great series, you should read it, here's chapter 1.

Edit: from a previous blog post, it appears that I started reading it October 2022. Thanks, me!

Headcanon:

The instant that Saiki and Teruhashi become a couple, they also become the parents of the friend squad.

Kaidou in particular is very likely to accidentally refer to Saiki as "dad."