Tonari no Oneesan ga Suki
I Love The Older Girl Next Door.

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This work stands in contrast to "The girl I like forgot her glasses" by the same author. The key issue here is the fact that FMC's primary reaction to social interaction is to just run, sometimes literally. Any time there's a difficult, awkward, or otherwise unpleasant moment, the discussion is over, and she's darting off. Couple that with a low self-esteem, and a boy who's not nearly socially adroit enough to deal with an insecure avoidant, and you're basically spending almost the entire story watching a boy say the quiet part out loud, and his love interest spontaneously apply for a place in the 400 ... meter dash.

We get basically no insight into her internal life and instead have to rely on our own intuitions, and those of the people around her, to piece together what she's thinking. Sure, that's how people work in general, but these walking messes also tend to get abandoned pretty quickly after the second or third time they try to sabotage their own relationships. I just don't see what's so special about this one specific girl when the boy is canonically surrounded by far less difficult girls, and why a whole story had to be made around this.

But, then again, here I am, reading it until the end, so it's clearly doing something right.