The purpose of scenes like this is to show Yamada has zero interest in guys that aren't named Ichikawa. It makes her flirting with him actually significant, because it's not just something she does with anybody. And somehow you interpret it the other way around.
Is there going to be any more of cuckbait in the series?
okay I've skimmed through all 37 chapters and there aren't anything dangerous there
I can probably read it later in detail
they're in the same school and he's a scapegoat for easy-to-write scenarios so i'd bet yes.
At the same time it shows how surprisingly vulnerable Yamada is, especially when alone.
God I really wish at the end of the series she'd release a bulk of extra chapters that she'd done and saved up with snippets of Yamada's pov from previous chapters. You can already tell what she's thinking, and doing/has done, pretty easily but a man can dream.
I think the main draw of this manga is the apparent lack of Yamada's perspective/side, and leaves just little for the audience to go into massive speculahs on how she feels about him.
there's no cuckbait in this series
guess what the next one is