Chapter 53

Chapter 53 is the fifty third chapter of Kinusa Shimotsuki's Tonari No Kashiwagi-san.

Quick Summary
The new school year starts.

Long Summary
The new school year starts and Yuto arrives at school wearing his winter uniform. Kazuki asks him about it, and reveals that it is the third year in a row that Yuto has forgotten to switch to his summer uniform. While Kazuki and Sayaka tease him about it, Yuto protests that there has to be someone who forgot too. Just then, Tina enters the class and Yuto exclaims that he was not alone [meaning he was not the only one who came to school wearing his/her winter uniform]. After that, Kotone comes into the class and Yuto gets excited to see her in the summer uniform. When she looks at him, Yuto says he's sorry about his uniform switch, but she tells him that isn't something to apologize for. Later she asks him, "Didn't you forget about it last year too?" This leaves him wondering how Kotone remembers that.

Kazuki tells Kotone that Yuto had forgotten about it the third year in a row. Because of this, Yuto yanks Kazuki by the arm and runs away with him to the vending machines.

Tina tells Kotone and Sayaka that she thinks their uniforms are cute, and asks if she could take a photograph of them. After Sayaka agrees to it, Tina snaps a selfie of the three of them and mails it to her boyfriend. She had previously said that her boyfriend was in Germany, but he is shown in a Japanese high school.

After school, Kotone enters classroom 3B and sees Yuto studying. She asks what he was doing there, and he replies that there were a lot of distractions at home (referring to video games, anime and the Internet).

Yuto asks her if he could copy the notes she had made during math class, to which Kotone says yes and sits down on a nearby desk to wait for him to finish. While writing them down, Yuto feels nervous, and thinks it's just because Kotone was wearing her summer uniform. When he wonders why this time it felt different than the previous year, he puts it down to the fact that he had started liking her.

Kotone sneezes, and without thinking Yuto offers her his school jacket and she takes it. He almost says something, but turns away at the last moment. Turns out, he had an irresistible urge to hug her.

Reaching home, Yuto requests his mother to not wash his uniform, but doesn't tell her it's because Kotone had worn it that day.