First time (in a long time? idr) I've seen a partnership where one of them is primarily platonic in feeling but they work it out because platonic love can be just as strong as romantic. I feel like Eri never had romantic desire but she's completely fine with kissing and sex as affectionate gestures so she can give Fuyuki whatever she wants in that realm. Eri feels like she's on the aro/ace spectrum to me. When your types of "love" don't align, it can cause suffering, but if you look at the actual actions you give each other, sometimes there's enough alignment to make it work. After all, every person's internal experience is ultimately unique, so it's more about communication and meeting each other's needs. Fuyuki's need to be wanted can indeed be met by the fact that even if platonic, Eri has always picked her as her number one.
That said. It dragged in the middle with Eri's obliviousness and being extremely needy. I think it could've been tighter, and I would've been more interested to see how they worked out the dating thing step by step in making sure that both of them were feeling good about it. Personally, that's more interesting of a topic to me rather than the loop of "you said you would put me first so why aren't you??"
First time (in a long time? idr) I've seen a partnership where one of them is primarily platonic in feeling but they work it out because platonic love can be just as strong as romantic. I feel like Eri never had romantic desire but she's completely fine with kissing and sex as affectionate gestures so she can give Fuyuki whatever she wants in that realm. Eri feels like she's on the aro/ace spectrum to me. When your types of "love" don't align, it can cause suffering, but if you look at the actual actions you give each other, sometimes there's enough alignment to make it work. After all, every person's internal experience is ultimately unique, so it's more about communication and meeting each other's needs. Fuyuki's need to be wanted can indeed be met by the fact that even if platonic, Eri has always picked her as her number one.
That said. It dragged in the middle with Eri's obliviousness and being extremely needy. I think it could've been tighter, and I would've been more interested to see how they worked out the dating thing step by step in making sure that both of them were feeling good about it. Personally, that's more interesting of a topic to me rather than the loop of "you said you would put me first so why aren't you??"