It's BL y'all

Not to say positive aro representation isn't important..it's just that the point of the romance genre is literally love and romance like come on y'all, be for real

The story is shining a light on a different type of romance. Ace people are still able to have healthy and meaningful relationships. Being ace doesn't mean they are adverse to romance it just means they expirance romantic attraction differently.

Hah BL is just what the genre goes by but it basically encompasses literally anything gay lmao. You're better off sticking to shounen ai if you want less chances of finding one with loose relationships. Though, this manga doesmt seem that loose honestly. Nothing wrong with a relationship where the characters have different levels of romantic feelings for each other and such. It's all love-related and up to them/the author to determine the final outcome. They can still have a meaningful relationship even if it isn't ypur typical "happily ever after" bathed in blind lovey dovey behaviors.

Ace is completely different from aro, and this guy is definitely not ace. Ace is asexual, aro is aromantic, and if this guy is aromantic that means he literally cannot experience romantic attraction and therefore cannot provide the kind of love necessary for a relationship like this, where the other person is head over heels and determined to make him fall in love back. Aromantic people can definitely have close relationships and domestic partnerships but their partners have to be understanding that the love won't be past that of a deep friendship.

Didn't say that they couldn't have a meaningful relationship, but one being deeply in love and declaring that he'll stick around to make the other fall in love with him while the other has ZERO romantic attraction to him is a relationship likely to fall apart unless the author makes the character not truly aromantic because they just need somwthing more from each other. Also, the main point of my post was about the people who have their hopes set high on an aro character in the romance genre– it's not about it being happily ever after type of love, it's about there being romantic love at all. There are plenty of stories that have mature or complicated expressions of love but in the end they are gay love stories so realistically for one not to be romantically attracted to the other until the end is not something most people are going to want to write or read in romance genre.

Exactly. Whether it ends up in a favorable outcome to you or not, this is a pretty niche story you happened to stumble upon. Whether the relationship survives or not, whether it becomes mutual or not is irrelevant in that sense. They are likely to just end up having mutual love in the end based on the decade worth of comics I've read at this point, but ofc the oauthor is not obligated to leave them in a position where the relationship wont fall apart in the future, etc. If you are simply over the farce just go find a better manga then

?? I never said I was over it and I never even complained about the manga itself? Lmfao
My original comment and the only thing I ever said was that it was strange to complain about not having an aromantic main character in the romance genre/ not to get your hopes up.

Idk what kind of game you were playing but you checkmated yourself over there.

I think I did get side tracked on that note lol I mightve mixed it up with another person I responded to before. More to the point - it isn't impossible for that kind of story to happen lol. Not long ago I found a story that ended before any "solid" relationship was formed. They do exist. People are allowed to look forward to whatever, if they wanna go through a roller coaster of emotions that's their deal lmao. In the end I wouldnt be surprised if the author wanted to throw such a curve ball on purpose, so many mangas water down a lot of things for the sake of weird "censorship".

I mean, the story "Do you still like me?" Has a great, complex type of relationship and mature kind of love that doesn't feel as definitive and that's totally fine, and so are other bls like it. What I don't like and am mostly commenting in response to are the people who are trying to bag on the genre or saying that the quality of the manga is somehow going to go down if the main character of a romance story isn't aromantic. Sure, anyone can look forward to what they want to, but it's not likely and it shouldn't reflect poorly on an entire story if something that was never likely to happen ends up not happening.

Yeah that kinda of thing does happen half the time. But also manh BLs pn here be disproportionately rated highly and what not despite it all, it's a freebie site too lmao. People just need to wake tf up to reality sometimes . Either way, some people will still feel genuinely disappointed that it didn't meet that possibility and that's ok too. They just gotta get over it and reevaluate the story for what it is. A terrible top getting some karma before glasses dude potentially recipricates (which imo glasses dude is already heading there ngl, just in denial. He may have said those aromantic descriptive words since clearly he coulda identified completely aro up to that point of he knew there was a name for it which is also ok, labels are just labels. Just bc it turns out mutual doesnt mean this is invalid representation of someone who coulda considered themselves 100% aro up to that point, etc. Ppl just rlly need to chill and also remember labels are not meant to just project what they feel like should be boxed into said label since something like sexuality can definitely be a nuanced journey)