ummm.... you do realize its said like that because he's a kid and that is the best way a kid can explain something like that?
You're right, but ... being a Japanese kid ... I doubt they'll explain the subject again this way ... That's why I'm complaining here. (Sorry for the inconvenience)
not really an inconvenience, just letting you know its okay to have your own beliefs just recognize that it's just a manga and kids portrayed here are just normal kids.... Well beside Main Girl Lead.... I think she was accedentally dropped at birth
And who knows they might be like last game and take it to high school and explain it's being "aware" of someone
I think she is asperger
This is only my opinion... (●'◡'●)ﾉ But I don´t agree that you have to see him as a "boy" to fall in love (without saying that isn´t considered homosexuality or bisexuality(≧∀≦)), that more than "love" is the awareness that now your body and the bodies of others, are fit for sexual intercourse ⁄(⁄ ⁄·⁄ω⁄·⁄ ⁄)⁄ . That "attraction" is more sexual than romantic, and at that age hormones make both boys and girls go crazy about sex (More to boys). At that age it is very easy to confuse "love" with "sexual attraction", although there are also loves that begin with sexual attractionლ(´ڡ`ლ).
What's more, the old shojos comics said that you could only feel sexual desire for the person you loved. ╮(￣▽￣)╭
Without speaking, men and women can be friends...(๑•ㅂ•)و✧ ε=ε=(ノ≧∇≦)ノ And of course you can fall in love with your friends (There are love that begins before being a "Woman" or a "Man")