Well, “finally a homophobic character!” Totally fooled me if I had not read the rest of your message and reasoning lol!
I don't think he was homophobic. His father was more scared of how his son would be treated by society than him being gay. I feel like his father went through something the same maybe that's why he became the way he is.
I hope that we will get more info about his father's past to see if it's true or not.
I agree with this, but with the way he was talking to kazuma though gave me an ICK, like why is it suddenly Kazuma's fault huh
Yeah. Maybe cuz that's how he feels like too. He blames himself too. That's why he looks so guilty afterwards. His face screams a past trauma or experience that suddenly bursted out that he ended up bursting his words. There was a lot of shock.
Yeah like, Katie Killjoy once said "I am not homophobic, I just hate gay people" well that was worse haha, but for real, we are already in an era of open-mindedness is homophobic still a thing? because this should be the era for nonchalantness hahaha
Yeah he’s not homophobic at all. He regrets his life because of hardships he faced and he doesn’t want his son to be in hardship and grow up to be a regretful old man like he is. It’s actually just him projecting his own insecurities out onto his son rather than him actively hating on gay people. He even said it “I’m just worried”. I think he really loves his son and doesn’t actually care that he’s gay but it came out really really wrong.
Finally a homophobic character! Listen I love the supporting friends and family but like.. this is still set in real Japan yk, no one opposing the relationship was weirder lol although id have preferred it was any other character instead of the absent father