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About the tv tropes: It might not just be the homophobic readers. Sometimes I think the authors themselves are in denial of just how romantic the relationships they’ve created are. Like Miura has repeatedly said in interviews that all that “drama” is normal for male friendships, etc. Idk they might say this so the readership doesn’t drop.

Yeah true. When it comes to tv tropes it’s definitely the readers, but yeah lol it’s sadly the exception rather than the rule when a creator doesn’t no homo gay subtext or sometimes straight up text. And yeah ime it’s generally pretty hard to tell whether the denials are sincere or pr.