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Proof about the Japanese text making them explicit? I don\\\'t disbelieve you, but even in the cases where I ship these kinds of couples, I\\\'m used to Japanese media and its [[BaitAndSwitchLesbians downright notorious history of producing such ambiguously gay/bi relationships]] that come a hair\\\'s width from being canon but are often handwaved with a \\\"interpret it however you want\\\" when they don\\\'t just outright dash them with heterosexual romances at the last minute, because it simultaneously appeases the YaoiFangirls and YuriFans who generally tend to enjoy such relationships for their sexual tension and subtext more than any confirmation/consummation itself (many will admit to losing interest if it ever gets confirmed due to a subcultural form of ShippingBedDeath), as well as the MoralGuardians who may not necessarily believe in the complete elimination of all positive depictions of homosexuality from the media like their Western equivalents but do disapprove of anything other than heterosexual marriage with leads to the production of offspring as the endgame.

Blame it on cynicism more than AntiShippingGoggles, but explicit confirmation aside, everything you mention just sounds like more of the same old Japanese media pattern of heavy homoeroticism that they\\\'re afraid of committing to outright text. Not that I\\\'m going to pretend Western media is much better since the difference in values means it tends to be all-or-nothing trending towards nothing at all, not even deliberate subtext.