Rereading through the series after this direct statement to the comments section has me thinking🤔? The author might be a women or/and trans.
I mean, HitoHito directly translates to "PersonPerson" . . .
I'll let someone else flame about what I mean by posting this but . . . just a theory.
I'm tragically enjoying Manbagi's character arc in "liking Todano". It's remarkably tear-jerking; albeit by drawing from the "I torture your Moe!" school of storytelling, but still. It does so in a why that is true to life. Life sucks some times! And sometimes that's the story that needs told...