No wonder there are so many dead parents in manga. Japanese folks seem to be clumsy as fuck on top of a simple cold being able to almost kill anyone.
Fucking tropes, man.
Monster's author made a fool out of himself portraying Europeans and most everything. I know it's supposed to be a master piece and I couldn't help but cringe every time a European character had some Japanese trait. Maybe it was because I was younger and couldn't distract myself from those...
The genre is a cesspool. The premises get more and more retarded to differentiate from each other and when, expectedly, the novelty runs out the whole thing seizes leaving you stranded in the middle of the desert.
Mangadex is giving it almost a 9 rating but my best guess is that the bulk of it was from the time both were more assertive. This dumbfuckery should lower it over time.
Give it time and, unless it gets the axe, we will get the misunderstood confession too.