I guess some people haven't realized that the "shoujo ai" tag was removed, and I honestly preferit this way. I'm all in for yuri and shoujo ai but I don't think it fits the characters of this story.
Personally I never really cared whether this was or wasn't actually supposed to have that tag. But, I do have to say this series literally
reeks of typical shoujo ai/yuri romance being dragged the fuck out forever, alongside the author leaving all these little jokes like the honey and ginger thing along the way in the extras. Like you know how the romcoms on this site usually have a clearly defined target of attraction at least? The girl's love stuff is all about this "will they, won't they?" not even realizing they're attracted to each other for most of the story bullshit. So honestly, sometimes unless a series is very specifically in a magazine that only does that stuff, or a magazine that absolutely never does it, we get this where it's kind of at least superficially unclear which way this is supposed to be going.
That tag may end up slapped back on here again by the end of things, I dunno. I mean, has the author said anything about it on their end like "Yeah, sorry that's not what I meant to do here" or "Well duh, that's what's going on"?
I really would probably prefer this one as these two coming to terms with the brother's death, and just being real family for each other with less of the awkwardness between them in that regard. That would be a great story about some terrible circumstances.
"It's just fiction" my ass, all things come from somewhere. Unless you'd be willing, for example, to leave your pet with someone who has zoosadism art collection, or your child with a person reading this kind of shit, you can't argue that there's no link between desire for particular development ("they're not real people maaaan") and the kind of person you are. Otherwise, if you're that principled on that stance, feel free to object.
I could read a manga on this site and think to myself "These kids are adorable, this is nice." Meanwhile, put me within 100 yards of actual kids, "This is terrible, I hate tiny humans even more than regular size humans." Incidentally I also love shooting people in video games but don't particularly have any interest in doing so to real people. Nor do I plan to eat mushrooms and stomp on turtles despite having grown up playing the hell out of Mario. Do you see where I'm going here? You kind of sound like the people blaming video games for violence and what not.