It wasn't originally. The anime happened right around the mid point of the series and had a bunch of anime only viewers pop up in the manga threads and they were super aggressive about the ship. Then Yomi was resurrected very soon after. I think the anime being what it was brought in a big new demographic to the series that had a very different idea about Yomi and Kagura. The author seemed to start pandering to their very new, very vocal fans IMO.after watching the anime and reading this i'm convinced it was really just a yuri all along with kensuke serving as some kind of link to bring the actual romance together. from what i remember kensuke only kissed kagura once literally mid accident on accident even most of the ecchi scenes were his imagination.
That's how i remember it as well. The whole anime adaptation that's actually fully new material approach was weird, and I don't think it worked out for them, as there were no copycats.It wasn't originally. The anime happened right around the mid point of the series and had a bunch of anime only viewers pop up in the manga threads and they were super aggressive about the ship. Then Yomi was resurrected very soon after. I think the anime being what it was brought in a big new demographic to the series that had a very different idea about Yomi and Kagura. The author seemed to start pandering to their very new, very vocal fans IMO.