Why do romcoms always treat confessing like some formal procedure you need to go through to officially date? Like, these two dumbasses already made it pretty clear to each other they have mutual feelings. Both know it, both want to date each other. There is quite literally nothing stopping them from becoming an item other than this dumbfuck notion that they can't do it until one of them goes "I hereby profess my feelings of love for you and humbly request to enter a formal romantic relationship with you".
There is no fucking point to this shit other than to drag things out and milk this "will they, won't they" (they obviously will) bullshit that no one fucking enjoys.
U think this isn’t an IRL problem? Because fyi, it is, and especially in Japan of all places; the other problem is she knows both of their feelings yet he doesn’t, but she doesn’t want to be the one who says it, which again is also an IRL problem everywhere and hence y a lot of stories use it as a plot device + it drags the story on (which I rather the author didn’t but it’s quite obvious y they do and why they would)
Also not to mention the problem stems from how much cutting happens in the series, ie the pacing, I’ve seen so many people say “oh but almost 200 chapters”, 200 of these chapters is like 70 normal chapters of most romance mangas
I agree on authors overall not dragging and being so annoying/overdoing situations, but thinking these things r just narrative problems is hilarious (not to mention some do this and some don’t, different strokes for different folks authors included)
