Having explored asexual relationships in Crescent Moon, it feel like Usui Shio might be tackling aromantic ones next.
Ignoring the part where it's wildly irresponsible to paint kids and teens as ace given how many people don't have an awakening of any kind until adulthood (Notice how the ladies in Donuts were full grown and still coming to terms with being ace), I'm genuinely curious as to when learning about love, a staple in shoujo manga/YA romance, is suddenly treated as an implication of being ace. For literally decades it's been normal to "not understand love" in your teens, why are we treating it like it's deeper than that?
Idk, maybe it's because a lot of the readers ARE teens and don't have the gift of hindsight to realize how odd it is to presume that a lack of resonance with sex and love at their age means almost nothing. There's nothing wrong with exploring aspec connections, but when it gets to the point where you look at two girls getting butterflies from each other and have the audacity to speculate they might be aromantic, maybe it's gotten a little out of hand lol.