man when she said don't betray me, I went but you're the one who shut yourself off to him in the first place? man lost his wife, immersed himself in his work as a coping mechanism (I have seen that happen) and his daughter shut him out (as if she was the only one suffering) and he ran into koto (who saw how much weight he was carrying around alone)
and she kind of did save him back then...(so he feels like he needs to save her). I don't like picking fights on the internet but calling it a savior complex is just...lazy. It's like you haven't read the manga up until now, He said what he said after 54 chapters...not Subaru deciding he loves Emilia in the first 2-3 episodes
It is tempting to condemn him as some sort of skirt chaser (or pedophile cause the internet loves extreme reaction), but he isn't drawn to koto because she is a JK (in fact he is drawing himself away from her because she is a JK) but because she provided him what he needed most back then...some actual support
as someone who has witnessed someone in a abusive relationship (fake suicide calls, emotional backmail) while working in a high pressure environment (dickheads, office politics), I didn't get why he was behaving the way he was at the time but I do now so I get kousuke's side a bit he isn't perfect (like most people like irl) but man does he get the short end of the stick from each end
people can shit on kousuke (pedophile, lock him up, psychopath) for his actions, decision and behavior but it's just...lazy
I get why he is acting in the manner he does cause we had like 54 chapters of him thinking, talking and interacting with other characters, not to mention having seen other people in shit situations I can see part of him in people I know...koto's mom on the other hand, fucking hell she's just mad
Edit - calling him a pedophile is like you're not reading the manga at all, calling him a psychopath is even worse
Edit - some of these comment here are eerily similar to the kind of logic of that cunt yaguchi spewed at the male character from the other manga of high school girl living with a full grown male (shaved and whatever) i.e. sheltering a JK is the same sheltering a JK and having sex with her (slippery slope argument)