wanna ask ya’ll a question.
as of ch 37.1, do you think yoshino has romantic feelings for kirishima? I don’t think she does, but I’d like to read your opinions.
I base my assumption on several things. sure, she accepted to formally date him, but that’s not much in the context of the story and their relationship. she cares about him, like someone would about an acquaintance, a friend.
if she got mad at his constant cheating and forced him to date her exclusively, then that would indicate that something is changing in her romantic attitude towards him. do you guys think that’d be a good litmus test or am I oversimplifying things?
I think she may have some physical attraction to him (given her good impression of him in their very first meeting) and agree that she's grown to care for him as a friend (they're that at the very least), but I'm not sure she feels that strongly about him; at least enough to where she'd agree to stay in Tokyo/marry him out of her own interest.
Kirishima pointed out to Renji that Yoshino's the type of person to adapt to her surroundings, no matter how troublesome it may be. I'd say there's a good portion of their relationship is built on her being used to his weird behavior and thus learning to communicate with him. She probably still has reservations with how unpredictable and guarded he can be, but her view of him has definitely changed over time (wanting to give gifts to him every birthday, sleeping in the hall while waiting for him, etc).
It's hard to say if her getting mad over him cheating would be a good litmus test for her feelings. She'd get mad regardless if he involved another fwb in the yakuza world since she asked him not to involve other people in his business. Like his hookups seem to be largely transactional, like for networking and getting info. He justifies the whole thing with Nao as being 'for Yoshino's sake'
(eye roll). While I don't think him cheating is out of the question in the future, we haven't seen him meet with anyone since they agreed to be bf/gf so he could be making effort.
If not, I'm not sure if she'd be actually disappointed in him and/or just not surprised. Again, I don't think she has high expectations for a romantic relationship with him. Maybe since they've become more 'intimate' with each other, she'll ask abt his relationships again the future and we'll get some insight into all that