Love that blossoms from friendship is of the best. After you spent some time getting to know each other as friends, and start feeling that friends isn't a good label for your relationship then it's good to start dating. Maybe it might be one-sided at first but if they have a good opinion of you from being your friend and find you attractive then maybe they might make it mutual. It could destroy your friendship if it stays one-sided and you become uncomfortable with it, but there's not really anything you can do about that. Guys in manga need to stop thinking along the lines of friendship with a girl is impossible. If you look at it that way there's no way you could ever get close to a girl. In those confession scenes were a guy asks out a popular well liked girl of course they're going to reject you. I don't care if you're the hottest most popular girl or boy in the school if you asked me out and I knew absolutely nothing about you besides the surface of course I'm not going to agree to date you. Why would you even say that you love me if you knew absolutely nothing about me? It's so shallow. That guy's idea that girls and boys being friends is taboo is stupid