I really really like this manga, and as a yaoi fangirl you can say that I was expecting a strong (but not really explicit) romantic relationship between Takara and Kiyomine.
But that never happened. And honestly, I have to stop kidding myself that it will. The author clearly wants to let the reader have her romantic dreams (she has hints of shounen-ai everywhere) but in the end, that's not what this story is about.
It's about a strong friendship between two young men, and how their relationship develops. In other words, it's a bromance. But it is done beautifully.
Now am I saying that I don't think that Takara and Kiyomine will ever end up together in that way? Absolutely not. But I know that the mangaka will probably never show it.
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You are actually pretty much right on. She never shows any explicit things between them. The furthest that she goes is kisses and sleeping on the same bed.
But there are hints like jealousy, protectiveness, and trust. They are constantly breaking down each others' barriers, and there are a lot of jokes about them being together by the other characters. So readers can draw their own conclusions from that.
But I actually like this better than many of the hard core yaoi mangas because the relationship between them is so true, so beautiful, that as a reader, I don't need to see the sex and whatnot to know that they belong together.
Plus, as the manga goes on, there are more instances of them being together like modeling, going to Africa, and moving in together at the very end.
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