>>538331672
It's like there's some sort of cultural taboo when it comes to admitting affections. It can never just be done normally, it always needs to be this prolonged dance around the subject that persists until the participants have cleared up literally every single other minute problem in their lives first. Koreans do this too, sometimes, but it's nowhere near as frequent and it almost never goes on as long as the Japs would stretch it.
>>538332135
Oh yeah, for sure; for all its narrative shortcomings, the manga/anime I was talking about had a very solid trio of main girls with their own personalities outside of just mindlessly following the MC.