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Maybe Kodaka was averse to doing straight up romance himself but I feel it was quite the missed opportunity to not have Takumi do something during the scene when Darumi opens up to him. Really should’ve hugged her.
All the other romances in the game that went as far as kissing were done by the various other writers, even Uchikoshi had the vague romantic feelings be there it was the slasher guy that wrote Hiruko being into Takumi and kissing him at the end. Kodaka’s 2nd scenario romantic feelings is just the tiny interactions with Nozomi and hinting at things again. Eva route he worked on it but they skipped all the romance and jumped to the relationship at the end.