I think I just saw someone complain about how Kou’s character development is stunted by Mitsukou? So I need to go on a tangent.
Kou is an exorcist who challenges his family’s traditional beliefs that all supernatural are bad. One of the biggest ways he challenges that belief is by being in love with Mitsuba, who is a supernatural. The world is not built for a human and a supernatural to stay together because humans age and die while supernaturals stay the same, so Kou wants to become a supernatural to stay with Mitsuba. But if he does, he will lose his friends and family because his some of his friends cannot see the supernatural and his family hates the supernatural. Kou also looks up to his older brother and wants to make him proud by becoming a strong exorcist just like him. But to be a proper exorcist, he would have to exorcise Mitsuba in cold blood.
NEED I GO ON. Tell me how that adds nothing of value to his character. Also bonus question tell me how that doesn’t have gay subtext











