It kinda annoys me that if you showed this image to people, they would assume that the girls are on friendly terms because it's not enough "proof" to suggest anything romantic, but if one of the characters in the image were male, they would immediately assume them to be romantically involved. Whenever it's two individuals of the same gnder, so much more effort is made to comfirm or refute or demonstrate (if not platonic) the nature of their relationship, meanwhile a guy and a girl are immediately shipped together (because friendship is too complicated right people just can't keep their pants on).
Heteronormativity -_-