I kinda like the concept - one of them had a traumatic experience with friends in the past, and would obviously be unwilling to label someone as such moving forward; so it made sense that if she were to end up with a romantic partner, they'd skip that friend step. But I would've liked to have seen a little more attraction from Nemoto's side, because it was mentioned that she was obsessed with Sakaguchi, but we didn't really see that.