
^^ yes I know the original is het, but queerbaiting is still not is nice thing to do. I didn't wish for them to be gay together, KyoAni could have just stick closely to the original and make it het and I would still watch it, because it's a music anime and it's KyoAni and their stuff has almost always been great. But purposely making these two so close together, cutting scenes that supposed to have the other guy in it, just to bait on queer girls is a fucked up thing to do in my opinion. Queer people need positive representation in the media so much and yet companies like this doing shit like "Oh we're gonna make the characters slightly gay but not canonly just to attract you guys but you still don't deserve to get actual queer characters." KumiRei would be a perfect positive queer representation, they have a great relationship and they're not sexualized like other yuri shows, but somehow we still can't have that. Of course this is all just my opinion as a queer woman because I don't like queerbait in general. So yes it would be better if they had focus on Kumiko and Shoe's relationship from the very beginning instead of making KumiRei so gay and then pull the whole "jk they're straight KumiShoe forever " crap