I'm just confused. What's the point of the Hinako & Asahi romance? It fells so forced. Is there a difference between "platonic couple" and BFF? Don't tell me now they're holding each other's hands a bit longer. "I love you, but not in a romantic / sexual way." We used to call it friendship.
It doesn't stop being gay just because they don't kiss or have sex. Unless you think this deep form of affection is somehow worth less than the way allo people love, not that friendship is worth less than romance either. If they don't feel it is merely friendship, then it isn't and they don't have to place a label on it. I don't like the term QPR because it's very USamerican in identity but that's how some describe what they have with others.
The point is that they felt like they didn't fit in, that they were missing something others seemed to have and by trying to fit in they only hurt themselves. They deeply love each other but not in the way everyone else would expect them to, with sexual desire and all — that expectation placed them in a cage, labeled them as broken and made Hinako unhappy for a very long while. It's not like this will keep them from being physically affectionate later on as they develop their life together and become comfortable with someone that understands them and isn't going to demand things they aren't capable of, and I don't mean sex but just cuddling, hugging, grooming each other... things like that which aren't limited to the concept of lovers. Even if it doesn't happen because they happen to be repulsed by physical touch, it won't change the fact they love and care about each other very much in a way that goes beyond friendship for them or else they wouldn't have made a big deal out of it and this work wouldn't exist at all.
Honestly what they have would be the ideal for me if I ever wanted something with someone else.
(Not meant as an attack on you also, I hope my tone doesn't sound rude because I don't mean to be)