#it just feels rude I guess to totally discredit something that was clearly Asou making an effort to get around queer censoring

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No like actually idk what it is bc ppl have no issue claiming the characters who are never depicted as queer as “mlm coded” but when it comes to Saiki suddenly it’s like everyone’s allergic to acknowledging that he’s into dudes. Like he, Miko and Imu are the only characters who are canonically* into the same gender (and maybe Hairo and Teruhashi but they’re a little more vague) and honestly Saiki is really explicit with it imo so it’s confusing why ppl always try to argue against it.

”Saikis not into dudes he’s just obsessed with Satou bc he’s average. It’s an admiration thing.” listen. Have whatever interpretations you want I will not judge. But if that was true Saiki would also be obsessed with Sawakita. Also Asou wouldn’t have made so much of a point into having him say “well I don’t like these other completely normal characters they’re boring, Satou is Different” multiple times. Also he wouldn’t have had Saiki put Satou on the explicitly romantic crush chart.