the author said it was always gonna be taichi though! they just weren't going to outright reveal it
ahh i read it back and it was meant to be taichi but not revealed, I skipped the tiny written part and missed "already is." ig author only wanted to focus on character development instead of romance. my statement still stands that editors saying it can be revealed and author making few changes to the original idea and not so much on Toma x Taichi though
yeah! and i thought it was really powerful what the author said about all their feelings being equally important, that one person's love isn't more special or important than another's
yee love is love. Just as Futabi loved Toma so did Taichi, and so did Itachi loved Futabi and so did Taichi, and so did Futabi love Taichi and so did Toma. lol i hope that made sense
okay with this afterword everything makes sense now. Author wrote a slice of life about a bittersweet love triangle [without disclosing Toma's crush] but editors wanted it to be Taichi and the author only touched up few chapters so this unexpected ending is understandable.
for those who were upset about the lack of representation, lgbt term was beginning to get across at the time which author was unaware of what it is at that time. Like others I also wanted more Toma and Taichi but in the end, this is only written with the intention to be about characters choices and values not to represent other things.