He did try to put distance but his mom came anyway. What he needs is a new place and a restraining order but sadly he still loves her so he probably won't get one
You said everything exactly right, at the editors introduction I was hoping she’d be a safe space to make him feel like “ye there are straight people around that are accepting” but ironically she was an ass pushing him to come out to someone he didn’t owe a coming out or explanation to, all while the other coworker guy ended up being that straight ally (that lowkey dissed the editor saying he doesn’t get why people like reading bl but he’s not against actual gays lmao), the delusional girl’s feelings were given way too much weight for my liking, they made her issues everyone else’s problem and I hate how kanade ended up coming out and explaining himself to her after all, and they(author) still had the audacity to make those two assholes into his advice giving besties????
i really loved the scene of the mom coming and the thoughts kanade went through, going from being surprised at how kousuke talked to his mom to quickly realizing the trauma she put him through and being on his side,
initially valuing her opinion of him and them as his lover’s parent, but then immediately seeing how there’s something wrong from the way kousuke went in panic mode crying asking her to not bother them, her immediately switching up from the nice mom act to yelling, being rude and acting like the victim etc all in front of him to the point she’s telling him, to her knowledge a friend of kousuke’s, to go away when it’s not her place to since she’s the one uninvited, all while kousuke not having the power to stand his ground and instead saying “sorry you’re right”!!
and HOLY SHIT HER CLINGING TO “HANDSOME” KANADE AND JOKING HOW ITD SEEM LIKE SHE HAS A HAREM?? And kousuke panicking telling her not to touch kanade, or her deciding on her own that she’s gonna come live with him even tho turns out its been discussed before and he didn’t want it, like that’s such a good sequence of kanade quickly seeing everything that’s wrong with her and their relationship, realizing kousuke feels so weak against her and that he needs a clear headed kanade to advocate for him or he’d freeze up against her again and then not letting him meet her alone, that whole scene was *chefs kiss* to me
I think Kousuke should seek out a therapist and put distance with the mother. He seems to be a victim of emotional incest and while the grandma did try to put some distance no one really told him that it was wrong what the mother was doing and that he shouldn't endulge her. I didn't like Kanade's coworkers. It was frustrating because the editor could have been a good representation of a fujoshi being able to distinguish between reality and fiction as pointed out to the two taking pictures "for references". But she wanted him to come out to a delusional girl that can't manage her feelings and is constructing a person out of her imagination just so she can give up on him??? Kanade saying "No" should have been enough. What would have happened if the man she confessed to wasn't taken or gay? Would the man have to had taken responsibility because of her being naive and her friend not being able to tell her she was out of place???