I think they just want to be different and just focus on the theme of suicide and friendship instead of trying to turn it into a shounen ai. And believe me I want it to be a shounen ai just as much as you do. (=・ω・=)
The author be drawing nsfw in his account
-exactly-
im not too sure on the friendship aspect. The boys feel stagnant in their positions, neither of the main friends really going above and beyond to realize in full how shitty our main boy's mentality is. They keep glossing over it. They have moments where they freak out, but they never talk about it. Its frustrating. :(
Fr I wished he didn't burn his notebook and realized what he's been going thru ╥﹏╥
Will this ever be a shounen ai? the author ships his boys together, what keeps him from going through?