#bd ep 12

BUT!! The English dub is now out.

In the English dub, Miri says this phrase a little differently. She says that Kazuki “went out drinking with the ladies.”

This sounds a lot less like a pathetically belated attempt at no homo and a lot more like saying the ladies are his friend group, which would make sense, seeing how Kazuki immediately made friends with the daycare moms back when Miri was little.

It’s a small change, and honestly could just have been a logistical (mouth flap) choice, but it blends in with their prologue far better than the original phrase in Japanese had done. It’s even more open-ended to the nature of his and Rei’s relationship than the original, which I think is a smart choice, given how many potentially queer categories they can fall under when no label is given.

But as a Kazurei shipper, I love this conclusion, actually.

In fact, I think PA works did really well by not portraying Kazurei as a romantic relationship.

Platonic relationships are very important too!! Platonic partnerships already don't have enough representation in the media, let alone queer platonic relationships, so Kazuki and Rei's friendship really means a lot to me as an asexual person.

Their friendship isn't just the ordinary friendship we see in most animes because their relationship goes deeper than that as shown in this episode and previous ones too. I mean, Kazuki and Rei literally escaped a dangerous organization, started a new life, and raised their daughter together for ten years!! That's amazing and wholesome and just the best kind of love I've seen in media so far??

And I'm sobbing-