TAG RANT AWAY MY FRIEND, REIHARU IS SO VERY IMPORTANT WE SHOULD DEFINITELY TALK MORE ABOUT THAT
I agree! HaruRei/ReiHaru is sooooo super important!
I mean, Haru was the one who inspired Rei to actually join the swim club. Rei has been noticing Haru’s mood ever since. Rei has always done whatever he can to understand Haru and help Haru stay free. And no one try to tell me that Haru doesn’t reciprocate, because seriously? Did you watch episode 3 of Eternal Summer?
Maybe it’s because I’m a multishipper, but I don’t understand how people can see Rin admiring Haru and be like “Oh, yeah, so in love” and then see Rei doing the exact same thing but completely dismiss it? (That honestly goes for any of the rare ships, though, because so many people who ship the big ships just dismiss actions/scenes between other characters as nothing more than friendship when they would say anything similar is complete love with their otp.)
HaruRei is very important. I rewatched season 1 with my school’s anime club and I was just blown away because how do more people not notice how much they care about each other? Even if it’s canonically friendship, that’s the basis for so many ships in fandoms. (You know, like the popular ships in Free! which are all canonically only friendships.)