okay hands down banri's sexiest moment in mankai stage is in autumn 2022, specifically the scene where azami got into that car 'accident'. literally everyone else in the scene was freaking out—kumon (on the phone) was seconds away from spiralling into a panic attack and was blaming himself for the accident, matsukawa wasn't really helping and yelling in panic at kumon which only added to the poor boy's panic, sakyo stumbled and couldn't get up to help. banri took in the whole scene, saw that they needed someone to stay calm and get shit done, and so he took the phone from matsukawa and very deliberately used a low, even voice to ask kumon which hospital azami was at and then told kumon to stay with azami. throughout the whole of autumn 2022 we see banri grow into his role of the leader (helping azami with his audition, teaching azami the fun of acting, hearing sakyo out after his spat with azami) but that scene for me really solidified to me that banri was no longer that bratty boy but growing into a level-headed, responsible young man who can take charge of the situation 🤌🏻
