User blog comment:TheCarrotSaysYumYum/FT0 5 - A Moonlit Lake, Review./@comment-7418318-20141118003653/@comment-4449950-20141118005433

Tbh, I think it's just the way most people are >__>

I've been having the same issue with people who watch Akatsuki no Yona. They say it's a "silly reverse-harem" because there is one female lead and six male leads, but if they actually bothered to watch/read it properly as I and others have, they'd see that, yes, all of the guys do love Yona, but all differently. Their love is deep, but I think two of them love her as close friends, one sees her as a princess/master, one as a younger sister and one as a teacher/guide. It annoys me, because whenever they interact everyone just goes all "Oh! They all love her and want to be in a relationship with her", but if people could stop assuming that love must equal sexual relationship, everyone would be better off, both in that series and here. Because I agree with you... Mavis and Zeira for me are just friends who have lived only with each other and completely isolated for their entire lives, and are very close as a result. I guess I can not complain if people think their scenes were fanservice (I didn't think it was sexy or provocative at all, but to each their own) but everyone now screaming that Mavis/Zeira are lesbians or that the manga will be all yuri is kinda irking me :/

Pity, because I think Mashima is one of the better shounen writers out there when it comes to capturing a wide variety of different relationship types, not all of which must be romantic. *shrugs*