Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-198.52.158.171-20200703194145/@comment-82.255.164.214-20200712214156

Electra33 wrote: I wrote this at 2-2:30 am so I probably wasn’t very eloquent 😂. But I love sharing knowledge about little things that people who take translations at face value may not notice! It makes me sad how many people dismiss Mika’s confirmation of love solely because he didn’t use “aishiteru”, despite that just... not being the way an actual person would say it. (It also makes me sad that it took a death experience for Mika to feel confident enough (in a way? it was like a deathbed confession) to express his feelings out loud to Yū.) don't worry, i agree with everything you said. I never heard "aisheteru" in anime or manga.

This is just people being heteronormative as always, if mika was a girl, "daisuki" would have been more than enough  and you would never see people even questionning it but since he is a guy we need to ask for special translation and search the meaning of every damn kanji. Hence i see female character in anime just using " suki" which mean "like" and is weaker than "daisuki" but everyone see it as a confession