>>34321
First, "amicable relations" - I don't even know what that means in the context of your post. Are you trying to be her friend, or are you trying to be amicable? Totally different things. Amicable means you can exist in the same space, maybe a workplace, and you can be polite to one another and make small talk to fill the time. That doesn't imply that you're friends. Do you go out to do girl shit with your female coworkers on the weekends? No, you do not. Because women are insufferable to be around, and the only men who actually like spending time with them are homosexuals. As stated by
>>33985 and
>>33072.
I am also not even talking about the "friend zone," which is a product of hypergamy. I am talking about friendship, in the sense of substituting one of your male peers with a female, whom you perceive to be a peer, when neither party has any sort of competing romantic interest, just as presented in the first episode, and neither party has any possibility of getting sex from the other party. Like, if you claim to have a female friend, and hypothetically, she were to offer consequence-free sex to you, you're saying that you wouldn't take it because you "don't see her like that"? That's not a normal reaction. Either there's something wrong with you, like you're gay or your personality was twisted by your evil single mother, or else you're lying.
>>34238
I would be the first to call bullshit if you said this irl and I knew you and your female friend. As it stands, you might be gay, I don't know. There's really just no point in investing in a relationship with a woman if there is no chance of, or desire for, sex, though, and I think you understand that. They are just too insufferable.
As a reminder, Himari enjoys staring at Natsume longingly while he's working, and sometimes she jumps on him, with direct skin-to-skin contact, and Natsume looks at Himari and narrates that she's the cutest girl in the world, as well as consciously tries to prevent himself from falling for her. There's nothing platonic about their relationship.