>>33928713There is none for any other shounen protagonist in any show then, even those who are on screen married.
This is a kids show with a shiner protagonist and it's operating on Simpsons time, so duh, of course you won't see him reciprocate on screen beyond the "awestruck" look he had on his face after the kiss.
This is the purpose of interviews like these, to confirm and explain these kinds of things in a show that has built-in constraints.
>>33928785Almost all the old staffers are still there. The series director right now worked on the ribbon/haircut episode, and the head writer wrote the Serena-becomes-Satoshi episode. The man at the very top, Yuyama, has been there since the beginning. Other key writers who played big roles in writing episodes that featured Amour, such as Atsuhiro Tomioka and Akemi Omode, are also still there.
This isn't something they're going to reverse.
