>>182025>How so?When the protagonist first met her, she had no friends, and over time as they got closer, she became emotionally dependent on him as her only crutch in the world. This is of course an unhealthy relationship outside of anime logic. The protagonist doesn't want her to be like that clinging to him for everything in life, he wants her to be able to live her own life and pursue her own happiness. Over time he introduces her to his friend group and they bond as a group and all work together to protect her, and he's glad to finally have helped her open up to people.
Fast forward to when he awakes from his coma, he sees her as a fully grown adult married to one of his childhood friends and carrying a child. This suggests that after he fell into the coma his friend group continued to include her and she grew into her own person and eventually matured into an adult and started a family, confirming that he achieved his goal of giving her a future.
These things aren't really explicitly stated, so the series clarifying that he's in fact relieved about these things and doesnt feel like a cuck makes clear his feelings towards her as someone he wanted to protect, but not out of a desire for romance or need for reciprocation. He just wanted to give her a future, any future, as long as she's happy.
If they had just gone the standard anime shonen romance route and made them end up together it would have painted him as less of a selfless person and more like a groomer, because she'd continue to be dependent on him forever as the only person she can trust. this is kind of an important topic when you're trying to "save" someone, you can't let them get overly attached to you because you can't be there for them forever. what happens if he were to fall into a coma like that for 15 or 20 years while she's still clinging to him? she'd remain an emotionally broken mess the entire time(this actually happened to his mom btw), robbing her of her own future and development until he's back.it really is such a good representation of Delta's story and relationship with her fans, it's funny how the rest of that Coco meme was completely retarded and off-base anime picks and this one accidentally managed to be perfect even though the meme creator only picked it for the name as a stupid joke.
