Talk:Mayura Otomi/@comment-37635209-20181126195449/@comment-2003601-20200307200813

I think @Porthya's comment answers your complaint quite nicely. Couldn't have said it better myself. Mayura was a kid when she was harboring this crush on Rokuro.

As you get older and start to see the world and meet new people, that'll change more often than not. The way Mayura is written completely subverts the typical childhood friend archetype, where you often see this type of character pushed to the background when it's clear their love for the MC won't be returned.

Instead, Mayura accepts this and starts pursuing her own life goal to become an exorcist and protect the innocent as well as her loved ones and we actually get to see her journey! Her relationship with Shimon is probably the most natural development I've seen in anime/manga in a while. Not to undermine Rokuro and Benio's development.