I really don’t care for that term (because the bad meaning that friendzoned has, and Rin is far from friends with Shiemi just so he can date her, he cares for her as a friend too regardless of if she ever requited his romantic feelings for her too)
but it is very much worth noting that Rin’s feelings are far from unrequited, I’m guessing you aren’t caught up with the manga which fair! but would like to say there has been much development on Shiemi’s side and where her feelings lie towards Rin too! just it’s a very slowburn relationship and Shiemi’s new to friendships let alone figuring out where she might stand when it comes to more and figuring out she’s slowly been falling in love
I don’t wanna spoil if you aren’t caught up so I won’t add any manga pages from past this point in this post, but I will link a post I made on my Top 5 Rin/Shiemi scenes that does have spoilers in case you do wanna see what I mean/are okay looking at spoilers!
