more integral to one another's character growth than izu0cha idk cause I'd honestly be more okay with izu0cha if they interacted in a more romantic way than canon. Hell, I was more convinced with the Bleach ship wars cause the two ships fighting had romantic implications the entire series imo

As detrimental to both characters growth. In chap 429, those two had a very beautiful conversation and I was more than satisfied with that, but hori just injecting their relationship as more than friends at the end really threw me. And maybe I'm just a tgck/bkdk fan who saw their interactions as