I want my readers to be able to pick up, on their own, that two characters love each other.
The manga/anime franchises created by Rumiko Takahashi span several different genres, and almost all of them have a romantic comedy element to them.
“My feeling is that at the moment a manga’s male and female leads say ‘I love you,’ it’s like their story comes to an end.
Takahashi trusts her audience to be attentive and intuitive enough to figure out that a couple is in love without having to literally spell out “I love you” on the page.