imogen asking how nick met charlie and the others, and nick struggling to explain the phenomenon of gays just naturally gravitating towards one another without outing himself
Juri: When you think about it, even thought I'm a member of the Student Council, all I ever did was think about myself.
Utena: Are you... talking about Shiori?
Juri: Why is it... Why can't I set my feelings free? What are you going to do with Anthy?
Tbh, MDZS' female character count is uh. Pretty ttpical for danmei. MXTX improves somewhat with TGCF. But Word of Honor massively expanded a bunch of minor characters and even iirc genderflipped a couple to be women like Tragicomic Ghost, who is a minor male character in the book. Meatbun's 2Ha has a couple more because the cast is much bigger than MDZS' and its much longer, but I don't know that the ratio is much different, and Yuwu's female representation is downright dire.
Oh man, I almost went and tracked down Faraway Wanderers because Word of Honor was fun and I wanted more lore (and a better idea of what the main plot entailed because hoo boy do things get rushed there at the end when they ran out of money)... and then I found out that all the women I'd enjoyed so much either didn't exist in the novel at all or their roles had been GREATLY expanded, and my interested vanished completely. Yuwu I'm not familiar with, but even beyond the treatment of its female characters, everything I've heard about 2Ha has led me to believe that I'd only read it if someone paid me, and maybe not even then.
I get that it's a danmei genre convention, but literally nothing is lost by the hot men having female friends or relatives with narrative importance! If they were in a single-gender setting--the military, a boys' boarding school, a men's sports team, a monastery, any number of professions that were historically closed off to women--that'd be one thing, but when the entire world seems devoid of women, it's just... weird and alienating and raises a lot of questions from a story standpoint such as "why are all of these young noblemen unmarried given that producing an heir to ensure the sect or house's continued survival is one of their primary duties?" and "do any of these guys have moms?"