Talk:Mei Misaki/@comment-68.227.10.112-20170723210414/@comment-6052796-20170723215400

That depends on the variation and even then it was more out of friendship than it was out of romantic love despite the hints. In the Novel it's left ambiguous. The arc words regarding that were "How far in the future would that be?" Meaning that in the future they either remain friends or drift apart. In the Anime, it's cemented that they remain friends now that the pressure of death is off of them for now. But in the live action movie, they drift apart because after the events, Kouichi gets taken back to Tokyo to live with his father.