Worthy of note: there is a brief discussion about a teenage girl having an unrequited crush on her teacher, who is several years older than her, and she even keeps an image of him as her phone's lock screen. This is only briefly referenced for a couple of throwaway jokes. Later, an older woman reminisces on a romance from her teenhood; when she was a high school senior, she had a romantic interest in an eighth grader (who seems to have reciprocated). However, the relationship ultimately did not work out due to the age gap. Throughout the film, the teenage protagonist (who is 17 years old) has several romantically-coded moments with the deuteragonist, whose age is initially ambiguous, but is later confirmed to be 14. While this could potentially hint at an age-gap relationship, the protagonist does not have romantic interest in him (especially as she is clearly interested in another boy her own age). In the original Japanese dialogue, the deuteragonist states he loves her, but it's left ambiguous if this is intended to be romantic; the official English dub changes this line to "you're my hero", leaning towards a platonic interpretation.