because I swear I saw someone saying something like suletta was actually engaged to this other girls brother and Western tourists lost their shit when they got married at the end because they had been shipping these two characters together because people can't be just friends anymore they have to be fucking
i tried looking it up but as you can imagine the english language write-ups of it all 100% confirm that they gay
It's left open on the finale as you can only confirm that they are very close though they have rings at least I think one did, no confirmation it's with each other. I think by the end they were more family than lovers.
There's two factors in saying this:
Japan tends to be a lot more nuanced in anime over sexuality for DECADES, just look at JoJo, that's the most gay straight show ever.
It's Gundam, they go more into 'battle brothers/sisters' than everyone having to shack up. Nothing brings people together in that universe like shared trauma.
the term you might be looking for to describe JoJo (starting near end of part 4 to specify) is "flamboyant masculinity", and even then there's Stone Ocean later on with almost all-female cast
though you are right about the decades part, CLAMP started as a yaoi JoJo doujin group for example