Hello!!!
I'm glad to hear this felt very cozy because that's the feel I wanted to go for, for this!! and fghjgfhj Mr. Protag is indeed a very caring guy (I love him so much for it ahhHHHH he and Izumi are just <3 <3 <3)
And oh!! I'm glad to hear this about all my one asset choices!! I tried my best on all of them (especially the music piece because i'm still very new to composing my own stuff haha) and YEAH i wanted to use the choices as a way to immerse the player so i'm glad to hear it helps get them involved with it!!
And YEAH I SURE HOPE SO TOO ^0^ I want them to remain friends forever and be happy about it (and yesss it'd be nice if Izumi could reunite with his fam while he's at it ^^)