Yea it took toru quite a while to confess to me too sadly only after the fireworks festival and I had him at max heart + almost full stars for weeks before the July holidays. It's either a bug or intentional because of his past and personality.
I don't know if their always reading everything but if i do see more issues like this ill try to officially report it. Maybe they are working on it just didn't really tell anyone, could be fixed in the next update.
It is not really a bug. I'm not sure why people find his route that much harder even though the condition doesn't differ much from the other guys... (I'll try lowering his condition in next build tho).
