Let’s just hope that any future bridal Tikis don’t cause the same level of shitstorm as bridal Sanaki...
Oh who am I kidding?
I think it's worth keeping in mind that FEH has a wider audience than some of the more overtly girl games like Kantai Collection or FGO. You go into Kantai Collection knowing that every character is going to be female, and damage art will show their panties and they are generally sexualized, even if they're objectively portrayed as vastly underaged. FGO technically lets you play as male or female and has some "hot guys" as well as girls, but notably, regardless of player gender, only women are sneaking into the player's bed or confessing eternal undying love because they expect those following the series to be het males and maybe a few lesbians.
Fire Emblem, meanwhile, is a Nintendo franchise that may be more mature than typical Nintendo franchises, but it's still going to keep an expectation of both younger audiences, as well as a much closer-to-even split in the genders of the players.
Because of that, and to help foster that, damage art is way less revealing. When you do get fanservice-y seasonal units, they're often split between male and female fanservice (except Tharja, who goes way overboard), and there were complaints last time about the lack of grooms in the June Brides banner, so they threw in Groom!Marth this year.
Hence, FEH deliberately fosters different expectations of itself, and it is much more susceptible to criticism for breaking with the expectations it deliberately fostered than if it made it clear from the get-go that it was gonna be another cheesecake game.
I was at my sister-in-law's birthday party a little while ago, and pulled out my phone to run through the Tempest Trials and burn some stamina. It's because this was a game that was relatively tame that I felt fine pulling it out where others could see (although when I showed it to her, my mother said Olwen looked like a slut because of her plunging neckline/large breasts, and I was using her as one of the 'safe' ones...), and one of my sister-in-law's younger relatives, a 5-year-old boy just stopped and stared at FEH as I played it, so I just turned on animations and let him watch. The boy's mother was a bit curious, but let him do it, because it stopped him from cartwheeling all over, and my mother had said that it was OK because it wasn't one of those overly sexy games to her... and then the boss of the Tempest Trials was Loki, who is absolutely sexualized to the gills and I started sweating and turned the animations back off. (The adults didn't see that part, though...)
...but notably, regardless of player gender, only women are sneaking into the player's bed or confessing eternal undying love because they expect those following the series to be het males and maybe a few lesbians...
Unless female players somehow find having a bishounen creeping into their bedroom as sexy, I can see why there's only women 夜這い and no male counterpart.
FE as a franchise is just more accessible to mainstream audience that doesn't accept the norm of Japanese games. It's neither an eroge / anime like Fate nor a Japanese-only game like Kancolle. It's a proper turn-based JRPG that attracts normal folks with reasonable (western) expectations on what a game can be.
Over here on the Eastern part of the world though, it can be rather awkward to be seen playing a game with overly sexy female characters, so fan service scenes involving younger characters are just easier to sit through and pass off as "Oh, just nippon being nippon".
Unless female players somehow find having a bishounen creeping into their bedroom as sexy, I can see why there's only women 夜這い and no male counterpart.
While they're played for laughs, the female trio infamous for it in FGO are treated as absolutely terrifying in-universe. And by terrifying, I mean they cause Ibaraki Douji to consider love as being scary.
Unless female players somehow find having a bishounen creeping into their bedroom as sexy, I can see why there's only women 夜這い and no male counterpart.
Having read a few shoujo manga, I can safely say that the complaints against the abusiveness in books like Twilight ain't got nuthin' on some Shoujo fetishes. Attempted rape is apparently treated as an acceptable love confession in shoujo.