People wail and cry for stories that focus on platonic relationships and then discards all platonic relationships for romantic ones. And I feel like the kny fandom is a really good example of this.
Demon slayer is a straightforward story with family oriented and goal driven characters and a story that focuses on the bonds of platonic relationships forefront and center.
Tanjirou wants to avenge his family, keep his sister safe and turn her back to a human.
Zenitsu wanted to honor his gramps (yes thatās his actual reason and I will not argue on this)
Genya wants to apologize to his brother
Sanemi wants to keep genya safe
Shinobu wanted to avenge kanae
Giyuu wanted to avenge/honor his sister and sabito, protect Tanjirou and nezuko.
Muichirou later on wanted to live his life for his brother
Even kokushibos whole thing about how he Hated yoriichi and wanted him dead and to kill him vs seeing a genuinely sweet and caring and loving brother in yoriichis pov and everything kokushibo had ever stood for since yoriichi left/their mother died being contradicted in an instant when we see the flute in his clothing after he dies.
And like anyone ever focuses on, and argues on. Is ships, canon or fanon, and sexuality/gender headcanons. For a series that is set in taisho era japan on the brink of World War One.
And I understand queer people existed during these times and that they had conflicts with themselves and others and etc, that comes with anyone in any time period. But it is still not the forefront of the story, platonic relationships are. All our romantic relationships just, do not have the same significance or impact on the story I have to say.
Obamitsu was a small (and beautiful/painful) moment at the end of the series, tankana didnāt actually happen until the Very end. Same with zenitsu/nezuko, aoi and Inosuke were the same as tankana. The uzuis got their one season but it was about finding each other and then killing ume and gyutaro. WHO speaking of, were literally conjoined together because they didnāt want to leave each other because of a promise neither remembered until they were actually dead.
I could even bring up gyomei and his ordeal with raising orphans and his relationship with genya, so on and so forth. Thereās countless amazing platonic/sibling relationships. And yet Iām seeing stupid ass debates on Twitter about how an mlm couple could conceive and have descendants towards the end of the manga. Like ??
(And not to mention how people will horribly mischaracterize complex characters to toxic daddy abusers and woobify the other partner, most typically in mlm ships which would constitute as fetishizing imo.)
And Iām not saying itās not valid to project or headcanon for fun, because I have also done that many times!! Aroace sanemi, bi genya, genderfluid genya! But thereās a line to it and everything else, when you start discarding the importance of platonic bonds to characters in favor of the romantic ones (aka my biggest problem with people who ship Sanemi with characters because 99% of the time they do this with him and Genya) then itās no longer fun and itās no longer cool and it in fact, makes you look stupid.
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