Oh hey, Kuzusouda is now included in the top 10 most-tagged ships for SDR2 on AO3, as long as you specifically include M/M ships!
If we exclude M/F, DR1 and V3, it rises up to #5, or #4 if we discount platonic Komahina. (Don't mind the platonic Hinanami sneaking in as well.)
Granted, these numbers are probably inflated by the sheer number of Kuzusouda ficlets and drabbles I've written over the years, but it's still pretty significant and I personally fail to be convinced that Kuzusouda is a rarepair with each passing day.
I believe that Kuzusouda is a mid-tier ship as far as popularity goes. It's not as popular as Kuzupeko or Mahiyoko (Komahina is in its own tier), but it's not quite as rare as, say, Gundam/Mikan or Peko/Sonia. It lives in the same spot as most Hajime ships, I'd say, along with other decently-popular same-gender ships such as Nanamiki and Soniaki.
It's a pretty good spot to be, really.










