What are your thoughts if KogKag and InuKik became the Canon Endgame Ships?
A warning that this might not be the answer you’re looking for? TL;DR — I feel that canon endgame is a deathwish to ships.
I have a pretty simple outlook on this — if a ship is not intended to be canon by the creators, I do not want them to be canon. For a couple reasons:
1. The authors have a reason to write what they write. Whether I agree with it or not, someone writing something they don’t like or believe in is evident (hello, GoT). InuKag was always intended to be the canon endgame. If Takahashi, for some reason, decided to suddenly switch up the ships, it wouldn’t have worked out. The buildup would have been lacking because that wasn’t her intention. Creators should stick to what they think is best, else the entire story falls flat. (Not saying that all canon decisions are the best, but I’d rather read what the creator wanted vs. what the creator felt pressured to make.)
2. The more screentime a character gets, the more opportunity there is to bastardize that character. See: every filler episode ever. Currently, KogKag can be whatever I want to make it. I don’t have to rewrite many mistakes in canon as I would have to do with other canon ships (looking at you, Naruto). With the two characters left on their own away from each other, we aren’t seeing a terrible twist to their story that suddenly becomes “canon”.
3. Sequels suck. I learned this with Boruto and what they did to my favs. I have literally no interest in watching Yashahime because I don’t accept what that studio is going to do to Kouga or Kagome (or any other character they’re dealing with). With KogKag not being canon, it means I don’t have to deal with new “canon” content ruining my ship because they want to cash in on an old fandom and need drama.
Essentially, I don’t want them to be canon because it won’t be what I want it to be. Writing non-canon ships gives me so much more freedom that’s not dictated by other people. I think a world where KogKag and InuKik are canon endgame would be...different. And considering how the anime studio portrayed Kouga, I would absolutely hate what that would do to our favorite wolf demon.
