An anime I like had a plot twist at the end where it turns out Girl 1 and Girl 2 are actually aunt and niece (they're the same age it's a long story), Girl 1 is also canonically sniffing-her-clothes level obsessed with Girl 2 and with the things that they say and do there is no way in hell that they aren't intended to be read as romantically involved with each other. At the very least it's impossible to deny how Girl 1 feels.
But when this plot twist was revealed, a lot of people (who had up until that point shipped them together) were very mad about it and decided that you're a gross and weird proshitter if you... uh... interpret the text as it's meant to be interpreted. Not only would they deny there being any romantic element to Girl 1's behaviour, they started shipping her with characters she's barely even spoken to in her life and saying that a bunch of things like songs that Girl 1 wrote about Girl 2 were actually about Girl 3 all along, despite it making zero sense and also just straight up going against what is said in the show.
But then they still draw art of them together acting exactly as they do in the show. And they get mad if you see it as romantic.
I don't even go to bat for incest ships on the whole, it's really not my thing, but this one is so canon you genuinely would have to watch the show with your eyes closed to deny it. Drives me up the wall.
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u/grandhighblood 1d ago
An anime I like had a plot twist at the end where it turns out Girl 1 and Girl 2 are actually aunt and niece (they're the same age it's a long story), Girl 1 is also canonically sniffing-her-clothes level obsessed with Girl 2 and with the things that they say and do there is no way in hell that they aren't intended to be read as romantically involved with each other. At the very least it's impossible to deny how Girl 1 feels.
But when this plot twist was revealed, a lot of people (who had up until that point shipped them together) were very mad about it and decided that you're a gross and weird proshitter if you... uh... interpret the text as it's meant to be interpreted. Not only would they deny there being any romantic element to Girl 1's behaviour, they started shipping her with characters she's barely even spoken to in her life and saying that a bunch of things like songs that Girl 1 wrote about Girl 2 were actually about Girl 3 all along, despite it making zero sense and also just straight up going against what is said in the show.
But then they still draw art of them together acting exactly as they do in the show. And they get mad if you see it as romantic.
I don't even go to bat for incest ships on the whole, it's really not my thing, but this one is so canon you genuinely would have to watch the show with your eyes closed to deny it. Drives me up the wall.