#and this isnt like.... shipping wars bc i ship kanji and yosuke btw

[personuhh]

i think.... the reason i'm not a huge fan of kan///nao is because like.... you can't really just have one character without the other, i guess. i find the same thing happens with sou///yo but definitely to a lesser extent (because yu is mostly silent and yosuke is such a standout character on his own). with kanji and naoto it honestly feels like they get lumped together by fandom and kanji gets reduced to the Big Buff Blushy Baby (tm) while naoto is just. a doll for him to fawn over. Idk. It's a lot more rare for me to find kan///nao i really like. naoto's personality is pretty.... muted, and personally i don't really see kanji's crush being reciprocated on naoto's part at all; they're pretty upfront about not wanting a relationship (the spinoffs ovbiously push the idea of shipping them but the OG game there isn't really anything there at all). IM RAMBLING NOW but yeah fuckin. i dunno. i really hate when shipping ends up taking away a "female" character's agency (what NAOTO wants) just because the other half happens to have a crush. they can be cute if its done right, but it kinda.... squicks me honestly. i see way too much of it just being accepted as canon because kanji is showing attraction when naoto's opinion matters too lmao