#how does sanakasa fit into this?

[eleemosynecdoche]

Critical dynamics here- youkai/youkai relationships, youkai/human relationships, youkai/other relationships. All are distinct. The former, I suppose, is likely pretty casual- "forgetting" that humans need to breath in a conversation, or wondering aloud what bones are besides crunchy. The middle, well... I strongly suspect you've got this delicate ground- "am I fetishizing this?", "is she going to break and run when I start talking about how well she would go with leek and onion?", "how can safewords work when I can obliterate her with one kick", etc. Really delicate stuff to negotiate, fascinating to imagine what kind of sideline stuff Komakusa sets up sometimes.

And the third? *considers Komakase* Shameless fetishization. Absolutely shameless. Writing a callout post for that shinigami as we speak.

of course understanding what moe means also means understanding that youkai moe is a completely different and almost entirely unrelated thing (besides being a yuuka pun).