#what's with Maka's family trauma Soul's hidden struggles with self-esteem

[holydrakes]

I'm starting to like Momokarun now and they def got the SoMa vibes but I still feel it's pretty ironic that I felt the romantic chemistry between Soul and Maka in the early episodes of Soul Eater more than I do between Momo and Okarun in the early eps of Dandadan. They felt more like budding besties, but that had to do with them literally had just met each other I suppose. While SoMa started the story already being friends since who-knows-when and there are hints of some sexual tension already (like why the hell did Maka have to compare Soul's fake betrayal with her dad's cheating and Soul just going along with it?)

With Momokarun they're still tryna be friends first. But it's just weird that Dandadan didn't really start off to me looking like it'd be a romcom (I feel like the first ep works fine as a setup for just a male-female buddy story) while I struggle to see Soul Eater's first ep as a setup for a mere buddy story when you have stuff like them having a dramatic break up scene and blurring the line of their supposed close friendship by suggesting that their partnership would not work if one is romantically involved with other people and Maka blushing after Soul said that cheesy ass 'cool guys don't cheat on their partners'. Jeez. What the hell.

That said, I still like Momokarun and I can just think of them as 'Soma but they actually got to be the stars of a romcom instead of being stuck in another Friendship-is-Magic-romance-is-gross shonen'