#So I admit I tend to overcompensate with skepticism bc people be nasty at those who talk about ships

[thyandrawrites]

so amused because once you (I Think it was you) said that you saw more gaycoding for other characters than you did for nagireo and my exact thought was "oh boy, just you wait." and your reaction didn't disappoint lmao. they literally became thst "These gays, they are trying to murder me" meme and it's glorious

Lmao yeah it was me. I had yet to find out about the existence of epinagi, so to me they were simultaneously a strong nakama bond and a subversion of it. In the main series, that is. But the spinoff reads more like a slice of life shounen ai and if I was hesitant to call it gay coding at first, then chapter 12 and 13 flipped that on its head, lol. You can't deny that the art gives off a strong romantic subtext, if not the deeper dive into their dynamic itself. The shoujo paneling in certain scenes is definitely very suggestive, as it is the choice to show the chains of Reo's ego coming straight from his heart. His ego, which is making Nagi the number one. Jeez, you two, get a fucking room already

I wonder if Kaneshiro is using the spinoff to better explore things that would be much harder to focus on in the main series. Beyond Nagi's personality itself, I mean. Blue lock ia still a spokon, so it's not like I ever expect romance to have a place in it, let alone a romance between two boys. But the spinoff can do its own thing, and boy does it deliver lol

#I mean it could be fanservice too but I tend to think it's played too seriously for it to be baiting #Ali replies #Blue lock #Anyway I'm saying all of this but I'm the type who typically doesn't wait for canon to state it to ship it #In fact in a lot of fandoms I don't even want my ships to be canon #So please don't take this as me injecting my shipper bias into the story #Honestly much of my hesitance to call it as I see it is due to #How predominant it is in fandom to filter canon through shipping lenses and call that meta #So I admit I tend to overcompensate with skepticism bc people be nasty at those who talk about ships #But this case is different #Or well maybe I do have shipper bias after all. They have consumed me. I can't stop thinking about them lol #These tags don't make sense sorry. Can you tell that I have very conflicting feelings about this