Weird Shippings: Kanna and Saikawa from Dragon Maid

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

Warning: this is not for edgememers who don't know what 'We*****' means as an insult, or those who will question weird shippings.

One of my first weird ships I came across would be Kanna Kamui and Riko Saikawa from Kobayashi's Dragon Maid. The premise here is that Kanna befriended all her classmates on her first day at school, making Saikawa jealous. But instead, a jealous fight doesn't happen; instead, Kanna happened to befriend Saikawa in a roundabout way, using crocodile tears ("I wanted to be friends").

But it gets weirder from there. Apart from just being a cute couple, Saikawa blushing everytime they touch, and from the fact that Kanna wanted to get even closer (and I mean closer, in a sexual sort of way; I know, right?), there is an age gap. Kanna, a dragon, might be 50,000 years old, whilst Saikawa is between 7 and 8. This creates a shipping that is definitely not similar to Twilight. /s

Why is this weird? The age gap for one and the fact that a dragon is shipped with a human for two. These two would create some sort of barrier between them. "A dragon lives forever, but not so little girls and boys" - Leonard Lipton, Puff the Magic Dragon (1959). This means Saikawa would grow, while Kanna would remain young.

But the obvious age difference wouldn't show until Saikawa would hit her 20s, at which point she would either look like an auntie, a big sister or a lesbian lolicon, the latter making the moral questions become more obvious (unless Kanna can be passed off as a legal loli...) But as long as Kanna and Saikawa are young, we will continue to ship them. Just a reminder though: RAVIOLI, RAVIOLI, DON'T LEWD THE DRAGON LOLI!

This is Cleverhardy saying: don't take ships too far. Not even on Valentines Day.

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What're you talking about?

[Danksama]

知らない

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

Originally posted by 「𝓛𝓜」:

What're you talking about?

A ship in an anime, and how logical it is.

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

Originally posted by Danksama:

知らない

So, you don't even know?

[Danksama]

Originally posted by Romantichardy:

Originally posted by Danksama:

知らない

So, you don't even know?

Somebody doesn't understand Japanese

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

Originally posted by Danksama:

Originally posted by Romantichardy:

So, you don't even know?

Somebody doesn't understand Japanese

If you're talking about your post, I translated that through Google Translate. Not the best platform ever.

[Danksama]

Originally posted by Romantichardy:

Originally posted by Danksama:

Somebody doesn't understand Japanese

If you're talking about your post, I translated that through Google Translate. Not the best platform ever.

As an educational note, 知らない can mean 'I don't care' too

[36564176]

that show was pretty meh, and i don't care if you ship those lesbian children

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

Originally posted by Danksama:

Originally posted by Romantichardy:

If you're talking about your post, I translated that through Google Translate. Not the best platform ever.

As an educational note, 知らない can mean 'I don't care' too

I see. It is Off Topic, and the Dragon Maid forums are not that popular

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

Originally posted by RADicalSievert:

that show was pretty meh, and i don't care if you ship those lesbian children

Whatever floats your boat...

[shoopy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVZlLOFDAfM

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

Originally posted by slandy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVZlLOFDAfM

Sorry. Just a bit of logic for that ship. Come to think of it, ships have been illogical and done by fans who don't know what love is yet.

[shoopy]

Originally posted by Romantichardy:

Originally posted by slandy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVZlLOFDAfM

Sorry. Just a bit of logic for that ship.

I don't actually care, I just wanted an excuse to post that.

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

Originally posted by slandy:

Originally posted by Romantichardy:

Sorry. Just a bit of logic for that ship.

I don't actually care, I just wanted an excuse to post that.

It's okay. I liked Jack Sparrow, and I like his quote used as some meme or forum weapon.

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

That said, when I watched Dragon Maid and a few videos praising the show here and there, I'm constantly reminded of the song "Puff the Magic Dragon", a song about a loss of childhood innosense that could also be interpreted as a dragon living a million more years (no exaggeration) than a human. I thought it was a good idea to apply the quote to the show itself, adding a bit of logic to the Kannakawa ship.