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.

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

Originally posted by Danksama:

I'm not a fan of shipping in general tbh

Whatever floats your boat...

[zZzooey.exe]

Originally posted by Romantichardy:

Originally posted by ˡ ᶦ ˡ ʸ ᵖ ᵃ ᵈ ˢ:

Who even ships stuff from anime
Super cringy

Anime fans (logic), who apparently get hated on by Edgememers.

Well to each their own I guess
I dont actually watch anime for years now so I wouldn't know

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

Originally posted by ˡ ᶦ ˡ ʸ ᵖ ᵃ ᵈ ˢ:

Originally posted by Romantichardy:

Anime fans (logic), who apparently get hated on by Edgememers.

Well to each their own I guess
I dont actually watch anime for years now so I wouldn't know

I see...

[Kenny]

the show is meh, just generic loli and big tiddies stuff for drooling, such things come out from a show with pretty much blunt story

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

Originally posted by 『Kenny』:

the show is meh, just generic loli and big tiddies stuff for drooling, such things come out from a show with pretty much blunt story

Yeah. It has its unique undertones on the inside, but on the outside, it is an example of a manga adaption from a Doujin (self publisher).

[Rio]

Originally posted by 『Kenny』:

the show is meh, just generic loli and big tiddies stuff for drooling, such things come out from a show with pretty much blunt story

Yeh, my friend showed it to me a while back and the first ep was an instant turn off. Soon as I saw the dragon turn into the a girl with a huge chest I was like, nah. I'm out.

If it had been a dragon the whole time, maybe I'd have watched it. But I'm beyound tired of the tired, old trope of the shy/nice grill has the big huge chest.

Thats one reason I like the shy brown haired girl in trigun. She was just physically strong, but it didn't define her character. I don't think I ever saw her chest enough to tell what size it was.

[Kenny]

Originally posted by Sashie:

Originally posted by 『Kenny』:

the show is meh, just generic loli and big tiddies stuff for drooling, such things come out from a show with pretty much blunt story

Yeh, my friend showed it to me a while back and the first ep was an instant turn off. Soon as I saw the dragon turn into the a girl with a huge chest I was like, nah. I'm out.

If it had been a dragon the whole time, maybe I'd have watched it. But I'm beyound tired of the tired, old trope of the shy/nice grill has the big huge chest.

Thats one reason I like the shy brown haired girl in trigun. She was just physically strong, but it didn't define her character. I don't think I ever saw her chest enough to tell what size it was.

I watched two episodes and wondered what was going on and figured out nothing was going on, just cute girls doing cute things, I watched also few videos on youtube and just confirmed the show is about nothing, like going to the beach, a lot of fanservice, etc.. What puzzles me more is that one anime was aired at the same time as that dragon maid, it's called "Youjo senki", I'm not trying to force my taste or opinions on anyone, but I was confused how an anime with good plot and pretty much realistic warfare gets overshadowed by some generic trash. I guess consumers demand slice of life generic trash with lots of girls, what a world we live in...

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

Originally posted by 『Kenny』:

Originally posted by Sashie:

Yeh, my friend showed it to me a while back and the first ep was an instant turn off. Soon as I saw the dragon turn into the a girl with a huge chest I was like, nah. I'm out.

If it had been a dragon the whole time, maybe I'd have watched it. But I'm beyound tired of the tired, old trope of the shy/nice grill has the big huge chest.

Thats one reason I like the shy brown haired girl in trigun. She was just physically strong, but it didn't define her character. I don't think I ever saw her chest enough to tell what size it was.

I watched two episodes and wondered what was going on and figured out nothing was going on, just cute girls doing cute things, I watched also few videos on youtube and just confirmed the show is about nothing, like going to the beach, a lot of fanservice, etc.. What puzzles me more is that one anime was aired at the same time as that dragon maid, it's called "Youjo senki", I'm not trying to force my taste or opinions on anyone, but I was confused how an anime with good plot and pretty much realistic warfare gets overshadowed by some generic trash. I guess consumers demand slice of life generic trash with lots of girls, what a world we live in...

Yeah...

But hey. Anything with romance gets the story moving, and near the end, it turns from a slice of life comedy to an actual drama comedy.

[Rio]

Slice of life can be fine. I'm just past bored of the same characters reskinned. I don't even mind fan service. But these boring, bland characters, get away from me.

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

Originally posted by Sashie:

Slice of life can be fine. I'm just past bored of the same characters reskinned. I don't even mind fan service. But these boring, bland characters, get away from me.

I see. Slice of life stories never progressed well, but at least we get to ship, with Tohruyashi (Tohru and Kobayashi) and Kannakawa (the ship in question).

[Kenny]

Oh, don't get me wrong, there can be good slice of life shows, like Azumanga Diaoh, if Great Teacher Onizuka can be under the same category, it's just that generic characters, jokes and situations are overused and annoying.

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

Originally posted by 『Kenny』:

Oh, don't get me wrong, there can be good slice of life shows, like Azumanga Diaoh, if Great Teacher Onizuka can be under the same category, it's just that generic characters, jokes and situations are overused and annoying.

Indeed...

Whatever way you look at it, anime has clichés. And if Bella x Edward style relationships are clichéd, then so are Kanna x Saikawa.

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Originally posted by Romantichardy:

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.

I don't think you understand why people ship things in the first place if you think them being logical is the top priority.

If people like a certain dynamic, or think the characters are hot, or literally any other reason they have, it's gonna be shipped.

Shipping isn't neccessarily romantic either, it can be platonic (an example is brOTP) or just full-on sexual. Shipping basically means ''I like these two together'', and they could have all different reasons for liking them together.

I hope that was informative.

Originally posted by Romantichardy:

Back on topic, what does anyone else think to the logic behind Kannakawa?

I think you'd be better of asking different Kannakawa shippers if you want an actual answer.

[Rio]

I remember one of the last slice of life animes I watched was a space ♥♥♥♥ hits the male main character and destroys his body. They use thier technology to fix him only they mess up and make him a girl. The aliens tell the rest of the town what happened. And his girl next door best friend becomes your typical buzzkill character who makes sure the main character acts proper.

Another girl gets added to the mix who is the quiet, shy type. And thus love triangle. But it doesn't end as you'd expect.


Another one was where the girl was a main character with 2 different eye colors. Who transforms into the body of an adult woman as her "battle suit". Add in a white haired girl with two different eye colors with no personality who fights as well. And then all this stuff about them being reincarned kings and queens. But it didn't get a second season. They and other kids battle each other and come from different kingdoms, ect.

Don't even remember the names of em.

[Cleverhardy (She/Her)]

Originally posted by Azhar:

Originally posted by Romantichardy:

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.

I don't think you understand why people ship things in the first place if you think them being logical is the top priority.

If people like a certain dynamic, or think the characters are hot, or literally any other reason they have, it's gonna be shipped.

Shipping isn't neccessarily romantic either, it can be platonic (an example is brOTP) or just full-on sexual. Shipping basically means ''I like these two together'', and they could have all different reasons for liking them together.

I hope that was informative.

Originally posted by Romantichardy:

Back on topic, what does anyone else think to the logic behind Kannakawa?

I think you'd be better of asking different Kannakawa shippers if you want an actual answer.

True. Like I said, ships are sometimes illogical, like with Sam and Dean (brothers) from Supernatural. I'm just putting the logic out there in case fanfictions get the lovebirds out of character and take these ships too far. But hey. Fanfiction.

Also, I didn't this to be derailed, but then again, this is Off Topic. Who knows when people derail it?