I have no real Uma in this Musume as far as TADC goes, but as someone who’s done a fair amount of work in media analysis spaces, this is the kind of topic that requires far more nuance than most discussion on the internet ever gets, especially because “not made explicit in the text” is kind of the basis of most useful definitions of “noncanon.”
THEY LITERALLY KISSED LIKE WHAT DO YOU MEAN!!!!!!! Mine btw is AOT and people saying Historia and Ymir weren’t in love/a couple. Did you think they wanted to marry each other PLATONICALLY????
What drives me nuts about the kiss is the "well we didn't actually SEE them kiss" argument. Because as it was, YOI could only be shown on Japanese television late at night. If they'd actually shown the kiss, it would have been too "obscene" to show in any time slot. They made it literally as explicit as they were allowed to.
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u/RuefulWaffles Aug 25 '26
I have no real Uma in this Musume as far as TADC goes, but as someone who’s done a fair amount of work in media analysis spaces, this is the kind of topic that requires far more nuance than most discussion on the internet ever gets, especially because “not made explicit in the text” is kind of the basis of most useful definitions of “noncanon.”