Talk:Ken Kaneki/@comment-79.169.60.148-20151201101703/@comment-26967758-20151201104858

See, I have a whole other problem with shipping.

1. It somewhat ruins a mood set by the story when we see shipping comments. It's like when you go on deviantart searching for fanart of your favourite character, and then you see yaoi or yuri with expecting it. Despite knowing certain characters don't swing that way, there are people who still insist on their fantasy. Is it good art? Sure. Is it something I wanted to see? Not at all. I'm not homophobic, but when a character is established to be a certain way sexually, it just icks me in the wrong way to see people go out of their way to implement their fantasy. Granted, shipping isn't as bad as seeing yuri or yaoi art, but it's still one of those things that causes unnecessary fan wars.

2. Most of them are wishful thinking (and quite honestly, whilst it's "okay" (the reason I put brackets there is because I don't think it's okay, but that's just me), most of them don't make sense. It's like you see male, then you see female. OMG INSTANT SHIP REACTION, or even in the case of Mutsuki and Urie. They had what people see as "moments", and they ship that, despite Mutsuki specifically stating she wanted to live as a he, and expressed disgust in the male's gender nature of oogling at women at the club they went to in order to gain info on Nuts. In other words, "she" doesn't seem interested in men, but wants to be treated equally amongst them.

3. It turns people off from reading a series. This point can be avoided if you don't join a fandom, but most people want to join in order to discuss things. Some more keen than others, and about more specific pairings - such as shipping.

Even if Ishida is a fan of Shoujo series, it doesn't really mean he's writing it in that genre. Like how I'm a fan of Science fiction, but I write Fantasy because it's easier to make shit up rather than stay scientifically accurate all the time. Sure, you can pull tropes from it every now and then, but it shouldn't be something that diverts your perception from what TG is as a story. We've pretty much seen everyone have unrequited feelings or lost love. That's the whole theme right there. It's like Ishida is saying he likes something, but he just can't bring himself to do it because he knows it's too good to be true.