PREACH

PREACH

Alright. numerous people I know who ship Momoharu and believe it’s canon immediately assume I don’t ship it b/c I’m a firm Oumota shipper, but no? My primary reasons as to why I don’t ship Momoharu aren’t related to Oumota at all?

I don’t see why Kaito is depicted as the more ‘active’ guy in Momoharu? like yeah, he’s the extrovert who’s super positive and all but. Maki confessed, not him..? it doesn’t make sense to me why in so many Momoharu fanarts, Kaito is seen praising Maki and making the romantic gestures when their actual relationship is practically the opposite

Maki is the one raising Kaito on a pedestal and she made the first move? there are no implications as to how Kaito has feelings greater than friendship for Maki, and again, if it were to be a canon ship, the writers, no matter how stupid they may be, would have put at least some subtle clue(s) that Kaito likes Maki back and reciprocates her feelings, just imo

This is my perception of Momoharu:

Maki’s mistaking her idolatry for Kaito as love. b/c I always say that she’s misinterpreting her friendship as love, but ngl their friendship is kind of an idolatrous relationship? Maki looks up to the strong side of Kaito for her own benefit and later she doesn’t respect him like a friend a la doing the OPPOSITE of what Kaito pleads her to do (in chapter 5). However, I also really do believe that she is mistaking Kaito’s friendly gestures towards her as love, and the reason being she hasn’t experienced such bonds (?) since being a young child (which could have led to some pretty deep character insight). and then absolutely nobody how messed up this truly is, which is very unfortunate.

honestly. it’s a bit similar with Saihara b/c he also idolizes the heroic side of Kaito without weakness, but not entirely (just a bit) since he had some regard for Kaito in his last moments, contrary to Maki. just the issue with Saihara is that he looks up to Kaito so much he won’t be able to help him grow and point out his mistakes/flaws, which is something Kaito really needs. if Saihara were to be aware that his friend is actually going through some shit and pointed out his flaws, they’d have a p cool relationship