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I usually don't tend to think about Yukiru because it seems to me that trying to pair Tohru with one or the other makes a big deal out of something that doesn't even make up *that* much of the series. Most of the plot of the story in general, while it does have a lot to do with Yuki and Kyou, is mainly about how Tohru interacts with *all* the Souma and their curse. The three of them together are a trio of friendship of sorts although it's not that Yuki or Kyou would admit to being friends with each other. The heart of it though really seems to be about friendship as well as addresses a few other controversial issues like accepting a child that was born different. The series has a lot else to offer, so I tend not to think too much about romances you can possibly see because of the above reasons and it just creates more headache if you find out later that your favorite pairing doesn't turn out to be canon. That being said, I haven't heard a lot of good things about Machi, so the idea of Yuki and Machi doesn't make sense to me, but from what I've heard that does seem to be the direction Takaya Natsuki is going with the series. If that is in fact what happens in the end, we just need to suck it up and shut up cuz it's canon whether we like it or not.

Who's Machi?

That's really nice.

Oh well, I'm certainly not going to "suck it up". I like Yukiru better and I always will.

You know, I find it to be very funny how people can say "I like Yuki x Haru" or "I like Kyo x Kagura" and not have anyone get all upset because "Well, it's not a canon pairing, so deal with it!" but when someone says "I like Yuki x Tohru" people get really upset. I don't recall complaining about Yuki x Machi, I think it's fine. I just happen to like Yuki x Tohru better, and that's just my opinion. It's not like I'm going to write evil letters to Takaya-sama saying "PAIR YUKI W/ TOHRU NOW OR I'LL FREAKIN' KILL YOU!!", I just have an opinion and I wanted to know other people's opinions. I didn't ask for people to get upset with me for liking something different, and you know, there are actually quite a few people who like Yuki x Tohru. And I don't think that just becuase I like them together it will magically change the plot and I never said anything that suggested I thought that either.

Ditto. That was very well put. I'll just have to suck it up as well... sweatdrop

Well, within context it was "shut up", but not actually meant to be rude persay. Somewhat it is, but it's something I blanketed toward the community overall including myself and not to anyone really specifically. Note I said "we all". The wording was chosen more in the cases of the people in communities that are stubborn as all heck. They get *extremely* possessive and defensive for their fanpairing even in the face of the truth, and I've learned that sometimes when you don't get through to people by being nice, sometimes you have to be rude. Especially if it's the denial of something an author would actually *write* and *make* canon. In this case, it's disrespectful of the work itself to deny the actual facts about what happens *in* the series. It's like, how can you say you really *like* the series if you deny what is fact? It's different from not agreeing with it. You don't *have* to agree, but you definitely need to give respect to what actually *happens* and not what happens in your own fantasy world and letting that be the only truth. This kind of thing I've seen as kind of a dividing line between Kyouru and Yukiru fans or at least the more enthusiastic ones. Our opinions need to stop and "shut up" where the facts begin because in they end, they don't really matter in respect to the series. Takaya Natsuki isn't writing it according to what *we* want, and some people have a hard time believing this.

Pairings in general though have as much of a fantatical fangirlism as the legions of fans that follow specific anime men. It's the fanatics that worry me because their minds are *really* closed. In the past, those that enjoyed the pairings were mostly logical. As of late, however, a lot of pairing "hype" has been coming up and more specifically with shounen-ai and yaoi relationships, although the fanaticalism also trickles over to other fandoms such as the schism between KyouxTohru and YukixTohru. With the "hype" there's been an increasing number of people who are for some pairing and illogical as there are those who are against them for whatever reason. As far as the guild goes, I wanted to make sure right off the bat that people realize that in the end only what Takaya Natsuki writes is the truth, and not the fantasy pairings in our minds.

Looks spelled right to me. o.oa