KNY Fellas, Especially KNY Shippers: How Do We Feel About Masachika X Kanae? Because I Feel Insane About

KNY fellas, especially KNY shippers: how do we feel about Masachika x Kanae? because I feel insane about them /pos and I'm NOT going to shut up about this bc I saw too few shippers and I want to change that🙏🏻

now I don't really want to rant [yet] about the specific reasons why I think MasaKana(e) is the superior Kanae ship, but! I'm going to rant about why it's growing on me ^^

since it's a rarepair, obviously my first criteria is their dynamic: naïve sunshine x naïve sunshine. hear me out. I genuinely fail to understand why it was never a well-known rarepair?? one is an overly sweet and optimistic girl, who goes that far to wish to befriend demons; the other is a silly little guy, overly optimistic and caring, who daydreams about getting married someday. their personalities match so well?? they seem like they'd have similar goals and vibes, plus Kanae *did* address him as "-kun" and knew that Masachika cared about Sanemi, which means they must've interacted off screen (Kanae must've interacted with lots of her patients including Sanemi and Masachika, but I feel like she had more meaningful conversations with Masachika rather than with Sanemi's grumpy/detached ass, which led her only to worry bc that's in her nature; either way, she sympathizes with Masachika for sure).

in brief, I feel like they would relate to each other better than anyone else, and they would get along really really well...I won't be yapping further for now, we never saw them interact directly so all I will be able to share from now on will probably be headcanons 🧚🏻‍♀️

on a side note, I have no idea which ship name shall be used😭😭 MasaKana, MasaKanae, MasachiNae, KanaChika as an alternative...idk

Hot take to some ppl but I genuinely think giyu and sanemi have more potential than giyu and shinobu.

I would say I'm not comparing ships and blah blah blah but if I simmer it down I quite literally am so bear with me 🙈

1. Wind and water : this combo wombo gets me everytime, two natural elements ? SIGN ME UPPPP

Storms, hurricanes, whirlpools, like wind and water are just meant to be. And when you compare that to water and insects it doesn't really click as well, no hate to giyushino shippers ofc, it just feels like there's a lack of chemistry (literally) compared to wind and water.

2. The dynamics: we all know giyu cares for shinobu and shinobu cares for giyu but I feel like it's more of a sibling dynamic if anything. Shinobu constantly annoying and bothering giyu whilst he just tolerates it because he likes the company shouts siblings to me.

And we see this kind of treatment by giyu in other relationships, too, like him and tanjiro, e.g., an entire episode is dedicated to tanjiro bothering giyu until he starts talking. Tanjiros nagging is very, very similar to shinobu, and if you can confidently say that tanjiro and giyu are sibling coded, then you can't *really* confidently say giyu doesn't see shinobu in a similar way. Right ?

ON THE OTHER HAND, sanemi and giyu have this relationship based on a misunderstanding (that I believe if it did not happen they would get along more than obanai and sanemi) not only that but giyu also actively wants to be his friend which isn't stated the same for shinobu. You could argue that she and giyu are already friends, but if they were, I'm sure he would be much more open around her. He literally *smiled* at the thought of giving sanemi his favourite food when there's actually no scene of giyu smiling around shinobu. You can't tell me that he isn't way too eager to become his no. 1 hater's best friend (or boyfriend).

3. THE OBSESSION GOES BOTH WAYS this post may make it seem like giyu is pining after an aloof and mysterious sanemi, but NO.

Sanemis weird obsession with giyu and his attitude exceeds iguros. You can see it when giyu tries to leave the hashira meeting early, and both iguro and sanemi have a problem with this, but only sanemi gets up to stop him physically. NOT ONLY THAT but when they have their little spar and tanjiro interrupts them he accuses him of spying on them. Like there's nothing secret about a sparring session unless there was something deeper going on at the same time... (we know what u are).

And don't even get me started on that official art that was posted the other day like their breathing techniques literally make a heart. And it was sanemi not shinobu 😭.

If you stuck with this rant until the end thank yeur and ur welcome to ask questions 🫶

I love this

Of all the things I see constantly mentioned about SaneGiyuu, or just in an analysis of Sanemi and Giyuu's relationship, I very rarely see people mention the Masachika/Sabito parallel. And even if it's mentioned, this moment in particular:

Like, yeah, Giyuu is very non-confrontational (best example of this being Giyuu full on knowing Shinobu was pale and yet saying nothing), but I also do like to interpret this as Giyuu understanding exactly what Sanemi felt in that meeting. Believing someone else could become a hashira and getting mad at the idea of them not making it, but instead, you do.

If Giyuu was ever someone to truly get angry and express it loudly, he'd be exactly like Sanemi in that meeting. He gets it more than anyone else. I think this "opposites" relationship they have is neat.

Sanemi and iguro are the kamado sibling no.1 haters.

It's so funny to me bc they've proven themselves to be good so many times and get along with other hashira, but they just refuse to get along with them lmao

Episode 7 deleted scenes 😗

The conversation between Tanjiro and Giyuu.

What do you mean that's not what happened????😅

One of my faaaav things to do in fic is pair up characters that don’t get a lot of screentime together OR that feel like opposites and try to find some common ground between them. Most recently I did this with Sanemi and Shinobu because I could go on and on and on about their shared anger issues in completely different directions. How sanemi probably knew her before Kanae’s death and maybe even misses the hotheaded sarcastic girl she used to be, maybe misses their bickering and squabbles because now she keeps it all so close to her chest and puts on a smile . Anyways

This becomes a problem when I can no longer identify who is in possession of the brain cell.

Sanemi is trying to juggle his newfound crush on Giyuu with his hatred for Giyuu’s surrogate brother (Tanjiro) and his complicated feelings about Genya. Genya is too busy trying to get Sanemi to notice him/talk to him to notice that Tanjiro has an extremely obvious crush on HIM. Tanjiro is trying to support Genya in his attempt to win Sanemi over while also actively not respecting Sanemi at ALL, and poor Giyuu is trying to set a good “brothers” example by being protective of Tanjiro and trying to give Tanjiro advice on what to do about his crush on Genya, while ALSO juggling his OWN crush on Sanemi.

So whoS FLYING THE FUCKING PLANE