I think that people that hate on Mako because of feminism, I think they're the kind of "feminists" that don't really understand feminism. Feminism is SUPPOSED about women being able to choose, and choosing to be a wife and mother is just as valid as choosing otherwise. And then there's the people that I think simply watched a different series than I did, because how else can you explain someone calling Mako and opportunistic gold-digger? :D;;

I kinda started out with the Ozawa/Hikawa thing because at that point I was much more a shipper than I am now... meaning that I was more tunnel-visiony about it all. Having spent years in PoT fandom, which is focused on shipping to RIDICULOUS extents, I still had that impulse to, you know, find a ship to latch on to. But it was in large part Kamen Rider that reminded me that you don't HAVE to have a ship for everything under the sun.


if you had KaGAAAmi and Yaguruma at the same time

...yeah, I kinda got distracted from the question at hand by that idea. :D;;


but the popularity of it in relation to the other ships in fandom does piss me off

That's a large part of it, in the sense that it's basically Tendo/Kagami or nothing, as far as fandom goes.

I think Tendo and Kagami's friendship, as it evolves in the series, is actually quite interesting and cool (even though I don't like Tendo very much), but I definitely agree that fanon!Tendo/Kagami is extremely unhealthy. In fact, the reason it pisses me off so much is that it seems to ME that it's always written in a way that is frankly insulting to Kagami, making him out to be a lovestruck doormat, and as someone that utterly loves this character, I find that unforgivable. Because that's not Kagami.

The other ships of this type that I despise? Kenzaki/Hajime, Ren/Shinji, and Tsukasa/Yusuke.

and I ship Misaki/Kagami kthx

I have a certain taste for that myself. :Dv