The idea that friendships are a static relationship that can't grow or change is so bizarre.

So you have the exact same dynamic with every one of your friends and it's exactly the same as when you met them? That's what you think life is like?

Do you live in a video game and as soon as you've completed someone's social link you never speak to them again?

I just want to shake people and demand they define "friend" to me I think that word might not mean what you think it does.

I'm 90% sure I've complained about this on here before but I'm working on a Akimaru/Haruna shipping manifesto so the annoyance is bubbling over.

OH MY GOD yes

/this is both agreement with your main point and glee over the prospect of a possible shipping manifesto

there are definitely SOME friends-to-lovers ships which bore me personally, but even then, I wouldn't necessarily say that is the reason it bores me... usually it's just more about not finding either of

the individual characters interesting in their own right, or I find the dynamic to be not as close OR... well, too close... for me to be wanting to go there

Akiharu is literally the best possible iteration of this trope for me AND it is pretty much one of the most dynamic relationships in Oofuri itself

Yep, friends-to-lovers ships cover a huge range of stories and personalities! Same as shipping rivals or anything else.

It's silly to group them as one thing especially in Oofuri where the different dynamics on each team are a big part of the appeal, at least to me.

The shipping post is going slowly because I keep getting distracted in rereading their scenes and noticing new stuff each time.

For example: this aside by Abe in chapter 6 approximately five seconds after meeting Akimaru for the first time.

Chapter 6 is amazing to reread, it's wall to wall dumb teens.

So great. I want Abe and Akimaru to get trapped in a closet alone sometime so they have a conversation without Haruna present.

that conversation would be amazing

and I also support both ur shipping manifesto and friendshipping.

like, I don't always ship every pair of friends but neither do I ship every rival pair or w/e... like, every ship has their own dynamic, not all friendships are the same!

OOH, I am excited to read your Akiharu manifesto when you're done too!

akiharu manifesto yesssss