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Sakura Taisen Appreciation Half-Week: It's like the femmeslash just writes itself.
Okay, so. The post that I HAD planned for tonight is clearly not going to happen, due to the fact that megami-sama.net's server is throwing a temper tantrum and refusing to let me upload anything. So I'm going to skip ahead of myself a bit, and throw up one of the posts that I was planning on doing toward the end of the week. Or half-week. Whatever.
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ladykleo posted this video of Maria and Orihime serenading each other, in the comments of the previous post:
Pairings in the Sakura Taisen fandom are a tricky beast. Because of the choose-your-own-romance nature of the games, it's up to each game player to pair up Shinjiro and Ichiro with one of a dozen possible love interests. However, because the animated adaptations have to pick a side, so to speak, exactly two pairings become canonized in the anime Sakura Taisen universe: Ichiro/Sakura and Shinjiro/Gemini. (Ichiro/Erica is also hinted at in the anime, but ultimately can never be anything more than a platonic love, because SHE'S A NUN.)
But in the anime, there's a lot more going on pairing-wise than just what the two token males are interested in. I mean, I can't have been the only person who was picking up Maria/Kanna and Iris/Reni subtext while watching the anime, right? Not to mention Lobelia/Glycine subtext, which comes across not-so-subtley in the fourth OAV series.
And even without any canonical subtext to support them, Sakura Taisen is rife with potential femmeslash pairings. I mean, the story basically centers around a group of girls enlisted in the military who live and work together... There are plenty of buddy-buddy relationships in the series that it wouldn't require too much of a stretch to see blossoming into something deeper. And there are already all of the requisite pairing fetish dynamics in place for many of the characters: butch/femme, sempai/kohai, commander/subordinate, love-hate rivalries, hurt/comfort, and more.
So, open thread time. What are your favorite Sakura Taisen femmeslash pairings?
I'll get the ball rolling. I vote for:
1. Reni/Iris. They've kind of got that Cardcaptor Sakura Sakura/Tomoyo dynamic going, anyway.
2. Lobelia/anybody. I wouldn't put it past her to seduce any of the other characters just to demonstrate that she could.
3. Subaru/anybody. For the same reasons.
4. Maria/Kanna. I think that they have a great dynamic together, and are the perfect foils for each other. Plus I like the way that a Maria/Kanna pairing would subvert the butch/femme dynamic, since they're both the resident "butches" of their troupe.
5. Kanna/Li. This pairing has no basis in canon whatsoever, but tell me that it wouldn't be cute as heck.
Thoughts?
ETA: I can't believe I forgot this one: Sagitta/Gemini. Oh yeah, baby.
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ladykleo posted this video of Maria and Orihime serenading each other, in the comments of the previous post: Pairings in the Sakura Taisen fandom are a tricky beast. Because of the choose-your-own-romance nature of the games, it's up to each game player to pair up Shinjiro and Ichiro with one of a dozen possible love interests. However, because the animated adaptations have to pick a side, so to speak, exactly two pairings become canonized in the anime Sakura Taisen universe: Ichiro/Sakura and Shinjiro/Gemini. (Ichiro/Erica is also hinted at in the anime, but ultimately can never be anything more than a platonic love, because SHE'S A NUN.)
But in the anime, there's a lot more going on pairing-wise than just what the two token males are interested in. I mean, I can't have been the only person who was picking up Maria/Kanna and Iris/Reni subtext while watching the anime, right? Not to mention Lobelia/Glycine subtext, which comes across not-so-subtley in the fourth OAV series.
And even without any canonical subtext to support them, Sakura Taisen is rife with potential femmeslash pairings. I mean, the story basically centers around a group of girls enlisted in the military who live and work together... There are plenty of buddy-buddy relationships in the series that it wouldn't require too much of a stretch to see blossoming into something deeper. And there are already all of the requisite pairing fetish dynamics in place for many of the characters: butch/femme, sempai/kohai, commander/subordinate, love-hate rivalries, hurt/comfort, and more.
So, open thread time. What are your favorite Sakura Taisen femmeslash pairings?
I'll get the ball rolling. I vote for:
1. Reni/Iris. They've kind of got that Cardcaptor Sakura Sakura/Tomoyo dynamic going, anyway.
2. Lobelia/anybody. I wouldn't put it past her to seduce any of the other characters just to demonstrate that she could.
3. Subaru/anybody. For the same reasons.
4. Maria/Kanna. I think that they have a great dynamic together, and are the perfect foils for each other. Plus I like the way that a Maria/Kanna pairing would subvert the butch/femme dynamic, since they're both the resident "butches" of their troupe.
5. Kanna/Li. This pairing has no basis in canon whatsoever, but tell me that it wouldn't be cute as heck.
Thoughts?
ETA: I can't believe I forgot this one: Sagitta/Gemini. Oh yeah, baby.
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Lobelia could seduce anybody, but would she? She reminds me Urd in this aspect. Having all the chances to seduce anyone, she just doesn't really care about it.
Your mentioning Maria/Kanna pairing reminded me about someone's avatar on ST community saying "Kanna, makes Maria Tachibana look femme since 1926". Well, the year might be wrong. :)
Why do I vote for Maria/Orihime? Well, this is based purely on the OVA 2. If you look closely, you'll notice that Orihime is almost always next to Maria: at the table, in the same movie, helping her with moving boxes and so on. Makes me think of sempai/kohai relationship with Orihime following Maria and learning from her. And they look cute together. Aw. I should finish my fanfic about this pairing...
Ichiro/Erica is also hinted at in the anime, but ultimately can never be anything more than a platonic love, because SHE'S A NUN.
Nuns are Mikos Found this recently and realised that I've seen this in several series.
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Maria/Orihime would be very, very cute. (And I would love to read a fanfic about that!) I also think that Orihime/Reni might have some potential, too. Especially in the movie, when they seemed so totally devoted to each other.
Mmmmm, now I kind of want to write some Sakura Taisen fanfic, too.
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I started to write that fic quite long ago. I've got the main idea, the beginning and one big scene close to the end, but I can't think of anything to put in the middle. That's sooo normal for me. By the way, if one day I finish it, would you like to be a beta reader?
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