Shizaya is such a wild ship when you remember that in the canon duration of the LN they only interact a couple of times until the final showdown. Which in most cases would warrant a "nothing burger" when it comes to the idea of shipping them AND YET!! And yet despite hardly ever interacting face to face for most of the story they can never seem to stfu when it comes to bringing the other person up unprompted. And I'm not even exaggerating here. A character can genuinely just be standing there not speaking, and shizaya will feel it's super important to bring up the other person, ask about them and mention how much they hate them like ???? Who tf asked? Why do you guys keep talking about the person you hate? No one said anything you keep bringing the conversation back to that (brainrot lvls of obsession). Also love those moments where someone else will reminisce about their time at raijin and of course shizaya gets brought up again with how intense their rivalry/hatred/situationship was
It's insane because no one even asked for this ship they really just did that on their own,
and they're so intense about it??? Like bro, if I really hated someone, I would not want to see their face or be in the same vicinity as them for more than a second. Much less grin like a maniac and chase after them regularly for ten fucking years.
Even Shinra, their mutual childhood friend, who knew them both so well, who is a man, saw potential in the ship and was like "Well, maybe they could be-" lol excuse me, what?
Then there's that final fight, hoo boy. What happened to "I want to start a war that only I can win so I can be taken to Valhalla and live forever"?
So you've been cooking up this whole conflict for a whole year, and now you're saying you want to die by his hands to prove he's a monster? Bitch you didn't even see him for a whole fucking season.
How did we go from unserious, goofy fights like this
to this
complete with tragic "what could've been" highschool flashbacks in between, and Shinra saying he genuinely wanted them and Celty to be a group of best friends just like Mikado's. Their relationship is so messy but such good writing tbh.
Anyway, this is getting dark. Here's a funny little thing I noticed on a rewatch of season 1.
WHO TF-