As much I enjoy Madoka Magica as an whole, have you ever ship Madoka with Homura due to how close they are? I would use this as "Foot Shipping", as in female characters playing each other's feet and comment about their soles and toes.
💗By Foot Shipping, I meant something like this with two girls' feet...💗
Shippers can get really out of hand at times, even going as far as putting pressure on shows still during production.
ReplyDeleteGood thing Homu-Homu and Maduka were already apparent from the start before shippers could even claim them.
I don't know when shipping with two or more characters began in anime.
DeleteThere's no telling when it started but I've taken notice of it as far back as Fushigi Yuugi, Evangelion, Sailor Moon and Ranma. During the earlier phases of modern social media and blogs was when it really took hold, with series like Naruto, Bleach and KH. Then came the batshit tumblr and twitter era and up to now where it's almost become cult like; I mean these people will really go after you if you so much as support a "toxic ship", as they call it. They even invented their own nomenclature language like "proshipper" or some shit. Theses terminally online folk need a break from the net...
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