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my face when someone takes conventionally unattractive characters and makes them conventionally attractive as a way to make them more palatable and then gets defensive over it because they think not being conventionally attractive is an insult

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i swear every couple weeks, someone whos never interacted with the saiki k fandom before randomly posts that they hate people who ship saiki with anyone and every time, i just automatically block without thinking anything of it. thats just funny to me idk

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I've been seeing these FALSE ACCUSATIONS!!!! of Saiki Kusuo not taking showers/baths. SOME PEOPLE say that he just resets time on himself instead but that's nooooot truuuuueee!!! There's literally a whole chapter in the manga about how much he loves baths. Stop slandering my poor man.

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wlw ships

wlw ships when people only ship them to get the women out of the way of an mlm ship they like

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its mega interesting to me that everything saikis friends do is usually okay by this fandom UNTIL its teruhashi

taking out his limiter? teruhashi is so evil and disgusting for this, how could anyone break his boundaries like that? good intentions? who cares! wait, nendo did it too? he couldnt have known 🥺 saiki hasnt told anyone what they are so its not nendos fault

filling up his summer vacation when he wanted to relax? its so awful that teruhashi went as far as to CALL HIS HOUSE PHONE (baffling! evil!) to invite him out, not knowing his schedule was full or that he didnt want to go! all his other friends that, one after another, told him about their plans and expected him to go without actually asking him are fine though, why would they have known he didnt want to go??

using their unique power to find out where saiki is? teruhashi is so so awful for asking people to look for saiki when she didnt know he was avoiding her on purpose! wait, aiura used her power to figure out where he was and corner him, KNOWING he was avoiding her..? er... um... it... uhhhhhhh well actually youre being misogynistic and slut shaming and-

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I live, laugh, love, breathe, and eat Terusai / Saiteru, and although it's a pretty popular shipped, it's basically hated by 50% of the fandom, ESPECIALLY people who didn't watch past Season 1 bcs Season 2 wasn't dubbed (if you're one of those people, you are MISSING OUT)

So here are some reasons why I ship Terusai and think it's one of the most canon ships we have (DNI if you genuinely despise the ship, do interact if you like it / wanna know why people ship it)

1.) Many people say Teruhashi only likes Saiki bcs he doesn't flock at her like everyone else does, and though that is the main reason he caught her interest, it isn't the main reason why she likes him. At first, it does start off like that. He doesn't pay attention to her, frustrating her as well as piquing her curiosity as she tries to charm him, which causes her to develop feelings for him in the process, which seem quite shallow at the start (Saiteru is a SLOWBURN, trust) but as time goes on and she learns more about Saiki, this false image she has of Saiki which is this shy flustered guy kind of melts away and she sees the "true" him, someone who's more aloof, stoic, and antisocial, and still accepts him and yearns for him (as seen in the mixer episode when says "it'd be more fun if Saiki was here, even if he'd just be in the corner silently the whole time...") Not to mention Saiki was the first to really treat her like a person. Everyone only sees her on the surface level as the pretty and perfect girl, basically hust a mary sue and nothing more. But since Saiki can hear her thoughts, he can see past that, and treats her as he would to anyone else – like she's a normal person, because deep down, she is. Internally, she isn't perfect, and although she gets upset when she isn't treated like she is perfect, it's inevitably what she needs bcs she heavily relies on validation of others too much that it becomes unhealthy (like when she overworked herself trying to memorise everything about everyone until she fainted and Saiki caught her) so since Saiki treats her like this, it's no wonder her at first shallow feelings would deepen.

2.) "But Saiki clearly hates her / doesn't like her or romance" The thing abt Saiki K that makes it so good is that Saiki is an unreliable narrator / the things he says won't always be true. And plus, he's a confirmed tsundure, as we saw in the episode w/ his grandpa where he said "You've been a Tsundure much longer than I have". He says he doesn't like his friends and doesn't care for them, and yet he goes out of his way to do things for them (such as protecting Kaidou from the scammer psychic lady, altering the world so Mera didn't have to hide the fact she had part-time jobs, and disguising Nendo so he'd get hired as a waiter) all under the guise that it'd benefit him or just doing it in general with no explanation. Why would it be any different with Teruhashi? He's done many things that suggest he at least cares for her (Protecting her from the newspaper club, knocking her brother out so he wouldn't bother her while she was sick, swapping out the creepy gift her brother got her for a cute one that he picked out for her, getting mad on her behalf after his brother was mean to Teruhashi, etc.)

3. The mixer episode. I mentioned it earlier, but in this episode, Imu tries to set Teruhashi up with a few guys because she was under the guise that Saiki was bad for her. Yet, as I mentioned earlier, Teruhashi yearned for Saiki's presence, even though she knew he would just stand there and most likely not even pay attention to her, she just wanted him there. This causes something to sink in for Saiki apparently, and later, the guys do rock-paper-scissors on who gets to date Teruhashi. Saiki suddenly appears and WINS the game before knocking the guys out and saying "I can't let any of you have her." Need I say more?

4.) The episode when Teruhashi fainted. In this episode, Teruhashi, as I mentioned earlier, was overworking herself to memorise everything about all her admirers because she didn't want them to think she didn't care about them. Inevitably, she overworks herself, and faints in front of the crowd of guys. Saiki catches her. He gets mad on her behalf, saying how she paid so much attention to them but they didn't even notice how tired she was before carrying her to the infirmary. Once she wakes up and finds out Saiki carried her there, she tries to find them, brushing off her admirers' next few questions and saying she forgot as she went to thank him. This means A LOT because for someone who hates attention (the main reason he even disliked teruhashi at first was because she draws a lot of attention) yet he went into the crowd and caught her, carrying her in front of all her admirers, drawing basically hundreds of peoples attention despite all his efforts to blend in throughout the entire anime. And Teruhashi, after spending so much time memorising everything about everyone for their praise and validation, just says she forgot so she could go say thank you to Saiki. Again, need I say more?

5.) Saiki's offu. In one of the season 2 episodes, Teruhashi tries to be more like Aiura, changing her style to be more gyaru-like, but later reverts back to her old self and her inner monologue says "i guess saiki wants a girl who's more true to herself... I'm true to myself!" Or something along those lines, and suddenly, she hears an "offu" turning her head and all the audience sees is saiki covering his mouth. He spent SO MANY EPISODES avoiding saying offu, even telling toritsuka during the island field trip episodes that he'll do anything to avoid saying offu, only to finally say it in season 2? And unlike everyone else who says offu over her looks or little kind gestures, he says offu because of her genuine thoughts? AGAIN, need I say more?

6.) All of the matching official art they have :

(I'll make a second post including all the other ones !!!)

7.) Saiki K family tree pattern. Everyone in the Saiki family has the initial S. K. Saiki Kusuo, Saiki Kurumi, Saiki Kuniharu, Saiki Kusuke, and if Saiki were to marry Teruhashi, her initials would be S. K. (Saiki Kokomi). Same thing with birthdays. Kurumi and Kuniharu are both born on the same month, which is the same thing with Kusuo and Kokomi, both their birthdays being on August (16 and 6)

8.) Saiki overall not being able to stop Teruhashi from getting what she wants. Unlike with Aiura, where his powers overpower hers and he's able to change the outcome of her predictions (as seen in the episode where he goes to her place of work and makes all her predictions incorrect), he stands no chance to Teruhashi's extreme luck. Despite trying to interfere with his powers, they still ended up in the same group for the field trip. Despite bringing Yuuta, the end of their amusement park date was still positive on her end. Despite trying to seem unlikable, even at the end of their cafe-mall date, her feelings didn't go away. When she wants something, she'll get it, and she clearly wants Saiki.

9.) The alternate universe episode. In that episode, we got to see one of the universes in which Saiki was still... well, Saiki, yet a tinsy bit more open with his friends. In this universe, he's actually dating Teruhashi. That means that as he gradually grows more open to everyone, he gets romantically closer with Teruhashi? Maybe,

10.) They parallel each other. So. Much. People who don't like Teruhashi often say it's because she's arrogant, but so is Saiki. Since he's psychic, he views himself to be the most evolved of the human species, and kind of has a god complex. But you can't blame him, because he practically is. He has almost every super power and can bend the universe to his will. So technically, he isn't arrogant, just self aware. And so is Teruhashi. She is canonically beautiful, even Saiki said so himself, and with how so many guys love her, of course she'd know she's pretty. Much like Saiki, not arrogant, just self-aware. And they both don't use these things for anything morally bad, they just use it to their advantage because they can. They also both have creepy brothers, but uh... that's just both of them being cursed by something.

I hate when people depict Teruhashi as this super bratty mean girl and Saiki as someone who GENUINELY hates everyone !!

And also, ship what you want, just don't bash other ships !!

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I miss kubosai

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yall fw my ocs

colored fake screenshots + more basic info bellow

Senri Gan (self insert) - 16, lesbian, she/he, Kokomi’s gf, terrible social anxiety, mixed (Norwegian/Japanese)

Hinata Koike - 16, lesbian, he/she, (fem) aren’s gf (butch4butch🤤), posts vocal + guitar covers on youtube with aren on guitar

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PREVVV LOL I'VE SEEN PEOPLE SAY THIS 😭 people genuinely have tried to say that it's MEAN to call saiki an unreliable narrator, and there's a thing i keep running into when i do saiki or teruhashi research that basically says the tsundere trope is a "harmful fetish" and an excuse to let saiki be harassed and disregard his feelings 😭 like no, girl... tsundere is practically synonymous with "liar", and he himself admitted that he is one... just because you didn't understand the nuance of his feelings doesn't mean people who do understand it are weird... these people just refuse to admit that saiki actually just. likes his friends and enjoys being around them. reminder to everyone to read the light novels because it is in fact confirmed that saiki could have simply NOT befriended them all if he really hadn't wanted to ☠️

tbh a lot of the characters a lot of fans tend to HC as aroace I headcanon as demi because there is actual romantic development there (and usually it's very slow)

Like unfortunately there's only like one character I HC as aroace* but sometimes I ship him with other characters but ultimately I mainly HC him as aroace despite the popularity of his main ship (which I could also see; headcanons aren't canon so I can vibe with multiple takes it's just annoying when people treat it as canon)

*I feel like a lot of characters that are HC as gay but not explicitly stated to be gay can also be easily HC as some shade of ace; in fact one of them was recently canonized as asexual...

...wait there's also the other saiki k character that I HC as aroace but seems like the most popular HC for him is gay

i do want to say first of all that demi is actually under the aroace spectrum, so technically you're also headcanoning them as aroace when you headcanon them as demi, but i get that you're probably referring to specifically romance repulsed aromantic and sex repulsed asexual which is usually what fandom people mean when they say aroace

i personally headcanon a lot of characters as aroace, across the whole spectrum, but my headcanons are hardly ever singular... like you said, it's fun to have multiple takes, so the same characters i sometimes see as aroace, i also sometimes see as lesbian or bisexual or whatever. just depends on how i'm thinking of the character at the time, they're literally dolls in my brain.

aroace spectrum saiki headcanons are 👌 (for the most part, i actually really hate the romance repulsed saiki headcanon, my headcanons usually have to be at least canon COMPLIANT and that one isn't. no hate to anyone who likes it, i just personally don't), my issue with it is simply that people think it's canon when it just. isn't. like not even a little bit. saiki has admitted to being a tsundere, that quite literally means that he says things he doesn't mean ESPECIALLY in the context of relationships (platonic OR romantic) so whenever people are like "it's canon because he SAID he isn't interested", i cringe very hard. it's usually season one only watchers 😭 i find it hard to believe that anyone can watch the entire show and still take saiki seriously when he pretends he hates everyone and doesn't want to be in platonic or romantic relationships. we're talking about the same guy who said, and i quote, "i have no friends" while hanging out with his two best friends. same guy who said he doesn't like romance stories and then OBSESSED over a romance story. same guy who said "i don't care if you die or not" and then saved the guy and said "a life was on the line so i had no choice."

you're not supposed to take his endless denials seriously.

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tbh a lot of the characters a lot of fans tend to HC as aroace I headcanon as demi because there is actual romantic development there (and usually it's very slow)

Like unfortunately there's only like one character I HC as aroace* but sometimes I ship him with other characters but ultimately I mainly HC him as aroace despite the popularity of his main ship (which I could also see; headcanons aren't canon so I can vibe with multiple takes it's just annoying when people treat it as canon)

*I feel like a lot of characters that are HC as gay but not explicitly stated to be gay can also be easily HC as some shade of ace; in fact one of them was recently canonized as asexual...

...wait there's also the other saiki k character that I HC as aroace but seems like the most popular HC for him is gay

i do want to say first of all that demi is actually under the aroace spectrum, so technically you're also headcanoning them as aroace when you headcanon them as demi, but i get that you're probably referring to specifically romance repulsed aromantic and sex repulsed asexual which is usually what fandom people mean when they say aroace

i personally headcanon a lot of characters as aroace, across the whole spectrum, but my headcanons are hardly ever singular... like you said, it's fun to have multiple takes, so the same characters i sometimes see as aroace, i also sometimes see as lesbian or bisexual or whatever. just depends on how i'm thinking of the character at the time, they're literally dolls in my brain.

aroace spectrum saiki headcanons are 👌 (for the most part, i actually really hate the romance repulsed saiki headcanon, my headcanons usually have to be at least canon COMPLIANT and that one isn't. no hate to anyone who likes it, i just personally don't), my issue with it is simply that people think it's canon when it just. isn't. like not even a little bit. saiki has admitted to being a tsundere, that quite literally means that he says things he doesn't mean ESPECIALLY in the context of relationships (platonic OR romantic) so whenever people are like "it's canon because he SAID he isn't interested", i cringe very hard. it's usually season one only watchers 😭 i find it hard to believe that anyone can watch the entire show and still take saiki seriously when he pretends he hates everyone and doesn't want to be in platonic or romantic relationships. we're talking about the same guy who said, and i quote, "i have no friends" while hanging out with his two best friends. same guy who said he doesn't like romance stories and then OBSESSED over a romance story. same guy who said "i don't care if you die or not" and then saved the guy and said "a life was on the line so i had no choice."

you're not supposed to take his endless denials seriously.

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"#like why does he have that much rizz. why is he pulling such beautiful women in canon."

there is a common phenomenon in a lot of media;

protagonist rizz is a naturally occuring phenomenae where the main character is shipped with basically every character they have interacted with. However some protagonists do not have this

most Jump protagonists have protagonist rizz

i was having such a hard time figuring out where this ask came from and why you said this, what the quote was referring to, so i searched the tag in my profile and its a tag from a post i made in 2023 about saikis autistic rizz 😭😭 WHERE DID YOU COME FROM? but yes it is a common trope, pretty sure that's part of what his and teruhashi's whole thing is supposed to be parodying, beautiful woman x PERCEIVED average protagonist

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not to be a bitch but its funny to me when saiki k posts go viral outside of the fandom and people start regurgitating the same surface level popular takes i've been trying to get away from for years

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not to be a bitch but its funny to me when saiki k posts go viral outside of the fandom and people start regurgitating the same surface level popular takes i've been trying to get away from for years

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it pisses me off so bad when people talk about how saiki did nothing for mera... what do you mean he did nothing for mera... HE GAVE HER HIS COFFEE JELLY... he gave her a plane ticket... he reunited her with her dad...

obviously hes not going to make her rich or something because one of his principles is that he wont directly use his powers for money and that he doesnt like to play god in ways that would affect people too greatly, plus its a gag manga and shes a gag character ☠️ if he HAD made her rich, the narrative wouldve made her poor again just like when she WAS temporarily rich 😭

and yea he was hesitant to help her with her dad but did yall forget why 💔 saiki isnt literally god, he cant perfectly know how to fix complicated situations at the drop of a hat and the way aiura had tried to help her was hurting her 😭 (and she may have literally gone to puerto rico to find her dad, or killed herself trying, when he wasn't there anymore if saiki hadn't brought up mera's suffering to aiura)

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i respect everyone's headcanons 10000% but i will not hesitate to block anyone who says "teruhashi's crush on saiki is obviously comphet, shes just a lesbian"

this is literally just a really common thing people in fandoms do when a female love interest they dont like or care about gets in the way of what they personally want for the male character they like (they want him, they ship him with a guy, they hc him as gay or aroace, etc.) and its so obvious when you guys are just using lesbians as a scapegoat for you to push female characters to the side in a more "progressive" looking way that wont get you called out for misogyny... you do not care about lesbians at allll 😭 i would rather my sexuality to not be used for that, thanks.

but anyway, teruhashi gets this the absolute WORST because people misunderstand her so badly and like to intentionally ignore her character development... and as much as i dont like it (as in almost her whole character revolving around a boy), pretty much ALL her development has to do with her crush on saiki. so, going "she doesnt actually like him" when you know damn well that this is directly addressed in the manga as untrue, youre just disregarding almost her entire character 🤷🏻‍♀️ she does have depth without him, but really without him and her true feelings for him, her canon self becomes much more,,, tragic? idk. i guess that goes more for people who claim she doesnt care about him or doesnt even know him than just "her feelings for him are platonic" though.

i really dont care at all if people dont ship them, but writing off her feelings for him just so you can push her aside and/or argue that your headcanons are "more canon" is so fucking unbelievably stupid. just let it be one-sided if you dont ship them?

on the other hand, i dont so much care when its a qpr thing, because at least then you acknowledge that her feelings for saiki are valid, just that you like to see them in a different way, which is cool. if you insist on teruhashi being a lesbian, theres so much aro spectrum or gendery fuckery that you could play around with and you just. dont? because youd rather just ignore her whole character?? lame and cowardly.

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bro why does this fandom get so mad when kuniharu is brought up 😭 why is it suddenly controversial to say kusuo and kuniharu have stuff in common oh my godddd you guys are insufferableeeee 😭😭😭😭😭😭

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I redesigned Zolbe from Saiki K! I honestly love him, but this design screams a lack of research and exposure… anime artists, you CAN draw black people! We’re literally just people with darker skin and curly hair, you draw curls anyway!!! So yeah, DO SOME RESEARCH!!! PRACTICE!! Let’s draw this guy in a less problematic way, yeah?

Like, what is this though. This isn’t even the worst image of him. He initially looked WAYYYY more stereotypical but they gradually changed his design to be less problematic.

I FOUND IT. This is bad. Please don’t do this.