Sakura Kinomoto: why does no one hate her?

Jan 14, 2004 17:47


No, I don't hate her (points to the Sakura figure perched on his computer monitor), so put away the thumb-screws and napalm. It's just that Sakura seems like she'd be a candidate for bashing, yet I've never come across even a hint of her being hated.

For one thing, she gets in the way of a yaoi paring between Syaoran and Eriol. Not only are they both male (which seems to be all that's needed for the rabid yaoi fangirls), but they're both bishounen. However, the only Syaoran/Eriol sites or fanfics I've seen are firmly tongue-in-cheek. Is there something about either Syaoran or Eriol that makes them un-slashable? Is there something about the the pairing that strikes even the most rabid of yaoi fanpoodles as Not Quite Right? They can't bring themselves to "remove" Sakura-the-obstacle? Or maybe the canonical Touya/Yukito pairing is enough for them...

Also, I'd think that there must be at least a few fangirls out there who are jealous of Sakura for getting Syaoran. Even if the grown fangirls who have a Shota-complex don't want to admit to lusting after a grade-schooler, there must be some ten-year-old girls who've watched the dubbed Card Captors , and who loathe Sakura for stealing their pwecious widdle Syaoran from them. Yet, there's nothing out there.

Have I just not searched the CCS fandom deeply enough to find the Lovecraftian horror of Sakura-bashing, lurking within it's non-Euclidean lair? Or has CLAMP managed to do the impossible, and created a truly non-hateable character?

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