Ichigo rescues Rukia
Orgs: It’s not romantic at all!!

Ichigo rescues Orihime
Orgs: OMG HOW ROMANTIC!!!1

Ichigo protects Rukia
Orgs: So what? Ichigo protects everyone.

Ichigo protects Orihime
Orgs: OMG HE LOVES HER

Ichigo and Rukia are the Black Sun and White MoonOrgs: Those ying/yang titles are NOT romantic ( Read more... )

I've seen quite a few IchiOris declare that no one can be a "true Orihime fan" unless they ship her with Ichigo. "Since she loves him," they say, "only shipping him with her would make her truly happy, so no one who ships her with anyone else really wants her to be happy ( Read more... )

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I don't really do fandoms on tumblr, so I'm posting my response to this essay here:
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IchiOris have a difficult time proving Ichigo has feelings for Orihime (no doubt due to the lack of eyesmex, as I mentioned in another post), so they resort to saying that "Ichigo's feelings haven't been revealed yet." To this, I say:


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If a writer wants to develop a relationship, he develops it from both sides, like Ichigo and Rukia’s relationship. Ichigo and Orihime have never shared a romantic scene that both characters were conscious in, or even any romantic scene where both characters were participating. If Kubo wanted the readers to see IchiOri as the end pairing, we’d have ( Read more... )