Interesting ... I was reading vol. 4 of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service last night when it struck me that I have no urge to ship anything in that series, and started wondering why. It could just be that there are only 5 of them (the other recurring characters only show up for a couple of episodes) and they're all so dysfunctional, or it could be because it's not really one long story - it's episodic, like Mushishi.
But I really think that it's because each episode is a little puzzle, and so the emphasis is really on solving the puzzle. The human interactions are just seasoning. But just about all the one-long-saga type of manga get into human interactions among the characters to some degree, and storylines develop from those interactions, and from that, you can get shipping.
Having said that, the only thing I've shipped in Bleach even just for fun is Ikkakku/Yumichika - and that's definitely just for fun.
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Date: 2008-01-23 09:31 pm (UTC)Interesting ... I was reading vol. 4 of Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service last night when it struck me that I have no urge to ship anything in that series, and started wondering why. It could just be that there are only 5 of them (the other recurring characters only show up for a couple of episodes) and they're all so dysfunctional, or it could be because it's not really one long story - it's episodic, like Mushishi.
But I really think that it's because each episode is a little puzzle, and so the emphasis is really on solving the puzzle. The human interactions are just seasoning. But just about all the one-long-saga type of manga get into human interactions among the characters to some degree, and storylines develop from those interactions, and from that, you can get shipping.
Having said that, the only thing I've shipped in Bleach even just for fun is Ikkakku/Yumichika - and that's definitely just for fun.