why HitsuHina?

I'm not blindfolded

I don't believe love to be within the boundary of reasons. If physical evidence is a must-have for every ship in the world, I'd rather not get into them. But I'll try - this is a website after all, I can't go as far as to skip the "Why" question after pages of rambling.

Putting the married couples aside, no pairing in Bleach is openly romantic. That creates a lot of problems for fans: more and more readers today are looking for "canon" ships in a shounen manga despite its original purpose. Let's face it, fandoms are created because no official source supports them. As different preferences surface, fandom wars become unavoidable. What a disheartening reality.

It is among such chaos that HitsuHina remained a relatively peaceful topic: the thread of connection between the two simply cannot go unnoticed. While I'm a sucker for love stories, I know my favorite Bleach ship is more about bonding than romance. You don't need a passionate hug or kiss to worship them, anyway.

I love HitsuHina because I can't refer any of my favorite pairings from other series back to them. No ship can be so perfect and imperfect, perfect because I adore family-like naturality in a relationship, imperfect because the ship is one-sided, which however spices up my interest to follow them til the end. My dorky addiction to couples with a younger male counterpart is also at work here, but we can ignore such unhealthy habits for now.

Further explanation will not be provided because everyone seems to know my love for HitsuHina these days. Besides, the shrine does a better job.