Sara×Sousuke is canon (?) [Analysis]

Sara is a 12 year old girl. Its not too late to turn away from your degenerative thinking by deleting this post, bro

@cooldogmom who is deleting? I am trying to attach image and it isn't working. Get a life and argue on facts dumbass.

@Weird-but-true I need to get a life? You're the one trying to make this sexual for whatever reason. Sara is literally 12 and in elementary school and Sosuke is in his 30s, how could you possibly say they have a romantic relationship? In reality, you're the one who needs to get a life rather than analyzing something that doesn't exist. You're just a prevented weirdo/pedo, my guy.

@Weird-but-true I need to get a life? You're the one trying to make this sexual for whatever reason. Sara is literally 12 and in elementary school and Sosuke is in his 30s, how could you possibly say they have a romantic relationship? In reality, you're the one who needs to get a life rather than analyzing something that doesn't exist. You're just a prevented weirdo/pedo, my guy.

@cooldogmom Ever watched Usagi Drop or Uchi Musume, tourist-kun? This is anime. Lolis are W, cry about it all you want. This won't change anything. Leave anime fandom if you hate it that much.

Also fyi I never in my post supported a sexual relationship between 12 year old sara and sousuke. She will grow up and once she reaches 16, she can legally have sex with him if she wants. I also provided factual evidence for every argument. If you think I said anything fake then point it out or else COPE WITH IT.

@cooldogmom Tell me, did you at least watch episode 12 or read this topic? In my opinion, it’s much easier to start blaming someone without even trying to understand the essence, I suppose

@cooldogmom what he is saying in his post is absolutely correct man they are trying to show them as a couple even though they are Father daughter like
he is correctly arguing
and to that point i think it will have similar ending like usagi drop manga had

Ridiculous amount of desperation in the ‘logic’ presented here! She blew him a kiss, it’s clearly romantic 😂 OP obviously never had a family, or maybe had an incestuous relationship with a parent? Trying to use linguistic nuance to say she treats him as an equal? No, she initially acts superior due to her being accustomed to her princess status… As the natural father-daughter relationship evolves Sara is more interested in her adoring classmates than her legal father. He himself never shows more than parental affection. Just watch monogatari for dodgy family relationships, it’s done so well it doesn’t even offend me. No need to fabricate them in wholesome shows like this 😩

Ridiculous amount of desperation in the ‘logic’ presented here! She blew him a kiss, it’s clearly romantic 😂 OP obviously never had a family, or maybe had an incestuous relationship with a parent? Trying to use linguistic nuance to say she treats him as an equal? No, she initially acts superior due to her being accustomed to her princess status… As the natural father-daughter relationship evolves Sara is more interested in her adoring classmates than her legal father. He himself never shows more than parental affection. Just watch monogatari for dodgy family relationships, it’s done so well it doesn’t even offend me. No need to fabricate them in wholesome shows like this 😩

Dude... you sent me a PM for this? All because of an offhanded joke comment I made? Nothing is "canon" until it happens in the show, at most Sara has a crush on Sousuke, but from what I can see, he has shown no real romantic interest in her (or anyone for that matter)

But whatever, you asked for my help, so here are some points for you.

With her begin royalty, the idea of marriage was probably introduced to her much earlier than most girls, though, most likely more for political reasons, I wouldn't be surprised if at this point, she had already been introduced to potential marriage partners, most likely much older than her. So now that she is "free" I can definitely see her being more aware in that area then most of her classmates, and potentially seeking a partner of her own, also likely older than her. So, it is not outside the realm of possibility. But that's all assuming the author has though as deeply about this as I forced myself too for the last 5 minutes.

Also, if you are going to try to find actual evidence in the show to confirm that they are a couple, or that she has romantic interests in him, then why did you leave out the most compelling evidence in the show? In the post credits scene of the last episode, she is literally wearing nothing but his white button-down shirt. At this point, she has her own wardrobe, yet she still chooses to relax/sleep in just her underwear and his shirt. I mean, any girl who does that, is basically screaming at you that they are into you, from my experience.

Absolutely. I've been "shipping" it since episode one, scene one, minute one, or whichever scene and minute in which they both first appeared together. But shipping without a concrete foundation and the proper groundwork laid would just be the same as baseless wishing. Fortunately, the series did lay the groundwork from very early on and gave subtle hints and nudges in that direction, but it helps to have it all aggregated in one place here. The last minute, quick, still-subtle reveal in episode 12 was just the classic way it's often handled with this type of series and story.

But I think that the way it was handled was in a sense an attempt to please everyone (or mostly everyone). I've seen this happen before. It validates the shippers' hopes while still leaving enough wiggle room for plausible deniability to appease the naysayers.

The next big piece of the puzzle now is confirming Sousuke's feelings toward her on this front, though that may have to wait. I have a feeling that if it goes forward in that direction there may be a moderate time skip to the point where Sara is in at least her early, if not mid to late teen years.

It's amazing, when you look back on it, how they even went out of the way to stress the purely functional utilitarian purpose of the adoption so as to cover the bases and not have the relationship overly messy and confused down the line.

This is beautiful, radiant, age gap relationship done right with slow steps early on, caution as they live together and feel each other out. But one with such potential if it's nurtured. The kiss at the school concert was hopefully just the start. Though those keeping up on the series in light novel form may have more insight, if not now then down the line when the novels get further ahead. I hope it's not a situation where the novels let their slow burn romance take off in full and then they refuse to make more anime of it to avoid controversy.

@cooldogmom Ever watched Usagi Drop or Uchi Musume, tourist-kun? This is anime. Lolis are W, cry about it all you want. This won't change anything. Leave anime fandom if you hate it that much.

Also fyi I never in my post supported a sexual relationship between 12 year old sara and sousuke. She will grow up and once she reaches 16, she can legally have sex with him if she wants. I also provided factual evidence for every argument. If you think I said anything fake then point it out or else COPE WITH IT.

I swear you people are crazy. Who the fuck ships a 30 y.o. man with a 12 y.o. little girl. Their relationship was literally depicted as a father-daughter relationship from the start with him becoming her legal father confirming it. And don't go telling me that "but she blew him a kiss" or what she said during episode 12. Because that doesn't fucking matter, that's just a daughter loving her father, and at most it's Oedipus complex if you really wanna push it. But still, there is no indication about Sosuke ever thinking about her that way, in fact everything goes against it, he literally thinks about if he should try to find a girlfriend to serv as a mother figure to Sara. And even without that I still don't see how you could ever think of that "ship" as a possibility, considering nothing has ever supported it, and no, even if Sara did love Sosuke, it still wouldn't support anything about that claim.
So stop fantasizing about an actual romance between a grown adult and a literal child, because no matter how you think you may be justifying it, it has and will always be wrong.

@Ckema dude Usagi drop first started with a wholesome "father and daughter" relationship!

From what I remember season 1 of usagi drop did not give a single clue that it will be a disaster in the future.

I will not be surprised if this anime follow the same route.

@RjtheGreat14 Well yeah I know about that, but the point I was trying to make was more on the moral side. As in it actually happening would be wrong therefore thinking that this could happen from what we've seen in the anime is also wrong. I'm not really saying that this cannot happen but that it should not happen. But my post was more targetted at the people who think it would be realistic for it to happen and those who want it to happen, it was more of a moral argument if anything.