Okay I have to share my experience here, sorry for the mucho texto.
I've had this very blog for a long time now. Nearly 12 years, to be precise.
I watched Inuyasha for the first time 10 years ago. I was 14 by then.
And I remember only looking at the tag almost a month or so after I had finished watching, because 1. I didn't want spoilers and 2. My internet conection was shit at the time and couldn't handle tumblr dot com very well.
Point in case, before looking at the tags, it had never crossed my mind that se****n was a thing. And after seeing that on the tags I just thought "oh there are maniacs everywhere" and went about with my life, thinking how brave (derrogatory) someone has to be to display such a disgusting taste.
But then, a couple years later, I started participating in some facegroups and realized that well, at least in my country, where we don't even have a word for "grooming" because it's so fucking normalized, the ship was like-
Crazy popular
I'm talking inukag level popular
And I just kept my thoughts to myself because we all know very well how aggressive these people can get. But, anytime I was directly asked, I would say "nope, that's blatant pedophilia".
I posted a few days ago that I got out of all the inuyasha-related facegroups I was in after the announcement of Trashahime, because ugh.
But I'm kept here wondering. It's not possible that it was just me that had never even imagined them as a "romantic" (aka abusive, obviously) pairing before seeing people shipping it.
It's not the first thing you'd think, is it? It's not like it's implied in anyway in the og show or manga
Please tell me I'm not just innocent. I still want to enjoy my favorite manga but it's getting hard.