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Interview: Princess Principal Director Masaki Tachibana

Alternatively it's a wink and a nudge to say they are together it is odd since 3hz also did flip flappers

Kaylee Smerbeck wrote:

For that, I say we leave that up to your imagination. For Ange, she definitely feels friendship and strong feelings of trust. But we didn't interpret it as romantic when we were making it. However, to split everything into black and white… that's simply no fun. So, I leave that up to your imaginations. Really like princess even called Ange Turtledove

This is basically them confirming there was no romantic feelings but they don't want to upset the fanbase that enjoys the idea of one.

relyat08 wrote:

Death of the Author

Nah, death of the author is hogwash. When the author doesn't provide exactly to some people's demands, they become bitter and salty and scream death of the author in an attempt to give their fanon some validity it will never have. It is an attempt to elevate fan fiction to the authoritative level of original work. While fan fiction is good and ok, trying to make weird claims about it isn't.

What are you talking about they were totally in love in flip Flappers they just didn't kiss but on that like it was basically 100% confirmed in fact even call out a lot of the tropes of the genre like saying why do you say you love me as a friend

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Kougeru wrote:

This is basically them confirming there was no romantic feelings but they don't want to upset the fanbase that enjoys the idea of one.

I think Death of the Author is pertinent here. I've never been a fan of taking what creatives say about their work, thematically or narratively, as gospel if that conflicts with my understanding of it(nor am I a fan of asking creatives to explain interpretive aspects of their work, in general). Media is meant to be personal and interpretive. And rarely should there be a singular answer to something as far as I'm concerned. I actually didn't see any romantic feelings between the two of them, personally, but there is no reason, like Tachibana said, that anyone else can't. If you like them together, go for it.

Tenebrae wrote:

Nah, death of the author is hogwash. When the author doesn't provide exactly to some people's demands, they become bitter and salty and scream death of the author in an attempt to give their fanon some validity it will never have. It is an attempt to elevate fan fiction to the authoritative level of original work. While fan fiction is good and ok, trying to make weird claims about it isn't.

Agreed. I'm tired of fans and their crack pairings. Seemingly any two characters that show any sort of care or camaraderie towards one another must have the hots for one another, even if canonically they are just friends, colleagues, or family members, etc. This rabid insistence among some fans to romanticize/sexualize all character relationships is pretty creepy.

Ah Flip Flappers. The show that has the most same sex romance relationship tones and imagery without actually ever having the characters be in a relationship, with just enough plausible deniability to say the characters are straight. Another one of those series people say "you're reading to much into it". There's a lot to also delve into with this series, but the more horror school episode is a good example, the solo focus on the lily that's in the vase, which is focused on numerous times. The lily wall paper. Plus tons of other hints and winks throughout just that episode alone and there's so much of that throughout the entire series. But alas.

However in a hilarious turn of events the director for Flip Flappers is directing the anime adaptation of Citrus. Which is completely Yuri with no room for deniability and people saying "you're reading to much into it."

@Mojave Didn't see your comment till I was finished. Sorry. I don't think I'm misinterpreting Death of the Author. I have been specifically talking about how work is interpreted here, after all. And I've read from English professors that it does, in fact, overturn what the author proclaims to be canon if that does not fit with your understanding of the continuity or content. If an author says two characters are in a romantic relationship, but there is literally nothing to support that textually, while there is textual support for an entirely different relationship, the author's interpretation holds no more value than anyone else's. The basic purpose of Death of the Author is to level that playing field. Under Death of the Author, an author's word no longer holds any more weight than that of anyone else.

@Mojave Didn't see your comment till I was finished. Sorry. I don't think I'm misinterpreting Death of the Author. I have been specifically talking about how work is interpreted here, after all. And I've read from English professors that it does, in fact, overturn what the author proclaims to be canon if that does not fit with your understanding of the continuity or content. If an author says two characters are in a romantic relationship, but there is literally nothing to support that textually, while there is textual support for an entirely different relationship, the author's interpretation holds no more value than anyone else's. The basic purpose of Death of the Author is to level that playing field. Under Death of the Author, an author's word no longer holds any more weight than that of anyone else.

Velshtein wrote:

Tenebrae wrote: Nah, death of the author is hogwash. When the author doesn't provide exactly to some people's demands, they become bitter and salty and scream death of the author in an attempt to give their fanon some validity it will never have. It is an attempt to elevate fan fiction to the authoritative level of original work. While fan fiction is good and ok, trying to make weird claims about it isn't. Agreed. I'm tired of fans and their crack pairings. Seemingly any two characters that show any sort of care or camaraderie towards one another must have the hots for one another, even if canonically they are just friends, colleagues, or family members, etc. This rabid insistence among some fans to romanticize/sexualize all character relationships is pretty creepy.

I think you guys are focusing too much specifically on shipping and are maybe a little too bitter about it. Death of the Author is not just about shipping, or really much about it at all. It's about thematic and narrative intent, as well as the author's own stance on specifics of their story. I don't give a f*ck what people want to ship, and it's their own business(as long as they don't try to position it as canon or fact), but Death of the Author encompasses a lot more than that. If Tolkien wanted to say that the Ring is a symbol of industrialization, but to you it resonated more strongly as a symbol of the power of corruption, Death of the Author simply makes your interpretation just as valid.