TOKOMARU IS NOT CANON I'M RIGHT AND YOU'RE WRONG
TogaFuka is the OTP of Danganronpa, here’s why.
I worked for TokoMaru. He’s a fraud.
1) “TogaFuka is toxic”
This is the magnum opus, the deus ex machina, the final rebuttal, the closing argument for TokoMaru glazers.
What they’re trying to say is that TogaFuka is toxic due to:
- Togami’s behavior towards Toko
- Toko being obsessed and stalking Togami
What these people fail to understand, or worse, purposefully ignore, is that these characters changed during the course of the story. They take Togami at his worst point (Danganronpa 1: THH) and try to set that as the basis for his character, disregarding how much his character developed throughout the later installments. Some go as far to say that he “Hates Toko”. Now tell me, if you’re a 6’1 spoiled rich blonde boy, and you have a depraved girl constantly following you around, acting like a lunatic around you, how would you treat her? That’s right, in a pretty colorful manner. Not only that, but he knew of her split personality and how she kills the men she likes. Not to mention that this literally took place during a killing game.
Post THH, Togami developed and matured a lot and it shows. Unlike what most people think (perhaps due to not having played the games and watched the show…), Togami didn’t in fact try to “not let Toko in the Future Foundation”. Quite the opposite. She wasn’t let in due to Syo being a concern.
Secondly.
Of course, she is guilty of this. This is the point where most TokoMaru guzzlers think they hit the nail on the head. “Erm… It’s LITERALLY a Stalker x Victim pairing…”. Tell me does Togami look like a victim to you. Does that man. Look. Like. A. Victim. If anything, he would make Toko the victim /j. It’s hyperbole.
I’m not gonna deny her doing this, however again, these people still ignore the fact that characters mature. In UDG, she stopped stalking Togami. Wow, character development?!?! Almost like the writers were pushing her to be better so the relationship between these two could work out.
2) Writers, tropes
I feel like out of every single media I’ve seen, TogaFuka has to be the most pushed ship by the writers.
Literally. Look at any scene where Toko is present. IN ANY Danganronpa media.
She cannot go through 7 dialogues without mentioning Togami. And she always talks about his looks and how badly she wants to marry him.
I mean, that’s literally… the clearest thing ever. How people still try to argue that Toko is interested romantically in other people is baffling to me.
She was written to be like this, it’s literally part of the trope. Her personality and character were written to be based on Togami.
Now, tell me, when has she ever gone to this extreme, lusting for Komaru? NO.
As Kodaka himself states, Ultra Despair Girls is about “The deepening friendship between Toko and Komaru.”
Friendship. Not a relationship, nor anything else. TokoMaru copers, you got friendzoned by Mr. John Danganronpa himself.
3) The Signs…
It’s very clear that the writers try to push TogaFuka.
They both matured and had character development.
Especially Toko, in UDG. And still, who was she fantasizing about in UDG? Having entire steamy cutscenes about? Togami.
WHO was the one who made Toko put her split personality, Genocide Syo, under control? Togami. Not Komaru. Not anyone else.
It’s ignorant to ignore all this and pretend that Toko and Komaru were written to be together unconditionally. It simply is.
4) Closing Thoughts, the Abyss
Toko and Komaru were put together in UDG because of their personalities. Komaru is a wholesome, happy girl while Toko is… a degenerate, honestly. Their dynamic together is what makes the game interesting. As friends.
If UDG really was made with the intention for Toko to end up with Komaru, why would we get so many scenes of Toko’s fantasies about Togami? Why would we get so many mentions of him?
Think about it.
It was literally a fail safe so people wouldn’t mindlessly pair Toko and Komaru together.
A sort of reminder that “Hey.. Toko likes Togami…”
Yet people are still blind to this..?
THE FINAL ARGUMENT.
Even if Toko somehow got together with Komaru… IT WOULD STILL BE A TOXIC RELATIONSHIP…
Have you seen how Toko acts?
And before you say “Oh yeah but Komaru will be supportive and make her get better!”
So would Togami.
“Oh but she changed and her crush gradually wore off!” False, please look at Danganronpa S. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her that down bad for him. And that game came out in 2021, after UDG. “Erm.. it’s not canon” Yet the writers still wrote her that way. If they wanted her crush to “fade away” and her to “fall for Komaru instead”, they would have.
(to prove I’m not making things up about people saying this)
Besides that, Togami and Toko have been displayed near each other many times:
Even in the bad ending, Togami is holding up Toko’s portrait and smiling, out of all people.
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Actual closing thoughts
I find it interesting how most of the popular ships are gay/lesbian. Now I don’t have anything against the occasional ones, I’d like for some to be made canon too. Gotta love some yuri and yaoi. Keyword: occasional
Except that if you look at the main ships.. they’re practically ALL lesbian. Like come on.
I certainly blame the community for this. Given how most of the people in the community are neurodivergent 14-16 year old girls, it’s obvious they’d want queer ships. I don’t really blame them given their motives, except for when it turns toxic.
I mean, dude, simply mentioning you ship TogaFuka is enough to get at least 4 of them mad at you. It gets to a point.
I place my bets on it just being projection and just collective misinformation.
Most of these people haven’t even played the games/watched the shows, so they simply just listen to word of mouth, and they parrot it.
Projection too. They’re way too attached to these characters to the point where they kinda see themselves in them? So given their orientation, they naturally only support the lesbian ships. Bunch of himejoshis…
(projection)
Here’s how I imagine it goes
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A: “Well, honestly the dynamic between Togami and Toko is kinda toxic.”
B: (Togami.. Toko.. Toxic?!)
- vvv-
C: “I kinda see potential between Togami and Fukawa. Maybe eventually they can get together given how they develop.”
B: “No, That’s wrong! Buddy, they’re toxic. Haven’t you seen how Togami treats her, huh?! And she’s LITERALLY a stalker. So you support Stalker x Victim?! You’re one of those proshippers aren’t you..”
C: “I was just saying…”
B: “chat, release the hounds.”
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Now obviously this was slightly exaggerated, but I’ve had genuine conversations like this. (minus the proship part)
I simply don’t get the hatred that most straight ships get. It seems like forced hate.
They can’t fathom the concept of characters having friends. For them it really is just “Ship or nothing”. Komaru was written to be Toko’s best friend. That’s all.
May 2025 bring at least 3 works on A03 for TogaFuka…
