those were tags on a post about keiko and honestly fight me ??? she’s one of the few anime childhood friend love interests I’ll defend to the death. this is the normal ass human girl who despite being scared out of her wits went to demon world to support yusuke, sure she got scared and froze up sometimes but given she was fourteen at the start of the series what she accomplished was pretty fucking amazing.
She was patient, and waited for yusuke but didn’t tolerate being toyed with either. She made her feelings known and went on to live a hapoy life with yusuke. like she didn’t play the biggest part in the story but she literally, canonically is yusukes reason to live, and fight.
She and Kuwabara kept yusuke grounded, and human. She never questioned the demon thing, she just loved Yusuke no matter what and wanted to go home and grow old with him.
She never got in the way, and when she was told to hide or run, she would listen cause she’s not stupid and knows not to put herself in danger ( most of the time - but she’s a little girl trying to protect the boy she loves )
so like honestly fucking fight me keiko is great, is she the deepest character in the world? nah. but her influence hangs over the series and our own protagonist probably would have died a lot sooner had it not been for her
Keiko may not have, story wise, changed much with her own direct actions but the story certainly wouldn’t be the same without her. Is she perfectly written? no but useless is an ass pull of a statement
to borrow a term from the flash, keiko is yusukes lightning rod, she always brings him back, and that’s beautiful
