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X Japan on Ao3 Ship Meta: Part 1
Apr. 29th, 2026 09:54 pmStruck by a bout of divine madness and am now currently doing X Japan Ao3 ship stats, despite the inherent swingyness and Oops All Spiders Georg-ness of doing stats for a fandom this tiny. This is Part 1 of this, I guess. Got curious about if there were any intra-X Japan ships that had never been written about, and wound up creating this chart!
Chart is accurate as of 4/29/2026. Top 7 pairings are color-coded, as are the bottom 3.
MAIN TAKEAWAYS:
- Yoshiki is very obviously the fandom's resident Little Black Dress, as 5/7 of the most written-about X Japan pairings include him as a participant. Pretty feminine blond twink whose entire public persona is about how he's a tortured genius poor little meow meow gets shipped with everyone, many such cases.
- Pata, by contrast, is the least-shipped member of the band. No pairings involving him are in the top 7, and 2/3 least-written about pairings involve him. Whether this is due to people not finding him hot or his public persona being World's Most Normal Guy and thus less interesting then his bandmates, who's to say.
- Sugizo's ship-status is very swingy- he's a participant in 2/3 of the least-written about pairings, but he's also a participant in 2/7 of the most written about pairings. Not sure what to make of this.
Chart is accurate as of 4/29/2026. Top 7 pairings are color-coded, as are the bottom 3.
MAIN TAKEAWAYS:
- Yoshiki is very obviously the fandom's resident Little Black Dress, as 5/7 of the most written-about X Japan pairings include him as a participant. Pretty feminine blond twink whose entire public persona is about how he's a tortured genius poor little meow meow gets shipped with everyone, many such cases.
- Pata, by contrast, is the least-shipped member of the band. No pairings involving him are in the top 7, and 2/3 least-written about pairings involve him. Whether this is due to people not finding him hot or his public persona being World's Most Normal Guy and thus less interesting then his bandmates, who's to say.
- Sugizo's ship-status is very swingy- he's a participant in 2/3 of the least-written about pairings, but he's also a participant in 2/7 of the most written about pairings. Not sure what to make of this.
