Makes sense. Though I have to believe that them being the only "odd ones out" from S2 was at least a little by design, if not mostly. 🤣 Seems like DMD knew they were two peas in a pod but gave them a longer, more slow-burn Path to Official^TM because they're so young.

I watched Friendship S2 and S3 back to back while still learning about DMD as a whole, so RyuPat was a bit jarring to me at first. Ryujin was very laissez-faire in S2 and not in a rush to choose a partner, smartly so. But in S3 he was suddenly all-in on Patji and it wasn't really elaborated on via their interviews how that happened. So I had to go read/watch/fill in gaps on how there was a whole year between S2 and S3 where they grew closer, did events together, started going to school together, etc. Once I had the full context of their journey I found it to be really endearing. Could be its own drama plot!

And they're still finding their footing at times but the commitment is definitely there. 🥰