Type B × Type BBlood type compatibility
Two free spirits and no adult in the room. Enormously fun, structurally unsound.
For entertainment only. Blood type compatibility (ketsueki-gata aishō) is a popular Japanese cultural belief and is not supported by science. Please don’t use it to make real relationship decisions.
What two Type Bs recognise in each other
Each finds the other unusually easy — no hints to decode, no invisible rules, no offence taken at a week of silence. Both are used to being the eccentric one and neither has to perform it here. The recognition is immediate and mutual: finally, someone who doesn't want to be managed either.
What works
Total honesty and zero passive aggression. Whatever's wrong gets said within the hour, usually badly, and then it's finished. Neither keeps score. Neither expects the other to guess. Life together is genuinely interesting — a run of new places, new obsessions, and conversations that go somewhere strange.
Where it breaks
The dishes. The renewal. The person who was going to book it. Both types happily assume someone else is holding the boring end, and here nobody is. Projects start beautifully and stop at 70%. Neither one is being careless at the other — they're being careless in parallel, which is somehow worse.
By situation
- Dating — Exciting and unadministered. Works best with money for takeaway and a shared calendar neither of them reads.
- At work — Do not put two Type Bs on a deadline alone. Do put them in the same room for an hour when a problem needs a new angle.
- As friends — The best version of this pairing. All of the fun, none of the shared logistics.
One thing that helps
Write down who owns each recurring chore. Not a conversation — a list. Then look at it.
Every pairing
All ten combinations of A, B, O and AB — each page covers both points of view.
- A × O High
- A × AB High
- B × AB High
- A × B Tricky
- B × O Steady
- O × AB Steady
- A × A Steady
- B × B Steady
- O × O Steady
- AB × AB Steady
Prefer the grid? See the full 4×4 compatibility chart.