Yes well I have to some extent answered my own question by searching Tumblr, as far as I can tell these ship hate trolls don't always post publicly but send anonymous messages (asks) to people's blogs. Along with the NaruMayo haters (some of which do post on their public accounts voicing their disgust over this supposed age 'problem') some idiot has recently opened a blog called downwithnarumitsu and is possibly the same one supposedly sending Asks to P/E blogs saying 'Narumayo is canon.' (no further justification).

It's crossed my mind these people aren't necessarily very invested in either ship but just think it's fun to try and goad shippers into some shipping war.
It's not like this is 'debate' based on reasons or even personal opinions. There's just some false moralising that us shippers are disgusting to like this pairing. I'm pretty sure they know it isn't really a valid argument concerning this pairing and don't care, they just want something to complain about to criticise us shippers ourselves. I do wonder if they think it's some equivalent to those people who claim to hate yaoi and thus P/E, like fake 'retaliation'.

As for the genuine cases for P/E and P/M reading of the games I can't see that they're any different from ever. They've stopped forgetting about Maya existing but I don't really expect an elevation over the case we got for P/M at the end of 3-5 (I expect the happy sunset ending of 3-5 was as good as it gets for P/M unfortunately). But fanfic will hopefully be easier to write the pairing now.
As for P/E there's definitely a friendship which has a lot of emotions involved in either party, if people desperately WANT to reframe it as romantic I doubt P/M will be formalised to supposedly 'sink' their ship.
But this hate started way before Maya was announced so it's not sparked by some worry that P/M might be made explicitly canon. I know there are some people around who just don't like Maya as a character too...

Maya and Phoenix?

Pearl Fey would be proud of you.

(anti-narumayos on Tumblr)
That is very strange... Thanks for the info, Icer!

Also I've been meaning to watch the anime properly, that scene is so cute! My partner just kept saying how crappy it looked the whole time I had it on

>Nick: Until six days the 6th game will be released... I wonder if Maya has grown up now. I will need to take a good care of Maya so that she can't get into trouble again.
>Maya: Until six days the 6th game will be released... It's been a while last time I met with Nick. I wonder if Nick has grown up now. I will need to take a good care of him again.

narumayo-week:

Well guys, wouldn’t it be a good time to make an event for our beloved ship Narumayo?

Right! I’m here to officially announce..

10 DAYS OF NARUMAYO!!

10 full days of bright new content to fangirl and cry on! What a delight! Art, fanfiction, AMV, edits, gifs and so much more is accepted! Just give us aLL THE NARUMAYO YOU HAVE!!!

Only things you have to keep in mind:
Most important of all, NO BASHING OR HATE ON OTHER SHIPS!!! 10 Days of Narumayo is NOT running to hate on other people’s interests.

Everything you contribute must be all NEW and ORIGINAL content. No reposting, no copying. We want bright new content!

Have fuuuuuuun!!!

The event will start on July 18th and end on July 27th. Ten days. When you post your contributions, don’t forget to tag it as #10daysofnarumayo2016 in the first five tags of your post! Or if you’re scared of your post getting lost, just tag me in the post with @narumayo-week (in the caption, not in the tags). I’ll reblog every submissions to this very blog.

The prompts are:

July 18th, Day 1: Turnabout Meeting
Remember the day Nick and Maya met…. You remember now? Are you suffering? Yes? Good. Now provide some content related to their first meeting, to that fateful night!! When everything began…

July 19th, Day 2: Turnabout Stepladder Ladder Steplad–
UGH! They do the same thing! Anyway, this day is dedicated to Nick and Maya’s favourite argument… is it a ladder or a stepladder? I guess we’ll never know…

July 20th, Day 3: A Samurai’s Turnabout
You know which Samurai I’m refering to… THAT’S RIGHT! The Steal Samurai! Let’s have Nick and Maya share some Steal Samurai moments! Do they watch some episodes together? YES. Do they cosplay it? ALL TO THE HELL TO THE YES. Those are just ideas, you can do whatever you want with this. You go and see what you choose to do for this day!

July 21st, Day 4: THE First Shipper
The First canon shipper of the game… Of course, I’m talking about Pearls! She’s the one who started it all, she’s responsible for this. Let’s dedicate a day, to thank her for opening our eyes!

July 22nd, Day 5: Let the turnabouts be… Let’s go out!!
Nick and Maya are going out! What would they do? As simple as that.

July 23rd, Day 6: Trust.
Let’s not forget this. Trust is one of the most important things in a relationship and you know how Narumayo is all about trust.

July 24th, Day 7: Let’s switch!
Maya is now an attorney, Nick is now a medium. See what you can do with that…

July 25th, Day 8: Turnabout Shenanigans
Nick and Maya have their shenanigans moments too! A scene you like? A headcanon you have about a little nice fight they could have had? Go ahead, show us!!

July 26th, Day 9: I miss you, my Turnabout…
Distance. Nick and Maya had to endure it, for a long time. They held one, they are strong ones, these two…

July 27th, Day 10: Thank you.
Last but not least, the 10th day. Just a day for Nick to say thank you to Maya, for Maya to say thank you to Nick. For supporting each other, for always cheering up, for just… be there. Thank you.

That’ll be it! Thank you for reading, don’t forget to reblog so every Narumayo shipper in the fandom knows about this event. If you have any questions, you can ask them, the inbox is open!

Of course, every hate messages will be deleted. This event is made so the narumayo shippers can ship peacefully and cheer them up. Don’t. ruin. their. fun. Thanks!

Hey all, sorry for the long wait (like 7 months o_o), but I’m pleased to announce that the site (ie. our database) is almost ready*!
There’s one last thing: what to call it? My in-development name for it has been “Fey Anthology” since I’m putting a copy of the project on my resume and the name sounded classy but I dunno, we could change it?

You can preview the site here. As you can see there's not much in the way of appearance yet, but it's a start. Also disregard the technical info on the pages: this is my testing copy, not the one we'll be using. I'll change that out for more relevant info later.

*”Ready” meaning all the essential functions work (search, submit, moderation, permissions, etc). Making it look nice is my next task.

Yayyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, needs a pretty and relevant colour scheme. I can do that if you want (CSS)? And maybe some magatamas or de-Killer card (Maya's picture of Phoenix) or something...

No idea what to call it, but it has to have some keyword stuffing for appearing in search engines, like Phoenix/Maya, NaruMayo etc.

Here, I somehow managed to get a bigger version of that group picture without the Sample thing.

I'd definitely appreciate help with the colors and stuff. What would I need to send you?