OT12 - A-RISE included

While we're at it, include Fumika, Mika and Hideko

The Love Live OT17 must be the largest ship I've ever seen. Goes with the series' name I guess.
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I ship it.

Seriously though, with the 17 shippable characters mentioned above there are so many options (and only for OTP, let alone 3 or more) that it seems quite ridiculous to me that part of the fandom would focus so much in the shipping wars. Statistically, it's more or less impossible that the whole fandom would agree on one single ship for any character, so why not just support your own choice and let everyone else be? Go and tell everyone why yours is the best IN YOUR OPINION, but keep it in that ship's works. Entering any work with another ship just to say you hate/don't like/whatever else... sorry, that's just not nice.

(For reasons, I won't go into unhealthy ships. That's something I just don't want to deal with rn)

Simply said, ship and let ship. Because really, why waste time going off about a ship you don't agree with when you could be using your time enjoying your own?

^-- Shipping is in general an exercise of willful ignorance IMO, and like you said ship and let ship. It is frustrating however when people go off on a ship that has by comparison a very small amount of doujins/material compared to the ship they prefer.

I love pairings that has Maki in it, but the least is NicoMaki...too many of those, I want to see more of Maki's harem. Point is, this pairing is great. Something different that the most popular pairings.

A lot of authors make NicoMaki work, no problem. But I dunno, to me they seem like a "high school" romance that wouldn't last into the long term. Which is sweet and fun in its own way, but something about this pair seems like it'd work as they moved on to being adults.

I really wish there was more HonoMaki. It's my favorite pairing in the series, just due to character interactions and contrasting personalities.

I really wish there was more HonoMaki. It's my favorite pairing in the series, just due to character interactions and contrasting personalities.

And you hit the critical point I think, of why this pairing works better than something like NicoMaki. They're different, but in a lot of ways complimentary. For NicoMaki, they're pretty much archetypical tsunderes, with the shyness covered up by bravado, the dishonesty, etc. So to get a good story, one has to break out of type in order to provide that contrast. Which I must say, some authors pull off well. But when you match Maki up with pretty much any of the rest, you've got those contrasts in place already and don't need that step of changing one or both, or putting in a third party like Nico's sisters to break the tension.

I am so confused about the comment section of this cute fanart wha-?

Actually, it's got nothing to do with 4chan or same-sex relationships not being accepted or anything like that. It's an in-joke following this one-shot, which suggests that a second-hand kiss is even more high level than oral sex. So following that, holding hands must be even more lewd, in fact the lewdest thing one can do.

Thanks Nez! I needed a good laugh :)

It's somewhat realistic approach to the body :3 I love it !! And they look cute together :D

Orin has two pairs of ears. O^O

i wish i was kim no-rae so bad >o<

After episode 8 I was expecting a flood

@Nez Plus it doesn't hurt that basically the only reason why Maki is a thing in the first place is because Honoka is stubborn and airheaded and awesome and dragged her out into the group because she was fascinated by her piano. I think the problem that comes in with offbranch ships that rest within concept only are just too personalized. This one doesn't rely on that nearly as much as say, UmiEri, but that just breeds ground for ship fights.

Personally I'll do all my ship fighting on KanColle tyvm.

I think often times, a show being dropped after a few episodes says more about the person watching the show than it does the show itself

Golden line.

That's too sweet!!

Hot

"Offbranch" is an interesting way to put it, since from what I gather there's not much more source support for a "main branch" ship like NicoMaki, it's just some of the higher profile/quality doujin authors like Ooshima picked up on them and boosted the popularity. So it mainly comes down to a matter of luck in the end who'll be the OTP and who'll be the crackship.

Really, I think as long as you can justify it and everyone's in-character, then it's a valid ship regardless if they're the fandom's darling or not.

Isn't it unfair to judge pairings by one authors superior portrayal? Honestly I even thought they could be replaced in all three doujins and I wouldn't have noticed a difference, though the feeling of what-if is probably there for you

I just like NicoMaki more not because anime may had some teasing here and there but when I see a pic like this one I just imagine Nico being the good housewife with Maki being the salary woman in adult life, both things the anime suggested are indeed traits they have, so that for me goes against the high school romance

lol i just noticed who asked about the persona here (FLIPPY) :D:D and so cute x3

Maki: did you say 'manjuu', Hon-ey-chan?
Honoka: got a flashback of their last foreplay with manjuu oh... eh... err...
Maki's hand traveled south and all processing thoughts begin to disappear from Honoka's head... not that she got anything complicated in there tho

oh my~ is it getting hot in here or is just me?~

^She has them in her official art too.

anna looks like the character from resort boin...

ChristaxYmir is the only true path. Christa is Ymir's waifu, she'll NEVER lose her to some man. I will go down with this ship!