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What yuri couplings are you a fan of but not many people really know all that well about? None of this mainstream Korrasami, Bumblebee, Homuradoka shit. Its time to put your hipster glasses on.
I'm a pretty big fan of Lammy/Katy from Um Jammer Lammy/Parappa the Rapper, enough that it actually inspired me to do my first shipping fanfiction ever. Recently I've also been developing an interest in Amy Rose/Tekno the Canary from the Fleetway Sonic the Comic. You know, if I had a nickel for every furry lesbian couple that was canonized decades after their original works ended by one of the original creators, I'd have two nickels.
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Meh. I had idea for thread like that for Love Live to discuss different parings, but then realized people take this shit way too seriously and thread would go out of control immediately, so I never really bothered. If you want hell, I can share my personal parrings of Love Live, cos I think the mainstream ones are boring af and completely predictable.
I'd have two nickels.
You rich rich.
I like Homura x Sayaka (Madoka); they're pretty funny and interesting. Dekomori x Nibutani (Chuunibyo), who only aren't popular because of the KyoAni curse. They're gay af and super cute together tho, they have all the makings of a popular ship. Idk, I don't really have anything else atm.
Don't have many in yuri/subtext stuff but a bunch in straight shows. For example: Iwasawa x Hisako & Yuri x Shiina (Angel Beats), Minori x Ami (Toradora), Kyou x Kotomi (Clannad), etc
Amy rose is in a canon furry lesbian ship??
Hmm for ships that come to mind right now, one of My favorites is from the Yugioh arc-v anime, where one of My favorite characters, Yuzu Hiiragi had rival(girlfriend) in the early part of the show called Masumi, we call it Lustershipping in the fandom, which iirc refers to a coment about the luster in Yuzu's eyes.
In their rematch duel when Yuzu defeats Masumi, she falls from a platform but Yuzu's monster saves her, bridal carry style, and Masumi blushes when Yuzu is relieved she is fine, and after the duel Masumi gives her a "Crystal rose" card (which in the real lífe card Game it supports both of their decks) telling her to keep Shining like she did in their duel.....
And then the show decides it no longers cares about its females characters and keeps using Yuzu as motivation doll for the protag..... Also she nevers got to use the Crystal rose card in a full duel :/
Ah well, got side tracked and just kept writing.
Another ship that I am not sure if its obscure, but its not very popular is Yuu/Sayaka from bloom into You, as time goes on, I just keep being found of the idea of them together.
Oh, also, on the subject of Love Love, recently I've liked the ship of Sumire/Kanon, as well as an OT3 of Sumire/Kanon/Keke.
Thinking on it, maybe not any of these are particularly obscure, besides maybe the ygo one, sorry about that, id I remember another one later i'll come back
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Asellus and Gina in Saga Frontier. Very little fanart in general exists for that game, and the little Yuri fanart that exists is of Asellus and Princess White Rose.
It's really a shame there's nothing for Asellus and Gina considering they're canonically lovers in two of the three endings. though I guess Gina is more a trophy than a lover in the bad ending.
Gina's design is also adorable. Even her outfit in the bad ending is really nice.
Oh, also, on the subject of Love Love, recently I've liked the ship of Sumire/Kanon, as well as an OT3 of Sumire/Kanon/Keke.
Good ship.
Minori x Ami (Toradora)
Based on their final scenes together, I was seeing it even before I got into yuri or shipping. Big ups, they're girlfriends 100%.
I tend to ship characters that actually had some chemistry in the series, but I'm not really against "crack" ships where characters never interacted, as long as I could imagine them having interesting interactions or good chemistry. I personally think calling something "crack" and dismissing it only based on that isn't either helpful or constructive.
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Since you asked. Disclaimer: I only watched like first 7 episodes of OG series, planned to watch rest, but never got back around to it, so all I'm saying is based only on my first impressions based on those first episodes. So I feel that the "canon" ships are boring, because they're like the most obvious and cliche parings ever. Nico x Maki, Tsundere and Kuudere. Eli x Nozomi, president and vice-president, Hanayo x Rin childhood friends and Honoka x Kotori x Umi friends/childhood friends again. As for my personal ones: I felt like Maki x Rin had some really good chemistry. From what I remember Rin was first to try to connect with Maki and she was first person Maki opened to about herself and her dream. I think she was the one to convince her to write songs for them? Nico x Nozomi, they seemed to know each other and had some kind of past relationship, also Nozomi casually grabs Nico's boobs. For rest I didn't have strong feelings/didn't get to enough shipping material yet, but i'd go for Eli x Honoka maybe for their hate relationship? which I'm aware is just as cliche + I'm not fan of those in the first place, cos with those people usually just misunderstood a interaction for sexual tension/chemistry, which usually only leads to toxic relationships. So if I'd have to pair rest, I'd go with Kotori x Umi, cos they're only left and Hanayo somehow struck me as someone who wouldn't go for relationship and instead from all the girls would actually keep being idol after the school. Again, those are my feelings from when Love Live was like first airing and I didn't even finish it, but I guess now I'm feeling like giving it a go again.
Also not sure how obscure those are and well, some are pretty much canon, but w/e here we go from stuff I remember rn:
Mai-Hime: Everyone is all about Natsuki x Shizuru, but Mai x Mikoto is pretty much canon too and in fact Mai x Mikoto x Yuuichi seems to be canon OT3.
Mai-Otome: Arika x Mashiro, again pretty much canon. Nina x Nao had pretty good chemistry too.
Ga-Rei: Zero: Kagura x Yomi, again pretty much canon. Sadly the ship is dead. It was first anime ever that I watched where I picked up on Yuri vibes, so you could say, it was my introduction to Yuri. In fact one of side characters was openly gay man that story fully acknowledged and it wasn't really played for laughs, even if it was used in comedic scene.
Talentless Nana: Nana x Michiru, again pretty much canon and sadly also deader than dead.
Teppuu: Natsuo x Kei. They're adorkable together.
A Method to Make the Gentle World: Aoi x Touko. It's full on het, but it had some good yuri tease at the end. I don't really mind, cos the story is great either way.
Would need to go through stuff I read/watched to remember more, cos I don't even remember fraction of stuff I saw.
EDIT/ Right forgot about games, then I only remember 1 rn. From Arknights my totally crack paring is Jessica x Exusiai, because they along with Executor were my 3 default snipers I used for very long time, when I just started playing, so at some point I kinda started low-key shipping them with Executor being a wingman (you get it? cos he's a angel? nevermind, I'll see myself out).
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Back when I was still playing Kantai Collection, I used to ship Prinz Eugen x Hatsushimo and Yuudachi x Hatsuharu. No interactions in canon but I tend to use these ships together. Prinz and Hatsushimo were always my bosskillers while Yuudachi and Hatsuharu were together for Destroyer-centered fleets. Also I'd like to imagine Yuudachi and Hatsuharu to have this fox and the hound dynamics. I also shipped Samuel B. Roberts and Tashkent when the former finally came out tho I already stopped playing at the time. I just thought they looked cute together. Oh and from the Kancolle anime: Fubuki x Yamato and Fubuki x Kongou. I suppose those count as obscure.
Amy rose is in a canon furry lesbian ship??
Well, it depends on what you regard as "canon" (which is a can of worms I won't really get into).
So there is a fan continuation of Sonic the Comic called Sonic the Comic Online. To celebrate a milestone they got Nigel Kitching, the original lead writer, to write a epilogue for StC called Exit: Sonic. In that its mentioned that Tekno and Amy are living together and raising a son called Johnny (Sonic's the godfather). Not outright stating they're a couple, but heavily implying it to the point you have to be willfully blind to miss it.
So obviously not endorsed by Sega in any way, but it is the lead writer writing an ending for his series later on for what that's worth.
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Ga-Rei: Zero: Kagura x Yomi, again pretty much canon. Sadly the ship is dead. It was first anime ever that I watched where I picked up on Yuri vibes, so you could say, it was my introduction to Yuri. In fact one of side characters was openly gay man that story fully acknowledged and it wasn't really played for laughs, even if it was used in comedic scene.
Devastating. Literally just watched this show because of that pocky scene (impurity warning). I remember pouring over fan discussion of the manga afterwards, those were desperate times indeed.
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From what I remember Rin was first to try to connect with Maki and she was first person Maki opened to about herself and her dream. I think she was the one to convince her to write songs for them?
I'm pretty sure the first was both Honoka and Hanayo, the second Hanayo (I assume you mean the scene in Maki's house) and the third Honoka.
I don't actually remember Rin and Maki having a single one-on-one conversation in the whole series... I feel like Hanayo was always there whenever those two interacted...
I don't know if all of them qualify as obscure, but here are some of mine:
My Love Live OT3 is YouChikaRiko. Finding poly fanart and doujins that aren't porn or love triangle drama is exceedingly hard.
Ellis and Nadie from Bee Train's El Cazador. Every single time I reminisce about this show, I find myself snickering about that ridiculously cheesy love song. I unironically love it.
Sanae and Maki from Sakura Quest. A great "bickering married couple" kind of relationship. I followed supplementary materials at the time the show was airing and I'm fairly sure some people in the staff shipped them too.
Also from the P.A. Works working women series, Miyamori and Yano from Shirobako. Everyone please read this doujin.
Reona and Zara from Kouya no Kotobuki Hikoutai/The Magnificent Kotobuki. I think they were canon?
Saori and Mako from Girls und Panzer. My memory is fuzzy, but I believe this one is because of the artists I liked who started drawing doujins about them and made me realize their dynamic was fun.
Misaki and Roko from Action Heroine Cheer Fruits. Cute show, but I'm still not sure what these two were supposed to be.
Teru and Kayo from Stella no Mahou. The... complicated senpai and the kouhai who is in love with her.
Torako and Touma from Hyakko. Still sad the manga just stopped and never got a proper ending.
Connie and Yuika from Hanebado. Wasted Potential: The Pairing.
Shihatsu and Ichizaki from Baggataway. Shame the translation stopped, but buying the phonebook-sized magazine every month for like five years was absolutely worth it, and these two are part of the reason why.
That was quite a few of them, huh. There's probably more I can't remember right now. Guess I enjoy the frustration of having no one to talk to about ships.
I'm pretty sure the first was both Honoka and Hanayo, the second Hanayo (I assume you mean the scene in Maki's house) and the third Honoka.
I don't actually remember Rin and Maki having a single one-on-one conversation in the whole series... I feel like Hanayo was always there whenever those two interacted...
Now that's embarrassing. I guess I was misremembering it then. I suppose I'd be shipping Maki with either Hanayo or Honoka then.
Also remembered that Fiel x Chlammy from No Game, No Life were pretty much a item.
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I really like some rare ships in Idolmaster, like Aki Yamato x Natsuki Kimura xD
Another volume down and I probably don't even need the goggles anymore to see the beginnings of yuri between Mea and Fran, especially from Mea's side...
I'm a big fan of Lammy/Katy as well! <3