One CG and two YouTube videos totaling less than 10 minutes later, and I went from not knowing this ship existed to being just a tiny bit obsessed with it. The power of a genuinely serious and emotionally supportive Bakushin-O is not to be trifled with, as that scene - even with me having little context - is still summoning the onion-cutting ninja’s to my room several weeks and many rewatches later.
If you really like them that much, i recommend reading star blossom! They aren't the main characters technically but the chapters that feature them are seriously good, and bakushin is generally featured heavily. StaBlo is also just one of the great uma works in general, up there with Cinderella Gray. and since like any uma media being a standalone, you don't need to know anything about uma prior to this. the only problem is i don't know if the english TLs of their arc is uploaded anywhere since the main scanlators for en TL haven't caught up yet , but it's updated in other languages at least?