RubyMaru

RubyMaru is the femslash ship between Ruby Kurosawa and Hanamaru Kunikida from the Love Live! fandom.

Canon
Hanamaru says Ruby is her dearest friend. The two met in junior high school in the library. The two would often spend their time there, and ended up bonding. Hanamaru first noticed her reading an idol magazine. When Ruby saw that Hanamaru had seen her, she became flustered and hid behind the book, but both slowly smiled at each other.

After Chika tries and fails to get the two to join Aqours, Ruby tells Hanamaru about her sister Dia's hate for school idols. She thinks she's not cut out for one anyway, and Hanamaru agrees that she's fine not doing it either. Later Hanamaru thinks it over, and decides she wants to be one. She asks Ruby, who is uncertain due to her shyness and Dia. Hanamaru suggests they do a Trial Period which Ruby decides to do.

When Aqours is training, Ruby stops running up the stairs when she sees Hanamaru lagging behind. She lies to the others that she's just a little out of breath and for them to continue. Hanamaru finally catches up and tells Ruby to keep going. After Ruby is out of sight, Hanamaru meets with Dia and tells her to respect Ruby's feelings. Hanamaru eventually gives up trying to be an idol. Ruby finds her and tells her how she knows that Hanamaru actually liked it, because she saw her smiling with everyone, and looking at the μ's magazine a lot. Ruby says she wants to be a school idol with Hanamaru.

Moments

 * S1E01: Hanamaru protects Ruby from the sudden appearing Yohane
 * S1E03: Hanamaru and Ruby go shopping at a bookstore together in Numazu
 * S1E04: Hanamaru congratulates Ruby on her dancing,
 * S1E06: Ruby notices it's late and drags Hanamaru home with her.
 * S1E07: Hanamaru asks Ruby to stop her if she says "zura". Ruby later has the opportunity to do so.
 * Movie:
 * After being spooked by the masks in the store window, Ruby runs to hug Hanamaru and whines
 * The two work together as costume designers

Fanon
RubyMaru is a popular ship in the Love Live! fandom, the two being best friends helping to sail the ship. It is sometimes compared to RinPana for the similarities between the pairings (eg. both involving pure and smile attribute first years). It mainly rivals their ships with Yoshiko, YoshiMaru and YoshiRuby.

Fandom
FANFICTION
 * Hanamaru/Ruby tag on FanFiction.net
 * Hanmaru/Ruby comics on Dynasty Reader
 * Hanmaru/Ruby comics on Dynasty Reader

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