Bungou Stray Dogs/Ships

= AkuHiguGin =  AkuHiguGin is the poly ship between Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Higuchi Ichiyo and Gin Akutagawa.

Canon
When Akutagawa was captured by enemies, Higuchi went to save him with the help of Gin and the other members of the Black Lizard. Gin was outside the room Akutagawa and Higuchi were in.

Later on, when Higuchi was driving home and saw Akutagawa out the window, she was excited to offer him a ride. Then she saw a girl by his side and became jealous, as she didn't know it was Gin (Higuchi didn't recognize her as Gin looks completely different in Port Mafia and on daily basis). In the end Higuchi discovers that the girl was Gin, and that Akutagawa and she were siblings, which leaves her relieved.

In the last chapter of the manga released so far (88), Higuchi meets Akutagawa 2 days after his death. He was transformed into a Dracula by Bram. Akutagawa bites Higuchi and turns her into a Dracula too. Then Higuchi finds Gin and also turns her into a Dracula.

Fanon
Higuchi's solo ships with Akutagawa and Gin are not the most popular, so neither is trisal, but Higuchi showed feelings for Akutagawa and many people like Higuchi and Gin's ship, so some people started shipping the three of them. The ship is often talked about on Twitter.

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 * AkuHigu refers to the ship just between Ryuunosuke Akutagawa and Higuchi Ichiyo
 * Akugatawa Siblings refers to the family just between Ryuunosuke Akutagawa and Gin Akutagawa
 * HiguGin refers to the ship just between Higuchi Ichiyo and Gin Akutagawa

= AlbaDoc =  AlbaDoc is the slash ship between Albatross and Doc. AKA: DocAlba, DocTross, Albatrodoc, Docatross

Canon
Albatross and Doc were first introduced in Stormbringer, being two members of The Flags. They were said to be very close to each other, Albatross even trying to save Doc over himself in the accident involved with the murder of The Flags.

Fanon
Albatross and Doc were around the same age, so we can safely assume that they bonded together with any similar interests they might’ve had. A lot of self sacrifice can be described with them, surrounding both of their deaths, which makes it more likely that they were in fact really close with each other. The Flags are shown to have a strong bond; seeing that they went behind Mori Ogai’s back to aid Chuuya into finding out his origin. This could also be applied to any of the others. Doc and Albatross might’ve broken a few rules or defied the boss to help out one another, showing that they have a strong friendship.

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= ChuuAki =  ChuuAki is the het ship between Chūya Nakahara and Akiko Yosano. AKA: Chuusano

Canon
Chuuya and Yosano met when Chuuya invades the place where the agency is hiding, so Yosano and Kenji go to him to face him. Chuuya complains that there are only two and Yosano says that if he is not satisfied it would be better to make an appointment. Yosano already knows that Chuuya has a reason to be there, so Chuuya asks him where the president is, and Yosano points to the security camera. After Chuuya talks to the president, Yosano threatens him saying that he will amputate his members and make him spit out his plans, Chuuya looks excited and says this is an incredible idea, and provokes her by saying that she can try. When Yosano goes to attack him from behind he quickly stands on the ceiling, so Yosano soon concludes that he is Nakahara Chuuya, the manipulator of gravity, making him angry because he concludes that it was Dazai who said that. Then Chuuya goes back to the ground, breaking it, and asks who will want to face gravity.

Later, Chuuya helps the Agency to escape from Tecchou and Jouno, among them was Yosano, but they do not get to interact.

They have some things in common, as they both like drinking a lot, have strong personalities and always enjoy a fight, appearing to have fun in them.

Fanon
ChuuAki is not as popular as other ships like Soukoku and Ranposano. Even so, the ship gained its followers and the fandom quite liked the performance of the two in the fight when they met.

It is the eleventh most popular for Chuuya and the third most popular for Yosano, but overall the ship is a rare pair in the fandom. Their similar personalities made the ship attract the attention of some people and made them the ship.

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= ChuuAtsu =  ChuuAtsu is the slash ship between Atsushi Nakajima and Chuuya Nakahara. AKA: NakaNaka, AtsuChuu

Canon
Atsushi and Chuuya have never met in the canon universe. They are both in competing agencies, Atsushi in the Armed Detective Agency and Chuuya in the Port Mafia.

The characters don't have many similarities - Atsushi and Chuuya are rather big opposites. However, one thing they do have in common is the fact that both of them can say they really know Dazai quite well, which is pretty rare.

When Atsushi falls from the Moby Dick during his escape in the second season, the first thing he sees is Chuuya directing the Port Mafia in keeping the city safe from Q's curse, making Atsushi realize that even the Port Mafia has some good in them.

Bungou Stray Dogs Wan!
While not having any interaction in the canon universe, they have several interactions in the spin-off series.

During the preschool chapter, Chuuya eggs on Atsushi, saying Atsushi is too scared of him to tease him, which Atsushi responds by saying even though he's older Atsushi is still taller than him. This annoys Chuuya, who says he'll be tall in the future because he drinks milk, and saying if Atsushi drinks it that he can grow as well.

Another time they meet is when Chuuya is helping an elderly lady with her heavy baggage, hoping no one sees him. However, Atsushi is out getting groceries when he sees him, and is shocked to see Chuuya helping out an elderly woman. Atsushi begins to walk away and Chuuya yells at him, saying he's misreading the situation. Atsushi smiles and says he understands that even though the mafia is scary, there are still some people who are really kind, which only frustrates Chuuya more.

Fanon
The ship became popular in spite of the fact that neither of the two characters has met each other in canon. The fandom thinks they could have good chemistry if they did meet, since they both have to deal with Dazai and, even though Chuuya doesn't show it as often, they are both very empathetic people.

Despite being one of the rarepairs in the Bungou Stray Dogs fandom, it has a lot of content on sites such as Archive of Our Own and Tumblr. It is a parallel with DazAku, as it involves characters from the most popular duo Soukoku and Shin Soukoku.

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= FukuHaru =  FukuHaru is the het ship between Yukichi Fukuzawa and Kirako Haruno.

Port Mafia Arc
After Atsushi passed the exam to join Armed Detective Agency, Haruno later serves tea to Agency president Yukichi Fukuzawa and asks him if he truly wishes to have Atsushi in the Agency. She then spots an upright tea stalk on his tea, considering it as an auspicious sign. Fukuzawa did not answer and just drinks a tea.

The Guild Arc
As the Agency, Port Mafia, and the Guild engage in a three-way war, Haruno and Naomi retreat into hiding in a safehouse. They learn about a cruiser explosion near the Yokohama commercial port, which Haruno expounds to be owned by a private company. Haruno then contacts and warns Fukuzawa, thinking that the Agency might be in trouble next.

Cannibalism Arc
Twelve hours before the virus outbreak on Fukuzawa and Mori Ougai, Haruno attempts to look for her pet cat, who has not returned for two days. Naomi dissuades her, though Haruno notes how Mii-chan's disappearance always preludes unfortunate incidents. Hence, worrying for Fukuzawa's safety, Haruno remarks how she wishes to look for her cat to possibly avert anything bad happening to the President.

= Fyoagatha =  Fyoagatha is the het ship between Fyodor Doestovsky and Dame Agatha Christie. AKA: Agathafyo

Canon
They were first shown along with the introduction of their organization and the introduction of the guild led by Fitzgerald. At that time, they are the person who wants the head of a tiger man.

Dead Apple Not much interaction between them at dead apple. Fyodor, along with Dazai (just pretending) and Shibusawa, deliberately causing the fog incident to occur in Yokohama. If left unchecked, it will spread all over the place. Agatha, as a leader Order of clock tower, decided to send an ability user to scorch Yokohama to keep the mist from spreading again. However, it's canceled because Atsushi Nakajima and the others managed to stop the fog incident in time.

Fanon
Fyoagatha is a small ship within the Bungou Stray Dogs fandom, with Agatha only showing herself a few times and they rarely interact. The rival ship is Fyolai and Fyozai on Fyodor's end, while Agatha has no rival ships as she herself only appears once in the manga and Dead Apple.

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Trivia

 * Even though they were both from outside of Japan, they were from different countries.

= KuniChuu =  KuniChuu is the slash ship between Doppo Kunikida and Chūya Nakahara. AKA: KunikiChuu

Canon
Kunikida and Chuuya met when Chuuya helps the Armed Detective Agency escape from the Hunting Dogs. Kunikida says he never expected the Mafia to save the Agency. Chuuya denies saying that the bosses made an exchange, where the price was for one of the Agency's members to become the Mafia member. After a time of discussion, Tecchou attacks them and Kunikida leaps from the elicopter to save the others.

The meeting between the two was very short, so neither of them seemed to have any opinion about the other.

Kunikida and Chuuya are quite similar at some points - both are easily irritated and are therefore often provoked by Dazai. Yosano had already heard of Chuuya from Dazai before meeting him, so Dazai probably talked about Chuuya to Kunikida too. Both of them - Doppo and Chuuya - take their jobs seriously, although they are not so similar on the battlefield, as Kunikida tends to be very serious, while Chuuya appears to have a lot of fun in a fight. Both are members of the most known and respected associations.

Another thing the two have in common is their age - both are 22 years old, despite having a big difference in height - Chuuya with 1,60 and Kunikida with 1,89.

Fanon
KuniChuu is not as popular as Soukoku and Kunikidazai, but it is still quite popular. Their relationships with Dazai was what made some people ship them.

Some people prefer their friend ship to the romantic ship, and believe that they would get along very well because of mutual anger towards Dazai, while others believe that there would be something more than friendship between them. However, most people agree that if they talked with each other more and under different circumstances, they would get along well.

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 * KuniDaChuu refers to the ship between Chuuya, Kunikida and Osamu Dazai

= PianoMann =  PianoMann is the slash ship between Piano Man and Lippmann from the Bungou Stray Dogs fandom.

Canon
Piano Man founded the peer support group known at the time as the Young Bloods and essentially served from then on as their leader; Lippmann soon officially named this group as the Flags. Along with the others from the flags they fought against Adam. They also were seen playing the billard along with the other members of the group before the King of Assassins Incident.

Fanon
Guessing that both of them were of similiar age it's safe to say they bonded over the time in the mafia.

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= Souheki =  Souheki is the slash ship between Osamu Dazai and Ranpo Edogawa. AKA: Dazairanpo, Dazanpo, Ranzai

Canon
Hailed as the Agency's sharpest detectives (双璧, Sōheki?, lit. "Double Jade"), Dazai and Ranpo are the organization's intellectual groups. Dazai first met Ranpo as a newcomer in the Agency, during which he witnessed Ranpo's Super Deduction firsthand, only to find out that Ranpo is a non-ability user after touching his hair while deducing and failing to nullify it. This earned Dazai's great respect towards Ranpo's genius intellectual prowess and pure deduction ability, which also shocked Kunikida after finding out about it for the first time through Dazai. As a result, Dazai and the rest of the Agency members respect Ranpo despite the way he behaves in the Agency. Later on, Dazai's and Ranpo's collaboration are explicitly shown while planning the Moby Dick infiltration. Their conversation, through Atsushi's perspective, merely consisted of audibly vague ideas, though the both of them seem to have a mutual thought process and understanding as to how they shall go about their scheme, which ultimately led to their success.

This unseen dynamic apparently persists in various instances, such as after the Yokohama fog incident, specifically when Ranpo returns back to reality and ambiguously calls out to Dazai while musing on the events he predictably deduced. In one of their cases on Standard Island, Dazai made sure to contact and update Ranpo after sensing in advance that the agents would be in trouble, hence leaving the rest of the matter in Ranpo's hands and eventually saving the Agency members and many people on the island.

Quotes
"He’s like a legendary detective character in a novel - no, for the character’s book ends when the case is solved. Then I don’t think any fictional character could hold a candle to Ranpo’s powers of observation which let him find the bomb without going to the crime scene or meeting the suspect."

- Dazai Osamu

Fanon
Ranpo is one of the few people that Dazai respects. Soukoku and Ranpoe commonly rival this ship.

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= TsujiChuu =  TsujiChuu is the het ship between Chuuya Nakahara and Mizuki Tsujimura from the Bungou Stray Dogs fandom.

Canon
The ship sailed mostly thanks to Chuuya and Mizuki sharing a scene in the Dead Apple Movie. It wasn't really long, but was enough for people to start shipping these two.

Dead Apple
Chuuya is standing in a plane almost ready to active his ability. When the hatch opens up, Tsujimura appears behind Nakahara. She asks him if he's okay with doing this after all. Chuuya looks at her and quickly recognizes Mizuki from the time they met during Gaiden, 1 year ago. Tsujimura tells Nakahara that going is dangerous and asks him why is he going to do it anyway. That's when Chuuya answers with his iconic quote - 'Do you know when it's all right to chicken out and go home? There is no such time'. After these words he jumps off the plane and the battle begins.

It's a really short moment, but we can clearly see in it the big respect they both have for each other. That powerful respect in that scene became a reason for the people to ship them.

Fanon
ChuuTsuji is a rarepair within the BSD fandom. It's often overshadowed by Soukoku, the most popular ship in the fandom.

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