Minokana

"Hanasato-san has such a bright aura about her..."

- Kanade in an Area Conversation at Scramble Crossing

Minokana is the femslash ship between Minori Hanasato and Kanade Yoisaki from the Project SEKAI fandom.

Canon
Minori and Kanade are the leaders of their respective groups, MORE MORE JUMP! and 25-ji, Nightcord de. They have opposite personalities.

Scramble Fan Festival
The two interacted for the first time during this event, and they talk briefly, but do not get to know each other.

In Kanade's "The World Shown Through Music" first side story, after Kanade and her groupmates talk about the performances they saw, Mizuki suggests that Kanade should try her hand at composing an idol song. After their conversation, Kanade reminisces Minori performing and smiles, thinking that she feels that somebody is definitely getting saved by the happy and upbeat music Minori performs, and how it managed to get even her [Kanade] a bit excited.

Enjoy With Everyone! SpoJoy Park
They formally meet each other when Kanade was carrying spare clothes. Minori saw that Kande was trying hard and decided to help her. They went to the Spojoy Park together. Then Minori recognized Kanade quickly, since they had already seen each other when Kanade and her group went to visit the shrine and Minori and her group were working there and they also saw each other at the Scramble Fan Festival. Minori thanked Kanade for telling her that she was bright at the festival, and Kanade started to recognize her. Minori asked Kanade if she was alright and she told her that she was tired, but she had to visit her father at the hospital. Minori offered to help her saying that she was already training for a show and carrying something around would be good training for her. Still, Kanade felt bad about making Minori carry things for her, but in the end she accepted her offer. In the end that gave Kanade the idea to exercise to make efforts on her own, without causing trouble for others.

The next day, Minori ran into Kanade again when she was out for a walk with Ena. Kanade and Ena told Minori that Kanade wanted to increase her stamina, so Minori recommended that they go to SpoJoy Park, as it is indoors so they can avoid heat. Minori asked them if she could go with them too and Kanade (as well as Ena) said that was fine with her. During their first meeting, Minori mistakes Kanade for being the same age as her and calls her "Kanade-chan," before apologizing for her mistake after realizing that Kanade is actually a year older. Kanade told her that she didn't mind that anyways and that she didn't need to be formal with her. Finally, the two went to the SpoJoy park along with Ena and Ichika.

Minori said that even if she failed, she was very proud that she tried and that she thought it was part of learning to "give everyone hope for a better tomorrow", which Kanade found very inspiring. Ena then advised Kanade to ask Minori for help with her training, so Kanade asked Minori if she could teach her to skate and she agreed. After going through a few steps, Miro was finally able to teach Kanade how to skate. Kanade was very proud to have Minori as a coach, which reminded her of when her father did the same to her. When Kanade got lost and was about to crash into the wall, Minori went to save her and fell. Kanade felt guilty but Minori said that she fell multiple times when she was practicing.

When the four of them played bubble soccer, Minori and Kanade were on the same team, against Ichika and Ena. After a break, Minori told Kanade to be careful if someone tried to push her, and that if someone attacked her, she would have to warn her and help her. Minori came back to save Kanade after Ichika pushed her, causing Kanade to start to feel bad about how Minori was helping her so much and she still hadn't returned the favor. When Ena and Ichika went for Minori, Kanade took the opportunity to help Minori by pushing Ena off. The two eventually won the competition and Minori told Kanade that it was all thanks to her, even though Kanade didn't think she deserved all the credit. Minori high-fived Kanade, and since they were both wearing the suits, they bounced.

During the break, Minori came over to give Kanade some water and asked if she was alright, worried that she had made him try too hard. Minori told her that she would try to see if they could do something more fun later, but Kanade replied that she still wanted to do some challenging exercise because she came here to improve her stamina and because otherwise she would have skipped her job for nothing. Minori thought that then Kanade wanted to challenge herself for the good of music, and Kanade explained her goal to create a song that could save people. After hearing that, Minori told Kanade that from now on she would try to give her all her support so that she could smile. That made her think about how she knew how Kanade tried so hard to help Mafuyu.

When the three finally left, Kanade thanked Minori for helping her so much, telling her that it was thanks to her that she was able to do her best at the end.

Fanon
Although Minokana is a rarepair, it isn't that unpopular. It currently has over 30 fanfics written on AO3. It boosted in popularity with the release of the SpoJoy Park! event, marking their first interactions outside of anniversary shows and their brief interaction during the Scramble Fan Festa event. It's mainly rivalled by ships within their own groups such as Minoharu on Minori's side and Kanamafu on Kanade's side.

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Trivia

 * Their ship is referred to with the "☘️🎼" and "🌸🎼" emojis.
 * They have a height difference of 4 cm, with Kanade being 154 cm, and Minori being 158 cm tall.
 * Their Kizuna Rank titles are: "Such A Bright Person...", "Matching Otter Stamps", and "Wish You'd Smile, Just For A Moment".