HonkBread

Honoka x Bread is the cargoship between Honoka Kosaka and a piece of bread from the Love Live! fandom.

Canon
Honoka is often seen eating bread, and always happily enjoys eating it. Honoka brings bread to school for her lunch nearly every day. Part of the reason Honoka likes bread so much is because her family runs a Japanese sweet shop, meaning she doesn't get to eat it as often. Despite bread being somewhat of a treat in her household, she eats it quite frequently. Honoka's bread tastes expand to other things that might not necessarily be considered "bread", like manjū, mochi, various doughnuts, burgers, and a variety of other things. What her favourite things to eat all have in common is that all are made of some sort of flour.

Eating bread all the time sometimes invokes teasing from her friends. Honoka loving bread is so embedded as a part of her character, that in episode 6 of season 2, Nozomi uses bread as a key part of impersonating Honoka. It appears that Honoka is unaware of how much she eats bread, as when she sees Nozomi acting like her she asks "am I really like that?". Unfortunately, Honoka's love of bread has caused her to gain lots of weight. In episode 7 of season 2, she was forced to go on a diet by Umi, which made her very sad. Honoka secretly ate rice instead. As soon as she got back down to her original weight, she resumed cheerfully eating bread.

Quotes
"This bread tastes delicious again today!"

- Honoka, Love Live! School Idol Project season 1 episode 1, "Come True! Our Dreams!"

Fanon
The ship sailed due to Honoka always eating bread. Since Honoka always has bread around, is very knowledgeable and passionate about bread, it naturally came about that Honoka has an undying bond with bread like no other. Sometimes people say that since Honoka loves bread so much, she wants to become bread herself. Or, alternatively, Honoka is already the embodiment of bread. However, that raises some concerns as that would mean Honoka is unknowingly a cannibal. Sometimes Honoka is shipped with bread because Honoka's name is sometimes shortened to "Honk". Honk is the sound that ducks make, and ducks are often fed bread by humans (even though they shouldn't be).

Honoka and bread is featured in quite a few official arts, including School Idol Festival cards, magazine pages, and figurines. As a result of Honoka x Bread being so strongly embraced in canon, fan art and fanworks often feature Honoka with bread, even if it isn't shipping art. Honoka's love of bread is usually the first thing you learn about her in fanmade profiles and Honoka "beginner's guides" or "starter packs". Bread is widely accepted to be a permanent feature of Honoka's life. There is no bread without Honoka, and no Honoka without bread.

Honoka x Bread is compared and goes alongside other Love Live! cargo ships, such as the very prevalent Hanayo x Rice. These two specific ships are compared because both involve a character that loves to eat a certain starch. Both are always seen eating each of their respective foods and gushes over how good they are. Like with Hanayo x Rice, some believe that Honoka's love of bread occasionally gets in the way of her friendships even with people like Kotori and Umi.

Fandom
FANFICTION

INSTAGRAM

TUMBLR

AMINO
 * Honoka x Bread on Amino

Trivia

 * Despite Honoka loving bread a lot, her favourite food is actually strawberries.
 * Honoka prefers sweet bread over salty bread.
 * Honoka's image colour is orange, like the crust on some breads.
 * Honoka's hair colour is brown, like the crust on some breads.