RayAnna

RayAnna is the het ship between Ray and Anna from the The Promised Neverland fandom.

Canon
Shortly after escaping beyond the wall, Ray approaches Anna and apologizes for what happened to her hair. Anna surprises him by dismissing any need for him to apologize, and instead wishes him a happy birthday. Later on, Ray thanks Anna for her efforts during the preparations.

Ray tells Emma that he apologized to Anna for her hair.

Manga
Ray appears visibly shocked when Anna announces her intent to participate in raiding a factory farm. His worry is later commented on by Oliver, who suggests that Ray should join the group. Ray joined them and spent their trip bringing up the rear. While crawling through a sewer pipe at the factory farm, Anna stumbled but Ray managed to catch her from falling. Later, when Anna is discovered by a patrolling demon, Ray saved her by pushing her out of the way and killed the demon.

Between chapter 116-117 we can see how much Anna cares about Ray.

Behind the Scenes
The editor of the manga, Takushi Sugita, mentioned in an interview that his favorite ship was RayAnna. He used his authority as an editor to make Ray and Anna scenes canon in the manga. Kaiu Shirai added the scene where Anna was caring for Ray as a tribute to his editor, The worry thing is also exposed as a crush on Anna's side.

It was said in an interview by the author that the ship "RayAnna" is the perfect ship he explained that their character are perfectly balanced, Ray is pessimistic sometimes he is grumpy but ,he turns out to be sweet and kind and his hobbies are cooking and reading (until 2045). Anna is shy, sweet and kind and said by Shirai "-she looks like an angel", her hobbies are reading and gardening but also medicine.

Rayanna it had to be a canon ship

Fanon
Most people that ship RayAnna started to ship it when Anna cut her braids to help Ray. Although, the ship is heavily overshadowed by RayEmma, NorRay, Gildanna, and DonRay.

Many people find the RayAnna sensible, and say that it is illegal for the two years of difference that the two have, while others find the RayAnna a sensible ship especially for the manga and say that two years of difference doesn't matter.

The ship currently has 112+ works on AO3 while the friendship had 46+ works.

Fandom
FAN FICTION