KamiMina

KamiMina is the het ship between Denki Kaminari and Mina Ashido from the My Hero Academia fandom.

Canon
Mina and Denki get along notably well, although they have sufficiently less screen-time compared to many of the other characters in the show. When they do appear, they are commonly shown together, however. The two are to have quite similar personalities. They share their first notable interaction in the moments before the Final Exams Arc, in which they exclaim that it should be “easy” in their shared thoughts that the “exam” would simply be another fight against robots. They were both fairly confident because of how easily both of their quirks could take care of the entrance exam robots.

The two share some of the lowest grades in the class as well, ranking 19th (Mina) and 20th (Denki) in their midterms exams. They are both outraged when they found out that Minor had ranked much higher than them (coming in at 9th of the class), because they had assumed that he was a lazy student as well. Later on, they both receive an invitation from Momo Yaoyozozu to study at her house, and can soon be seen as they struggle with the tedious task that is schoolwork.

At Field Gamma, Denki and Mina are partnered up together against principal Nezu. They then begin to strategize on how to take out principal nezu. They then come to the conclusion that using electricity would be effective, because they believe Nezu's too small and weak. However, it's revealed that Nezu has been operating a crane at a safe distance from them and starts knocking down the buildings surrounding them. Denki and Mina then try to run for the escape gate, but Nezu stays one step ahead of them the entire time. Eventually, Denki and Mina run out of time before they ever even realize what Nezu was doing. They then fail the test and it showed that their weakness lies in facing intellectual villains.

The next time the two are seen together is in season 3 where they start clapping together with Ochaco about how excited they are about camp.

They are then seen together again alongside, Kirishima, Sero and Sato with Mr. Aizawa. Since those five failed the exams he then said he was going to train them all very hard. Mina and Denki then complain about when they were going to get a break and their "treat" once it was all over. They can all be seen tied together by Aizawa’s scarf, Denki and Mina being right next to each other.

When Iida asks Class 1-A for suggestions for the School Festival, both Mina and Denki have suggestions. While Mina's idea was a disco dance party, Denki's idea was a maid cafe featuring the 1-A girls. Mina can be seen in a maid dress in his vision. Both of their ideas are rejected, however, both play a big role in the class performance. They both were very excited to start practicing, and were impressed by Katsuki's drumming skills.

Fanon
KamiMina is considered a rarepair in the MHA/BNHA fandom due to the rather minor roles Mina and Denki play. Despite this, it still carries a following thanks to their dim-witted, fun-loving personalities that are sure to make a hilarious couple.

The ship is quite popular as a friendship rather than romantic, and carries on through a large number of fanworks, especially BakuSquad based ones. On AO3, it currently has over 100 works as a romantic ship, whereas it has over 280 works depicting them as friends.

This pairing is often shipped alongside other “BakuSquad” pairings (e.g. KiriBaku, MomoJirou) as a fun way to pair them off.

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Trivia

 * Mina’s name can be found in Denki’s surname: “KaMINAri”.
 * They rank at the bottom of the class, Mina at 19th, and Denki at an even more unfortunate 20th.
 * My Hero Academia is known to have many humorous low-quality scenes. Many of these are taken up by the duo of Mina and Denki.

Variations

 * Bakusquad - refers to the ship between Katsuki Bakugou, Eijiro Kirishima, Denki, Mina, Hanta Sero and Kyoka Jiro