Honakana

Honakana is the femslash ship between Honami Mochizuki and Kanade Yoisaki from the Project SEKAI fandom.

Canon
Kanade is a second-year high school student attending online classes while Honami is a first-year student at Miyamasuzaka Girls Academy. While Kanade is unable to take care of herself, Honami's special skill is looking after and taking care of others. Once a week Honami comes over to Kanade's house to work as a housekeeper. Honami, who works part-time for a housekeeping agency (which was recommended to her by her mother's friend), was hired by Kanade's grandmother through the same agency, as she (Kanade's grandmother) couldn't take care of the half-orphaned Kanade despite her wishes due to her old age. The two have a professional but friendly relationship, and call each other with their surnames and honorifics (Yoisaki-san and Mochizuki-san, respectively). They often confide to each other, and Kanade tends to ask her for advice.

In Honami's initial 2* second side story, Leo/need is walking home from school and Saki asks if they could go to the arcade, but Honami turns down her invitation saying she needs to go to work. Honami checks her text messages, then tells herself she needs to visit the supermarket as Kanade requested both cooking and cleaning. The next day everyone in Leo/need asks what Honami does for work, and she tells them how she's a housekeeper. Ichika says she remembers Honami used to volunteer at a care home, which in turn made Honami realize she loves taking care of people. When Honami says her employer's a girl who's only a year older than everyone in Leo/need, Shiho curiously asks for more, but Honami apologizes and says she wants to respect Kanade's privacy. She then thanks them for worrying about her, and Honami thinks to herself once more, how she can't introduce Kanade to the others but would love it if they all got an opportunity to meet someday.

In Kanade's "Beyond The Screen..." card's first side story, Honami comes over for work again and asks Kanade what she thought of the dinner she had made. Kanade compliments it saying it was delicious and then mentions she had barely eaten anything. Honami tells her that she needs to eat properly and then mentions she had also bought apple pie with her. Honami offers to make some tea as well and while eating the dessert together, Kanade thinks to herself how Honami's eyes seem sad despite her smiling. After a bit of thinking, Kanade asks Honami if she has ever thought of wanting to disappear, and Honami hesitantly mentions she has thought about it sometimes. Honami then in return asks if Kanade has done so too, and then apologizes for it. Kanade tells her to not worry about it as she was the one who initiated the topic. Honami then asks how Kanade copes when having said thoughts, and Kanade mentions that she composes songs. The story ends with Kanade thanking Honami for both the tea and apple pie and saying she'd love to have it again.

Imprisoned Marionette
The two are shown interacting Chapter 2 as Honami comes over for work and Kanade asks her to clean the kitchen and bathroom. Honami then mentions that she bought some flavored teas with her and how she'll prepare some tea after she's done cleaning. Kanade goes back to working on her song and thinks how having Honami around has increased her work efficiency. Honami calls Kanade back to the kitchen, and then the latter compliments the tea with a smile on her face. Honami says she feels relieved upon seeing Kanade's smile, and Kanade proceeds to call Honami an amazing person for caring about her so much. Honami is caught off guard but then claims she just likes doing housework so much and enjoys the part-time job. Kanade then proceeds to ask for advice about situations where she doesn't know what to do in order to help the person she's trying to help (in Kanade's case, Mafuyu). Honami advises her to listen to what the person has to say, and even if the person themself doesn't understand how they want to be helped, then she should listen to her even more and get to know her better. She explains that knowing and understanding that person's feelings can be quite helpful itself, as some people try to carry all of their burdens on their own. Honami then apologizes, feeling unsure of the advice she just gave, but Kanade assures she did well and Kanade promises she'll get to know her (Mafuyu) better. Just as Honami is about to leave, she asks Kanade if she is interested in dolls and then offers her tickets to a doll exhibit. Honami mentions it being hosted nearby the hospital where Kanade's father is in, so Kanade could drop by there on her way back home, and how it could even give Kanade some inspiration for her songs. Kanade accepts the tickets and they then bid farewell to each other.

Singing Among the Cherry Blossoms
In Kanade's 2* first side story, Kanade's work is interrupted by Honami calling her to the kitchen for dinner. Kanade notices she's carrying around a bottle with a sakura tree branch in it, and Honami tells her she saw some children accidentally break it off, and how she felt it was a shame to just leave it around because it was close to blooming. Kanade thinks how she didn't realize just how kind Honami is before asking if the flowers will really bloom as she points out that the branch is really thin. Honami tells her about a trick she found online, and Kanade calls her a superwoman for being able to do household chores as well as gardening. Kanade reminisces about the time she went to see the sakura trees with her parents, and then asks Honami if she could show her the branch again if it manages to bloom. A week later a joyful Honami arrives at Kanade's house and shows Kanade that her [Honami's] hard work paid off as the flowers (minus one) managed to bloom. Kanade asks if she could lend it, and Honami tells her she's free to have it as Honami was planning on setting it somewhere in Kanade's room after it had bloomed anyway. When Kanade asks if she's sure, Honami brings up that she had brought extra fertilizer and water in order to keep it alive longer. Honami tells Kanade that she sensed it may mean more to her [Kanade] because she had a really gentle look in her eyes after she looked at it. Kanade stands in a daze, and when Honami apologizes and asks if she's assumed too much, Kanade thanks her, tells her she'll take good care of it and brings the bottle to her father at the hospital, saying a very good friends of hers gave it to her.

Kanade's Birthday Card
In the first side story, Honami comes over for cleaning and notices Kanade had a big cardboard box delivered to her. She reveals it's filled with food and how her grandmother sent it to her, telling Honami to make something delicious for Kanade's birthday next week. When Honami asks her if there's anything she wants Honami to cook for her, Kanade says nothing in particular comes to her mind and she doesn't mind eating anything as everything Honami makes is delicious. In the second side story, thanks to everyone in Niigo celebrating her birthday, with even Ena buying her a cake, she manages to remember how she always had her mother make her a "special plate" for her birthday which contained all her favorite foods, and how excitedly she looked forward to it each year. When Honami arrives to her house the next day, she decides to request Honami to make it. Honami happily agrees to it, saying she might not be as good of a cook as her mother was, but she'll do her best to make Kanade happy.

Fanon
Honakana is quite popular within the Project SEKAI fandom, only and mostly rivaled by each other's most popular ships, Kanamafu and Shihonami. Similarly to Kanamafu, Honakana and Kanahona are both widely used ship names in the Western fandom, while "Honakana" is the more common alternative in the Eastern fandom. It is seen as a very soft ship, with fanarts and fanfics featuring Honami taking care of Kanade or Kanade wanting to learn to take better care of herself, such as by learning to do household chores.

It is currently Honami's 2nd most written, and Kanade's 3rd most written ship on AO3, only lagging behind their poly ships with their respective groups.

The first Honakana Ship Week was held on February 5th - February 11th, 2023 under the. The prompts for the first day were "Sick Day/Cooking", the second day were "Star Gazing/Picnic", the third day were "Fishing/Holiday", the fourth day are "Trauma/Nightmare", the fifth day were "Apocalypse AU/Superhero AU", the sixth day were " April Fools Units/Role Swap" and the seventh day were "Confession/Marriage".

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Trivia

 * Their ship is referred to with the "🥧🎼" and "🎼🍎" emojis.
 * Kanade is 154 cm tall while Honami is 166 cm, giving them a height difference of 12 cm.
 * Their Kizuna Rank titles include: "Giving & Receiving Care", "Apple Pie at the Dinner Table" and "Built Trust".
 * One of their Cheerful Carnival titles is "It's Food Time".
 * In Honami's character introduction video, she mentions having an unusual job which would make for an interesting topic, but refuses to speak any further justifying it wouldn't be fair for Kanade.
 * In Honami's Birthday card story, Kanade gives Honami a bouquet of chocolate cosmoses. Although she most likely chose them because of their fragrance, in flower language, the chocolate cosmos flower signifies "communicating your feelings of intense love", and is a depiction of "passion", "desire", and "sensuality".
 * In some of Kanade's seasonal menu lines, she mentions noticing certain things (such as a cherry petal and leaves) laying around at her house and wonders if Honami had bought them with her without realizing.
 * In the Niigo PASH! (February 2022) interview, Kanade gives special thanks to Honami. Mafuyu comments that if it weren't for her, Kanade would have become malnourished and in the worst case scenario, even died.
 * In the 87th 4-koma, when Kanade talks about her and Honami's relationship and how they have known each other for 2 years now, Mizuki comments that she makes it sound like they've been married for 20 years instead. This, however, did not make it to the official English translation for the 4-koma.
 * In Kanade's 4* gacha card quote for the "On This Blank Canvas, I Paint", she mentions that Honami advised her to improve her diet, and even in her pre-training art she is arranging the labeled containers in her fridge. However, it is speculated that this was completely cut out as neither of her card stories nor the event story mentions anything about this, with even Japanese fans expressing their dissatisfaction for the fact.
 * In Kanade's 4* gacha card "At the Town's Best Specialty Store" story, Kanade buys apple pie as a gift for Honami. She then meets Honami while on her way home, and suggests that they eat the apple pie together.
 * In the 172nd 4-koma, Honami asks Rin how to invite Kanade to the bridal festival, Rin suggests while reading a manga that she invites her forcefully by pushing her against the wall and holding her chin, making Honami ask in a flustered manner if Saki taught her that. Some fans took this as a confirmation that "Saki ships Honakana as well."