Karmanami

Karmanami (業 愛, カ ル 愛) is the het ship between Karma Akabane and Manami Okuda from the Assassination Classroom fandom.

Okuda's Poison
Karma shows his first reaction about Manami at Chapter 7, when she failed her attempt to poison Korosensei. When Korosensei tells Manami that assassins need the art of speaking too, Karma is seen laughing at them at the back, and expressed that he is amused how this assassination shows them the way to improve and fix something inside them before attempting anything.

Kyoto Arc
"I think will go with Okuda-san~"

- Karma to the guys about liking anyone in class 3-E "But.. he is actually not scary"

- Okuda to the girls when they talk about Karma's bad attitude

In chapter 15, Karma and Okuda joins Group 4 with Nagisa, Kayano, Kanzaki, and Sugino to plan Korosensei's assassination while in Kyoto. In the anime episode 7, it's shown that Okuda sits with Karma, and Karma smiling to her when she opens up and asking to join the girls to buy some drink.

While they are exploring the place, they talk about what method will they use to kill Korosensei. Okuda suggests poisoning his snacks, which Karma agrees on and tell her that it is a good idea. Until they realize they haven't find any poison that could kill Korosensei. When the group enters a stranded location, they are tackled with a bunch of high school kids. Karma is trying to fight them back, while Okuda hides when she knows that she doesn't stand a chance and will only become a burden to them. The group's effort to fight them failed, causing Kanzaki and Kayano being kidnapped. Okuda, going out from her hiding place, apologize from being a coward and running away. Karma on the other place, tells her that hiding is actually the correct choice because those high school students are very experienced in doing crime. Okuda looks a bit surprised because Kama, the first person who tried to fight them, is now telling them that running away is the correct thing to do.

After the kidnapping is resolved, they regroup with everyone from Class 3-E. At night, the guys are talking about voting for who is the most liked girl in class. While doing that, Karma comes in and ask them what were they doing. The guys asked Karma which girl he likes the most out of everyone in class, Karma chooses Okuda. Everyone was surprised because how Karma and Okuda are totally opposite to each other.. Then Karma tells them that he's interested in her abilities when it comes to science, mainly because they help him with his pranks.

End-term Tests Arc
Korosensei tells Class 3-E that whoever got the best score out of everyone in Kunugigaoka Junior High School in one of the five subject will be given the chance to shoot one of Korosensei's tentacle, which will make him slower and easier to kill. Okuda looks really motivated, and Karma notices this. He asks her that it's rare to see her openly so fired up, and she agrees, telling him that it's because finally she can help this class with her confidence in chemistry.

Island Arc
"People who don't put you on guard, people who don't scare you are probably the most dangerous. I never realized that before."

- Karma to Okuda Manami.

Karma and Okuda don't interact that much at the start this Arc. But in the anime season 1 episode 18, when they failed another attempt in killing Korosensei, Karma is seen kneeling down to lift Okuda out of water. After the fight between Class 3-E and Takaoka resolved, Korosensei planned a 'Test of courage' and paired them together. After that, Karma and Okuda walks inside the cave together. While alone, Karma reveals his vulnerability and lower his guard by telling Okuda about his fear and weakness. Karma tells Okuda about his fear of not being scared, and even tells her the detail of his fear to Nagisa, who is the supposedly weakest boy in the class. Okuda's quiet and non-judgemental traits have made Karma feels safe to tell her about almost everything. After Karma's confession about his fear, Okuda doesn't seem to understand clearly, but she doesn't ask anything to Karma. Karma ends the story with confidently telling Okuda that he will be the one to kill Korosensei. Okuda smiles and shows her support to their assassination attempt. Karma's statement here will be an important clue about their relationship at the end of the series. Karma then realizes that their teacher actually scheme something when he sees a game of twister is set up in front of them. Most of the pairs in this test of courage are the pair that Korosensei himself ships.

Code Names Arc
Okuda's codename, "Poison specs" are given by Terasaka. When asked why he gave her that name in the guide book, he answers "Well because she wears glasses and make poisons", in which Karma responded by laughing and tells him that his vocabulary is lousy.

Daycare Arc
Karma and Okuda are assigned to act in a play about fighting Terasaka. Karma is a knight, Okuda is a magician, and Terasaka is the monster. While Karma is in the middle of a sword battle with Terasaka, Okuda comes to help with giving Terasaka a chloroform, making Karma and Okuda wins by the power of chemistry. In the anime version, the play ends with Okuda holding Karma's hand up high to celebrate their victory while Kayano said "And they all lived happily ever after with the power of chemistry"

Shinigami Arc
In the anime version of this arc, Okuda is often standing near Karma and staring at him whenever he says something. After they bought a bouquet for Irina-sensei's birthday from a random flower-guy, they are seen staring at each other, and so does Nagisa-Kayano, and Sugino to Kanzaki. After Irina-sensei knew that the flower is not from Karasuma but from the students, she left the class and gone missing for days. When class 3-E are discussing about their worries, the flower-guy from before casually walks in and tells them that Irina-sensei will be alright. Nobody is suspicious for some seconds, until they asked themselves what is the flower-guy doing here. Turns out to be the god of death, Okuda stares at Karma, remembering about their talk in the Island about how 'not being scared' fears Karma. She finally goes through it now, seeing how those who looks the most innocent actually hides something really scary.

Class Civil War Arc
Even though Okuda joined the "Save" team, she gives her support to Karma when the battle between both team becomes 1v1. She said her opinion out loud after remembering Karma's statement to her about being the one who kill Korosensei. This makes Maehara confused Karma is in the opposing team as them. Okuda then tells Maehara and Isogai how she realizes Karma's struggle to give out his best in academic and also in assassination, making her believe that Karma is the one who deserved to won, rather than the more talent-oriented Nagisa.

Valentines Day
Karma is disappointed that he could not leave his chocolate (spiked with poison concocted by Okuda) in Terasaka’s shoe cupboard.

Final Assasination
When Koro-sensei fights with The Reaper, Nagisa tells everyone to get away from there. Okuda hesitates but then Karma told her "Running away is a perfectly sound battle tactic!", hold her hand and takes her to safety.

After Kataoka ask who is gonna perform the actual killing, Okuda turn around and look at Karma, doesn't say anything. When Korosensei calls attendance one last time, he calls Okuda Manami right after Karma Akabane. They sit next to each other at that time.

Korotan D : Temptation Time
Korotan D is the only novel that's labeled canon from Yuusei Matsui. In this Novel, Karumana is shown clearly in chapter 4, Temptation Time. Class 3-E is visiting Thailand to have a vacation while also seeing Kayano's acting. Then, they meet Jerome, a famous actor who is really desperate and flirty towards the class 3-E girls. After failed flirting with Kayano, Yada, and Kanzaki, Jerome approaches Okuda who is helping the props with stage-effects. Okuda is really shy around people who act overfamiliar like Jerome, and she can't speak. Jerome move even closer because he thinks Okuda doesn't fight back. Jerome ask her to take off her glasses, hugged her shoulders and was about to touch her face. At that moment however, Karma appears behind Jerome to confront him and puts his hand on the actor's shoulder. After glaring at each other for a brief period, Karma disengages from further confrontation and escorts Okuda away, guarding her. He then reveals to Okuda that he had put a special film laced with durian on Jerome's shoulder to give him a stenchy odor.



Koro-sensei Quest!
In this official spinoff, there are much more Karumana scene and depth. The first scene is in volume 1 chapter 5, where Class 3-E is fighting with classes from the main building. Karma was absent that dat. The battle is 1v1 and everyone should participate, ordered with their seat number. Everyone from class 3-E is winning, and because of jealousy, when it's Okuda's turn, the opponent from other class is planning to attack Okuda with magic and tells everyone that it's just an accident. When they were about to attack Okuda, Karma suddenly comes and attacks them with magic and apologizes because it was an accident. After that, Karma approaches Okuda and tells her that he was overslept. He then asks her to switch place with him and let him be the one to battle, which Okuda agrees on. After that, Korosensei tells Karma that if only Karma didn't appear, Korosensei will be the one to save her and looks cool in front of everyone. Karma sticks out his tongue and tells him that Korosensei was too slow.

Next, when Itona first introduced, he was trying to be funny in front of the class by smashing himself through the wall. When everyone looks confused to his act, he walks to Okuda and asks her how many points out of ten would she give him. Okuda is scared and doesn't know what to answer, then Karma glares at Itona, telling him to cut it out because Itona is bothering Okuda. Okuda looks at Karma with relief and a little blush on her cheeks.

In Korosensei Quest, Okuda is often seen to react when Karma was being hit by the bowl because of his "Karma-bug", showing a worried, confused, or frustrated expression. Karma on the other hand, is always proud with Okuda's "Potion-anomaly bug" that can create any impossible potions. He is usually the one who promotes it for class 3-E to use, and always proudly says "Because we have Okuda's bug", or "Thanks to Okuda,...".

Quotes
"People who don't put you on guard, people who don't scare you are probably the most dangerous. I never realized that before."

- Karma to Okuda Manami.

Fanon
Karumana is the most popular het ship for both Karma and Okuda. This ship is the third most popular ship for Karma, after Karmagisa and Karushuu, and the most popular ship for Okuda. Karumana often comes together with NagiKae and SugiKan. There is a discussion in fandom to find out if they're the couple holding hands at the station in Chapter 179, seven years later. Although they barely interact on screen, from the additional material, it's clear that these two interact a lot outside of Class 3E. This ship is in a sort of ship-war with the ship Karmagisa.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Manami O./Karma A. tag on FanFiction.net
 * Manami O./Karma A. tag on FanFiction.net

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Trivia

 * During the 'School trip' Karma voted for Manami as 'a girl in the class who you like the most'.
 * Korosensei paired them together in the 'Test of courage' during the 'Island Arc'.
 * Karma and Manami were in different teams during the 'Civil War'. Karma in the 'kill' team, Manami in the 'save' team.
 * According to Irina, In the Kissing Techniques Scores, Karma is ranked 3rd and Okuda is ranked 5th.
 * Karma has a compound made by Okuda in his Emergency Tool bag.
 * Manami's message to Karma on his Graduation Album Profile: "Karma-kun, I was able to challenge myself with a lot of different experiments because of your requests. Thank you!"
 * Karma's message to Manami on her Graduation Album Profile: "Okuda-san, I had such a blast this year because of you. I’ll be counting on you again~"