My Hero Academia/Ships

AoyaChako
AoyaChako is the het ship between Yuga Aoyama and Ochako Uraraka.

Canon
After Izuku’s poor performance in the ball throwing sector of the Quirk Apprehension Tests, Ochako watches Izuku worriedly. At this, Yuga grabs her shoulder, and tells her “I’m here, cherie.” To this, Ochako looks at him confusedly before asking if she knows him.

Yuga and Ochako are paired to fight Thirteen for the combat section of their Final Exams (5th matchup). Partnerships were made between students seen to share similar weaknesses, meaning that the two, even with as heavily differing quirks as theirs (Navel Laser and Gravity) are similar in combat.

They soon find themselves holding on for dear life to a railing as Thirteen keeps their Black Hole working against them. Ochako whines that they were so close to victory before they were caught, but instead of relenting to defeat, she begins to contemplate on how to escape her and Yuga's situation, more specifically, thinking about “What would Deku do in a time like this [that]?” The moment this thought goes through her head, Yuga says “Hey,” to catch her attention, but Ochako tells him to quiet down, as she’s busy thinking. Yuga then asks, albeit rhetorically, if she was thinking about “what Izuku Midoriya would do”. Ochako gives him a quizzical glance, before Yuga asks the last question she’d expected with a knowing glance: “Do you.. like him?” At this, Ochako blushes furiously, and momentarily forgetting her current predicament, moves her hands to her face to hide it, but in doing so, gets pulled towards Thirteen. As to not permanently injure her, Thirteen deactivates their quirk, giving Ochako the opportunity to use the combat skills she picked up from Gunhead to pin down Thirteen. Before they can escape, Yuga joins Ochako, and together they capture Thirteen with the quirk-canceling handcuffs they were given prior to the exam, allowing them to complete their exam, and more importantly, pass.

After she regroups with her classmates, Ochako is jittery, even jumping when Tsuyu grabs her shoulder, and asks what Yuga said to her. Ochako doesn’t remember what Tsuyu is referring to at first, but once she does, she flusters once again, turning red and moving her hands rapidly in denial at something no one knows to Tsuyu’s confusion. At this, Tsuyu lifts a finger to her chin, and thinks to herself that “something happened out there, huh, Ochako.”

Fanon
Due to their lack of interactions, and Ochako’s already prominent crush on Izuku, AoyaChako is not particularly popular in the MHA/BNHA fandom. However, Yuga’s interest in befriending Izuku late in the series was read in more than one way (simply wanting a friend in Izuku); either Yuga has romantic feelings for Izuku, or is interested in Ochako and wants to keep tabs if she and Izuku are, or are going to get together before he makes a move.

AoyaChako has 9+ works on AO3.

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AoyaMomo
AoyaMomo is the het ship between Yuga Aoyama and Momo Yaoyorozu.

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On AO3, there are currently eight works.

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AsuiKoda
AsuiKoda is the het ship between Tsuyu Asui and Kouji Kouda.

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On AO3, there are currently nine works.

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BakuMeli
BakuMeli is the het ship between Katsuki Bakugou and Melissa Shield.

Canon
Melissa and Katsuki first meet in the first movie My Hero Academia: Two Heroes, although they had no interactions whatsoever. In their first meet, however, she asks why he is so angry. During the assault on I-Island, the 1-A students, especially Katsuki, work together to help I-Island from Wolfram's crew. In the Chapter 3 of the spin-off Team-Up Missions, in which Melissa makes an appearance again after the movie, Katsuki is among the audience used to spectate the inventions she and Mei Hatsume made. It can be noted that despite them appearing together, they almost never interacted. They are blond-hair people, and both have a great admiration towards All Might, only that Melissa have a special personal to him due to her father, David is All Might's best friend. Katsuki and Melissa has a different way of justice, since Melissa doesn't have a quirk but desires to study and get more knowledges to help other people with science just like his dad as the way she could be a hero, and Katsuki due he has a rather explosive quirk, he always tries to kill the enemy first and then check on his colleagues, but although he actually does care and gets worried about his partners even he doesn't shows it openly.

Melissa is a very energetic and kind woman who tries her best to help and always tries to cheer up others, while Katsuki is also energetic, but he is rather rude, loudmouth who somehow treats everyone like they're inferior to him. Melissa after meeting Izuku's class she wanted to know all their names and tried unlike Katsuki that he doesn't know their names and often calls them by nicknames he makes at the moment,but is quite intelligent since he does know everyone's quirk from their class.

Fanon
BakuMeli is considered a rare pairing, as they both have little to no interactions in the movie nor the spin-off. It is also due to the existence of Melissa, who only appeared in the said movie and spin-off and many members of the fandom only watching the main anime. However, it is one of the top ships for Melissa other than its rivals DekuMeli and the femslash ship MeiLissa. It rivals other popular ships such as KiriBaku and Kacchako for Katsuki, and the mentioned ships for Melissa.

They can be portrayed as hero and support hero, much like the het ship IzuMei, which eventually causes them to grow closer to romance. It can also be portrayed similarly to canon, much like its other rivalling ships.

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GrapeFrog
GrapeFrog is the het ship between Tsuyu Asui and Minoru Mineta.

Canon
In terms of canon, Asui is arguably the girl that Mineta is closest to in Class 1-A, with the two teaming up on numerous occasions, such as during the USJ incident, and the cavalry battle. Despite being disgusted by Mineta's frequently perverted behaviour and usually slapping him with her tongue when he makes inappropriate remarks, she has been impressed numerous times by Mineta's keen intellect, such as his successful strategy to lure Midnight away from escape gate to rescue Sero and pass the exam, his strategy to hide himself, and Tsuyu herself on Shoji's back during the sports festival, and his successful usage of his quirk during the USJ incident, where he saved her and Izuku Midoriya from the incoming villains, earning her praise in almost all of these scenarios.

Fanon
In fanon, GrapeFrog shippers usually include the ship in fanfiction involving Mineta redeeming himself and outgrowing his perverted tendencies, with Asui helping him to do so.

GrapeFrog is not a very popular ship, as Mineta is arguably the most hated character amongst the My Hero Academia fandom due to his perverted nature, and that Asui is more frequently shipped with Tokoyami, Uraraka, Izuku, and even Toga.

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InaCamie
InaCamie is the het ship between Inasa Yoarashi and Camie Utsushimi

Canon
While Shoto is deep in his thoughts, Inasa shows up, greeting him and Katsuki with "Heyyy, UA!", Shoto still keep his frown and thoughts to himself; "Definitely didn't want to deal with him..." before Camie shows up from behind Inasa, asking Inasa who's this (Shoto), "What a specimen", saying that she's awestruck, really, thinking that it's a delight getting to take the course with a handsome man, she looks at Inasa and states that he seems to know 'this cutie', she introduces herself to Shoto and exchanges phone numbers with Shoto. Inasa, seeing them interacting, energetically said with a loud voice, saying that nobody beats Camie when it comes to playing the field, he could learn a thing or two! He seems to not realize that Camie is flirting, not doing some 'Wanna be friends?' thing.

After Gang Orca throws Inasa, Shoto and Katsuki, Camie stares at him being irritated with a clueless look.

BakuGara
BakuGaru is the slash ship between Katsuki Bakugou and Togaru Kamakiri.

Canon
Due to their differing classes (Katsuki in 1-A. Togaru in 1-B), Togaru and Katsuki do not interact commonly, especially with the lack of screen-time for the students of Togaru’s class, and for the fact that Katsuki is usually seen with Eijiro (and to a lesser degree, Denki) when 1-B does make an appearance, or simply, is not an area to come across him, much less interact with him.

Katsuki and Togaru are placed on opposing teams for their Battle Trials, with the respective members of Kyoka, Rikido and Hanta on Katsuki’s team, and Tokage, Bondo and Yosetsu on Togaru’s. Mid-fight, Togaru jumps out of hiding towards an unsuspecting Kyoka to attack her with his blades. Before he can get her, Katsuki notices him, and thinks to himself that “nobody beats him (me) when it comes to speed.”

He kicks Kyoka to push her to safety, and uses an explosion to push Togaru back. As the smoke clears, Togaru gives him an incredulous look, and it’s seen that he blocked the most of Katsuki’s explosion with the defense provided by his blades. At this, Katsuki says “Blocked my blast, huh. I guess bugs (Togaru’s quirk gives him the likeness of a bug) do have quick reflexes!” Katsuki detonates another, stronger explosion at Togaru, who then takes this as an opportunity to retreat, realizing that it’s not smart to attempt to take Katsuki on directly. Later, Katsuki is shown as he performs a move of his, dubbed ‘Explode-A-Pult’, which smashes Togaru into a nearby wall, and allows his teammates to ‘capture’ him. The match ends with the victory of Katsuki’s team after Tokage is defeated.

Fanon
Katsuki and Togaru look incredibly different, being that Togaru looks like a literal insect, but their personalities are just the same, in brief reflection. Both are notably volatile, or angry people by nature, and often voice as such. Such similar personalities allow for a sort of connection, or understanding of each other, given the shared sense of emotions. Enjoyers of the pairing like to consider the two helping one another work through, or simply cope with their rage through this.

Another trait, as fans just seem to be this way, is undeniably the height difference between the boys. What can be inferred to be the outcome of the physical mutations from his quirk have Togaru standing 17 centimeters (about 6.7 inches) above Katsuki, who reaches no more, no less than the height of a typical boy of his age.

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EraserMight
EraserMight is the slash ship between Shota Aizawa and Toshinori Yagi.

Canon
Not much is known of their past, but due to their contrasting personalities, they do not get along very well. Shota disliking heroes that lap up the media spotlight being a major point of contention. Toshinori and Shota also frequently disagree with teaching methods, with Toshinori criticizing Shota's harsher attitude towards their students. Nevertheless, the two do show mutual respect for each other and their abilities, and both being willing to risk their personal safety to protect the other such as in the Unforeseen Simulation Joint Arc. Over the course of the series, Shota and All Might's relationship appears to have gotten a little better, particularly after All Might's retirement. Shota counseled with All Might regarding their job to have students enter the dormitories. The two also offered to buy each other a drink, indicating they are both willing to socialize together casually.

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 * Toshinori/Shouta on FanFiction.Net
 * Toshinori/Shouta on FanFiction.Net

FaTama
FaTama is the slash ship between Tamaki Amajiki and Taishiro Toyomitsu.

Canon
Tamaki and Fat Gum have a teacher-student relationship and whenever Tamaki works as a hero, he can be seen talking or fighting alongside Fat Gum, showing that he is always working at his agency. Although their personalities are opposite, they show great teamwork and complement each other.

Tamaki seems to perceive his working relationship with Fat Gum a little more negatively due to his negative personality, but despite those thoughts in his mind, Tamaki never left his agency and does not seem uncomfortable fighting side-by-side with Fat Gum, except when he talks about his fragile mentality or when he compliments him during or after a fight.

Fat Gum thinks highly of Tamaki and sees great potential in him, he is also seen constantly praising his abilities for being above most professional heroes and complimenting him on his attacks and maneuvers. Fat Gum is also direct and honest with Tamaki when he has to be and realizes Tamaki's flaws and weaknesses and what he has to improve on, such as his shy personality. But Fat Gum is shown to care deeply for Tamaki when he is in danger or when he is put under a lot of pressure, behaving like a father or older brother to Tamaki and seeing the efforts he had to go through to perfect his Quirk.

Although I know it is still unknown how they met, if he knows that at some point Fat Gum hired Tamaki to work in his agency and one day Tamaki recommended Eijiro Kirishima to work in his agency, surprising Fat Gum, but quickly accepting Eijiro at his agency, showing that he trusts Tamaki's judgment.

Fat Gum is seen for the first time in history alongside Tamaki and Eijiro while on patrol in a nearby city. After Fat Gum finishes talking to Eijiro, he tells Tamaki that he needs to fix his terrible mentality as he has a lot of potential, which emphasizes Tamaki a bit. Tamaki says that he thinks the only reason Fat Gum chose him as an intern was to torment him and calls it workplace bullying, but Eijiro assures Tamaki that Fat Gum was only trying to encourage him.

Before they could continue their conversation, a group of criminals appear and Fat Gum jumps in to catch them. Fat Gum catches them with his fat, but one of them escapes and is quickly caught by Tamaki's tentacles. When the criminals are handed over to the police, Eijiro congratulates Tamaki and Fat Gum tells him that Tamaki's Quirk has already surpassed many professional heroes and that the only thing he should focus on changing is his fragile mentality, while Tamaki was paralyzed by the crowd of civilians who congratulated them.

Fanon
FaTama is mostly loved inside and outside of Japan and is sent despite being a teacher and student relationship. Unlike other Ships like EraserDeku, some fans have no problem shipping them because their ages and height don't differ much.

Mostly those who send them like their opposite personalities and compare them to other Tamaki Ships and are amused by their funny and mocking dynamic on the Fat Gum side, but what they like the most is the fact that despite their differences they get along good and the more moments you have the more they start to send them.

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Canon
Yoichi and the second user formally met when he came to rescue Yoichi from imprisonment. Despite knowing that Yoichi was the brother of All For One, the second user still reached his hand out to Yoichi and offered his support. Yoichi was incredibly grateful to the second user for rescuing him, going so far as to call him his hero. Because of this, Yoichi chose the second user to inherit One For All and fight against All For One.

Fanon
Although the ship is considered a rarepair due to them being recently introduced in the manga, it is a ship parallel to BakuDeku, an already popular ship, from appearances to ideals. Additionally, the pairings are One for All users (although it was only temporary for Katsuki Bakugou), fuelling the IchiNi ship.

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MiriDeku
MiriDeku is the slash ship between Mirio Togata and Izuku Midoriya.

Canon
Izuku and Mirio meet by surprise before introducing the Gandes to Class 1-A, Izuku freaks out at Mirio's presence while Mirio just smiles at him and leaves. Izuku is reunited when the Big Three appear before Class 1.A and Izuku is impressed by Mirio's fighting skills.

After the surprise first impression, Mirio accepts Izuku to take his internships at the agency of his teacher, Sir Nighteye, who was once All Might's old assistant. All Might reveals to Izuku who Mirio is in U.A. and its fundamental role before they knew it: To be the original successor of the Symbol of Peace.

The relationship between Mirio and Izuku in the Academy and the Agency is that of Senpai-Kōhai, which in a short time, became stronger after adversity. During the Internships, Izuku and Mirio meet a girl named Eri with a rare and powerful quirk, who is the victim of a yakuza organization. The rescue of Eri and the destruction of the yakuza organization will be planned by several agencies of heroes with the support of the police, among the many agencies is that of Sir Nighteye with Izuku and Mirio as protagonists of the mission.

The mission turns out to be a bittersweet victory for the heroes because, despite the fact that the yakuzas are defeated and Eri is rescued, Sir Nighteye ends up mortally wounded and Mirio loses his quirk because he becomes the victim of a bullet that destroys the quirk. But despite everything that happened, Mirio maintains his trust in Izuku, despite the latter telling him repeatedly his desire to transfer the One for All to him and receiving a simple "No, Thank you" from Mirio.

Fanon
MiriDeku is a rather middle-known, but well-received ship in the My Hero Academia fandom. Since Izuku and Mirio are like brothers to Eri, MiriDeku shippers often headcanon Mirio and Izuku dating each other, while raising Eri together. However, MiriDeku is overshadowed by many Izuku ships, and MiriTama for Mirio. Izuku's more popular ships being, BakuDeku, IzuOcha, and TodoDeku. Nonetheless, MiriDeku still managed to get a good amount of shippers, mostly due to the friendship that the developed with each other in season 4. On AO3, the ship has 250+ fanfictions.

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 * Both, Mirio and Izuku have shown themselves to be All Might fans from a very young age.
 * Mirio was the candidate to inherit the One For All before All Might meets Izuku.
 * Izuku was horrified when he learned that Mirio had lost his Quirk.
 * Mirio and Izuku are often seen close to Eri.

Monowase
Monowase is the slash ship between Neito Monoma and Yosetsu Awase.

Canon
Neito and Yosetsu haven't interacted much, but they seem to be friends. Like most of his classmates, Yosetsu dislikes Neito's sarcastic and obnoxious personality, but he seems to tolerate him and keeps him in check when Itsuka Kendo is not around.

They were first seen together during their Class's preparations for the Cultural Festival. The two of them, along with Tetsutetsu, were making preparations for the Class 1-B play when they ran into Izuku Midoriya, Mirio Togata, and Eri. Neito starts teasing Midoriya and his class, before laughing maniacally. Yosetsu appears behind him with a large stick and knocks him out.

Once Neito was unconscious, Yosetsu slowly picked him up by the arm while apologizing for Neito's attitude, explaining that Neito was even more unbearable than usual since Itsuka was busy preparing for the beauty pageant and couldn't keep him in check. He then takes him back to his class while Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu says goodbye to Midoriya.

Later before 1-B's play, Yosetsu and Tetsutetsu go along with Neito to check on Itsuka. Once there, Neito laughs and compliments Itsuka's outfit for the beauty pageant, explaining how he entered Itsuka in the first place and plans to overthrow 1-A. He begins laughing maniacally, and Tetsutetsu stares at Yosetsu whilst pointing at Neito as if asking him to do something. Yosetsu waves him off and lets it happen.

During 1-B's play, Yosetsu was behind Neito with Nirengeki Shoda as they performed. When the beauty pageant performances were over, Neito hopped on the stage and began yelling for everyone to vote for Itsuka. Yosetsu was left to hold him back and exclaim that she'd be disqualified for this.

During the Joint Training, Neito begins taunting the Class 1-A students. Yosetsu and Itsuka prepare to stop him, however Shota Aizawa beats them to it and does so by strangling him. It upset Yosetsu to see Neito choking, showing that Yosetsu truly cares for him.

Fanon
Due to the little interactions shared between the two (and Class 1-B’s lack of screen-time), Monowase is not relatively popular within the MHA/BNHA fandom, and is thus considered a “rare-pair”. Additionally, it is overtaken by AwaMomo on Yosetsu’s part. However, it has gathered attention like any ship, and holds its own when it comes to choosing a (romantic) partner for Neito.

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Setsugou
Setsugou is the het ship between Setsuna Tokage and Katsuki Bakugou.

Canon
The two do not interact anywhere near often, due to being in separate classes. However, they do meet rather late in the series; Katsuki and Tokage are on opposing teams during the joint training battles, where their teams compete against one another in the fourth set of said training.

Before the match begins, Neito, albeit in a spiteful manner, states that he was excited to see the match turnout, as Tokage, a student entered in U.A. through recommendation (like Shoto and Momo) had been pit against Katsuki, and he firmly believes she would be the one to finally defeat the ever-powerful Katsuki in combat.

Later, at the battle start, Katsuki decides his ideal win strategy is to locate his opponents before they do him, and release a full-powered attack to seal victory. However, he greatly undermined Tokage’s quirk, and general strength, and ended up quickly found, and bombarded by her disembodied parts (Tokage’s quirk is Lizard, she can split her body into a total of 50 controllable pieces). Surprisingly, Katsuki struggles against her more than typically observed, as her split parts were too small for him to accurately target. He does manage to escape her in time to rescue Kyoka from Togaru’s blades, which gives Tokage the realization that she couldn’t defeat Katsuki as easily as she’d previously conceded. After this, she gives a brief rundown to her team about how to take down the others, her plan mains on targeting only Katsuki, as he is the only one with plans, and is the “leader” of his team. Unfortunately for her, as Katsuki had undermined her, she in turn undermined his newfound teamwork with his classmates, and ended up as the last one left of her group. Before Katsuki can deal the finishing blow on her, Tokage yells at him, “Why’d you have to go and change so much..” to which Katsuki replies, “I didn’t change, my goal has always been the same.. to defeat All Might and become the number one hero!”

Fanon
Due to the two being so separate, SetsuBaku is not particularly popular within the MHA/BNHA fanbase, and is thus listed as a “rare-pair”. However, like all rare-pairs do, it does have a decent following, thanks to the competitive, spitfire personalities of both Tokage and Katsuki, and the determination for victory the two share. Like the majority of 1-B students, with the exceptions of Tetsutetsu and Itsuka, for example, Tokage does not have too large of a shipping community, and thus, lacks rival ships on her part. When it comes to Katsuki, though he has arguably the largest base of fans, and rival ships, the largest ones being BakuDeku and KiriBaku.

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Trivia

 * Their fight was one of Katsuki’s most notable- and defining battles, as it is the one where he proved that he’s finally capable of working alongside others.

ShigaHaul
ShigaHaul is the slash ship between Tomura Shigaraki and Kai Chisaki

Canon
Overhaul meets Twice, who takes him to see the Vanguard Action Squad. Overhaul comments on how dirty the base is. Overhaul meets Shigaraki. Overhaul explains his group, the Shie Hissaikai. He then goes on to ask Shigaraki to join him. Overhaul winds up killing Magne and taking Compress's arm (which later comes back to haunt him).

ShigaHawks
ShigaHawks is the slash ship between Tomura Shigaraki and Keigo Takami.

Canon
Tomura and Keigo have not interacted in canon. Keigo is working as an undercover spy for the Hero Public Safety Commission to determine Tomura's plans and prevent the Meta Liberation Army from executing it.

Fanon
ShigaHawks is a rarepair in the My Hero Academia fandom. In fanart and fanfiction, Tomura and Hawks are sometimes shipped with other members of the League of Villains, most notably Dabi.

It is also theorized by some that Hawks could potentially be one of Tomura's childhood friend, Mikkun.

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ShinOji
ShinOji is the slash ship between Mashirao Ojiro and Hitoshi Shinso.

Canon
Shinso and Ojiro are barely shown interacting in the anime or manga.

Their only canon interaction is during the Sports Festival Arc, when Shinso uses his mind control quirk to use Ojiro for his cavalry battle team (along with several others). After the cavalry battle is over and Shinso's team moves onto the next event, Ojiro resigns from the festival because he does not feel as like it was fair that he should be allowed to compete in the next event, since he has no memory of participating in the previous event.

Ojiro later warns Deku about Shinso's quirk because he doesn't approve of Shinso's method of winning.

During Shinso and Deku's battle, Shinso insults Ojiro by calling him a "monkey" and saying that he kept "going on about his pride" and "he was dumb for throwing away his chance."

In the manga, during the battles between 1-A and 1-B, Shinso reappears and Ojiro is shown to look irritated by his appearance. They do not officially interact, however.

Fanon
Though they don't have much interaction in canon, ShinOji seems to have a decent following within the fandom.

Most of their following comes from the idea of Shinso apologizing to Ojiro after the sports festival and eventually becoming friends with him.

With the 1-A & 1-B battle arc involving Shinso in the manga, the idea of them becoming rivals or sparring partners also became a popular idea.

Another idea within the fandom for this ship is their similar yet different personalities. Both are more on the side character side of the show, but as their personalities are shown Shinso is a tired type personality yet can be very tough when determined, on the other hand Ojiro is shown to be a very laid back character who can stay calm in most situations, while still maintaining a fighting spirit. They both can be very tough in their own was when it comes to being determined which is where the idea of their fun dynamic comes from.

An upside to both of these characters not being shown often, is that while we can see the base of their personality there's always room to develop fanon parts and explore more into these characters.

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 * Hitoshi/Ojiro tag on FanFiction.Net
 * Hitoshi/Ojiro tag on FanFiction.Net

Trivia

 * Their Japanese ship name is "心尾", which roughly translates to "heart tail" in English.

ShinRei
ShinRei is the het ship between Hitoshi Shinso and Reiko Yanagi from the My Hero Academia fandom.

Canon
Reiko and Hitoshi are not seen together commonly, due to their differing classes (Reiko in 1-B, Hitoshi in 1-C). However, they do have a few select moments throughout the course of the series, and can be seen together in the background on occasion when the first years are gathered. Notably, both share a somewhat eerie, almost ‘zombie-like’ appearance, both being rather pale in complexion, Reiko’s sleepy expressions and habit of holding her arms out (like a horror movie zombie!), and Hitoshi’s consistent tired looks with heavy, prominent eyebags. Without many previous interactions, Hitoshi and Reiko are paired (alongside Nirengenki, Neito and Yui) against the team of Izuku, Ochako, Mina, and Minoru for the 5th, and final set of the Joint Battles. The two gather with their other teammates, and as a whole, discuss the best strategy to lead themselves to a win against 1-A.

Nirengenki says that since the entirety of the 1-A team has quirks less suited to attack, and more of strategy/technicality, they should take a similar, tactical approach against the enemy. Ever the goth, Reiko adds that Izuku will be the one 'haunting' them the most. Hitoshi expresses confusion over the meaning of this phrase, to which Nirengenki answers that it's her way of saying Izuku would be hardest to defeat. Hitoshi agrees with her in further detail, that they should definitely prioritize Izuku. The battle turns out with Hitoshi being the main one to go against Izuku, with the backup of Reiko’s Poltergeist to move objects towards their other opponents who they consider less of a danger to their win (Mina, Ochako, Minoru), and later, Yui’s Size to enlarge potential projectiles. Unfortunately, this doesn’t prove to be enough to defeat the 1-A team, and the team loses the match. However, it becomes a given that Hitoshi’s performance is enough to bring him into the hero course (from general studies) in his second year at U.A, and potentially in 1-B like Reiko.

Fanon
ShinRei is a ‘rare-pair’ in the MHA/BNHA fandom due to the combination of their lack of screen-time, and interactions together, which brings less to guess on how Hitoshi and Reiko would act together, much less how they would behave in a relationship. However, the similarities between the two, more specifically their ‘spooky’ attributes and tiredness bring attention to the couple, and of course, shipping potential.

The ship has about 20 fics on AO3, and is Reiko’s most written pairing.

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SogaDabi
SogaDabi is the slash ship between Soga Kugizaki and Toya "Dabi" Todoroki.

Canon
The two have never canonically interacted due to being from separate entries of the series, the Vigilantes spin-off and main series, respectively. Additionally, both are somewhat opposites in terms of their occupations, Dabi being a villain and Soga being a vigilante and former Instant Villain.

Fanon
The ship is considered a rarepair due to its existence being unnoticed and has appeared only recently. As well as that, the existence of Soga from My Hero Academia: Vigilantes or the spin-off itself is almost not known by many who are fans of the main series due to its mainstream. There seem to be very few people who ship this pairing in the entirety of the My Hero Academia community.

It is also outshined by other more mainstream pairings on Dabi's side; Hot Wings and ShigaDabi.

In some way or another, Soga and Dabi share some similarities, as both are (or were in Soga's case) Villains who are antagonistic to the main characters, both are mentally unstable, both shows empathy for their comrades, both suffered trauma that relates to their Quirks (Soga who suffered due to being referred to as a monster for his Quirk and Dabi working to the point of scarring himself with his Quirk to be acknowledged by his father). Fans like to think that they both try to cope with their problems in terms of mental health.

Soga and Dabi, despite never having met, are acquainted to the same person, with Dabi being with the League of Villains and later the Paranormal Liberation Army, lead by Tomura Shigaraki, All for One's pupil, while Soga and Koichi, along with their allies are fighting Number 6, who operated the Villain Factory, a request from All for One, which was also what caused Soga to initially be an Instant Villain at the time. Overall, they are both revealed to be somehow connected despite never meeting before.

Other portrayals show Dabi and Soga taking therapy lessons to heal from their mental state, both meeting in this way somehow, an AU where Soga is still antagonistic to Koichi Haimawari, Kazuho Haneyama, and Iwao Oguro and somehow encounters Dabi and both eventually fall in love. This can also apply to a portrayal of Soga meeting the Todoroki family, which include other ships with the Todoroki family, such as EnjiRei, TodoMomo, TodoDeku, Huwumi, or other pairings that include them.

Another thing fans have noticed was the height difference between the two, Soga being the tallest as he measures 182cm (5/11⅝"), which is 6 centimeters taller than Dabi, who measures 176cm (5'9¼"). Some fans were slightly disappointed by the confirmed height difference.

Trivia

 * Their ship name, PorcuSnake, references them being a porcupine and a snake, in respective order. In Horikoshi's Volume 30 character page, Dabi has been depicted as a snake, while Soga has been depicted as a porcupine in the Vigilantes manga.

TamaDeku
TamaDeku is the slash ship between Izuku Midoriya and Tamaki Amajiki.

Canon
Izuku hasn't interacted with Tamaki as much as with Mirio, but they seem to be on good terms. Izuku and Tamaki met when the Big Three appeared before the Class 1-A students, though they did not interact or speak due to Tamaki's shyness towards the students. When Mirio challenges the Class 1-A students to a fight, Tamaki is in the corner watching the fight and Tamaki is seen listening as Izuku gathers some of his classmates together to form a strategy to counter Mirio before they are taken down, despite their determination.

They meet again when Sir Nighteye makes a meeting where Izuku, Tamaki and other Heroes met to talk about the Yakuza. When Fat Gum reveals that Tamaki was shot by a Quirk-Destroying Drug, Izuku shows a worried face as Mirio asks Tamaki if he's okay. During the operation against the Shie Hassaikai and the rescue of Eri, Izuku was shocked when Tamaki wanted to stay behind to fight three of the eight bullets and Tamaki asked Izuku to take care of Mirio because he could act recklessly. After Izuku fights Chisaki, Tamaki along with other Heroes watch Eri's Quirk spiral out of control and start hurting Izuku.

During the filler chapter of Season 5, the students of Class 1-A are in a training exercise in which Tamaki and Nejire acted as villains against Class 1-A while Mirio acted as Civilian in danger. Izuku despite having the opportunity to hit Tamaki and knowing that he was only acting like a villain, refused to hit him and hugged him and asked him to surrender (being the only one who did not try to hurt Tamaki). When Tamaki asked Izuku why he didn't hit him, Izuku replies that he didn't dare hurt him.

Quotes
"Please take care of Mirio!. He's definitely going to try too hard, so please help him."

- Tamaki to Izuku, EP 71

Fanon
On AO3, the ship has 60 slash fanfics and 41 gen fics. As well as TamaDeku having a small fanbase on Tumblr.

Fandom
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Trivia

 * Tamaki is the first opponent and student to what Izuku tries to stop by jumping straight for a hug rather than hitting or speaking at a distance.
 * Both Izuku and Tamaki got their Hero name from blonde and animated people (Izuku from Katsuki and Tamaki from Mirio).

TodoShin
TodoShin is the slash ship between Shoto Todoroki and Hitoshi Shinso.

Canon
Shoto and Hitoshi are not seen together commonly, due to their differing classes (Shoto in 1-A, Hitoshi in 1-C) and Hitoshi's 'hatred' towards the Hero Course Students, mainly 1-A. But in the Joint Battle Training, Hitoshi get into the 1'st team (Hitoshi, Denki, Eijirou, Tsuyu and Koji) and 5'th team (Hitoshi, Neito, Rei, Nirengeki and Yui). Meanwhile, Shoto is on the 3'rd team (Shoto, Tenya, Mashirao and Mezo). So they didn't get the chance to speak with each other. Only Shoto, who listens to Hitoshi's speech.

Fanon
The fans love this since the Season 5 aired and Hanta points out that Hitoshi is an Early'Roki. That nickname means that Hitoshi's mindset is the same like Shoto's mindset in the past, but still, since they got literally no interactions, this ship is one of the so called a 'rare-pair's in the show. The rival ships of this is ShinDeku on Hitoshi's side and TodoDeku on Shoto's side, together they become a poly ship called TodoShinDeku. The fandom pictures them like when Hitoshi says about he's there not to become friends, Shoto told him that he also experience that phase but the next day, he 'got roped into a 3 AM McDonalds run which led into a run-in with the police', which that means that he got soften out.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * Shoto and Hitoshi are both cat lovers.

TodoShoji
TodoShoji is the slash ship between Shoto Todoroki and Mezo Shoji.

Canon
Mezo and Shoto are assigned to Team B for their Battle Trials, to fight as the ‘hero’ team against Team I, which consisted of Toru and Mashirao. As they roam the battlegrounds, Mezo uses his Dupliarms to create a number of extra ears, as to make scoping out their opponents easier, and eventually locates them on the fourth floor of the building, and adds that the two are most likely barefoot, with Toru attempting to ambush them. After gaining this information, Shoto calmly asks Mezo to exit the building “for his safety.”

Once Mezo leaves, Shoto uses his right side to release a complete coat the building with his ice, freezing both their opponent’s shoeless feet to the ground, and sealing his and Mezo’s victory in the trial. Afterwards, Shoto uses his left side to first free Mashirao, and then unfreeze the rest of the ice-coated building, but not without taunting Mashirao on the difference of strength between the two of them. After cleaning up, Shoto exits the building. As he does, Mezo is shown as he watches him in amazement.

During the Training Camp, the students fall under attack by the LoV, who make it apparent that a main target of the event is Katsuki, or rather, to kidnap him. Shoto and Mezo both manage to group near Katsuki, and make a shared effort alongside Izuku and Fumikage to protect Katsuki. However, they end up unsuccessful after Katsuki is sneakily nabbed by Mr. Compress, and unable to be grabbed to safety. They, alongside the others express great disappointment in having failed.

Fanon
Due to their lack of interactions, and more popular ships of TodoDeku and TokoShoji, TodoShoji is not particularly popular in the MHA/BNHA fandom, but as the two are both commonly read as MLM, regardless of the ship, as well as their quiet personalities, the two are seen as reasonable love interests for one another, thus bringing the pairing decent attention.

Fandom
FAN FICTION 

Trivia

 * Mezo and Shoto both have mutations from their quirks, although Mezo’s arms and elongated face are much more prominent than Shoto’s bicolored hair.

TogaTsuyu
TogaTsuyu is the femslash ship between Tsuyu Asui and Himiko Toga.

Canon
Tsuyu and Himiko have had minimal interactions, but like with Ochaco, Himiko shows interest in Tsuyu as soon as she meets her and tries to befriend her, much to Tsuyu's annoyance.

Himiko and Tsuyu meet in the forest when the League of Villains attacks the camp and Himiko confronts Tsuyu and Ochaco. After Tsuyu drives Ochaco away from Himiko's attack, Himiko attacks Tsuyu with her knife and hears Ochaco calling Tsuyu by his first name. Himiko smiles upon hearing Ochaco call Tsuyu by her name and decides to do the same while claiming that she wants to be his friend.

Tsuyu is upset that Himiko called her by her first name as that is something only her close friends can do, and before she can react, Himiko pushes her towards a tree and approaches flushed to look at the blood that comes out of Tsuyu's tongue from her attack. After Ochaco saves Tsuyu from Himiko, the League of Villains leaves the camp and Himiko confesses to the League that she made some friends, while when the boys ask Tsuyu and Ochaco who Himiko was, Tsuyu only tells them that she was a lunatic.

Fanon
TogaTsuyu isn't really popular due to the two not actually meeting other than the fight in the forest. Many fans think it's abusive or toxic due to Toga's bloodlust and so don't ship it. Although some people think that the ship has potential, like in TogaDeku's case, many believe that TogaTsuyu would be the perfect ship in Tsuyu villain AU's. The ship is often overshadowed by Togaraka, TogaDeku, TsuChako, TokoTsuyu, and more ships.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

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