Toukoran

Toukoran is the femslash ship between Touko Kirigaya and Ran Mitake from the BanG Dream! fandom.

Canon
Ran and Touko are high school students with one year difference; Ran is a second-year student at Haneoka Girls' Academy, and Touko attends the rich girls' Tsukinomori Girls' Academy. They both play the guitar, although Ran is Afterglow's vocalist and rhythm guitarist, and Touko is Morfonica's main as well as only guitarist. Although their personalities are the opposite, they both specialize and are passionate about certain traditional Japanese things - in Ran's case, flower arrangement, which she got into because her father owns a 100-year-old flower arrangement school, and Touko is into fashion thanks to her grandmother owning a famous kimono shop.

Their biggest and major interactions happen in the "A Spur to Teamwork" event, where it is revealed that the two had met in the past before as well. In the event, Ran is set to perform flower arrangement at Aurum City, and at the same time, show off how kimonos relate to flower arrangement. As such, she has been assigned to work with the "girl at the kimono shop", although Ran has no idea said girl is Touko in the beginning. According to Ran, she has no good memories of the few meetings they had in the past, because their personalities were so clashing. After Rimi points out she might have changed now that she's in high school, Ran agrees with her, and says that most people around their age should be a bit more levelheaded. She then tells Rimi that she was going to head to the kimono shop after their talk, and how she was feeling down before being approached by her. After Rimi leaves, Ran wonders if her meeting will go fine.

In Chapter 1, Ran goes to visit the kimono shop and is surprised to see Touko there. Touko says she lives at the kimono shop and then asks if Ran is interested in kimonos. When they both mention they're going to meet their pair for the event at Aurum City, Touko is shocked and blurts out she hadn't expected Ran to do flower arranging, before exclaiming "I was wondering why Grandma let me deal with a customer for once." Although Touko swears, Ran remains skeptical and thinks to herself how she hopes that Touko has changed.

In Chapter 5, it is revealed that Touko remembers their meeting in the past, but did not remember she was with Ran specifically. During the meeting, the two were out looking at plushies and Ran couldn't decide between a cat or dog. When Touko mentions she told Ran to get the dog plushie and it made her cry in joy, Ran reacts, telling her she wasn't crying out of happiness but because she actually wanted the cat and Touko forced her to take the dog instead. When the others react to Ran's retelling, she starts blushing and tells everyone to not mention it to anyone else. Afterwards, Touko confidently says they won't let the others down, and Ran tells her they better get down to business and make a corner that satisfied everyone and anyone.

Quotes
"[...] Our audience at the event seemed like they had fun, too. It was Toko's idea to do a heart shape. I thought it wouldn't work at first, but... it wasn't bad. Thanks to her, I... feel like I've opened my eyes to a different perspective on flower arrangements."

- Ran in "Open Mind"

Fanon
Toukoran is a huge rarepair. Reasons for this are quite glaringly obvious - Morfonica was added into the game later than Afterglow, the two barely interacted in the Morfonica hanami event where the five original bands "welcomed" the Morfonica members into their circle, and they have more popular ships as well (MocaRan, Yukiran and Toukotsuku for example). In fanworks, their gimmick is mostly the same.

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Trivia

 * They have a height difference of 7 cm, with Ran being 157 cm, and Touko being 164 cm.
 * They were the first Afterglow x Morfonica pair to have a 4★ double gacha.