NanaGo

NanaGo is the slash ship between Kento Nanami and Satoru Gojo from the Jujutsu Kaisen fandom.

Canon
Kento Nanami and Satoru Gojo are professional sorcerers. Teb years prior to the events of the main story, they went to Jujutsu High together with Nanami being Gojo’s junior as he’s one year younger. It is known that after the graduation, Nanami decides to quit the career of a sorcerer instead dedicating himself to a more mundane and ordinary life working as a salesman.

After several years having a white collar job, Nanami changes his mind and contacts Gojo to arrange his return into the jujutsu world. When Gojo has urgent business and cannot be there to teach Yuji, he asks Nanami to assist the first-year student on a mission. Gojo introduces the man as a “reliable protégé”, saying that he trusts him. Gojo notices how there’re a lot of untrustworthy sorcerers out there, but considering Nanami’s salesman past, he is supposed to be reliable. Nanami says that he trusts Gojo, but doesn’t respect him.



After the mission is over, the two meet again before the beginning of the Exchange Event as they wait in the lounging zone. Gojo asks Nanami to tell him something funny as he is bored. Nanami ignores him, and Gojo proposes to talk about the separation of the state and the church while throwing rice balls at each other. Nanami keeps silent, and Gojo tries again, this time he offers a game – Yamanote Line, with the places Satoru loves. In the anime he proposes a different game — to name all the things participants, in this case Nanami, love about Satoru. Nanami comments this time, saying it’s good that after everything that went down Gojo is so blithely cheerful: he thinks Gojo’s student Yuji needs this silly attitude after his unsuccessful mission. They talk about Yuji, and Gojo admits he is glad that he let Nanami handle that difficult mission, because his decision not to tell Yuji about the presence of a cursed finger in Junpei’s apartment saved the first-year some misery, as the boy would feel misplaced responsibility. Gojo seems to appreciate Nanami's thoughfulness as they both greatly care for Yuji's well-being.

During the events in Shibuya, Nanami and Gojo are active participants, but they operate separately. Gojo takes care of mutated people and fights Jogo and Hanami, while Nanami takes the responsibility of protecting people inside the screen. When he learns about Gojo being sealed, he explains the way it happened to the students. Nanami informs them that he will help set Gojo free from the Prison Realm. In the fight against cursed spirits he encounters on his way, Nanami gets seriously wounded and then killed by Mahito. Gojo is still absent and isn’t aware of his death.

Fanon
The ship is considered relatively popular among the anime fans, however it is still a rare pair. It is Nanami's most written ship and Gojo's fourth most written ship on AO3. The ship gained popularity after episode 9's omake Juju Sanpo, that centers around Gojo and Nanami. Gojo asks Nanami out, but the latter refuses to indulge him. Gojo keeps insisting, showing up at the most unexpected places, and one time even holding a card with Nanami's name and a small heart attached to it. Eventually Gojo slips a small note in Nanami's pocket, and as he unfolds the paper, he finds a lewd doodle inside — apparently Gojo was trying to prank him.

Many fans seem to enjoy Gojo and Nanami's push-pull dynamic: Gojo, as an unstoppable force, is always the initiator of the contact, and Nanami, as an immovable object, is the one who puts a stop to his advances. Sometimes the ship is seen as a rivals to lovers trope — that is considering Nanami's detest of Gojo's antics, whose personality he seems to find irritating, and Gojo's never-ending enthusiasm he never fails to express in Kento's presence. The difference between calm and collected Nanami and always over-eager and intense Gojo is the main factor in ship's popularity.

In fanfiction NanaGo can be featured alongside with ShokoHime, sometimes works mention HaiNana and SatoSugu as previous relationships the characters have had before they entered a relationship with each other. Fans often see Nanami and Gojo as "parents" to the main characters, especially Yuji and Megumi, as they appear to play the role of guardians in their lives.

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Trivia

 * In JJK Official Fanbook alcohol is listed as Nanami's interest; Gojo hates alcoholic beverages.
 * Both Gojo and Nanami have to cover their eyes but for different reasons: Satoru has to avoid sensory overload due to his Six Eyes Technique, while Nanami doesn't want curses to become agressive when they feel they're being watched.
 * Sometimes Gojo uses the affectionate nickname "Nanamin" that Yuji gave him (to Nanami's chagrin).
 * Nanami believes Gojo doesn't understand the concept of personal space, comparing him to his former employer, which upsets Gojo.
 * Gojo and Nanami are among the few sorcerers who can apply Black Flash technique.
 * NanaGo is the only Nanami ship on the list of the TOP 30 of the most popular ships in the Jujutsu Kaisen Japanese fandom and franchise. Scoring 13th place.