TanaKiyo

TanaKiyo is the het ship between Ryunosuke Tanaka and Kiyoko Shimizu-Tanaka from the Haikyu!! fandom.

Canon
Tanaka was a second-year in Karasuno, while Kiyoko was a third-year also in Karasuno. Tanaka, along with Yū Nishinoya, were expressing their affection for Kiyoko quite often, though the answer to that was always a slap, scold, or she was just ignoring them. Despite multiple rejections, Tanaka and Nishinoya still seemed to affect her, even if she loved neither of them.

In one episode, Kiyoko said that Tanaka looked good with a banana, giving a hint that she had even an incy-bit ounce of feeling for him. Although having a liking to her, when Kiyoko touched Sugawara's hands to calm him down, he wasn't present in the fight between Daichi and Asahi on holding his hand, because of obvious jealousy, neither did Nishinoya. There was one scene in the manga where Kiyoko and Tanaka walked together, no hand-in-hand in the process. Tanaka seems to always pick a fight with a guy who attempts to flirt with Kiyoko. Shimizu seems to stop Tanaka sometimes though. Either way, Tanaka still loved Kiyoko even if she seemed to have no interest at him at all.

Some time in the future, Tanaka and Kiyoko both marry each other, Kiyoko works as a sports shop assistant, while Ryuunosuke as a sports instructor.

Fanon
The ship sailed, because of Tanaka claiming to have a liking for Kiyoko, although at first he was ignored by the woman herself. Its main rival ship is SugaKiyo and a big part of the fandom prefers it over TanaKiyo. Although, the ship went big to manga readers, because of a certain chapter that says that Kiyoko and Ryuunosuke are a married-couple. It's so far unknown if Yuu Nishinoya, Tanaka's best friend, who also liked Kiyoko, still has feelings for her after the years.

Fandom
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Trivia

 * Kiyoko once said that Ryunosuke looks good with a banana.
 * It's unsure of when Kiyoko figured her feelings for Ryunosuke.
 * Tanaka likes melonpan.
 * Tanaka is the next ace after Asahi.
 * Tanaka likes being called "senpai".
 * Kiyoko's Seiyuu said that her personal favorite character was Tanaka.
 * Most fans actually wanted SugaKiyo to become canon, instead of TanaKiyo.