YunaJuri

YunaJuri is the femslash ship between Yuna Kureha and Juri Ooba from the Puella Magi Madoka Magica fandom.

Canon
Yuna and Juri are the leaders of the biggest rivaling Magical Girl gangs in Futatsugi City, Torayamachi and Ryuugasaki, and later become the Eldest, and Second Sisters of the Promised Blood organisation. Yuna is a kind and relatively calm; albeity schemy Magical Girl, only wishing to make the magical girls in her city happy, while Juri is a rude and easily agitated brute forcer, viewing the Magical Girl world as a place where she can relieve stress through fighting other Magical Girls.

Although shown to have an immediate hostile relationship upon first meeting, due to differing ideals and Juri's general hostility, things very quickly become much warmer between them, when Yuna agrees to help Juri take care of her "sickness" by becoming her rival. Yuna and Juri are shown to consistently show affection for each other even through Juri's later betrayal, and being on the opposite side of a war. During Crimson Resolve, Juri shows a desire to fight Yuna to the death, in revenge for her previous defeat to Yuna, believing this to be the only way to satisfy her urges, but despite this she still shows Yuna verbal, and physical affection in thanks for taking care of her urges, and the ways in which Yuna trick her seem to cut deeper than anything else. Yuna is shown to be hostile towards Juri during this period of time, but still slips back into her care for her, showing genuine remorse for the pain she's caused Juri; offering to fight her one-on-one in exchange for her not involving their gangs, sparing her during a fight, and making it clear that she'll always welcome her back into her group with open arms. After their final duel at the end of Crimson Resolve, in which Juri becomes Yuna's belonging, Juri is shown to be willing to do anything she asks, and despite all of the hurt Juri has caused Yuna through her selfishness, Yuna still seems happy to return to their previously held closeness.

In Arc 2 Main Story Chapter 10, in a last ditch effort to save Ao after her kimochi has eroded her, Yuna and Juri connect to her soul, through their own Kimochi in order to internally fix the damage. Unfortunetly the damage is far too deep to be easily fixed by symply prying the Kimochi off of her, and so Yuna comes up with the plan to have her and Juri raise Ao as their daughter from when she was a baby until the current time, in order to retrain her brain to feel fear. During this time Yuna and Juri live together, and raise Ao as her moms, Ao even refers to them as Mom (Okaasan) and Mama respectively. Yuna and Juri happily live together with Ao for 14 years, and are shown to be happy to have been able to work in tandem for so long.

In Arc 2 Another Story Chapter 11, Yuna reveals to Kagome that Juri's previous stress outbursts are completely gone, and theorizes that it was the time they spent as a family that was what helped her to heal so much. She goes on to say that the way Juri was able to so drastically change and heal, gives herself hope for her own future.

Fanon
Due to their relationship hinging on Yuna satifisfying Juri's urges in exchange for her loyalty, as well as Juri's habit of sounding very passionate, and her streak of suggestive wording choices when it comes to their fighting, there is an inclination in fandom discussion to joke about their relationship sounding a lot more intimate than simple fighting.

Although previously having some popularity in the fandom, YunaJuri's popularity truly skyrocketed following the release of Arc 2 Chapter 10, due to their marriage like relationship shown in it. This caused a big influx in fanworks of them being portrayed as a family, as well as general ship art of them.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * In their adult appearances they're shown to have matching asymmetrical ear piercings. This is very common piercing symbolism in Japan to signify a romantic relationship, specifically Yuna is wearing her earring on the left ear, signifying her as the lover who protects, while Juri is wearing hers on the right ear signifying her as the protected lover.