Rinmaho

Rinmaho is the femslash ship between Rinku Aimoto and Maho Akashi from the D4DJ fandom.

Canon
Rinku and Maho are first-year high school students at Yoba Academy as well as members of the DJ unit, Happy Around!, where Rinku is their main vocalist, and Maho serves as their DJ. Although there are no “main characters” per se, the relationship between Rinku and Maho is often seen as one of the main themes of the entire franchise, as its main plot begins with their first meeting, the formation of the unit and Happy Around itself in general.

Maho saw Rinku for the first time when the latter, a transfer student at Yoba Academy, accidentally entered her classroom, before leaving in embarrassment. The two properly meet for the first time after Rinku witnesses Maho DJing and playing one of her favorite songs in one of the DJ rooms.

Fanon
Although widely regarded as one of the most "important" and early ships in the franchise, the Rinmaho is surprisingly less common than Rinku's most popular ship, the Rinmuni. This is mainly due to the fact that while Maho and Rinku have a lot more on-screen interaction, Muni's tsunderness and childhood friend relationship with Rinku makes this ship subjectively more potential and have more romantic dynamics than her ship with Maho.

At the same time, Rinmaho also has a significant following, not least due to the fact that both characters and their dynamics were clearly inspired by Misaki and Kokoro (Misakoro), one of the most popular ships from the previous Bushi franchise, Bang Dream. Many people love their manzai or straight man x weirdo dynamic, especially in the context of the fact that despite the big difference in personalities, girls end up becoming best friends and show genuine concern for each other.

Although people started to ship them after the 2nd episode, when the girls happily took each other's hands after the first concert, their first biggest shippy moment is considered the final arc of the anime, where Maho plunges into a very strong depression, afraid that Rinku is not so strong enjoys performing with Happy Around and will go to Peaky Peaky to her idol. Although it had its context, Maho's grief was so intense and emotional that the headcanon about the romantic nature of it quickly became a popular headcanon among shippers.

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Trivia

 * In the song "Kimi ni Happy Are♪", Rinku calls out to Maho twice. In the second line, she tells Maho she's thankful for everything she's done.
 * The most famous Maho's meme, "dynamite", appeared after Rinku accidentally saw her naked and said cheerfully "Woah! Dynamite!".