Anzugie

Anzugie is the femslash ship between Anzu Kinashi and Kugie Kizuchi from the Your Turn To Die fandom.

Canon
Anzu and Kugie have never met, and thus have no canonical relationship. As for similarities between the two, both are high school girls who were kidnapped, placed into the Death Game, and died in their First Trials. Their First Trials involved a time limit and them being restrained by a locked mechanism. Additionally, both have the same shade of pink as an element in their character design.

In Anzu's past episode, she and her friend wanted to buy ice cream, but Kugie had bought it all up beforehand, so they weren't able to have any. Of various dialogue options, Anzu is frightened by Kugie's ability to eat all that ice cream, or suggests tracking Kugie down to buy a cone or two from her.

Fanon
As Kugie and Anzu have never met, the ship is considered a rarepair. Still, it seems to have a decent sized number of shippers. The ship didn't really surface until after Chapter 3-1A was released, as up until that point, Anzu was just a nameless victim. Since Kugie is a minor character and Anzu gets much less screen time than most other characters, that may be part of the reason they're shipped together, as it is somewhat of a common point between them. Additionally, with the reveal in Your Time To Shine that Kugie is attracted to women, femslash shipping in particular became more popular for Kugie.

With the release of the updated artbook, it is confirmed that Anzu is a second-year and attends a different school from Kugie. Before that, as Kugie is confirmed to be in her first year of high school, it was thought possible that Anzu was as well. While watching Anzu's victim video, Sara comments that she looks like a "middle-school, maybe high school student". Perhaps Anzu just looks young, or it implied that she's in her first year of high school as well, which would be another point in common between Kugie and Anzu that fuels their ship. Some also theorized that Anzu might attend the same school as Kugie, as her school uniform was unknown at the time.

Although a lot of Kugie's personality, and Anzu's, for that matter, is unknown, they could likely compliment each other well. Kugie is characterized as a strong, speaks-her-mind kind of person who is convicted in herself. As for Anzu, she seems much more shy and unable to stand up for herself, despite doing her best to put herself out there. Kugie could also help Anzu cope with her inability to think about depressing situations and "the scary future." In terms of how their sprites look, Kugie's is much more rigid and straight-standing compared to Anzu's, who is always in a dynamic pose. While their colour palettes are quite different, their shade of pink is common ground, and the variety in their outfits may prompt some to have them come together to form a colourful duo. In all, Their appearances contrast but can still be appealing together, or add to each of their personalities and in turn compliment each other.

In Your Turn To Die, there are six highschoolers and they are often put together in a friend group for that reason. Anzugie being shipped sometimes comes out of it when popular pairings like Ryoko and Joe and Sara and Ranmaru are shipped first, as they are the other two left. Anzu and Kugie's notable rival ships are both with Sara Chidouin, them being Saranzu and Kusara.

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Trivia

 * Kugie and Anzu's last names both use the kanji '木' (ki, lit. "tree") as the first character.

Variations

 * High School Sweethearts refers to the ship between Anzu, Kugie, Joe Tazuna, Ranmaru Kageyama, Ryoko Hirose, and Sara Chidouin
 * Kusaranzu refers to the ship between Anzu, Kugie, and Sara Chidouin
 * Kuzumaru refers to the ship between Anzu, Kugie, and Ranmaru Kageyama
 * Ryoanzugie refers to the ship between Anzu, Kugie, and Ryoko Hirose
 * Ryosaranzugie refers to the ship between Anzu, Kugie, Ryoko Hirose, and Sara Chidouin