YachIro

YachIro is the femslash ship between Yachiyo Nanami and Iroha Tamaki from the Puella Magi Madoka Magica fandom.

Canon
How the two girls meet was by total coincidence. When Iroha finds herself feeling lost, she decides to go out to Kamihama city to find the missing pieces to her memory. Along the way, she finds Yachiyo, who tells her to leave, due to the high amounts of witches in the area. Iroha declines, and tries to continue on her way. Yachiyo then battles Iroha to get her to leave. Despite Yachiyo's attempts to get her to leave, she doesn't. Later on in the series, Yachiyo teams up with Iroha.

Yachiyo and Iroha are very close in the series. Both girls care for each other deeply and are constantly protecting each other. As an example of this, Yachiyo has a strong will to protect Iroha from any sort of danger. Both girls also live together with the rest of their friends, and participate in both witch and rumor hunting together.

An important thing to mention about this ship, is the very slow but progressing growth in their relationship. Yachiyo and Iroha start off as total strangers, then eventually become allies. You can see them care for each other deeply and are willing to make great sacrifices for each other. As an example of this, Yachiyo becomes very worried about Iroha's health and well being during the Doppel Arc.

Fanon
YachIro is quite popular within the fanbase. However, they are also quite controversial due to the age gap (Iroha is 15, while Yachiyo is 19). It is worth noting that this is not because of the actual year gap (4 years). But it's more about a college student dating a middle school student, which is often controversial in Japan.

Many fans either like to age up Iroha, or simply ship them in a platonic way. Fans ship them due to the large amounts of official art, and "moments" these two have. Lots of the official art depicting Iroha and Yachiyo has them holding hands, hugging, ect. Despite the controversial nature of this ship, it is still the most written about ship under the Magia Record tag on AO3.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * Yachiyo and Iroha have a duel unit.
 * In Iroha's connect, she can give Yachiyo an MP boost.
 * Lots of Memoria feature art that includes Yachiyo and Iroha holding hands and other similar things.