Spiritshipping

Spiritshipping is the SLASH ship between Jaden Yuuki and Jesse Anderson from the Yu-Gi-Oh! fandom

Meeting
Judai/Jaden meets Johan/Jesse the first time in season 3 of GX. They meet on the rooftop of the Duel Academy after Jaden has a nightmare that he is woken up from by his duelling spirit Hane Kuriboh. Jesse, who is also able to see spirits, is looking for his best friend Rubin Carbuncle and finds it with Jaden. Jesse tells Jaden that he transfered to the duel academy and they share a handshake in greeting. Both of them remarke that it feels like they have seen the other before. Before they can introduce themselves properly, Judai is called by his friends Syrus and Hassleberry to join the meeting in the Aula. Later on Jaden and Jesse share the first duel of the new semester under the supervision of the director and the new Professor Viper.

During the time in the Academy they become best friends, through bonding over their shared love for duelling and them seeing spirits.

After some time the new Professor turns out to work together with a demon named Yubel, which has a history with Jaden. Vipor uses the students to collect duel energy, which goes to Yubel, who wants to reincarnate themself. It is later on revealed that the Professor just wanted to save his kid and didn't know about Yubel's plan.

Yubel succeeds in coming back and possesses one of the students, Marcel, to execute their revenge. It also sends the entire school to another world. Marcel challenges Jaden to a Duell, threatening him by saying that he whole school will be stuck in the other dimension and turning the students into duel zombies if Jaden doesn't duel them. Without a choice Jaden goes to take Yubel down, while Jesse goes to search for the Rainbow Dragon, the last crystal beast he needs for his deck. He finds the card and joins Jaden in his duel with Marcel/Yubel to bring their friends and the school back home.

During the duel Yubel abandons Marcels body, to show Jaden her real form. Jaden is shocked to see his old monster back. He had sent Yubel to space, being afraid of it's power, because it hurt all his friends during his childhood. Yubel reveals that it just wanted to protect Jaden in duels and sees his punishment, sending it away - as his form of love for Yubel. Being obsessed with the idea to return Jaden "love" now by hurting his schoolmates and friends, Yubel tries to end the duel. Jesse steps in and takes the damage that would have cost Jaden the duel and tells him to bring their friends home.

After the school and the people are back in their world it becomes clear to Jaden, that Jesse didn't return with them. He swears to bring his best friend back.

Dark world Arc
After returning to the dark world, Jaden and his friends, who decided to accompany him, learn that if you lose a duel in this world, you die. They find a village full of monsters, who tell the group that they might have spotted Jesse in a slave camp. Jaden follows this lead and ends up duelling on of the Dark Worlds fiends Zure. After defeating Zure, he goes to Brron, the King of the Dark world, to end his reign. He succeeds in defeating Brron, but has to sacrifice his friends in the process. Only three friends remain (Jim, Axel and Syrus), but turn on Jaden, because they saw how the Duel changed him.

After some time, Jim and Axel, who travel alone now, come across a Village, which is under the siege of the dark army lead by a Supreme King. Jim decides to Duel the King, but finds out later that it is Jaden. He tries to free his friend, but loses the Duel. Shocked by what happened to Jim, Axel flees. Axel later Teams up with Zane and Aster, who came to the dark world as well, to free Jaden, from his curse. He succeeds, but he has to sacrifice himself.

Together with the now normal Jaden, they continue their search for Jesse. They encounter him at last, but he has changes, because he is possessed by Yubel. Zane takes on Yubel, but loses in a spectacular duell. After this Yubel as Jesse tells Jaden, that if he wants to get Jesse back, he has to follow the Monster. Jaden does so reluctantly, being afraid of duelling, because of his crimes as Surpreme King, but the Need to save his friend is stronger.

He duels Yubel at last, but having a hard time against it, since it is still Jesse's body that he is attacking. After saving Jesse's Crystal beasts from Yubel, he realizes that Jesse's soul was sealed in his Rainbow Dragon. In the end he succeeds in defeating Yubel and getting Jesse's soul back, but before they can leave the dark world, Jaden has to duell Yubel one last time to ensure the safety of all 12 dimensions. Since Jesse is injured he gives Jaden his deck to teach Yubel a lesson for him.

Season 4
Jaden encounters Jesse at a pier, after being inflicted with Darkness. He duels Jesse, because he thinks that Jesse is the enemy. During the Duel Jesse can destroy the card in Jaden's deck that was inflicted with the Darkness and save Jaden. They team up again to save the School from their new enemy Darkness.

What follows is a duel against Fujiwara, who was also inflicted with Darkness. During the Duel Jesse sacrifices himself again to ensure Jaden's victory.

Fanon
It is one of the most popular ships in Yu-Gi-Oh GX and the most popular ship for Jesse. The Name SpiritShipping comes from their ability to see duel spirits.

Trivia

 * In the Japanese Version Yubel states during her final duel with Jaden that it thinks that all of Jadens love, which once belongs to her, now belongs to Jesse.
 * They are very tactile best friends, who hold each other a lot.
 * During the dark world Arc Jaden was so focused on finding Jesse that he didn't care about the consequences.