SK8 the Infinity/Ships

= Hiromi x Manager x Oka =  Hiromi x Manager x Oka is the poly ship between Hiromi Higa, Shokichi Oka and Florist Shop Manager from the SK8 the Infinity fandom.

Hiromi & Oka
From the beginning, Oka and Shadow don't interact, but he might had a bad impression on Hiromi, since he was the one who had broke Reki's skateboard, and leave him some injuries which ones worried Oka. However, at the end credits of the 12th episode of the anime, Hiromi is seen in his normal look giving Oka flowers inside a pot, which Oka seemed on hesitating about the gift. Moments later he's seen with the flowers that Hiromi had offered to him before.

Florist Shop Manager & Hiromi
Since the Florist Shop Manager's introduction, Hiromi is seen having romantic feelings towards his boss (the manager), but the Manager isn't aware of them. Hiromi works at the same place as her, probably for long time, in a Flower Shop. Hiromi is seen in his normal look while working as he hides the fact that he's a skater to the Manager. Hiromi used to do his best for the manager, and everytime she praised him, he would look really excited at it. In the credits scene, Hiromi is decided on confessing his feelings to the Manager and probably date her, but a moment later he saw that the Manager already had someone else whom she was dating/married to. After contemplating the scene, Hiromi is seen in shock and in the next scene he's seen crying while skating as Shadow.

Florist Shop Manager & Shokichi Oka
Both never met, but the two had a good bond with Hiromi (atleast only with the Florist Shop Manager), and both were managers of their own works (with Oka working at Dope Sketch, which is a skateboard shop, and the Manager working at a Flower Shop along with Hiromi).

Fanon
Not a popular ship, or atleast not really known in the fandom. However, there are some fans that can't pick between shipping Hiromi with Oka or with the Florist Shop Manager (which name is still unknown nowadays), making this ship a reality. Although it's a rarepair, it's loved by those who like seeing Hiromi in a relationship with both managers, and joking about that Higa's type of person are always managers.

Though, there can be fans who would prefer shipping Hiromi with Oka rather than with the Florist Shop Manager, since his feelings weren't requited, which disappointed a lot of fans but weren't too surprised about it, saying that Hiromi deserved better. With the Florist Shop Manager being still unknown, it could be common confusing the ship name with Hiromi and Manager Oka.

It doesn't have any fan art created at the moment, but it does currently have a couple fics added on AO3.

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 * Double Managers refers to the ship between the Florist Shop Manager and Shokichi
 * HiroManager refers to the ship between the Florist Shop Manager and Hiromi
 * ShadOka refers to the ship between Hiromi and Shokichi

= MatchaLove =  MatchaLove is the slash ship between Kojiro Nanjo and Ainosuke Shindo. AKA: LoveMatcha

Behind the Scenes
Hiroko Utsumi, the director of SK8 the Infinity, confirmed that Joe and Cherry were attracted to Adam in high school. She mentions that the show makes it seem like Cherry was the only one attracted to Adam, but Joe was actually attracted to Adam too.

Fanon
MatchaLove isn't a very popular pairing within its fandom due to ships like MatchaBlossom, TadaAi and even Love Blossom being more popular. Adam's unpopular rate in the fandom also contributes to MatchaLove's unpopularity. Despite Joe's former feelings being confirmed, some choose to ignore Joe's feelings and pretend that he was pining over Cherry, who also had confirmed former feelings for Adam.

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 * MatchaLoveBlossom refers to the ship between the two and Kaoru Sakurayashiki

= ShadOka =  ShadOka is the slash ship between Hiromi Higa and Shokichi Oka.

Canon
They don't interact at the beginning of the anime, but it's known that Oka was the one who drove Reki Kyan to his beef with Shadow, and he seemed very worried about Reki's injuries while he recalls him that Reki himself was fine with the beef with Shadow, and Reki just says back that he still sucked at skating.

At the end credits of the 12th episode (the last one from the anime), Hiromi is seen offering Oka flowers inside a pot as Oka seems to hesitate at the offer. Shokichi seemed to accept the gift, because a moment later he's seen with the flowers on his hand while spectating with Reki how Sketchy was on Miya's skateboard and was about to get kicked out by Kaoru.

In SK8 Chill out line 8, when Miya proposed to himself to look for Reki in his workplace, Hiromi stops him by saying that he didn't had to do that. He explains to Miya in "a service industry point of view" that if an employee was talking to a friend, it would be hard for other customers to shop. He then tells Miya that he would never know what the customers were going to make complaints about the recent days. He then mentions Oka by reffering him as "that manager", saying that he would get caught between the owner and the customers, and so it would be troublesome for him. Miya then asked Hiromi to stop making arguments as an adult while being dressed as Shadow because it "shattered" the illusion.

Fanon
It was a crackship when the show started, almost inexistent, because of their lack of interactions since the beginning of the anime. The ship was getting a bit more known when the 12th was released, as some fans noticed how Shadow was giving flowers to Oka, implying that he might had a crush on him. Only few fans noticed the moment, but with the time, a lot of fans were already aware of the scene and enjoying it.

Fans theorize that Hiromi could had a "thing" for managers, since when Hiromi got rejected by the florist manager from where Hiromi worked, he inmediately moved to another one, with this being Shokichi Oka. He's also implied being gay or bisexual, but the headcanon of him being bisexual is more accepted in the fandom, though it's not very popular because both Hiromi and Oka are underrated characters in the fandom, even though if Hiromi has more screen rather than Oka.

In fan arts, Hiromi is seen with his normal look being flustered around Oka, and he's usually seen offering flowers to him just like the end credits of SK8. Due the lack of popularity, there are only few arts in Tumblr, and few fics on AO3, but it remains as a semi-known ship on the fandom. Despite of being a new ship, it remains as the most popular for Hiromi and Oka, surprisingly surpassing HiroManager, but there are fans who prefer shipping both ships at the same time. This sometimes results in Hiromi x Manager x Oka.

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 * Hiromi x Manager x Oka refers to the ship between the two and Florist Shop Manager

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