Ichisaki

IchiSaki is the femslash ship between Ichika Hoshino and Saki Tenma from the Project SEKAI fandom.

Canon
Saki Tenma and Hoshino Ichika are part of the including them, Shiho Hinomori and Honami Mochizuki. Saki and Ichika were once childhood friends who played music together. However, their relationship became strained after a certain incident during middle school. They were close but grew apart after Saki got hospitalized for an unknown disease. When she returned to school after recovering she wants to reconcile, but sadly the 3 other girls are horrible friends who refuse that hope, which makes Saki sad. When Saki returns, Ichika and her reforms the group with the help of the VIRTUAL SINGERS.

In Leo/needs main story, Ichika was listless, without much of a passion and was unable to gain the courage to bring her childhood friends back together, often wondering if things would continue this way, of which changes after Saki recovers and returns to school as Ichika's classmate, who seemed very lightened of her return. Saki wishes to reunite with her friends and recreate the precious memories from when they were children. Ichika, knowing the current situation, listens to her hopes in deep sadness and shared the same wish with Saki. She and Saki would attempt to talk to the other 2 girls, just to have them ignore them or reluctantly avoids the conversation. In the hope of remaking their friendgroup and in the hope of reliving their memories with Saki, Ichika wishes for a way to remake Leo/need. Upon that, Saki plays "Untitled" on Ichika's phone, which triggered them into the Sekai where Miku Hatsune and Luka Megurine appears, Honami Mochizuki and Shiho Hinomori following. Despite Honami and Shiho quickly refusing, Ichika still insist finishing Saki's hopes and claims to create a band with her and Saki alone, in wish to perhaps revisit the two other girls in the process. After Ichika meets the Sekai with Saki, the young girl gradually becomes more courageous and determined to reunite her friends. In one of their practices, they gazed the stars together.

They are childhood friends and bandmates. Ichika enjoys Saki's happy demeanor and persistent smile, while Saki is glad Ichika is always there for her. Ichika was the one to visit Saki most in the hospital outside her immediate family, which Saki appreciates. Ichika sometimes worries that Saki is overworking herself while trying to experience everything she missed as a preteen. They care deeply and often show concerns for one another. Saki and Ichika would often go on "dates" according to the Komas. Their relationship are slightly closer than those of Shiho or Honami for they are classmates. Ichika doesn't enjoy places with a lot of noise, for example, she doesn't enjoy visiting Phoenix Wonderland unless Saki goes with her.

Fanon
IchiSaki is one of the more popular pairings on both sides, for their canonical interactions in the main storyline, their contrasting personalities, and how close they are to each other in the "childhood friends" trope. However, IchiSaki is rivaled by other Leo/need ships for they have very the approximately the same closeness to one another. Many fans also tend to ship Ichika, Saki with Honami and Shiho in a poly relationship (PolyNeed), otherwise IchiSaki would be shipped along with ShihoNami.

IchiSaki fans would sometimes consider the ship as angst and slow burn due to Saki's illness and their childhood friendship. Aside from the sadness, they also would commonly joke about Ichika being distracted from Saki by her love for Miku Hatsune, one of the virtual singers.