Arimisa

Arimisa is the femslash ship between Arisa Ichigaya and Misaki Okusawa from the BanG Dream! fandom.

Canon
Misaki and Arisa are third-year students at Hanasakigawa Girls' High School. They are also currently the student council president (Misaki) and student council vice president (Arisa) at their school. Arisa is Poppin'Party's keyboardist while Misaki acts as Hello, Happy World!'s DJ under the guise Michelle. In their bands, they are the ones who have the more grounded and introverted personalities and tend to be sarcastic every now and then. Initially they also reacted quite strongly to their bandmates' crazy antics, but got used to them and even started going along with them. Misaki and Arisa tend to be modest sometimes as well, when they'll deny their achievements or claim that what they had managed to get done was "nothing special or out of the ordinary."

Sakura Blooming Party!
Their first and most notable interactions happen in this event. After Poppin'Party runs into Kokoro, Hagumi and Eve coincidentally, they decide to hold a hanami party at Kokoro's house. When the day of the party comes, Arisa constantly wants to retort as she watches Kasumi and the others interacting, being silly and throwing out weird ideas but at the same time wants to keep her facade of a polite rich girl as she is around people she doesn't know. In Chapter 3, she notices that Misaki is staring at her and internally freaks out when Misaki approaches her. Misaki asks her if she's itching to say something, and that the two might be more similar than they think. Arisa panics and claims she wouldn't dream of doing that while doing her fake exaggerated laugh. Misaki looks at Arisa suspiciously but backs off for a while. As the others' silly antics continue, one of Kokoro's comments makes Arisa almost retort out loud, but she holds herself back when she notices Misaki staring at her again and internally tells herself to hold her urges. Misaki smiles and asks if Arisa agrees with her that the sakura party is quite unique, Arisa fakes liking it and then thinks how Misaki is "totally on to me and my need to say something."

Kokoro makes a comment about bonsai that makes Arisa almost lose control, but she holds her tongue back, leading to Misaki laughing at her. Kasumi asks if something happened and Misaki smiles saying she didn't expect Arisa to be so reserved. The conversations turn chaotic and Misaki says what Arisa was thinking about, but Arisa still keeps bottling up her annoyance. In the last chapter, Arisa accidentally lets loose before trying to cover her tracks when she sees how shocked everyone is. After Kasumi blurts out "she's the good old Arisa again" and Misaki tells her to "just give in to the dark side," the event ends with Arisa exploding and ranting about the things she's held in for the whole day. After the event, the two became good friends.

Quotes
"*sigh* ... Who knows what would've happened if Okusawa-san and I weren't there..."

- Arisa in "My World Got Bigger!"

Fanon
Arimisa is one of the more popular rarepairs in the fandom, due to their similar grounded personalities and their interactions. It sailed due to their interactions in the game's first event story which many found hilarious. It is mainly rivaled by Misakoko and Kasuari. At the same time, as it is a rarepair, Arimisa does not have a lot of fanfiction and has more fanart on other platforms such as Pixiv and Twitter instead.

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Trivia

 * They were classmates during their second year of high school.
 * In "Let's start new party!" event, which is the 6th anniversary event, it is revealed that Misaki and Arisa chose their positions in the student council through a game of rock-paper-scissors.