MuneTaku

MuneTaku is the slash ship between Riccardo Di Rigo and Terry Archibald from the Inazuma Eleven Go fandom.

Canon
Riccardo and Terry are both players selected to be on Japan's national football team for the FFIV2, Inazuma National. However, Arion, Victor and Riccardo are quick to find out that the other eight members of the team had never even played football before, with Terry actually being a basketball player. The fact that these eight players were chosen for the national team instead of more qualified players despite their blatant inexperience disappointed all three of them, especially Riccardo, who was visibly upset.

When going to training, Terry overhears Riccardo wanting to play only with Arion and Victor, with himself in defense stopping all the shoots. He doesn't appreciate that and ask Riccardo to use one of his Special Moves against him. He does and Terry is unable to stop it. Feeling humiliated, he goes training even harder even during night.

The team ends up against the Korean national team, Fire Dragon, for their first match. Riccardo blocks all of the opposing team's shots, which makes Terry irritated. Unfortunately, he doesn't manage to stop Rapid Fire, and the first half ended up at 0-1. However, during the second half, Riccardo uses a new Special Move, Einsatz, to block Rapid Fire. In their second match, Terry uses a Special Move for the first time, Blam Dunk. But it doesn't impress Riccardo, who keeps playing as defender.

During the final match of the FFIV2 A Block Preliminaries, Terry gets hurt. That's when he realizes that he can't stop every shot on his own. He calls Riccardo for help and admit to him that he was too self-centered on being the only one that can stop the shots. After the match, Inazuma National discovered that the opposing teams that they had been playing against throughout the preliminaries were actually aliens disguised as human and that the FFIV2 A Block Preliminaries were actually meant to determine if Inazuma National, now renamed the Earth Eleven, were skilled enough to represent Earth and participate in a bigger, intergalactic soccer tournament called the Grand Celesta Galaxy.

After the reveal, Terry goes training alone. Riccardo arrives to talk to him, about what happened. He listens quietly to Terry.

Later, on planet Magmavia, the Earth Eleven split up to find a jewel. Riccardo, Terry, Trina and Keenan are attacked by a mechanical bird. Terry tries to distract it and tell the others to run away. But Riccardo comes back to help Terry and throws a rock at the bird, leaving him on plain sight. They both try to run away, but they fall. They can't climb back, and the two look for a way to go back to the team. They meet Ragang Gyr, the elder of the Anti-Machine Faction. On their way back for the match, Terry asks Riccardo why he came back when he was attacked by the bird, and if that's because Riccardo thought Terry was too weak to do it by himself. Riccardo answers 'maybe', which make the two of them smile. Later, Terry helps Riccardo not to fall and Riccardo thanks him. Terry responds 'thanks to you too', which Riccardo doesn't understand but probably refers to the fact that Terry was grateful that Riccardo had came back to check on him.

Fanon
MuneTaku is a small ship despite the many moments the two share in Inazuma Eleven Go Galaxy. People usually start to ship them at Episode 16, once Terry admits to Riccardo that he needs to rely on his teammates, including Riccardo. But the way he puts it can sound a bit...explicit when taken out of context. Some start a bit later, when they have that conversation about leaving soon. Some even more late, when they are separated from the rest of the team, they are rescued by the people of the planet they're on. During that night, they share a room with two beds, and some people joked about looking like the scene of a certain anime.

Some fanarts depict Gabriel being jealous of the relationship. But most of the time, fans just see Gabriel as an ex-boyfriend or having an unrequired crush on Riccardo. Most people ship Gabriel with Aitor following MuneTaku.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * The ship's name comes from Terry and Riccardo's Japanese names, Ibuki Munemasa and Shindou Takuto respectively.
 * Akihiro Hino says that he created Terry to have a special bond with Riccardo.
 * Riccardo and Terry have a song called COOL HEAT.
 * At some point in the Inazuma Eleven Go Galaxy games, Riccardo can be seen in Terry's room. He is telling the latter that he needs to wake up, which Terry responds with 5 more minutes.
 * Their ship day is January 9th (09/01).