Lemonkane

Lemonkane is the slash ship between Yamabuki Lemon and Aoi Akane from the Toilet-bound Hanako-kun fandom.

Canon
Lemon and Akane are depicted as best friends and are often shown spending time together. Akane typically uses Lemon for practice for confessing to Aoi (despite him already doing so often)—however, due to Akane's bad wording and gestures, these often come off as genuine. Lemon seems to be aware of this, often teasing him for it. It is a common running gag in the series about them having a crush on each other. Despite Akane beating up Lemon after such interactions, the two maintain a close relationship.

The two formally met in one of their first years at the academy. Due to Lemon being socially distant and rather aloof, many classmates perceived him as a sort of "bad boy" type. Aoi said she found that type of person attractive, and Akane, fueled by jealousy, set out to kill Lemon (though, due to the series' exaggeration of Akane's crush on Aoi, this was meant to be comedic). When Akane reaches Lemon and is ready to bludgeon him with his bat, however, the latter managed to talk him out of doing it. As they started to get closer Aoi admitted that it was all a misunderstanding.

In the Confession Tree Arc, Lemon helps Akane with his confessions under the Confession Tree. As a result, they were turned into a lovey-dovey couple for a short period of time due to the rumour attached to the tree, and they confirmed that they were dating. However, after the affects of the tree wore off, they both seemed to forget about it and were clearly confused when others brought it up. During this time period, Aoi was extremely conflicted—since, at the time, she said she didn't like Akane back—and wondered if Lemon was more attractive then her, bringing up that he and Akane had been getting closer recently. Aoi seemed to be saddened by the fact that they were together, crying as they continued to display their short-lived love.

After that, the two continue go back to spending time together as usual. It is later brought up that Akane is one of the few people Lemon bothers to interact with, due to him not really caring about his surroundings and often not noticing important things happening around him (such as the academy's time jumping forward and some students suddenly growing drastically older). The two are a rather mismatched pair; Akane is the student council’s vice and consistently gets good grades, while Lemon has been noted to only do the bare minimum of work, preferring his phone over studies. Lemon comments in the spin-off, while watching Akane prepare for the semester finals, “He seems to be going for full marks on all subjects this time ‘round.”

Fanon
The ship sailed as a result of the two's strong friendship and Akane being one of the few people who Lemon actually wants to spend time with. Another reason it gained popularity was because of the Confession Tree Arc--even if the two weren't fully aware of what was going on and broke up soon afterwards, they were still together romantically, even if it was for a short amount of time. The series' running gag of Akane confessing to Lemon instead of Aoi also fueled the ship.

There are currently a little over 10 works on AO3 dedicated to these two. It is the third most-written ship for Akane, and the most-written ship for Lemon.

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Trivia

 * Another running gag in the series is Akane threatening or chasing Lemon around with his baseball bat.
 * In the previous exam rankings, Lemon placed #194 out of 224 in their year and Akane placed #1 out of 224.

Variations

 * LemonAoiKane refers to the ship between the two and Akane Aoi