HoriKashi

HoriKashi is the Het ship between Hori Masayuki and Kashima Yuu from the Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki Kun fandom.

Canon
Hori Masayuki and Kashima Yuu are two members of Roman Highschool drama club. Hori Masayuki is a short 3rd year and the president of the club. He makes Kashima shine on stage as the prince of the drama club. Kashima Yuu is a 2nd year girl with a masculine appearance, making her a fitting role for the lead male roles in school plays. She wants to be Hori's number one kouhai. The author pairs them together as one of the 'couples' of the series.

In chapter 28, Kashima tell's Chiyo Sakura that the reason she came to Roman Highschool and started acting was because of Hori. She states she saw Hori in a play, which led to her joining the school and the drama club. He later spotted her at the entrance ceremony and told her she could become the prince of the school with his help.

Kashima often states she wants to be Hori's number one kouhai and his favourite. In chapter 30, she gets jealous that Hori is spending time with Mikoshiba to help him act. In chapter 42 when Kashima loses her voice she gets others to speak for her by following the things she writes on a notepad. When Hori offers she wants him to call her cute.Later in chapter 54 Kashima attempts to hide behind Hori to act scared so he thinks she is his adorable kouhai. It doesn't work yet at the end of the chapter Hori tells a scary story that leads to Kashima holding onto his arm. He tells Nozaki the adorable kouhai appeal works better when the kouhai is actually scared. In chapter 79 Kashima feeds Hori an alcoholic cake and he gets drunk. In drunken honesty he tells Kashima she is adorable and he wants to spend more time with her.

A running gag throughout the series is that Kashima is Hori's ideal male, and later female, face. In chapter 36, Hori is tired and falls asleep at the drama club. Kashima picks him up and carries him with a bull mask on, using it as an acting oppurtunity, to the nurses office. She takes of the mask and he get inspired to have a play about a prince turned into a bull. Yet he can't bear to have Kashimas face hidden so the idea is scrapped. In chapter 129 Hori gets distracted on what Kashima is saying because he is looking at her face.

One of Hori's main quirks is that his favourite thing about girls are their legs. In chapter 68 Hori sees an image of Kashimas legs without the top half of the image revealing who they belong to. He asks around about whose they are because they are his type. Yet he doesn't realise they are hers because when she tries to show him he only has eyes for her face.

Another runnng gag throughout the series is that Kashima believes Hori wants to be the heroine in the school play. She finds the Lets fall in love! manga in his bag and when she spots the annotations she assumes he connects to the heroine Mamiko. When reading shoujo manga in chapter 42 she can't stop seeing the heroine who wants to be a girly girl instead of a tomboy as Hori. Later that chapter she tries to get Hori to call himself little and cute. Another reason she views Hori as a heroine is because of his height. This gag develops into Kashima wanting to be Hori's prince and have no one else take that position from her. In chapter 100 Kashima's sister, Rei, says Hori and Kashima would be a perfect couple together if he crossdressed. She also asked him if he likes womens clothing.

Just as Kashima admires Hori, Hori admires Kashima and her princely demeanor. In chapter 90, Nozaki says that Hori is falling for Kashima again because he is admiring the way she can attract girls in any situation. Later in the chapter Kashima and Hori go to the pools with Mikoshiba and Nozaki. Nozaki tells Hori to treat Kashima differently as he discovered she is his perfect female face. The whole time Hori is acting and Kashima is aware of it. Yet at the end Hori calls her his cool adorable kouhai and she notices at this time Hori isn't acting.

In chapter 98 Kashima is forced to sing and admit to Hori she is tone deaf and can't sing. While the other characters are telling her to stop as it's hurting their ears, Hori enthusiastically ques up another song for her. He reveals at the end of the chapter he just really liked seeing her embarrassed face because it was an expression he rarely saw on her. But after listening to enough of her singing he says he's kind of into it.

In chapter 107 and 108 Kashima gets hyponotised to forget Hori and anything about him. He blames himself but ends up getting used to her new personality, showing how much the two are bonded together. She also states that she doesn't remember why she came to Roman high school which confirms he is the sole reason she joined the school. Later in the chapter Rei notices Kashima has been hyponotised and changes the hypnotism to make her obey all of Hori's orders like a dog. Again he manages to rebuild his relationship with her and become close again. But one of their drama club classmates scolds them as he thinks it's wrong Hori isn't doing anything to try and fix what has happened to Kashima. The drama club member continues to tell Hori off but in that time Chiyo and Nozaki break the hypnotism spell on Kashima. Hori goes to apologise to Kashima and says "I like everything about you." (There are multiple english translations to this). Then he realises the hypnotic spell was broken and gets embarrassed that she consciously remembers what he admitted.

In chapter 112 the story continues from chapter 108. Ever since Hori confessed to Kashima that he liked everything about her, she kept bringing it up. Each time he does something nice for her she asks if it is because he likes her. He gets annoyed to the point everytime he doesn't something for her he says himself that he's doing it because he likes her. Then once he gets her to come practice her lines he tells her that he's doing it because he loves her. This is the first time in the series he has admitted he loves her.

In chapter 127 Kashima forces Hori to come have a tea party with Rei and her fellow junior high friend. This is to help her friend get used to guys and rejecting them. Near the end of the chapter Kashima and Hori are meant to show the two girls how to reject a guy but Kashima ends up trying to seduce Hori instead. Then Rei tells Mikoshiba at the end of the chapter Hori was there because she asked Kashima to bring "the most wonderful man she knows."

In chapter 137 Kashima is led to believe by a school play script that Hori thinks she stole the lead roles from him when she came to the school. The script is a ficitional story by Nozaki about Hori and how he resents her for taking the acting role from him in the drama club. When he realises she isn't acting as she believes that the script is how he feels, which isn't true. He reaches across the table and hugs her and tells her to settle down. He says he didn't know she would get so caught up in the role. She gets mad at him and they fight for 3 days. At the end of the chapter they make up when he reassures her she didn't steal his role from him and he doesn't feel threatened by her. She tells him that he gave her the love of acting which is why she wouldn't be happy if Hori quit the drama club because of her. In the end Hori calls her his prince affectionately.

Moments

 * Kashima moves a futon next to Hori and sleeps next to him in chapter 48
 * When the drama club goes on a trip to the beach, Hori and Kashima hang out together in the water
 * Kashima gets jealous when Hori goes to pat Nozaki's head
 * Kashima tells Nozaki that the person that would get her most fired up as a love interest is Hori
 * Hori gets upset and doesn't talk to anyone when Kashima ignores him. When she returns to him he meets her at the station because he doesn't want her to distance herself from him again
 * Hori goes to a cafe because he wants to see Kashima dressed as a waiter
 * In chapter 74 Kashima tells her coworkers that Hori is the guy she particularly likes
 * When adlibbing with Hori, Kashima suggests they end with a kiss scene
 * Wakamatsu tells Hori listening to Seo's voice with headphones makes it feel like she is whispering in his ear so Hori records Kashima singing and listens with headphones.
 * Hori is the only person who can listen to Kashima singing
 * Kashima gets excited at the thought of Hori repeating a grade as he is in the grade above
 * They both remember every play the other has been in, to the point that remember every line each of them said

Fanon
Many popular tropes are applied to this ship in fanfiction and art. Due to Hori and Kashima's height difference, this is often used as a trope in fanfiction. Hori is shorter than Kashima in canon and many HoriKashi fanfic's play on this canonical height difference. Another popular trope in fanon for this ship is the crossdressing trope. As Kashima in canon believes Hori want's to be the heroine of the school play, many people create fanfic's of this happening. As well as this, Hori is often written to enjoy wearing the opposite sex's clothes despite this not being confirmed in canon. Fanart of the pair often applies this same trope, dressing Kashima in tradtionally male clothes, and Hori in traditionally female clothes.

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Trivia

 * HoriKashi was voted the number one most popuar pairing in the Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki Kun fanbook
 * The two are commonly paired together in official art
 * Yuu Kashima is 176cm tall while Masayuki Hori is 164cm tall