EmmaKari

EmmaKari is the femslash ship between Emma Verde and Karin Asaka from the Love Live! fandom.

Canon
Emma and Karin are best friends, 3rd year students and fellow member of the Nijigasaki School Idol Club. The two are roomates in the Nijigasaki high school dorms, with Emma being an exchange student who came to Japan from Switzerland to become an idol. The two strongly contrast in terms of personality, with being Emma sweet and innocent while Karin is more mature, serius and seductive-looking.

Anime
In the anime, Emma and Karin met when Emman couldn't find the high school's map and Karin offered herself to help. The next day, Emma met Karin in the cafeteria and thanked her for helping her yesterday. As Emma saw that Karin was alone, she asked her if it was okay for her to eat with her, to which Karin said yes. Karin saw how excited Emma was about eating Japanese food and jokingly asked her if she only came here to eat that, to which Emma replied that she came mainly to become an idol. Then two of Karin's fangirls came to their table and Emma found out that Karin is a model. Karin told her that being an idol was awesome too, she encouraged the two of them to try their best with their dreams, leaving Emma very happy.

After Emma's idol club broke up, Karin approached her in the cafeteria noticing that she was discouraged. Karin asked Emma what she would do about being a school idol, and Emma told her that she tried to talk to the president, Setsuna, about it but couldn't find her. Emma finally told Karin that the club was disbanded, and Karin tried to cheer her up by saying that she would try to help her. After that, Karin tried to help her friend by talking to the student council president to find Setsuna, only to later realize that Setsuna and the student council president are the same person. Thanks to that, the club returned and since then Karin helped Emma and the other idols before she became a member herself.

After Ai and Rina joined the club and the girls decided to be solo idols, Emma told Karin in the cafeteria how glad she was with the group now. She also told her that she would like her to join the club, but Karin refused, saying that she does not like being surrounded by many people. When Shizuku came up with the idea of wearing new outfits, Emma asked Karin for help over the phone and the latter led the group to a sewing club that designed the outfits for them. As Emma randomly put on outfits, Karin recommended a few that would fit her best. When the girls wanted to take pictures with Emma, Emma asked Karin to join them, and although Emma almost convinced her, Karin eventually left after receiving a call from work, leaving Emma worried. At the end of the day, Emma met Karin again in her room and found an idol magazine on her desk, realizing that Karin is actually into idols and leaving her blushing. Emma again insisted that Karin join the group, but she refused again saying that she was very busy with her modeling job and lied that she only had that magazine to get outfit ideas. Emma said that she just thought they could be idols together because Karin was always helping her, and Karin responded by saying that she helped her because of how juchi she tried, but if it gave her the wrong idea, she would stop. Karin left her the magazine and told her not to invite her to join the group again, leaving Emma worried and confused.

The next day, Emma dropped a page from yesterday's idol magazine and found Karin's model questionnaire sheet, which said that she was most interested in school idols. Emma realized that Karin was definitely lying to herself and ran over to her, first to go out with her and then to talk about what was important. After having a lot of fun together, Emma gave Karin her questionnaire and asked her why she didn't tell her from the beginning how she felt and locked up her feelings. Emma told Karin that she wanted to become an idol to make people feel warm and excited inside, and that she couldn't achieve that goal if she didn't achieve it with the person closest to her. Karin finally confessed that she had a lot of fun helping the girls in the club and that she admired seeing how they all worked hard to achieve their goal. but she tried to avoid it because that's not the "cool and mature" Karin Asaka that she is. After that, Emma hugged Karin from behind while telling her that she can be whoever she wants as long as it makes her smile, and that this is "the best her". Then Emma sang the song La Bella Patria, motivating Karin to join the club. Karin admired how Emma believed that she could be an idol, and Emma replied that she believes that she has already started to be an idol since she wanted to be one.

Moments

 * When Kanata told Karin that she thought that she was going to become a member, Karin responded that she was only here so Emma wasn't sad again.


 * When Karin was scared for her first performance, Emma took her by the hand telling her that everything was fine.


 * On the Nijigasaki's first concert, when the fans were taking pictures of Karin, Emma came up to tell her that it was her turn to perform, but Karin didn't know where her stage was until some girls helped her.


 * When the QU4RTZ were practizing together and Ai and Karin were looking at them, Ai joked telling Karin that Kanata, Kasumi and Rina "stole her Emma"

Fanon
EmmaKari is one of the most popular ships whithin the Love Live Nijigasaki fandom. Although it started from the fact that the two are third years and roommates, it exploded in popularity from the episode Someting I Can Only Do Right Now, for how Emma helped Karin find her true feelings. In AO3, the ship has 100+ works, being the 3rd most writted Love Live!: Nijigasaki School Idol Club ship.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION