Nanichiru

Nanichiru is the femslash ship between Michiru Inukai and Nana Hiiragi from the Talentless Nana fandom.

Canon
Inukai and Nana didn't had a lot interactions before because of Nana fullfilling her mission of killing every "enemies of humanity" that had a Potential Kill Count. Nana started to interact with Inukai once the girl healed Nana's leg with licking it, because Michiru's talent was healing physical injuries, and when she noticed that Nana's leg was injured, she went directly to Nana to heal it, however unlike normal healing, Michiru is giving up her lifespan to heal another person. Nana then started on taking a slight interest on her, as she saw that Michiru's Potential Kill Count was a high number of deaths.

Nana then intends on killing Michiru at first, but gets interrupted by Kyoya as she hurt herself for avoiding getting caught killing Michiru by him. Michiru then heals Nana, though it wouldn't mean that they would be friends inmediately, because Nana would still try on thinking on something for getting rid of Michiru. However, in one occasion Nana almost got caught by Michiru when she killed someone, as Michiru peeked a photo where it contained a picture of Nana pushing Nakajima, her first victim, out of a cliff. Hiiragi knew though that Michiru was naive and she would take a time for processing the content of the photo, and so she made to ask her to giving back the photo.

When Nana's crimes were going to be revealed by Kyoya, Michiru defends Nana by saying that she wouldn't do that, because she was a nice person (for Michiru). Nana then follows Michiru's speech so she would convince Kyoya along with Michiru, which they succeeded and so once more Nana could escape from Kyoya thanks to Michiru's trust on her.

In one episode, Jin Tachibana, one of the remaining talented people of the island where Nana was studying with the others, disguised as Michiru with the goal of finding out those who worked with Nana for comitting crimes. He also teased Nana to find out her true talent while being disgused as Inukai, which it succeeded as he finally made to reunite with Nana in person and point out about Nana's weird behavior towards Michiru from everyone.

Nana gets fond of Michiru a time later, as she accepted the fact of her being her friend. It is shown that Nana cares a lot about Michiru because of several moments when she was more open to her by telling Michiru about her tragic past and also taking care of her when Michiru got sick after getting attacked by someone. For Nana, it was a bad thing since she hadn't commited a crime in the days where she was looking for Michiru's health, and if she didn't commit a crime in a short time, she would get killed by the ones who worked with her. Michiru is shown being open to Nana too, with revealing her past to Nana and her personal problems.

After Nana finds out about a crime she didn't commit, she did her hard for finding out the culprit, since she knew that they were targeting Michiru for killing her. Not long after, her theory was right and before Michiru could get killed by the murderer, Nana jumps to Michiru for protecting Michiru to avoid her being stabbed by a knife that was thrown directly at her, being stabbed in her back instead. Michiru, in a shocked state, tries to help Nana by healing her injury, but Nana pushes her away saying that she had to leave the place, since she herself had a plan on mind to escape from that situation. But Michiru was insisting on staying with her but then Nana spouts fake facts like that Michiru wasn't her friend and that she was only a tool for her, Nana's goal was persuade Michiru with fake arguments and so she succeeded once more, and as Michiru left the place and Nana got rid of the culprit with Kyoya's help, Hiiragi was slowly dying while saying for herself to her parents that she finally made a friend.

But surprisingly, Michiru comes back to Nana and releases a big amount of power for reviving Nana, Hiiragi, while her mind was conscious, begged for Michiru to stop since she was going to die, but as much as she insisted, Michiru didn't hear anything since Nana was unconscious physically. After being succesfully revived, Nana heads to Michiru's death body and hugs it while mourning and cries painfully, since Michiru was someone precious to Nana and the first friend she ever made.

Ever since the situation, Nana decided on not killing anyone else anymore and would change for good, not only for everyone but for Michiru too.

Fanon
Even if Hiiragi is the main antagonist of the anime (having a redemption arc in further chapters), the ship gained popularity as their relationship was introduced to the anime. It can be interpreted as a fluff and cute ship because of both girls' way of being and also their pastel colors. It's one of most popular ships in the Talentless Nana fandom, the most written ship for Michiru and the second most for Nana (after Kyoya/Nana), overall it's the second most written on AO3.

Despite the show's lack of official romance, the ship and its associated headcanon quickly became popular because of how tender and wholesome the manga and anime portrayed their friendship, often more intimate than Nana's relationship with other characters or even with her rival male lead of the show. Especially in the anime, where Inukai was actually the only character with whom Nana had a wholesome and close relationship

Although at first this ship caused a lot of controversy between supporters of this ship and people who insisted that their romantic shipping "destroys the importance" of friendship between the girls and Inukai's status as her first and only friend, after the death of the first, these disputes more or less subsided and most people began to agree that whether ship it or not, it is still a wholesome cute ship.

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