Ryojoe

Ryojoe is the het ship between Joe Tazuna and Ryoko Hirose from the Your Turn To Die fandom.

Canon
Before Ryoko and Joe met, Ryoko won a dog keychain at an arcade. For Joe's birthday, Sara gifted the keychain to him. So albeit indirectly, Ryoko gave the dog keychain as a gift to Joe.

At some point, Sara introduced Ryoko and Joe to each other and the three became close friends. Eventually, Joe asked Ryoko out on a date, to which she agreed. On their first date, the two went out to eat doner kebabs, and Joe thought it was very cute that she was a bit of a glutton and could eat a whole doner kebab in one bite. At an unspecified time during their outing, Joe fell into a ditch, so Ryoko helped him back up. This was the same day Sara and Joe were kidnapped and thrown into the Death Game.

During Chapter 1, Part 2, Sara finds Joe in the bar looking at a photo of the three of them together. He goes on to talk about how he misses Ryoko. He also confides that during their date, he was so nervous to talk to Ryoko that the two of them ended up just talking about Sara. He asked Ryoko why she agreed to go out with him, since they didn't really know each other that much. Ryoko responded by saying that she thought no friend of Sara's could be a bad person, which Joe agreed on, and they made a pact: to beat up anyone who made Sara cry.

Fanon
Despite being the only canon ship in Your Turn To Die, Ryojoe receives nearly no recognition in the fandom. This is mostly because Ryoko never actually appears in the game and exists only as a part of Joe and Sara's backstory.

Some fans prefer this ship over the more popular ship for Joe, Joesara, because they feel Joe is already committed to Ryoko since they had already gone one a date and were probably planning for more in the future.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

WIKI
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Trivia

 * In the official manga, it is explored that Joe accidentally stood Ryoko up on what was supposed to be their first date. He was taking care of a stray cat, later adopted by Sara and named Kuro.

Variations

 * Ryojoesara refers to the poly ship between Ryoko, Joe and Sara.