HibiKana

Hibikana is the femslash ship between Hojo Hibiki and Minamino Kanade from the Pretty Cure fandom.

Canon
When Kanade and Hibiki were young, they used to be best friends and would play together all the time. They used to go to an old church to listen to music and sing together. This all changed at their school entrance ceremony. Hibiki was waiting for her under a sakura tree, where they had promised to meet on the first day of school so they could go to school together, but Kanade never showed up. When Hibiki got to school, she saw that Kanade had completely forgotten and was talking and laughing with other people. But in reality, Kanade didn't forget. Instead, they had both had a misunderstanding and had waited under different trees.

When Kanade came to church so she could listen to the record she and Hibiki used to listen to when they were young. Siren sees Kanade's emblem which is also a G Clef. The Trio the Minor then surrounds Kanade, wanting to steal her emblem. Both Hibiki and Kanade are enraged, their hearts connecting, then suddenly, their emblems come out of their hearts and then Hibiki and Kanade then transform into their new Cure forms Cure Melody and Cure Rhythm. After Hibiki and Kanade witnessed Siren turn their precious record into a Negatone, the two of them transformed into Pretty Cures. But their first attempt at fighting the Negatone was unsuccessful because their hearts were not in sync and ended up in failure. After the battle, both Kanade and Hibiki explained to each other more about their friendship and the broken promise, which Hummy understands a bit later on. In the end, though, they still hated each other, which caused them to be out of sync. They never agree with each other until one episode later.

The next day, Hibiki and Kanade saw a little girl crying under the same cherry tree that Kanade waited under years ago. She approached her and led her to her friend who was waiting under a different tree. Both kids were happy to see each other until Siren, the Trio of Minor, and the Negatone they fought earlier appeared. The Negatone started to spread its Melody of Sorrow throughout the school, which caused sadness to everyone. Both Kanade and Hibiki settled their differences and transformed to fight the Negatone with no avail. But after the two of them worked things out, they were able to control their power and their hearts were in full sync as they purified, After properly reconciling, they became Pretty Cure together and began to repair their broken relationship. Despite bickering and being unable to see eye-to-eye some of the time, the girls share a very close bond. When Siren was causing trouble to make them have a rift and split because their friendship is the source of their powers of beating them, but if both of them have trouble, then they would lose. Her plans worked but failed in the end when the two work it out and fight together against her.

Hibiki is also not interested in Masamune Ōji and is even annoyed by Kanade's crush on him. If Kanade lefts Hibiki alone, Hibiki is forever alone, for she loves spending fun times with her.

Fanon
HibiKana is quite popular among the fandom, and even, more popular than Rana, however, when it comes to fanfiction, the ship only has 5 works in A03. The fandom often calls it as the "gayest Precure coupe", "Magical girl married old couple", despite most of the fans being perfectly okay with it as romantic, there are some fans that think this relationship is more of an younger sister- older sister and prefers to ship it as friendship of family.

Some fans are even akward to the fact that Hibiki and Kanade were originally going to be sisters and prefer to ship it platonically. When SPC15 aired, some fans misinterpreted Hibiki's annoyance to Kanade's crush on Ouji as if Hibiki liked Kanade and was jealous of Ouji. Most fans of the ship love the trope "opposites attract" that the two seem to embody.

HibiKana has a bigger fanbase in the JP fandom, some fans draw Hibiki and Kanade married, Hibiki wearing an male suit and Kanade wearing a wedding dress.

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Trivia

 * Often, Hibiki teases Kanade by sneaking to eat her cupcakes smiling playfully over Kanade running after her with rage, and when she teases her about her love for the soft touch of the paws it raises her spirit.