Kurusaka

Kurusaka is the slash ship between Shunsuke Hayasaka and Naomichi Kurumada from the Your Turn To Die fandom.

Canon
The real Hayasaka and Naomichi both died before they could meet each other, but the pair were resurrected as dolls, robots that are capable of human emotion. At the start of Chapter 3, Hayasaka, Naomichi, and the rest of the dummies are woken up and paired with a human. Its said that the dummies cannot go too far away from the human they are paired with. During an investigation of the floor, Hayasaka reveals that the dummies can go up to 1 room apart from the paired human. Kurumada, curious of where he heard that, asks Hayasaka about it and the gang discuss the possibility of each dummy being given special knowledge.

Later on, the gang has to fight a doll named Maple, and during the brawl Kurumada gets severely injured. Q-taro assits Kurumada to the elevator, leading to him staying behind. Its then revealed that Kurumada can be saved with a charger, though the charger can only fully recharge one person. Kurumada says not to use it on him and to save it, when Hayasaka says that he doesn't need and that he wants him to have it. The other dummies follow his example and Kurumada accepts it. Before the climax of the chapter, the player can get some of the crew to sing a song to help comfort Kurumada in his last moments, and Hayasaka is one of them.

The extent of their interactions are very limited, but the characters have a very unique dynamic. Hayasaka is shown to be very anxious and submissive, while Naomichi is seen to brash and assertive. Hayasaka is more logical, and Naomichi is more emotional. The only time this dynamic is switched is when Kurumada is hurt. During that time, Hayasaka takes control and acts emotional while Kurumada acts more logical and listens to the crowd.

Fanon
For Kurusaka, the ship sailed due to the unique dynamic rather than the interactions between characters, something common with the YTTD fandom. The ship is much more common in the English Speaking fandom for reasons specified later on. With little in canon content, fans were the one to make a large majority of the content.

The Two Trucks Fancam
The Rise of Kurusaka started in the Summer of 2020 with the release of the Two Trucks Fancam. This fancam raked in a large number of views by posting it in the replies of controversial tweets, leading it to gain infamy within the fandom. Because everyone knew about the fancam, a lot of people started consuming Kurusaka content. The fancam was so popular people even called the ship "Two Trucks" for a while. Sometime during September 2020-April 2021, the original poster of the fancam went private. Due to how fancams work, all posts using it stopped showing the fancam. On April 14, a twitter user, who we will call Andy for privacy reasons, noticed that the fancam was missing and asked their followers if anyone had it. No one had it, and people didn't even remember who made it. Andy continued searching for it and digging up information about it, and other users decided to help them on the search.

On July 6, with the help of someone who was following the creator, the fandom had retrieved the fancam. The quality was low due to the fact that it was a screen recording of the fancam and not the original video file, but it sufficed. Later that day, the original creator of the fancam came back online and noticed the commotion. Realizing that the fandom has been searching for the fancam for months, they decided to unprivate their account so the masses could once again have access to it. This time, the fandom learned their lesson and downloaded the fancam for archival purposes.

Fandom
TWITTER

Kurusaka Bot on Twitter

TUMBLR

Kurusaka tag on Tumblr

FAN FICTION

Shunsuke Hayasaka/Naomichi Kurumada tag on AO3