Tomohima

Tomohima is the femslash ship between Tomoe Udagawa and Himari Uehara from the BanG Dream! fandom.

Canon
Tomoe and Himari are childhood friends as well as members of the rock band, Afterglow, where Tomoe is their drummer, and Himari is their bassist as well as the leader. They are also third-year high school students and classmates at Haneoka Girls' High School. According to Tomoe, Himari is the one who knows her the best. They are very often shown hanging out together. Although Tomoe enjoys teasing Himari, and sometimes even perplexes and flusters Himari with her hotblooded nature, she also relies on her and respects and acknowledges her as Afterglow's leader.

Growing Up Sisters!
In Himari's Card Story Episode, "I'm Being Serious!", the two meet up at the station entrance and Tomoe asks what Himari wanted to do. Seeing as Himari hadn't come up with anything, Tomoe suggests they look through some of the leaflets to find something they'd like. A while later as Himari excitedly looks at the different stores holding a holiday fair, Tomoe thinks to herself how she's interested in the bookstore's photobook fair. Tomoe decides to hide her curiosity by telling Himari she's fine with going anywhere. Four hours later, the two are back at the station entrance and Himari comments just how fun it was.

Tomoe agrees with her and calls her Himari-sama, before Himari slips up and reveals she invited Tonoe to come with her to make her feel better. Himari is flustered hearing she wasn't being secretive at all, before changing to being confused when Tomoe thanks her. She tells it was all Tomoe's effort and they were just there to hoist her up when Tomoe was feeling down after the latter says it was thanks to Himari and the others that she was able to make up with Ako. Himari reminds Tomoe to come talk to everyone in Afterglow when she's troubled again, and Tomoe teases her, before promising to do so. Himari then surprises Tomoe by knowing that the latter wanted to the visit the bookstore as well, confidently remarking that they're childhood friends so of course Himari would know.

Girl's Blossom Project
In the April Fool's otome game, just like canonically, Tomoe and Himari are childhood friends. During Tomoe's route, Himari wants to invite her to watch the legendary cherry blossom tree which blooms every ten years, and is said to grant any of your wishes when you go see it with a beloved one. While talking about the legend and Himari cursing internally that she can't talk about it as casually as usual due to their status as childhood friends, Tomoe smirks and tells Himari to not worry as she won't be asking her to go and see the tree with her. However as Himari is trying to leave back to her classroom, Tomoe calls out to her and sheepishly tries asking her something, before giving up on her initial pursuit and instead asking Himari to make ramen with her. Himari instead suggests they make cherry blossom mochi and Tomoe is taken aback, leading to her asking if Himari really has someone she's going to go see the tree with. Himari doesn't answer her properly and Tomoe teases her for a bit but agrees to her idea.

On the day they're supposed to make the mochi, Tomoe brings ingredients for ramen-making with her instead and teases Himari, also asking if there's someone that Himari really wants to feed cherry blossom mochi to. Himari in a mischievous tone proclaims it's none of Tomoe's business, leading the latter to go silent. Tomoe apologizes for prying and reveals she had actually brought the right ingredient as well. After they finish making the treats, Tomoe keeps getting messages from a girl in her class who wants to go see the cherry blossom tree with her, and Himari feels a hazy feeling in her chest and becomes even more anxious. When the tree finally blooms, Himari regrets the fact she hadn't managed to invite Tomoe. CHU² interrupts her thoughts by approaching her behind the school and Himari vents that she wanted to ask Tomoe but couldn't find the courage and wonders if it's because of their status as childhood friends. CHU² proceeds to chide her before being interrupted by Tomoe angrily asking CHU² to stop picking on Himari. Himari starts crying and tells Tomoe she feels bad for not being able to tell her feelings to the latter. CHU² calls them both stupid and leaves the scene. Tomoe says she had been looking for Himari in order to ask her never leave her side and to let her [Tomoe] protect her. Himari confesses and the two head out to the cherry blossom tree where Tomoe also swears to make Himari happy no matter what.

Quotes
"Wow, that's my childhood friend. You and I go so far back that you know everything about me, don't you?"

- Tomoe in Girl's Blossom Project prologue

Fanon
Tomohima is one of the most popular ships in the franchise as well as both Tomoe and Himari's most popular ship. It is often shipped alongside with the other popular Afterglow ship, MocaRan. On Tomoe's side, the ship is mostly rivaled by Tomoran and Tomosaaya, and on Himari's side, rarepairs such Himarimi and Mocahima. In fanworks, their gimmick is quite similar to their canon interactions, with Tomoe teasing Himari. It is currently the 9th most written ship on AO3.

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Trivia

 * Tomoe is a member of Haneoka's dance club, while Himari is a member of the tennis club.
 * They are also coworkers at their fast food restaurant part-time job.
 * Both Himari and Tomoe are afraid of ghosts.

Variations

 * Tomotsuguhima refers to the ship between Tsugumi Hazawa, Tomoe and Himari