Touma x Taichi

Touma x Taichi is the slash ship between Touma Mita and Taichi Ichinose from the Blue Flag fandom.

Volume 1
Taichi and Touma met each other at primary school and instantly became best friends. But starting high school, Taichi started feeling like he and Touma were getting more and more distant, despite the fact that Touma was always looking for him still. To Taichi, they were now too different now, since Touma is a perfect athlete, very popular, very attractive and tall (1.88 cm) and all the girls at school have a crush on him (although he has never had a girlfriend), and Taichi feels like he has nothing going on for him. However, then he meets Futaba, someone who has a crush on Touma, and decides to help her ask Touma out.

So one day the both of them go to the cinema with Touma as a "plan" to leave Futaba and Touma together. But it goes terribly wrong when Taichi runs away from there after Futaba's friend, Masumi, interpellates him about having something to do with Touma's feelings. Meanwhile, Touma can't stop talking about Taichi with Futaba and then asks her if she likes Taichi. Seeing Taichi running away, Touma goes chasing after him and the two of them get into an incredibly crowded subway. So at an abrupt stop, when Taichi ends up squeezed between the person behind him and Touma in front of him, since he's very short his feet end up not touching the ground, so Touma tells him to hold on to him. Now, extremely close to one another, Taichi blushes uncontrollably and closes his eyes as he squeezes his face in Touma's chest.

Later, they meet up with Touma's sister in law and go to Touma's house. And at that moment, Taichi also runs away from there, apologizing to Touma, after having a realization about his feelings for him. Taichi was encouraging Futaba to confess to Touma so Touma could be happy, just like Touma was encouraging Futaba to be with Taichi so Taichi could be happy as well. So the both of them were just trying to get over each other by encouraging each other to be in heterosexual relationships. So he later goes to his house and has a breakdown on his room, thinking about Touma potentially having a crush on his sister in law, since she supposedly "fits the description" of Touma's ideal type.

Fanon
is the most popular ship in the Blue Flag fandom. The LGBT+ representation this ship had became incredibly important. Since the story was supposed to end with Taichi dating the girl, as most generic and popular shonen mangas end, the story subverted all expectations and Taichi ended up dating, and marrying, Touma. That was not only revolutionary due to the lack of representation in the shonen manga genre (specially gay male protagonists) of LGBT+ main characters, but also because the main couple of the story being an LGBT+ one. All of this made the ship very important and beloved for fans of the series, and the relationship itself.

Fandom
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