Togakure

Togakure is the slash ship between Yasuhiro Hagakure and Byakuya Togami from the Danganronpa fandom.

Canon
In Chapter 4, when Aoi Asahina refuses to let Byakuya, Yasuhiro, and Toko Fukawa investigate her best friend's murder, Byakuya offers to instead let the other two not interfere, as they wouldn't be of much help anyway. Instead of being angry, Hagakure agrees with Togami. At the 5th Class Trial, when Togami accuses Kyoko Kirigiri of being guilty, Hagakure is open to believe him. Hagakure tends to be rather easygoing around Togami as well, often cheerfully being unphased by threats or easily tricked by him. Togami does not seem to regard him well though during this period.

Future Arc reveals that Byakuya has grown to genuinely care about his fellow survivors including Yasuhiro. They in turn seem to have also grown closer to Togami. Togami is open to helping Hagakure and the others, and smiles for one of a few times in the franchise upon reuniting with him. Hope Arc reveals both are working together, along with their fellow survivors and Komaru, to rebuild Hope's Peak Academy. While most of their growth of friends seems to be off screen, Togami has certainly grown to appreciate Yasuhiro who seems quite happy to see him as well.

A quickly seen difference between the two is their personalities. Yasuhiro is one of the more cheery, laid-back students, though a bit odd as well. However, he is generally not well-liked and he himself has openly admitted that he has no friends, being quite cowardly, lazy, slow-witted, and having a habit to act selfishly. Byakuya is more logical and egoistical. Byakuya does not help Yasuhiro out when he is asked to carry many heavy boxes (although he does do this to everyone). These two do not interact much in the animation.

Fanon
The ship sailed as a result of their opposite personalities and the fact that they were both survivors in the end on Danganronpa 1. However, both those and the fans who prefer to ship characters with positive interactions appreciated the fact that the two grew closer to each other over the time, as shown in Future Arc.

While it has a fair amount of fan fictions written about it, Togakure remains as one of the less popular ships for both characters included. This is mostly as a result of the two not interacting much, as well as both having much more popular ships among their fellow survivors such as Asakure for Yasuhiro or Naegami for Byakuya. Nonetheless, it's still fairly popular for showing Byakuya's character development, as despite being the former Jackass of the group, he does appear to befriend Yasuhiro. People also enjoy the comedy of poor person and rich person, with Yasuhiro being a scammer always looking for a quick buck and Togami being obscenely rich. Though the ship does sometimes draw backlash for being perceived as an illegal age gap, despite how both characters were revealed to be adults at the end of the game.

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Trivia

 * Both are the only males aside from the protagonist who survived in Killing School Life.