ShosuAi

ShosuAi is the het ship between Shousuke Komi and Katai Ai from the Komi Can't Communicate fandom.

Canon
Shousuke and Ai first meet in chapter 182 of the manga, which is also Ai's debut chapter. After walking into the classroom, thinking to herself that she should not come back, immediately she swoons over his looks, although she has not fallen for him fully yet. She is also in denial of her initial infatuation with his looks, telling herself to keep it together because she's a hard liner. She catches the attention of Hitomi Tadano, who drags Shousuke along with her and Ai to tour the school together. Later in the chapter, Ai gets into trouble with bike gangsters, her getting beat up by them after promising to not fight back as long as they let a student go as their hostage. Hitomi (dragging Shousuke along) confront and defeat them, primarily Hitomi, as Shousuke distracts them, unintentionally. Ai misunderstands and believes he was the one who took on the delinquents, which fully is the point where she falls for him, making him food the next day as a thanks. Shousuke does indeed eat all of the food, which is why he's shown as full in the last panel of this chapter.

In chapter 198, Ai is found to be swooning over him from behind a tree. She later goes and gives him more food, which he ignores, which only makes her swoon over him more, saying he's hardcore. Hitomi later manages to get a "Good Morning" out of Shousuke due to her persistence, much of Ai's dismay, and she confronts her about it behind the school building. Hitomi denies all romantic feelings towards him, and Hitomi asks if Ai has feelings for Shousuke. Ai denies it as she is a hard-liner, and Hitomi offers to set them up on a date to the movies, which Ai agrees with. On that following Sunday, Ai, Shousuke, Hitomi and another classmate by the name of Sanjurokuro Yamada all arrive, Ai being annoyed that it wasn't just her and Shousuke, Hitomi apologizing for that, soon dragging Shousuke around with the group, much to Ai's jealousy. Ai swoons over Shousuke's coffee order after that ordeal. After the movie is order, both Ai and Shousuke's favorite characters is established to be Kyogoku, showing how the two of them may have common interests. Ai says that she was sleeping through the movies, but in actuality, she hangs behind the group, and smiles into her panda plus, admitting that she had fun to herself. Shousuke then looks back at Ai behind them, noticing her smiling into the plush.

In chapter 207 she comes over to Shousuke's house, and Shuuko states that she's cute.

In Chapter 244, Ai requests to take a picture with Shousuke. She gets jealous when Hitomi linked arms with Shousuke, since she was doing so to drag him along to where she needed him to go. But she gets bashful when asked why she couldn't do the same to take him there. Ai then runs off after taking the picture with Shousuke, proclaiming she's going to treasure the picture for the rest of her life. Ai also is the one who gets into a sumo contest with the delinquent girls from chapter 182, stating they needed to go through her if they wanted to fight Shousuke. They, along with Hitomi make takoyaki together to give to their siblings to play "Russian takoyaki".

In chapter 297, Ai and Shousuke share a quiet moment together on the beach outside of the hotel they're staying at for their school trip. Ai walks out and sees Shousuke initially sitting there, her getting nervous to ask him to sit there. However, she does sit next to him, and the two of them stare out at the water in silence.

In Chapter 316, Ai attempts to give Shousuke a heart-shaped chocolate, but she breaks it and gave it to Sanjurokuro instead.

In Chapter 344, Ai asks the head teacher to be in the same class as Shousuke, and when he says no, Ai cuts her hair. This haircut, as she states, is supposed to be a sign of her determination to be with Shousuke. She also states that she would go on the attack on Shousuke, showing her resolve to let her feelings be known. When the teacher lets her know that she would be in his class, Ai actually sheds her hard liner exterior and expresses her thanks with tears. Ai stays at home for the first two weeks of school due to her being embarrassed of her new hairstyle, and when she attempts to greet Shousuke, Hitomi gets in the way, and a deja vu moment of 182 occurs with Ai confronting Hitomi about her relationship with Shousuke, her confirming that she sees Shousuke as a brother now due to the relationship of her brother, but Ai seeing her as a rival nonetheless.

Fanon
ShosuAi is one of the two only Shosuke Komi ships really seen in the fandom. Although some people jokingly ship Tadano with Shousuke, it is not actually a serious ship. Often times, Hitosuke shippers seem to either butt heads or exists in coexisting peace with ShosuAi shippers, due to the matter of questioning Shousuke's feelings towards either of the two girls. However, most fans realize and seem to think that the author Oda is pushing Shousuke and Ai to get together towards the near future. Due to recent manga chapters, some people even ship the two of them as a way to get Hitohito Tadano and Katai Makoto as relatives in some way, to unite the trio of Shouko, Makoto and Hitohito. ShosuAi, regardless of this, does often get overshadowed by other ships, and as a result, does not get a lot of content, however, some content still exists.

Fandom
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 * Content about Shousuke x Ai on Tumblr