NobaMaki

NobaMaki is the femslash ship between Nobara Kugisaki and Maki Zenin from the Jujutsu Kaisen fandom.

Canon
Maki and Nobara met in the moment when both Fushiguro and Kugisaki were feeling down because of Itadori's "death", Maki acted a bit strict with them but then apologized when her second-year upperclassmen told her about the reason that both were mooded down. Then they told them about the Kyoto Sister School Exchange Event, Nobara asks about this event, and after getting explained, Nobara concluded that they had to fight with another jujutsu sorcerers, Maki smiled at this saying that the event was jujutsu battle where everything but killing would go. The second-years upperclassmen then told Nobara and Kugisaki that they would train them before getting on the battle.

Although both aren't seen training together, Maki sees on the way that Panda was training Nobara doing the with "falling practice" by spinning her by her legs and dropping her to the ground.

After Nobara and Fushiguro ran into with the high-up students, Mai Zenin (Maki's sister) confronted Nobara while Fushiguro was busy with the other high-up student. Before Nobara was going to get shot by Mai, Maki suddenly appears to lend a hand to Kugisaki. Before Mai proposed fight to Maki, Nobara attacks Mai from behind as she was pretending being injured in the floor, thanking Maki in the process for the supporting that she gave to the struggle. Both then are seen walking together while chatting, then Nobara placed her head on Maki's shoulder saying that she respected her.

Juju Stroll

 * In Juju Stroll of the 5th episode, it's seen Nobara and Maki in a complete scene after Fushiguro mentioned that Panda's smell was like the sun.

Fanon
Despite of the ship having a small fanbase, it gained popularity as the 8th episode was aired out, quickly receiving a considerable amount of shippers and with the pass of time while more episodes are aired, NobaMaki received more followers. It is the most popular femslash ship in all the Jujutsu Kaisen fandom. It has several followers on Tumblr, a fanbase on Twitter, and a few fics on AO3. It's the most written ship for both characters. It can be shipped alongside with ItaFushi and SatoSugu.

Added to the extra fuel for the ship is the fact that due to the lack of any romance in the franchise, Nobara shows little to no sign of interest in boys, even being more intimate with male characters than with women. Due to this, many ship fans tend to keep fanon that she is a lesbian.

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Trivia

 * They're seen in back-to-back scenes in the first opening.