SeoWaka

SeoWaka is the het ship between Yuzuki Seo and Hirotaka Wakamatsu from the Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun fandom.

Canon
Second-year student Seo Yuzuki is secretly the Glee Club's Lorelai, whose voice happens to be the only one who can get the first-year insomniac Wakamatsu Hirotaka to sleep. Wakamatsu is in love with the Glee Club's Lorelai, yet dislikes Seo (whom he refers to as Seo-senpai). Seo later realises his love for Lorelai and ends up telling him, even multiple times but he doesn't believe it.

The two were first shown together in Chapter 11 as Wakamatsu describes her as someone who would break the rules [in basketball]. He later stays at Umetarou Nozaki's house and hears her music instantly falling asleep. In Chapter 14 Seo is shown to be targeting Wakamatsu in basketball and to deal with her he goes to shoujo manga for help. After writing a letter challenging her to come to the roof in a love letter that looks like a love letter, Seo decides to call him the pet name "Waka" after misunderstanding his challenge for wanting a pet name.

Seo invites Waka to a film in chapter 23. In this chapter Seo puts her hand on Waka's head and later falls asleep on him at the theatre. At the end of the chapter Wakamatsu insists she doesn't invite anyone else from the basketball team on a trip when she says she will.

In chapter 29 Wakamatsu talks to his basketball team about wanting a cutting knife for tone. Seo overhears this conversation and decides to buy him one. After Seo gifted it to him, Wakamatsu is touched that Seo remembered something he wanted. Later he names a type of tone that indicates love and happiness: 'Seo-senpai(rare).'

In chapter 34, Wakamatsu confesses to Nozaki that he habours strong feelings for the glee clubs Lorelai despite not knowing her identity. When Nozaki scolds him for this he gets upset and doesn't react to Seo trying to get his attention as he isn't in the mood. This results in Seo not feeling like singing and causes a commotion as the famous Lorelai isn't singing. Wakamatsu goes to a cafe with Wakamatsu where he confesses how he feels for Lorelai and how she hasn't been singing. After hearing this Seo sings again by the end of the chapter.

In chapter 43 Mikorin and Wakamatsu are in a train car together when Mikorin accidentally plays one of Lorelai's songs and Wakamatsu instantly falls asleep. Seo spots them in their train car and comes over. This is when Mikorin discovers the Lorelai Wakamatsu is in love with is actually Seo as the two are arguing. The train car begins to speed up and Seo grabs Wakamatsu's pants so she doesn't fall. Wakamatsu allows this as there are no other seats availiable int he train car. Someone gets off the train and Seo throws them both into the seat where she sits on his lap.

In chapter 57 Seo is acting as a quiet nice girl as she pretends to be Mikorin's girlfriend to help him out. She goes home on the train with her new look and thinks if she doesn't talk Wakamatsu will be pleased. He gets irritated at her silence and she ruffles his hair since she is pleased.

In chapter 66 the basketball team makes a plan to calm Seo down when they are practicing. They decide if she got a boyfriend she would act calmer so they nominate Wakamatsu to become her boyfriend. When the team jeers at Seo and Wakamatsu that they should date Seo runs away. At Nozaki's place Wakamatsu and Nozaki plan on how Wakamatsu is going to use the new information that Seo isn't good with love. Wakamatsu rehearses some lines to say but denies against it as he doesn't want to be mean. When the two are alone suddenly Wakamatsu slips out, "Seo senpai I like you please go out with me." She gets awkward, runs away and begins avoiding him. He gets upset and states he wants to see Seo badly, he also gets worried they won't get to see the movie they planned to see. Wakamatsu ends up telling Seo it was a joke yet later he says the phrase again and realises he found something he liked about her.

In chapter 77 Seo believes Waka is being bullied because she hangs out with him the most. She decides she must show love for the whole team equally. The team create Seo cards so each day one person is shown kindness from Seo. In the end she gets sick of it and gives Wakamatsu all the cards and spends time with him again.

In chapter 102 Seo plans to tell Wakamatsu she is Lorelei of the glee club. When she tells him he won't believe her due to his lack of trust in her. Even as she desperately tries to convince him, he still doesn't believe her.Later in chapter 103 Seo plans to gain Wakamatsu's trust. She takes him to a romance movie he has been wanting to see and tells him she appreciates and cherish's him.

In chapter 110 she is still trying to gain his trust, yet she mistakes him as a tsundere. When he tells her to go away, she thinks he is just embarrassed to say that he wants her with him. Wakamatsu confides to Mikorin about how Seo has been acting weird. Mikorin says its because Seo is just trying to show Wakamatsu she has a soft spot for him. Near the end of the chapter Wakamatsu thinks Seo is cute yet she takes it as the opposite as she still thinsk he is a tsundere. At the end of the chapter Wakamatsu denies being a tsundere and says "It's not like I like you" yet the other present characters, Mikorin, Chiyo and Nozaki all viewed him as a tsundere at that moment.

In chapter 115 Seo doesn't know how she can gain Wakamatsu's trust. Nozaki decides to help out and help Seo practice showing affection towards Wakamatsu. He makes her a Waka doll for her to practice being nice to since using other objects didn't work. Seo grows attached to the Waka doll and holds him close to her all through class. Wakamatsu sees the doll and ends up getting jealous that Seo is nice to the doll instead of him. Nozaki takes the Waka doll from Seo once he sees how depressed Wakamatsu himself has gotten. She wanted to keep the doll because she couldn't reach Wakamatsus head to pat him so Wakamatsu begins to bend down for her from then on.

In chapters 124 and 125 Wakamatsu finally discovers Seo is Lorelai. Seo gets sick and sings to Wakamatsu and due to her voice being sore he can hear her singing without falling asleep and recognise her voice as Lorelai's. When Wakamatsu falls asleep to Lorelai's music he has to remove his headphones as it sounds like Seo is whispering in his ear.

Quotes
"Waka, if I can't play with you it's boring."

- Seo

"It's alright, okay? Even if your not Lorelai-san, I'll still hear out your requests you know!"

- Wakamatsu

Fanon
In fanon content such as fanart and fanfiction, the two are shown similarly as they are in the manga and anime. Despite the fandom being small, SeoWaka is quite popular and has a significant amount of fanart, just behind HoriKashi (the ship between Hori and Kashima). On AO3, SeoWaka has 100+ fics and is overall the 3rd most written ship for the fandom. The two characters dynamic is similar to the manga and anime, Seo tormenting Wakamatsu and Wakamatsu not being aware she is Lorelai. This may be due to most of the fanfiction was written before the reveal in chapter 124. This pairing is often written with other pairings from the series in fanfiction.

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Trivia

 * According to the Official Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun Fanbook, which was released on August 22, 2014, SeoWaka ranked as the second most popular pairing with 28,895 votes.
 * In the same fanbook, Seo ranked two places above Waka in the character popularity contest at 5th.
 * Nozaki's manga's "Let's Fall in Love!!" characters Waka and Oze are based on Wakamatsu and Seo respectively.
 * They have a height difference of 22 cm, with Waka being 185 cm, and Seo being 163 cm tall.