Nahosaya

"Our friendship will last forever. It will never die..."

- Sayaka at the beginning of Corpse Party: Book of Shadows Chapter 4 - Purgatory

Nahosaya is the femslash ship between Naho Saenoki and Sayaka Ooue from the Corpse Party fandom.

Canon
Naho and Sayaka are best friends and classmates at Paulownia Academy High School Class 2-1. They are both very popular as Sayaka works part-time as a radio personality and model, while Naho rose into fame through her activities as a paranormalist. They have somewhat opposite personalities as Naho is more reserved but can be somewhat eccentric, while Sayaka is more outgoing and bubbly. When at school Naho is quite collected and cool, but around Sayaka she becomes more energetic and excited, and as Sayaka explains it, "she [Naho] lets loose with this feline-like personality of hers." Meanwhile Sayaka adores Naho and it is quickly made clear that she has feelings for her, and she is willing to forgive Naho for anything and even ready risk her own life for Naho's wishes, which eventually leads to her demise.

Their relationship is properly shown in Book of Shadows Chapter 4, Purgatory. It is also the game which properly introduces Sayaka, as she was only briefly mentioned in Blood Covered. In one of Naho's notes, she had written down that she "feels bad for bringing Sayaka to the Heavenly Host, but needs to move on and investigate the place."

Book of Shadows
The chapter briefly starts with Sayaka being close to fainting in Heavenly Host and thinking to herself how Naho will definitely come to save her as they are best friends. After she screams, the scene jumps back to events prior to Naho and Sayaka doing the ritual and arriving at Heavenly Host.

Sayaka and Naho are attending the idol group Twinkle Girls' concert and having a blast in the audience. In her monologue, Sayaka mentions prior to the concert, she and Naho had spent the whole day together. After the concert, Naho, still feeling the hype after the concert, suggests they go to café and eat some sweets. Sayaka agrees with her idea. At the café, the two order and Naho points out Sayaka looks like she hasn't gotten enough sleep. They talk about their jobs and Naho pouts when Sayaka tells her that Taguchi, one of Naho's mentor's assistants, had revealed that she'll be starring in a movie on his blog. After a bit of poking, Sayaka manages to invite Naho to co-star in her radio show as a guest for an episode about horror and ghost stories. After their outing, Naho invites Sayaka over to Kibiki's to grab his new book, mentioning she knows that Sayaka has been dying to read it. Sayaka stays over for some tea before leaving and bidding Naho a goodbye and saying they'll see each other next day at school.

During lunchtime, Sayaka heads over to Paulownia's rooftop, knowing Naho will be there eating lunch, all the while mentioning they both always use it as a lunchtime spot. Sayaka jumps over the fence and they start chatting about both Twinkle Girls' music and Kibiki's new book. When the girls hear the bell ringing, Sayaka sighs and says she's got an appointment she can't miss. She then reminds Naho about their radio show and Naho teases her for saying "behind the gate" before Sayaka cheerfully bids her a farewell.

As Sayaka begins narrating the beginning of her show, Naho thinks how Sayaka's on-air personality is amazing and that she's got her hooked. When Naho is called over to the booth, Sayaka greets her with a smile but Naho freezes upon seeing Sachiko's ghost in the corner of the booth. She claims she was feeling just dizzy for a second before thinking that the Shinozaki curse is too powerful. Sayaka then continues on and after introducing Naho and mentioning everyone requesting her to appear in the show. As the show goes on, Sayaka asks Naho if they have uninvited guests around as she keeps glancing at the corner of the booth, but Naho lies in order to keep Sayaka calm. After the recording, Sayaka pokes at Naho asking if there really weren't any ghosts around. Naho denies it again and they are both left in a shocked state after they hear an eerie voice in the recording and the Director has a seizure due to paranormal intervention. Naho feels regretful and thinks how they could have avoided everything had she not appeared.

Sayaka tries cheering Naho up as they step outside the recording studio and gets Naho to smile after offering to treat her at a café. As they part ways, Naho regrets once more putting Sayaka and her coworkers into danger and it all wouldn't have happened if she and Kibiki had stopped their investigation on the Shinozaki estate sooner. She arrives at Kibiki's house and upon finding a note where he mentions leaving to the Heavenly Host, she runs out in total panic and with tears rolling down her face. As Sayaka is about to change out of her uniform, she hears Naho screaming outside her window and ranting about Kibiki "crossing over." Sayaka tries to calm her down but Naho begs her to come over to Kibiki's house. There, Naho franctically explains the ritual to her as well as that they need to go save Kibiki and Sayaka is hesitant, as she gets easily scared and realized Heavenly Host is a dangerous place. Naho begs her, mentioning Sayaka is the only person she can do the ritual with and swears she'll protect her no matter what. Looking at Naho's teary face again, Sayaka makes up her mind and promises to go with Naho. After Sayaka leaves to go home to take care of things, Naho bitterly writes down the "Sachiko Ever After" ritual on her blog, knowing people will read and try it out as well.

As they do the ritual, they get pulled into Heavenly Host, and Sayaka wakes up all alone in the underground of Heavenly Host, completely separated from Naho. She starts searching for Naho while also feeling her sanity lowering from the eerie atmosphere and ghosts' voices. She keeps crying out for Naho and looking for her nonstop, but days later gets dragged away, leading to the chapter ending.

Quotes
"Just look how cute she is! When we're together, she even makes a gal like me all wobbly. I love this little lady!"

- Sayaka's internal monologue in Book of Shadows Chapter 4 - Purgatory

"As expected, she was nestled right into her usual spot. The sight was positively picturesque: a high school girl all tucked away on the school roof, nose buried in a book with a nondescript paper dust pack. I swear you could just paint any moment of this girl's life and it would make a fine portrait."

- Sayaka's internal monologue in Book of Shadows Chapter 4 - Purgatory

Fanon
Nahosaya is somewhat popular and the most popular ship for both girls. It is mainly rivaled by Inusaya and Kibinaho. Nahosaya is mostly seen as a tragic ship, with many feeling sad over both girls' fates. As a result, many were happy over them being alive and receiving even more shippy moments in the spin-off game 2U. At the same time, some think the ship is toxic due to speculations that Sayaka and Naho's friendship was one-sided all along, due to her pulling Sayaka into Heavenly Host and not bothering to look for her, knowing full well that Sayaka would die there.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * Naho/Sayaka tag on FanFiction.net
 * Naho/Sayaka tag on FanFiction.net

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Trivia

 * They have a height difference of 2 cm, with Sayaka being 163 cm, and Naho being 161 cm tall.
 * They have the same bust size.