Yumary

Yumary is the femslash ship between Yumeko Jabami and Mary Saotome from the Kakegurui fandom.

Canon
Yumeko and Mary are classmates, at first, both had a kind of rivalry, but after a while, both showed respect and trust for each other.

On Yumeko's first day at school, Mary was jealous of all the attention that Yumeko was getting, and called her to a bet, a game of rock, paper or scissors. At first, Mary underestimated Yumeko and managed to win, but when Yumeko's chips ended she bet 8.8 million yen, at first Mary seems hesitant, but Yumeko teases her by saying that she is chickening out, making Mary accept the bet, but despite her cheating, Mary ends up losing the game and being in debt to Yumeko.

The next day, when Yumeko arrived, Mary is being humiliated for becoming a mittens because of her debt to Yumeko, appearing to blame her for it.

Later, Yumeko is called by one of the members of the student council to place a bet, but when she arrives there was an official match taking place between one of these members and Mary, but she loses the bet and gets very angry, appearing to be spiteful and blaming Yumeko because she only entered this game to try to get the money from the bet with Yumeko. Yumeko also lost the bet with the guild member, getting on an even bigger debt than Mary's.

When the student union make a game to help students with problems in relation to their debts, and Yumeko and Mary end up having to work together, Mary is extremely frustrated with this but Yumeko was very excited. Yumeko and Mary are a devastating betting rivalry, they had great chemistry in the game, they changed the value of their chips, with Mary first and Yumeko third, and both seemed to have great respect for each other during the game. After the game, Ryota receives the money from the bet that Yumeko won, then Yumeko and Mary explain to him. After that, Mary was leaving when Yumeko hugs her saying that thanks to her she can enjoy a very fun game, Mary blushes and says that she thinks this is true for both of them, and then sends Yumeko to release her complaining that Yumeko is taking on your breasts. Yumeko takes Mary's hand asking her if they are now friends and if she can now start calling her by her first name, Mary blushes again and says she thinks so, making Yumeko hug her again.

After Mary pays her debts, she decides to ask Ryota why Yumeko hasn't paid her debts yet, but then says that Yumeko plans to have an official match, after a while, Yumeko goes to them and tells Mary that he doesn't feel right staying with the money because they both got it together, but Mary yells at her saying she doesn't want to be in debt to her. Later Yumeko and Mary have lunch together, along with Ryota and Itsuki.

When Yumeko decided to place a bet with the president of the student union, she appeared to be concerned, Mary and Itsuki suggest to Yumeko that she cheat, but Yumeko refuses, and Mary did not seem surprised saying that this was her face. When Yumeko decided to place a bet with the president of the guild, she appeared to be concerned, Mary and Itsuki suggest to Yumeko that she cheat, but Yumeko refuses, and Mary did not seem surprised saying that this was her face. When the game ended in a draw, the president tells Yumeko that things will be a lot of fun, and Yumeko denies that she is not his subjects, but his friends, including Mary.

After Yumeko received the three billion yen bet from Manyuda, she says she was too excited to use the money to bet with other people, but because of the guild elections she couldn't, so Mary goes to Yumeko telling her to stop playing. to show off and that may end up getting the attention of an idiot, Yumeko will hug Mary but Mary stops her before.

When Yumeko and Ryota went to bet on Miyo and Miri, she ends up being poisoned by Miyo, Yumeko asks Ryota to call Mary. Miyo and Miri say that they will give them the antidote if they win the game, Mary accepts by looking very angry. After Mary and Ryota win the game, they take Yumeko to the infirmary, Ryota tells Mary that it was Yumeko who told him to call Mary, she is surprised, and believes that there is no one like Yumeko. After Ryota leaves, Mary remains in the infirmary with Yumeko who remained asleep, so Mary approaches their faces and tells her that she will be the president of the student union. Later, the people with the most votes in the elections are called to a vote auction, including Yumeko who is in tenth place and Mary who is in fourth. When Yumeko goes there and finds Mary, he tries to hug her and again Mary stops her. You can see how the relationship between Mary and Yumeko developed over the course of the anime, with Mary being one of the few people who can understand Yumeko and respect her by recognizing her skill and intelligence as a gambler.

Fanon
While canonically the franchise avoids any romance except occasionally between side characters, its extremely friendly-yuri baiting nature and yuri past of illustrator has drawn a lot of attention to this and this ship in particular. While other franchises with a similar reputation try to make it ambiguous or at least less provocative, the manga and especially the anime adaptation of Kakegurui takes it almost to a self-parody style, only cementing the show's memetic popularity.

For a number of reasons, such as the lead status of both girls and their popularity, this ship has always bypassed both het and other femslash ships in the franchise in popularity. This was not noticed by the authors, for example, the official manga anthology is almost directly devoted to this ship, even openly playing on the popular elements of shipper's fanon about it. For example, many authors in the anthology echoed the popular among fans motif of yuri teasing from Yumeko and tsundere's responses from Mary.

It also influenced the further development of the plot and subsequent adaptations of the franchise, especially its formal protagonist Suzui. While the manga has become either time about time to remove him from the plot, or turn his ship tease with Yumeko or Mary into a threesome subtext, live action adaptations began to change his personality and give him greater importance to the plot to better justify his being in the plot

Fandom
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