DiverDiva

KarinAi is the femslash ship between Karin Asaka and Ai Miyashita from the Love Live! fandom.

Canon
Karin is the mature model of the group- while Ai is a friendly, sociable person who loves to make puns. In April 2019, there was a subunit selection poll, where Karin and Ai where voted to be the duo. Since then they have worked together in a subunit named DiverDiva. They're both rather fashionable, Ai being a gyaru and Karin being a model.

Anime
They barely had any interaction in the Anime until the second season's 4th episode. At the start of the episode, after QU4RTZ success as an unit, Ai offered herself to do an online concert and said that she wanted to do the concert with someone else. Emma asked Karin if she wanted to act in the concert with Ai, and Karin denied because she prefered to compete instead of mingle with others. While Karin was watching clothes in a showcase, she ran into Ai and Misato, Ai's sister figure, and they invited Karin to hang out with them. Karin and Ai started to notice that Misato was forcing an smile and she duobted if she was happy or not, so Ai decided to talk with Misato, but Karin thinks that Ai should respect her personal space. After talking with Misato, Ai realized that she was very single in the hospital and Ai was the only person who came to visit her and cheer her up, but when Ai became an idol Misato felt single again and though that she returned to have nothing, but I wanted to continue supporting Ai's dream. That made Ai felt very guilty and selfish, because she always wants to cheer up everyone and make them smile. When Karin went to supervise Ai's dance, she explained what Misato told her yesterday and how bad she felt, and she asked Karin what she could do. Karin told her not to worry about the situation and concentrate in her upcoming concert, but Ai couldn't avoid feeling bad for Misato and thought that she couldn't be a school idol if she hurted someone. Karin made fun of Ai telling her that if she gave up, she would go on stage instead of her and would stole her fans and Misato, so Ai confessed that she actually still wants to be an school idol. Karin told Ai that everything was fine because it is impossible not to hurt absolutely no one and Ai already made happy a lot of people. Then Ai offered Karin to to the concert with her, and although she refused at first, she lately accepted when Ai told her that they would be together more as rivals than as partners, because competing while singing the same song would motivate both. At the end they debuted as DuverDiva and singed Eternal Light together.

All Stars
In the mobile game School Idol Festival All Stars Ai and Karin left the Nijigasaki School Idol Club and and joined Lanzhu's association. They often thought about making a subunit too. They returned to Nijigaku, with Lanzhu, Shioriko and Mia as new members.

Fanon
Though in a slow start, Karin and Ai is shipped by a small number of fans, given their visual similarities to NozoEli and KanaMari when it comes to sharing hair colors (dark blue/purple and blonde). Aside from their visual similarities, another notable difference is that they're much closer to being an EliUmi expy when it comes to age. Once the DiverDiva subunit is formed, the ship became popular for a very short time. It ended up becoming less popular with the release of the anime, as ships like AiRina and KarinEmma became more popular, while KarinAi barley got any focus. Despite all, KarinAi is somewhat popular and in AO3 the ship has +34 works, being Ai's 2nd most popular ship, Karin's 3rd most popular and Nijigaku's 7th most popular.

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