Takamoto Ayaka x Kawata Hina (Hinayaka)
I never thought the day would come but here were are! My Hinatazaka46’s (previous known as Hiragana Keyaki) OTP just got such a major rival they might as well be dethroned with the amount of content we have gotten in such a sort period of time! Worse still, even their ship name rhymes with the new group name! Like, how more perfect could they be!
Oh wait, they could have the perfect height-difference, WHICH THEY DO!! Or their feelings could be mutual, WHICH THEY ARE!!! Like, they are practically perfect!!!! The only reason they are not OTP yet is just my stubborn inner shipper still pinning over Ayouko (Ayaka and Saitou Kyouko)! Those first OTPs are like first loves, very very hard to get over and in some cases one could never!
But even that as it may, I just was no unprepared for these two! Like, look at them! Just…look at them! I can already read the none existent hundreds of fics about them in my head because they are just so shippable! And they have rivals all around! Forget about Kyouko, there is Katoshi (Kato Shiho) who is also pinning after Hina, then there is Ayaka’s BFF Mei (Higashimura) who is also very shippable with Ayaka! I tried those mentioned but other than Kyouko, this ship is in a league of unheardofness!
Seriously, within the span of about a month we have got; them two now being paired in MVs (RIP Ayouko), getting featured in both Hinatazaka’s shows currently running; with Hinatazaka de Aimashou bringing us first the battle of Hina – where members had to fight for her by playing a game where they stood at a distance from her and had to claim her by being the first one to get to her and by process of elimination, the one with the least grip on her looses! Suffice to say, Ayaka and Shiho were of course the ones with the most claim but while they were declared draw, I am sorry Shiho but to us you obviously lost that battle!
Then the other show HINABINGO gave us a two parter where the girls chose who their most favourable sister was. Even the battle of Fates couldn’t keep Ayaka and Hina apart as they managed to pick other other and while it was the battle of the sisters, somehow I doubt it these two were on the same wave-length! And from such fates, we got the battle of ‘closeness’ where Ithink this might be the first time I remember seeing symmetrical docking on these types of shows!
Yes, I remember that MAYUKI episode but somehow their height difference, especially at the time, doesn’t quite cut it for the term!
But things don’t even stop there! It seems things extend to back-stage (or real life as I like to call it). In one of the special broadcasts of one of their lives, we got to see them backstage and were they not only lovey-dovey, but they were doing it right next to Kyouko! Really ayaka!?!
Needless to say, I am ALL IN for Hinayaka and will be on the look out for more so expect content in the future!
And wit hthat, I leave thee with more caps…
Ja
June 5, 2019 at 04:01
Same!!!! I still ship Ayaka with Kyouko because before, Ayaka kept saying she loves Kyouko and they also had shows and performances where they are a couple and Ayaka loving Kyouko before is Hinatazaka’s version of Keyakizaka’s Miyu loving Dani before. But alas, both ships have been sinking in the past months and Miyu stopped loving Dani just as Ayaka stopped loving Kyouko. 😭😭😭 (Plus, Ayaka and Kyouko from Re:Mind is the reason I knew Keyakizaka in the first place.)
June 5, 2019 at 20:22
I haven’t abandoned Kyouko yet as that ship hasn’t sank yet. They were linking hands in the last episode of Hinatazaka de Aimashou, no? And Ayaka helped Kyouko guess right in that last Cream Bread episode, yes?
Also they are kind of like the official ship, though it has been lacking lately.
Also, who are these Miyu and Dani?
June 6, 2019 at 10:14
Miyu is a member who on the early episodes of Keyakizaka46 kept on saying she loves Dani even though Dani loves Kobayashi Yui. They’ve always been established as a love triangle with Miyu mentioning several times that she loves Dani, she also gets excited sometimes when asked what she does or what she wants to do with Dani (she sits on Dani’s lap face-to-face, one time she slept right above Dani and they became a “couple” for a location shoot where Dani becomes insensitive when Miyu is talking about her love for Dani, Dani then interrupts her by saying her experience with liking Yui) but then Dani does the same thing with Kobayashi Yui. Miyu then in the memory quiz says that she no longer clings to Oda because the is gone because when she see others clinging to Dani, she feels annoyed/jealous so in order to not feel those feelings anymore, she decided to stop liking Oda.
About Kyouko and Ayaka, I haven’t watched the last episodes because I still can’t get over the graduations and another future graduation. The last episode I rember though is about the Kawata Boom and Ayaka really expresses her love for Hina in thr past episodes.
June 6, 2019 at 10:49
Oh so Dani is Odanana? And Miyu of course is the coolest girl and actually my top 5. How did I forget about her?
I used to ship them too but apparently she’s over her now? And hasn’t Yui (Kobatashi) been into Ozeki lately? I remember they even got an episode together. I always watch her when Ozeki is talking or doing something, she’s always smiling.
Then again, Ozeki seems to be the Huna of Keyakizaka.
June 6, 2019 at 10:26
If you’d like to watch the episodes where Miyu and Dani’s moments can be seen or emphasized, I’ll gladly state the episodes.
June 6, 2019 at 10:51
Now that I know who they are, it’s okay. I remember
June 6, 2019 at 15:37
I got carried away with Dani and forgot that it’s just a nickname 😂😂😂.
June 5, 2019 at 04:10
Also, have you watched the 2018 musical of Shoujo Kakumei Utena? I don’t think I’ve seen you post a blog about it but I’m excited to hear your thoughts on it since I loved it and a new musical based on BRS will be performed by the end of this month.
June 5, 2019 at 20:16
I believe I have heard of it but I have have not seen it. I am not into plays in fact the only ones I’ve watched were the Majisuka ones centered on Black and Gekikara… For obvious reasons, if course…
Who’s in it? This Utena play? Also who will be in this BRS one?
June 6, 2019 at 10:22
Noujo Ami from Nogizaka46 portrayed Utena, Yuka Yamauchi portrayed Anthy and Juri is portrayed by Riona Tatemichi and the other roles are played by great actors and actresses. I’m just amazed at the fact that the musical is accurate from what I remember and the costumes, performance, songs and everything is great (for me). For the BRS this June, the Utena, Anthy, Juri and Wakaba will still have the same actresses and the other ones are replaced from what I know with the addition of new characters since BRS also had that.
June 6, 2019 at 10:51
Thanks. But by BRS I thought that you meant Black Rock Shooter 😅