Cargo Ships in Anime & Manga.
- Attack on Titan: Sasha Blouse×Food in general and steamed potatoes in particular (she even risked disciplinary action just to eat a freshly steamed potato during the introduction.
- Levi, a canon neat freak, is often paired up with cleaning supplies, most often Tide.
- Eren himself is more than often shipped with the concept of freedom, with many fans joking that his true was never Mikasa or Historia, but "Freedom-chan".
- Read or Die: Yomiko×Books (It's canon, Joker once said in the manga, that the experience gained by Yomiko from "immersing herself into the book" is "quite similar to sexual ecstasy".)
- One Piece:
- Full Metal Panic!:
- Sousuke×Weapons
- Chidori×Harisen
to beat up Sousuke with.
- Bleach: Aizen×Teacup: totally Canon!
- Chad×Floor, because he spends so much time face-down on it.
- Mazinger Z: A mind-screwing example, overlapping with Robo Ship. Minerva-X was a Fem Bot programmed to be the other half of Mazinger-Z's Battle Couple. So she was in love with it. However, she ALSO was a Humongous Mecha, only unlike Mazinger she was sentient, had her own mind and could feel, think and act on her own. Action Girl Sayaka declaring only HER Fem Bot Aphrodite-A was Mazinger-Z's true battle partner did not help matters...
- A Mouse and a talking cheese in this independent short.
- There's a very scary amount of Gundam fanfiction and art involving Humongous Mecha humping each other — and they aren't even sentient like the Transformers.
- Far more disturbing than the Gundam-on-Gundam action, however, is the human-on-Gundam. (It exists in Wing and 00 fandoms, at least.)
- Oh, but what takes the cake has to be Graham "Flag Fucker" Aker from Gundam 00. The man has to be the Launcher of a Thousand Cargo Ships: his Flags from the first season, his Shin Musha Flags from the second season, Exia, the titular 00, Haro, Ptolemaios I and II...
- Setsuna is also paired with his Gundam Exia.
- Not helped by this narmful gem of a scene (from season 2, episode 18), where, right before a climatic battle, everyone is calling the names of their loved ones:
- In Iron Blooded Orphans, fans do this to the weapons. The Barbatos Mace is called Mace-chan and the Wrench Mace is called Wrench Mace-chan, and they ship them to either Barbatos or Mikazuki, this extends to a Ship-to-Ship Combat of which weapon is better.
- Molester Man has an In-Universe "relationship" with Sachiko, the Moe Personification of his onahole. In the final omake chapter, he comforts her and promises he won't forget about her now that he has a girlfriend.
- To subvert the Gotta Ship 'Em All status in the My Hero Academia fandom, many non-shippers jokingly ship cargo ships:
- Midoriya/Broken Bones or Hospital Bed or something related to him breaking his bones. A much less popular one: Midoriya/Katsudon, his canon Trademark Favorite Food.
- Bakugō/something related to his anger issues, usually Bakugō/Therapy or something of the sort.
- Todoroki/Boiling Kettle, though this is is commonly hated in favor of Todoroki/Cold Soba.
- Aoyama/Himself, due to his self-care tendencies.
- The EVAs in Neon Genesis Evangelion, too. At least they're partially organic and intelligent. On the other hand, one of them is kinda-sorta Shinji's mom.
- There's also this fanfic with Shinji/MAGI pairing.
- In the case of Shinji and Asuka, being shipped with their EVAs is actually incest. In case it wasn't wrong enough.
- Would that include Gendo×Unit-01? Because that's sort of canon...
- There is actually a fanfic about Gendo being caught masturbating in Unit-01's entry plug - by Shinji noticing the droplets of semen floating in the LCL during a synch test, nonetheless. Absolutely everyone in the cast knows immediately it was him and are squicked out by it.
- There is actually a fanfic
- There's also this fanfic with Shinji/MAGI
- Macross:
- A couple of third and fourth options have been suggested in regards to Macross Frontier's Love Triangle; Alto×VF-25 and Alto×the sky respectively, though these were mainly suggested for laughs (we hope), it does kinda make sense in a very eerie way.
- And in the first Macross Frontier movie we now have Ranka cosplaying a VF-25. It even transforms between Battroid and Gerwalk modes (and the Gerwalk mode looks like Ranka doing the VF-25); Ranka clearly knows what he likes...
- Along a similar vein, the YF-19 could be seen as one of Isamu's distractions from the Macross Plus Love Triangle.
- A couple of third and fourth options have been suggested in regards to Macross Frontier's Love Triangle; Alto×VF-25 and Alto×the sky respectively, though these were mainly suggested for laughs (we hope), it does kinda make sense in a very eerie way.
- As well as Zone of the Enders, but when you consider the resident Humongous Mechas' already phallic cockpits, perhaps it was just a logical step.
- Notable is the fact that the main mechas in the series all have AIs with female personalities, and all three of them become really close to their (male) pilots. The one exception being The 2nd Runner, where the pilot constantly teases the AI about her friendship with the pilot of the first game.
- There is a particularly pervasive pairing circulating in the Bee Train fan community: Madlax/curtain. It was spawned by a single scene near the beginning of the series where the titular Action Girl sneaks into the apartment of her target and wraps herself in a curtain for no apparent reason, looking both adorably cute and damn hawt at the same time.
- These are officially named inanimate object ships in the Pokémon: The Series fandom:
- Celebishipping: Vicious The Iron Masked Marauder and a Time Flute. (This one even had an article on Bulbapedia for a while.)
- Computershipping: Ash's Pokedex and Shu's In-com;
- Hatshipping: Ash and his hats;
- Mikishipping: Any combination of James, Staryu and a Pokedex;
- Orbshipping: Ash and his Poke Balls;
- Piketshipping: Pikachu and his ketchup bottle, which sacrificed itself to save him from a Scyther's blade;
- Pokedexplzshipping: Ash and his Pokedex;
- Postcardshipping: Primeape and Ash's hat;
- Recolorshipping: Ash's Hoenn hat and Ash's Sinnoh hat;
- Snackshipping: Sub Sandwich and a Rice Ball;
- Swallowshipping: Neo the Whiscash and a Master Ball;
- Zukanshipping: The original Pokedex and the Hoenn Pokedex.
- ...And that doesn't count all the "Gary and his hand" ships.
- ...Or Brock and his Drying Pan, which there is actually fanfiction of.
- Technically unnamed, but amongst Pokémon Adventures readers you have N×Ferris Wheel.
- Another borderline example: Fullmetal Alchemist's Ed× Al in his suit of armour body, doubling as incestuous Cargo Ship.
- How about Ed×Automail Arm?
- Also, Winry×Wrench. It's been suggested.
- Kimblee×Philosopher's Stone deserves mention. Just all that tongue.
- Roy×Rubber Glove and Hawkeye×Revolver... Armstrong×busts of himself.
- Sheska×Books
- Code Geass:
- Nina×Table. It Makes Sense in Context. Within the fandom, the table is referred to as "Table-kun" (see Memetic Mutation).
- The folks at 4chan gave us a Schneizel×Kannon's hat fanfic. And no, see for yourself.
- C.C.×Cheese-kun. Doesn't help any that C.C. is one of the resident Ms Fanservices.
- You could also make a strong case for Lloyd×Lancelot.
- Lyrical Nanoha: Bardiche/Raising Heart. It's only fair; everyone else on that show gets shipped with someone. Plus, given that they happen to be intelligent empathic weapons whose owners are more or less canon, it is more probable than most of the choices here.
- Dominion Tank Police:
- Leona×Bonaparte (her tank) is almost canon, what with how much she obsesses over it. We also see her nearly humping a motorcycle in New Dominion Tank Police during a flashback showing her as a motorcycle cop prior to joining the tank police. Her partner even lampshades it, and Leona isn't afraid to admit it.Leona: I can't help it. It's the feeling of cold metal. It makes me all tingly.
- Her coworkers certainly seem to think that this is canon, after an incident where after spending the night as Buaku's prisoner, she ignores her partner/would-be boyfriend to embrace Bonaparte.Chaplain: Let us not lead to judgement, Dear Lord, but if it appeareth that my fellow policeperson haveth an unnatural affair with her tank, forgive her. Amen.
- Leona×Bonaparte (her tank) is almost canon, what with how much she obsesses over it. We also see her nearly humping a motorcycle in New Dominion Tank Police during a flashback showing her as a motorcycle cop prior to joining the tank police. Her partner even lampshades it, and Leona isn't afraid to admit it.
- Patlabor: Noah×Alphonse (her mecha). (Same voice actress as Dominion.)
- In Burn Up! Excess (and W), Maya Jingu loves her firearms. In one episode of Excess in particular, she is shown laying down and holding a rifle at a firing range, stripped to her underwear and getting a lot of...satisfaction from pulling the trigger.
- There's a running gag in the Reborn! (2004) fandom involving Hibari/Namimori. And no, we don't mean the student body, we mean the school itself. Talk about taking school pride a step too far...
- In perhaps an odd case of Defeat Means Friendship, Yamamoto×Wall is rising in popularity.
- D.Gray-Man:
- Allen Walker/his Innocence. Yes, there has been fanfic. There's also some Tyki Mikk/Timcanpy.
- The greatest love between man and sword is between Kanda×Mugen.
- After great deliberation, the non-Shippers of the Tsubasa/Xxx HO Li C fandom have concluded that there is only one true official pairing: Mokona/sake. Yuuko/beer is up for debate.
- From After War Gundam X: Tiffa and Double X Gundam in a very brief one-shot.
- JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
- There's at least one fanfic shipping Dio Brando and a steamroller.
- There's also Kakyoin/Cherry, which is practically canon...
- Death Note gives us:
- Ryuk×Apple. Don't take our word for it, see for yourself.
- Light×Death Note◊, [1], [2] (NSFW) which is probably the most canon ship Light will get.
- Or Light×Potato Chip. (NSFW)
- Or Light×Potato Chip.
- L×Cake. There is an explicit picture floating around somewhere.
- There's a group on deviantART for a zebra-striped couch Mello owns, which has been nicknamed Zeb and is often seen paired with Mello by its fans.
- Tetris Block×Mello (NSFW)-a Crack Pairing obviously because that would usually be more of Matt's thing.
- Ryuk×Apple. Don't take our word for it, see for yourself.
- There's a manga called The Female Fridge about a refrigerator with a human mind who falls in love with her owner. When she finds out he has a girlfriend, she murders them both by falling over on them.
- Zig zags all over the place in Ghost in the Shell, especially since it's almost impossible to tell an android from a fully flesh and blood human at times.
- Akikan! mostly avoids this by applying Moe Anthropomorphism to its soda can girls, but Kakeru fully embodies this trope when he decides to flirt with a vending machine that has a female voice programmed in. Twice. And in episode 7 he makes out with a chair.
- Baccano!:
- For a change, an entirely canon (Yes, in that way) cargo ship: Nice and explosives.
- And Rachel really loves trains, in a Freudian way. Due to her daddy issues. It makes sense in context.
- Ojamajo Doremi: There's Doremi×Steak; Pop×Dolly (when she still thought that Majorika was a doll) and Majorika×Hot Spring. The latter two would pretty much make a love triangle, since Dolly is Majorika.
- There's a small and recent meme within the Hetalia: Axis Powers fandom about Austria and his piano...
- And fanart exists for the England×America×Hamburger love triangle.
- Not to mention the brief explosion of affection for Switzerland and his gun after the anime song preview.
- Also there are some fics of Sweden×Ikea. Ironically, these fics tend not to fall victim to Ikea Erotica.
- Recently, there's France×Gazebo fic/art.
- Somehow, this Refrigerator×Iceland×Refrigerator fic (Warning! NSFW!) hasn't been put here yet.
- Russia×his faucet pipe.
- Russia×Vodka..... anyone??
- There is a short (as in one paragraph) fic about Sealand×Waffle.
- Germany×Herr Schtick, due to the English Gag Dub. No "Stick up his ass jokes", please..
- "Mein Schticky Friend!"
- Flying Mint BunnyxHerr Schtick forever!
- There's also grounds for shipping Bulgaria with a stick. Whether or not it's Herr Schtick is up to interpretation.
- As of season 5, we have been presented with Prussia/broom & Netherlands/money.
- From this fic, we have...America/Big Mac. Seriously.
- There's a Record of Lodoss War fan comic shipping Deedlit×sword. In the stinger at the end, she asks to borrow Ashram's sword, on the grounds that it vibrates.
- Nasuverse:
- Shiki×Chair is quite popular, then there's Shiki×Glasses, and Shiki×Nanatsu-Yoru (his knife).
- Hisui×any knife or sword.
- Ciel×Curry and Kotomine×Mapo Tofu.
- Shirou×any sword. Shirou×Caliburn is practically canon in the Fate route, the way he gushes over it.
- Rule Breaker×Azoth in a Seme×Uke relationship.
- Archer×Kansho×Bakuya for hot threesome action.
- Gilgamesh×Chains of Heaven kinda of canon when you think about it.
- Carnival Phantasm gives us AssassinxRyudou Temple Gate
- K-On!:
- Yu-Gi-Oh!:
- There's one fanfic with a perfect example of this: Kaiba and his ego.
- Mako×The Ocean? I mean come on, that's got to be canon.
- There's actually a canon example, too. Kaiba is definitely very attached to his Blue-Eyes White Dragon. It turns out that the original Blue-Eyes was created from the spirit of his past life's murdered girlfriend.
- In The Abridged Series Kaiba states that he has a hard-on for technology. He also has a fetish for the God Cards and has "looked into" marrying the Blue-Eyes White Dragon. (As shown above, the last one is sort of canon in the series proper.)
- Possibly Yami Yugi and the Dark Magician Girl, as she is the spirit of his childhood friend Mana. The manga even has a scene where Marik refers to her as 'your woman'. It's also common for characters to express having a card crush on her.
- Several characters throughout Yu-Gi-Oh! GX develop crushes on other cards, such as the Princess Classic-wannabe who imagined that each of her frog cards was a Prince Charming. Considering how many cards have actual spirits, this almost makes sense.
- As for 5D's, Yusei×his D-Wheel; in the Abridge-verse, it's canon.
- This gets lampshaded in the 4Kids English dub. When Akiza's in a coma, Yusei agrees to help her. Martha teases him on having her as a girlfriend, then Blister drops this line;Blister: He already has a girlfriend; his motorcycle!
- This gets lampshaded in the 4Kids English dub. When Akiza's in a coma, Yusei agrees to help her. Martha teases him on having her as a girlfriend, then Blister drops this line;
- Negima! Magister Negi Magi: Natsumi×Leek.
- A surprisingly good Descendants of Darkness fanfic ships Muraki, Oriya, and Oriya's katana. They used the handle, not the blade.
- Higurashi: When They Cry: Rena×"Kenta-kun". Oookaaaay...
- Also similar to the Umineko example, Chie×Curry. It's one of the more popular pairings in Japan, at least it was before the anime was released.
- Gunsmith Cats: Rally Vincent×CZ75. Thankfully not loaded, but she certainly violated the first rule of firearm safety.
- Magician's Academy: Trincia×Rocket. And it's CANON.
- Then there's one crossover between Tenchi Muyo! and Star Wars, about someone Ryoko and Ryo-ohki met in their early travels. The Millennium Falcon. Although at least it was Ryo-Ohki's love interest.
- Actually implicitly done In-Universe with Sentou Yousei Yukikaze. The main character, Fukai Rei, only displays emotion with regard to his CO, Jack Bukhar, and his aircraft's AI, the eponymous Yukikaze. All the episodes basically tells us that the AI depended on Rei as much as Rei depended on her. This includes Rei distrusting the aircraft enough to have a breakdown in mid-battle (which only words of encouragement from Rei finally make Yukikaze recover), the aircraft forcibly pulling Rei out of a soon-to-be-blown Airborne Aircraft Carrier, to Rei trusting his aircraft even when she is about to commit suicide (which she finally didn't, simply because Rei is onboard). Even a psychologist actually concludes, in-universe, that Yukikaze has a measurable emotion much like a human, despite the AI looking nothing remotely like human, and the only sound we hear from her is when she executes a command, or when her camera (pointing to Rei, no less) focuses and refocuses, as if someone nodding/shaking her head.
- The next best thing to Word of God, the designer himself said Yukikaze was a series where the eponymous jet was the heroine.
- Golden Boy gives us the lovely canonical relationship between a Rich Bitch and her motorbike, one that she straddles naked over and masturbates with until Kintaro beats her in a downhill bike race. Also, there's Kintaro's toilet fetish.
- Canonical in Transformers: Robots in Disguise: Sideburn is always hitting on sexy red sport cars.
- His Super Mode makes him a red sports car. This is best not thought about.
- Eureka Seven has the canonical Renton, Eureka, Nirvasch love triangle.
- Debatable, as the Nirvasch, while mecha like in nature, DOES turn out to be a sentient, living being born by the Coral. Note also the many references to LFOs dying in the mine sequence.
- Sometimes it seems that Vice-principal Uchiyamada in Great Teacher Onizuka loves his car more than he loves his family. The way he gushes over it — complete with kissy faces, caressing, and blushing — makes one wonder whether he'd have preferred to marry it rather than his emotionally cold wife.
- Idolmaster: Xenoglossia completely runs with it: the only way to pilot the giant robots is to treat them like a boyfriend. Of course, the robots themselves are sentient, so there was one case of a giant robot recording a video of Haruka telling the robot that she wants to "show him everything", and then taking her shirt off.
- Naruto:
- There's a fanfic of Kyuubi no Kitsune×Hokage Tower. And yes, it was indeed as disturbing as it sounds Here it is for anyone interested.
- Gaara×Gourd... anyone?
- Gaara/Gourd, Temari/Fan, Kankuro/Puppets... It runs in the family.
- Kisame×Samehada. He wasn't too happy when it basically cheated on him with Killer Bee.
- Naruto×Ramen
- Hinata×Secret Hyuuga Wound Ointment, and guess what she uses it for!!
- Kakashi×IchaIcha novels
- There's a fanfic of Kyuubi no Kitsune×Hokage Tower. And yes, it was indeed as disturbing as it sounds Here it is
- Umineko: When They Cry: Kumasawa×Mackerel. Popular enough that it's frequently seen on the popularity polls for favorite couples.
- Erika×chopsticks×duct tape.
- Battler×hatstand.
- Durarara!!: There is growing support among the fandom for Shizuo×"Vending Machine-chan".
- The series also has something of a canon Cargo Ship in that Anri's Empathic Weapon, Saika, has a bizarre romantic attachment to Shizuo. Anri has trouble focusing around him simply because the sword gets terribly...excited whenever she so much as looks at him. Could be the Forbidden Fruit effect, as Shizuo is actually one of the few people immune to Saika's possessive power because its influences are nothing compared to his constant fear of his own power.
- Subverted with Celty/Celty's Bike, because that's not really a bike but a ghost horse in disguise.
- Then again, there's Izaya/Celty's head.
- The author, Narita, has proven to be thoroughly amused by the concept of shipping inanimate objects, given some of the things Erika and Walker say. They once argued over who'd top in a Fans/Trolls ship.Erika: Speaking of which, there had been a shitstorm just recently about which one is the OTP between CD×DVD or DVD×CD...
- There's also Kida×Hoodie.
- Kino from Kino's Journey is often shipped with her talking motorcycle Hermes; not surprising since he is Kino's only companion, and the only sentient being she feels a real bond to.
- Speed Grapher. I mean, seriously. It’s not only canon but a major plot point that Saiga has a fetish for his camera. And Ginza has a fetish for her gun. That’s not to mention all of the villains. There’s a woman with a fetish for diamonds, a dentist who just loves teeth, a guy who simply adores tattoos, a guy who loves music, and one who likes food. This is all completely canon.
- In one episode of Sonic X, while aboard a cruise ship and going insane, Sonic gets Tails worked up about the X-Tornado being lonely.
- Saitama Chainsaw Shoujo: Fumio and her chainsaw. Even the Doomguy never had this much love for his weapon of choice.
- In Sora no Manimani, Cloud Cuckoo Landers Kawamura and Minami have a fetish for constellations.
- Mushishi. In one case a girl gets rather attached to a particular swamp (or more accurately the mushi or spirit of the swamp). Possibly an Invoked Trope in-universe, since she was actually sacrificed to abate a flood and was told she was becoming a "Bride of the Water God" and when the mushi saved her life and gave her the ability to breathe underwater she seemed to take it a bit too literally. In another episode, a woman begins to visit a white bamboo tree when she and her husband are unable to conceive. She even gets pregnant from said relationship with bamboo tree. The circumstances surrounding both of them are odd, but I believe that it qualifies for this trope.
- And then in Samurai 7, there's Kikuchiyo and Kamachi — which, like the Al×Mei ship, also doubles as May-December Romance. Assuming he really isn't thirteen, of course.
- The World God Only Knows gives us Keima×Dating Sim heroine Yokkyun and Elsie×fire trucks as canon.
- Soul Eater gives us Marie Mjolnir, who sees herself as such an Old Maid she plans to marry a toilet on the grounds that "It will accept anything she gives it."
- The show's titular protagonist×his piano. It gets hilarious in later chapters when Soul gains the ability to turn his limbs into piano keyboards.
- Himawari!! presents us with a dual, canon one in the form of Cherry Tree×Chimney. Granted, it's the kami (god) of the tree that's in love with the chimney, but still.
- The Title Sequence of School Rumble shows a sequence of unrequited loves, ending with Oji being in love with curry. (Who the curry is in love with is left a mystery.)
- Berserk: Farnese×Dragonslayer
- Guts×Dragonslayer, including many Does This Remind You of Anything? moments.
- In Tiger & Bunny, the superheroes collectively decided to give Barnaby "Bunny" Brooks Jr. a stuffed rabbit for his birthday. The fandom has since shipped said rabbit with both Barnaby and Kotetsu, usually as a surrogate for the other half of the duo.
- The HeroTV Fan Book 2 confirms what everyone already knew: Agnes Joubert loves ratings.
- Jun of Rozen Maiden is often shipped with any dolls in the series, especially Shinku. Although, as these dolls are alchemically animated and thus have souls, albeit artificial ones, it may also be viewed as Robo Ship.
- Considering that most of the girls in Cube×Cursed×Curious are inanimate cursed objects, you do the math...
- Haruka, the lead character in the anime Free!, has a habit of removing his clothes at the mention of swimming pools. This has led to a large amount of Haruka×Water.
- He once had a fateful encounter with an intensely beautiful waterfall.
- The beginning of the first FrFr extra from the DVD features Nagisa and Makoto participating in an experiment to determine how much water is needed to get Haru to take off his clothes.
- Arpeggio of Blue Steel is a huge Accidental (or not?) Pun on this trope and Shipping. The plethora of cybernetic Moe Anthropomorphisms of battleships and submarines inevitably led to... ship shipping, mainly with Gunzou. The fact that many of them act like they're in love with him certainly helps.
- Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet: Ledo×Chamber, i.e. a man and his mecha, has a lot of fan art. The latter does have some rudimentary Artificial Intelligence, at least. This ship probably gained most of its traction from Chamber's Heroic Sacrifice to save Ledo.
- Gatchaman Crowds gives us the very nearly canon Hajime×Hajime's Planners. No, she hasn't slept with any of them (that we know of), but the delighted noises she makes while rubbing her cheek against them are pretty suspect. Her classmates are certainly weirded out.
- Kill la Kill has Ryuko, delinquent swordfighter, and Senketsu, her Stripperiffic sentient combat uniform. On the serious side of things, one character notes that the close companionship of the two is largely where they get their strength from, and their odd relationship is repeatedly underlined as bizarre or even abhorrent by the setting's standards. On the not-so-serious side, she considers him to be "cheating" when someone steals him and puts him on.
- In Girls und Panzer, Yukari×Panzer is practically canon. Her love for tanks extends to talking in her sleep about tank cannons, in a context that suggests that she's having an Erotic Dream.
- Max and his broom from Fairy Tail. The subtle example is that whenever he goes into a fight, he often brings the broom along. Since he is a pretty strong sand mage, he hasn't got much use for a regular broom in a fight, so some fans assume he may be bringing it along for more sentimental reasons. The less subtle example: Every time he's knocked out, he's seen with his pants pulled down and the broom lodged up his ass. And he's usually smiling happily while it happens.
- There's also Erxa×Strawberry Cake
- Priss and her motorbike from Bubblegum Crisis. The cover of the OST for "Revenge Road" actually shows her leaning her cheek against it with a beatific smile on her face.
- Puella Magi Madoka Magica:
- Fans like to note that Kyousuke Kamijou seems to be far more interested in his violin than in either of the two attractive girls with crushes on him. It gets to Pair the Spares level in some stories. This was all but confirmed by Word of God—supposedly, if he started dating Sayaka, he would frequently ditch her to play violin—and in The Movie, where he's ostensibly dating Hitomi but spends so much time practicing for recitals that he rarely sees her outside of school.
- As an odd combination of this trope and normal shipping, some fanart pairs one Magical Girl with another's soul gem. This may or may not involve Fantastic Arousal. It's because they're Soul Jars, and some fans see this as romantic/fetishistic... unlike the characters in-story, who mostly find it horrifying.
- Kurumi and Shovel-chan in School-Live!. Kurumi is an Action Girl who always uses a shovel to kill zombies. Her friends make more than a few jokes about her and shovel.
- My Hero Academia: It's kind of a Memetic Mutation crack thing but there's Deku X hospital bed thanks to how often he winds up in one.
