Umbrella of Togetherness

"Now that it's raining more than ever,
Know that we'll still have each other.
You can stand under my umbrella.
You can stand under my umbrella."

— Rihanna, "Umbrella"

Back in the day, it was not seen as kosher for a young woman to be seen in public with a man who was not a family member. One exception was during a rainy day when a man could offer to share his umbrella with a young maiden in the street if she hadn't one herself.

It is a romantic image in media all over the world—but it doesn't quite have the iconic "oomph" in the West that it does in Japan, where this trope is known as aiaigasa (相合い傘). The word literally means "sharing an umbrella", but it is also a Pun for "love-love umbrella" (愛愛傘). The Japanese equivalent of the "Alice [arrow through heart] Bob" love graffiti is drawing the pair's names standing under an umbrella. This one is rooted in Shinto weddings, where newlyweds are officiated under a red parasol◊.

Compare Parasol of Prettiness, Old-Fashioned Rowboat Date. See also Romantic Rain.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• A romantic scene with an umbrella happens off-screen between Yukari and Kouichi in Another. Not that it matters a lot, since said umbrella ends up giving Yukari an Impromptu Tracheotomy few moments afterwards.
• Bleach:
  • Orhime hugging Riruka on the cover of chapter 451 under an umbrella.
  • At the end of the "Everything but the Rain" flashback arc, Ryuuken walks out into the Gray Rain of Depression, fully intending never to return home again. His Ninja Maid Kanae, who has been ShipTeased with him throughout the arc, coaxes him to come back with her. Under the umbrella she's holding. She is unsurprisingly later confirmed to be Uryuu's Missing Mom.
• Invoked in Campione!, when Erica snaps her umbrella in half while it was raining so that she has a chance to share an umbrella with her special someone.
• Candy☆Boy:
  • It has a whole episode devoted to Kanade setting up sharing an umbrella for her and Yukino.
  • Yuki is really excited about the idea of sharing an umbrella with Kanade. It's both hilarious and heartwarming.
• Plot point in A Certain Scientific Railgun. Mii indicates her love by drawing an umbrella with Kuro's name, but he crosses it out.
• Played with in Code Geass for Lelouch and Shirley's First Kiss. While going to meet her, he sees her standing in the rain and tries to hold the umbrella over her, but a combination of the shocking thing she tells him plus his surprise when she embraces him causes him to drop the umbrella, so they end up kissing in the rain.
• In Doraemon, socially inept Nobita and his love interest Shizuka share an umbrella once. There is also a gadget that invokes this trope; when a guest enters under the umbrella, he becomes very affectionate to the user.
• In Dream Eater Merry, there is an umbrella drawn on the wall of the old playground, with Yumeji and Isana's names.
• Non-romantic (or is it?) example: Durarara!! has a flashback with Berserker Shizuo Heiwajima standing in the rain by the jail after being set up for a crime, feeling and looking completely alone. Off-screen, we hear a voice calling his name. It's a very close friend he lost contact with, who then holds his umbrella up over Shizuo's head as they walk off together. This is the anime version of Tom Tanaka's defining character moment, as he's been there for Shizuo ever since.
• In 5 Centimeters per Second, the umbrella symbol shows up on a chalkboard with Akari and Takaki's names under it. When they see it, Akari looks embarrassed while Takaki hastily erases it, implying that some other kids had drawn it.
• Fruits Basket:
  • In the 2001 anime, we have a scene where Yuki offers his umbrella to Tohru on the way home from school, much to Kyo's dismay.
  • In the manga and 2019 anime, Tohru offers her umbrella to Kyo, since (as the Cat) he's utterly miserable in the rain. He gets flustered and angry, and turns her down.
• Gakuen Alice:
  • In the ending credits, Hotaru and Mikan share an umbrella implying Pseudo-Romantic Friendship.
  • In the manga, Mikan's parents have the umbrella scene in the Special Abilities room. Cue everybody from Special Abilities and some not getting their names added to the umbrella, with Mikan (unknowingly) writing herself as the child of her actual parents.
• In The Garden of Words, a high school student is walking through a park in the rain when he comes across an older woman sheltering under a gazebo. As it's the start of the rainy season, this happens regularly over the next few months. By the time summer happens, they keep hoping for rain so they'll have an excuse to keep meeting each other.
• In The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Makoto, Chiaki, and Kōsuke are all sharing a red umbrella in a flashback. Chiaki loves Makoto, Makoto loves Chiaki, and Kōsuke probably knows that Chiaki loves Mokoto but is implied to have subconscious feelings for Makoto.
• Hanako and Alice walk back to the hotel together under an umbrella at the end of Volume 1 of Goodbye, My Rose Garden. This is especially notable in that, being a maid and noblewoman in Victorian England, Hanako should be holding the umbrella for Alice, but Alice insists that they share. When the rain starts picking up, the two end up running, clasping hands on the umbrella and laughing together.
• In Great Teacher Onizuka, Murai has a flashback of Fukada sharing her umbrella with him when he has a crush on her.
• In Haruhi Suzumiya, Haruhi walks Kyon home with the school umbrella◊. They insist a little too much that they aren't a couple.
• When Hayate of Hayate the Combat Butler is kicked out of the Sanzenin mansion for three days, he's left sitting in the falling snow. Hinagiku finds him and shields him with her umbrella while they talk and she even invites him to warm up at her place.
• Hetalia: Axis Powers:
  • Greece and Japan share an umbrella, implying the image of lovers.
  • Japan's partner Italy uses the umbrella symbol in a poster, drawing himself and Germany underneath it without really understanding what it means.
• In Hidamari Sketch, Yoshinoya-sensei is stuck due to rain, and the principal — who seems old enough to be her grandfather — offers to share an umbrella since they're going to the same place. Yoshinoya gets extremely flustered when Kuwahara-sensei encounters them and comments on it.
• The cover for chapter 23 of Horimiya has a large drawing of an umbrella on chalkboard with Hori and Miyamura standing in front of it while holding hands. Halfway through the chapter, they officially start dating.
• In the "Hunterpedia" chibi segments of Hunter × Hunter, there is an Ai Ai Gasa with Gon and Killua's names under it drawn on the whiteboard behind them.
• Done once in a Inuyasha episode. Miroku's hat had broken and he was left in the rain. Kagome gave Sango her spare umbrella and Sango shared the umbrella with Miroku.
• In episode 25 of Jewelpet Sunshine, after going out on a date with each other, Garnet and Dian go outside in the rain and shelter under an umbrella together. Diana appears under an umbrella of her own, still sad that Dian broke up with her.
• Kaguya-sama: Love Is War:
  • This becomes the subject of one of Kaguya and Shirogane's many Battle of Wits. Both of them have umbrellas, both of them want to share, but neither of them wants to be the one to offer since they view that as a "loss". So they both pretend to not have one and try to prove that the other does.
  • The first bonus chapter also features the traditional graffiti version, with Kaguya having drawn it in secret specifically to manipulate Shirogane.
• The third episode of Kotoura-san opens with the graffiti version on a chalkboard after Manabe very forcefully and decisively declared that he liked Kotoura at the climax of the second episode. He sees it the next day when the two walk into class, and he gets upset... because his classmates forgot to put hearts all over it. His unabashed pride in being openly shipped with the object of his affection had all of the other boys in the class bowing to him with respect.
• Kyouka from Kyouran Kazoku Nikki is probably one of the few people to pull off the Umbrella of Togetherness indoors. That's how much she wants to share a romantic moment.
• Lyrical Nanoha:
  • Hayate and Vita share an umbrella under the sun in the supplementary manga. And just to further drive up the Les Yay of the moment, Hayate gently caresses the blushing Vita while they talk about how it would be wonderful if they could be together always.
  • Nanoha and Yuuno walk home together in the snow under an umbrella at the end of A's... and it was the last thing Yuuno would ever do before he was Demoted to Extra.
• A bonus comic in Manly Appetites: Minegishi Loves Otsu shows Minegishi and Otsu squabbling over trying to get each other to use the umbrella. Tanaka watches this and weeps with jealousy.
• Maria Watches Over Us has the episode "Holding a Parasol". It ends with a picture of Yumi and Sachiko sharing an umbrella under the sun.
• Lucia and Hanon in Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch get caught in the rain under an umbrella, and although they really can't stand the implications, they haven't got a choice, since getting wet will turn them into mermaids in the middle of the street. This doesn't stop Hanon from latching onto her teacher at the first opportunity, leaving Lucia open to sharing her umbrella with Kaito.
• Such a scene appeared in Midori Days as not-so-subtle foreshadowing that Midori's feelings would not go unrequited for long.
• Invoked by Tohru in episode 6 of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid when she puts away her own umbrella so she can share with Kobayashi.
• Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun:
  • Sakura thought she would share an umbrella with her crush in chapter 17 (animated as the first half of episode 9), but Nozaki is Oblivious to Love, and his attempts to replicate romantic moments as a manga reference just end up with both of them getting wet.
  • Local Bifauxnen Kashima flirts with the girls this way in the same chapter—and ends up completely surrounded by a 360-degree shell of umbrellas.
• In the 10th ending credits to Naruto Shippudden (the beach ending), we see at the end that Sakura and Sasuke's names are written under the umbrella symbol... only to be washed away by a passing wave.
• Episode 2 of Ojisan And Marshmallow has Hige-san waiting under a store awning before trying to head in to work. Wakabayashi-san sees him and joins him for some quality time; eventually she decides he won't make a move, reveals she had an umbrella all along, and they walk off together. Both the waiting together and umbrella-sharing are part of an attempted Relationship Upgrade.
• The intro of Oku-sama wa Mahou Shoujo ends with almost but not quite showing Ureshiko (grown-up Magical Girl and Yamato Nadeshiko) and Kagura under one umbrella. Ureshiko grows farther away from her husband, and closer to Kagura.
• Takahata's Only Yesterday when Teako decides to stay at the farm instead of going back to the city, followed by ghost-like (yet charming) visions of herself and her classmates. She meets with Toshio, and as they walk side by side, the children construct a wooden 'together umbrella' and follow them with it to assure the audience that the two will get together and have a happy future.
• Paranoia Agent: Drawing of lovers' umbrella symbol is briefly glimpsed in Ikari's dream world, drawn on a door in a school.
• In the ninth episode of Pokémon: The Original Series, "The School of Hard Knocks", in the corner of Kaito's picture of Giselle, their names are written under the umbrella in kanji. 4Kids edited out the easter egg, obviously, because anything remotely Japanese or romantic is evil.
• Played with in The Prince of Tennis, where Kunimitsu Tezuka and Shuusuke Fuji share a red umbrella under the snow. They're both guys, but the flashback is seen in the middle of two episodes dedicated to their relationship and chock-full of Ho Yay-tastic Ship Tease.
• Ranma ½:
  • It has a magical umbrella that makes any two people who share it fall in love. (Is any item in that series not magical?).
  • A "chapter title" illustration from the manga shows Ryoga and Akari standing happily under Ryoga's umbrella in a deliberate use of the trope.
  • One chapter title one had female-Ranma cheerfully whacking Ryouga to the ground with it.
  • The "carving one's names on a tree, under an umbrella-shaped symbol" version is used several times, especially by Kuno (to Ranma's annoyance, especially when the tree took it seriously,) but Genma and Nodoka did this too when they were dating.
  • The song "November Rain" from one of the albums is about a rather sad, subverted version of this trope. The entire reason why Ranma is singing the song is that he's heartbroken over his fiancée, Akane, ditching him under the umbrella they were sharing with each other. Since him hurting her feelings was what caused her to leave, he laments throughout the song over how he just can't seem to be tender with her.
    Ranma: Even rain that's about to freeze from cold is warmer than my heart. November rain, until my tears vanish, don't stop.
• Keiko, a previously flat member of Nanami's Girl Posse in the Black Rose Story Arc of Revolutionary Girl Utena, more or less becomes the Monster of the Week after Nanami catches Keiko under an umbrella with Touga and reacts by throwing Keiko out of the group. Turns out that Keiko does have a crush on Touga, but Nanami's simply a Clingy Jealous Girl with a Big Brother Attraction. And Mikage uses it against everyone, pushing the lonely and troubled Keiko into becoming a Black Rose duelist.
• In Sachiare, Sachiko and Tomoharu's height difference makes it difficult for both to keep dry under one umbrella... so he picks her up and carries her. It's adorable.
• Sailor Moon:
  • In The '90s anime Usagi and Mamoru share an umbrella at least once. Usagi once unduly flips out over Mamoru offering an older lady his umbrella out of kindness at one point.
  • This trope is used early in the original manga, except the umbrella both foreshadowed the two of them becoming a couple and saved them from a nasty fall.
  • In episode 29 of The '90s anime, Motoki offers an umbrella to Makoto, resulting in her developing a severe crush on him.
  • Makoto and Shinozaki also were under his umbrella in her backstory, right after her first love rejected her Love Confession and ran away from her in shame afterwards. It's so platonic, that Makoto herself dispels Usagi's squeals about them being in love when asked: she says that their friendship is actually more serious than any love she could have with a boyfriend.
• In one episode of Samurai Champloo, Jin's Girl of the Week ends up sharing her umbrella with him when he gets stuck in a heavy downpour without one. And it is implied that he'll come back for her when her mandatory time on the island has ended, so there's hope for the "togetherness" part.
• In episode 2 of Samurai Flamenco, Masayoshi sees Goto walking in the rain. He gets out of the Taxi to join him, and they share Goto's umbrella. Neither of them makes a big deal out of the romantic implications at the time, but the scene foreshadows their developing relationship and Masayoshi's proposal.
• In Sasami: Magical Girls Club, Anri fantasizes about sharing an umbrella with stoic, aloof girl Tsukasa. (Anri has feelings for her.)
• School Rumble:
  • The kickoff point of Harima and Eri's relationship. Harima offered to walk Eri home after her father left her standing in the rain.
  • Someone drew an umbrella sketch with Eri's and Harima's names under it after the sports fest.
  • Harima got a flash of inspiration for a manga and used Eri's umbrella to scratch it on the ground (it was a dud) trashing it in the process and he was forced to walk her home again.
  • Tenma tried to invoke this trope between herself and emotionless Karasuma in the first manga volume, offering him to share an umbrella.
• Tsuda and Shino from Seitokai Yakuindomo walk home this way once. They're aware that they look like a couple doing that, and so is the school Camera Fiend not far behind them.
• Spriggan shows this is how Yu Ominae befriended Rie Yamabishi at the orphanage as children while living in America. Both of them are lonely and refuse to mix with other children, with Rie sitting under a tree crying all the time. She's doing so even when it's pouring rain, so Yu brings her an umbrella.
• In a bonus chapter of Vampire Knight, teenage Juuri Kuran walks home from a human school in the rain even though Haruka showed up at her school with an umbrella. They both end up getting drenched since he shuts his umbrella when it is obvious she is too irritated with him for hiding all the umbrellas in their mansion earlier that day by storming ahead of Haruka in a huff. When Juuri asks why he did such a childish thing after ranting at him for several minutes, he simply replies, "I wanted to share an umbrella with you."
• In a Tokyo Ghoul omake, Miza is caught while drawing one with Naki's name. She tries to deny it, but Shousei pledges his full support for her intentions toward his boss.
• Wedding Peach: The love angels think Yanagiba has a girlfriend because of this trope. Later when they try to stage it themselves, Yousuke comes (with an umbrella) to pick him up instead.
• The Wind Rises. Jiro has a Meet Cute with Naoko as an adult when the sun umbrella she's using for shade while painting blows loose in a gust of wind and hits him in the face. Later when they meet face-to-face, they get Caught in the Rain walking back to their hotel and the umbrella becomes this trope.
• ×××HOLiC has a situation where Watanuki doesn't want to walk under one with Doumeki (whom he's an Unknown Rival of) because they're both guys and he has this trope in mind. This is just one of many moments between them. (It is a CLAMP manga after all...)
• Invoked in You Are Totally in Love With Me, Aren't You?. Mako pretends to forget her umbrella at home so she could walk home with Sayaka. Sayaka obviously saw through this, but plays along and they both walk home using Mako's umbrella.

Arts

• Painting◊ Little Red Umbrella (The Lovers) by Josef Manes, a Czech artist from the 19th century. The lovers take it a bit too far as they are lying on the ground, which would not be considered very proper. It's a hot summer and the sky looks as if there was a storm coming.
• French etching called "Le Parapluie Officieux" No 40◊, from the Le Bon Genre series published in the 1820s, show two lovers sheltering under an umbrella in the rain. Through the umbrella, you can see a chaperone.

Asian Animation

• Flower Angel: It is shown in Season 1 episode 20 that the first interaction An'an's mother and father ever had with each other was in the park during a rainy day. Her mother Lily happens to be out in the rain while her father Xiamu is looking for plant seeds; he sees Lily, who happily obliges to come with him under his umbrella.
• In the Animated Adaptation of Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation: Mo Dao Zu Shi, Lan Wangji shields Wei Wuxian with an umbrella while it rains in Empathy, and Wei Wuxian makes sure the umbrella evenly covers both men by adjusting the cane. As this scene follows Xue Yang's mockery of Xiao Xingchen's heroic acts hurting others and Wei Wuxian's pained reaction to it, the umbrella can be seen as symbolic for Lan Wangji being willing to support him throughout his hardships and Wei Wuxian having an equal desire to protect him.

Comic Books

• Archie Comics has quite a few examples. It eventually reached the point where Archie and Jughead invented a special umbrella, resembling two standard models attached to the same handle, in case a normal umbrella would prove too small to keep both partners dry.

Comic Strips

• FoxTrot features a strip where Denise is muttering and cursing until it starts to rain, to which she squeals with delight. Peter comments on their newfound closeness; "Wow, good thing you brought this umbrella."

Fan Works

• This adorable Steven Universe fanart of Steven and Connie under Steven's shield in a rainstorm.

Films — Animation

• Disney's The Rescuers has a scene where Miss Bianca and Bernard share an umbrella.

Films — Live-Action

• Three Times: A boy and a girl stand under the same umbrella under the rain, and they tenderly join hands.
• The Classic has a variation. Ji-hye and Sang-min run together under his coat in the rain after they're both caught out in the rain with no umbrella. Ji-hye later finds out Sang-min did have an umbrella but deliberately left it behind when he saw Ji-hye in the rain and went to join her, which is what leads to The Reveal of his feelings for her.
• Easter Parade has the song "A Fella with an Umbrella," as Johnny falls in love with Hannah while they walk in the rain under the umbrella from a fruit cart, completing the film's Love Dodecahedron.
• In Pleasantville, when David and Margaret have a date, it starts raining for the first time in Pleasantville (being the idealized '50s sitcom, it was always sunny there). Later David gives Margaret a red umbrella which he found among theatre props — she doesn't know what it is at first, but she loves it. They later share a kiss, hiding under the umbrella and enjoying Happy Rain.
• At the end of The Art of War (2000) the protagonists walk off arm in arm after faking their deaths and moving to a small French village. The romance of the scene is subverted when an unknown man is shown taking their photograph.
• Inverted in Major Grom: Plague Doctor. The title character isn't happy about being forced to work with rookie cop Dubin. Dubin is holding an umbrella over Grom's head as they walk while rambling excitedly non-stop about their assigned case. When he finally stops, he looks up and finds Grom standing several yards behind him, scowling.

Literature

• Little Women: Jo and Professor Bhaer have their Relationship Upgrade and First Kiss under his umbrella during a muddy downpour.
• Anne Shirley is offered shelter under a handsome stranger's umbrella in Anne of the Island, although the romance doesn't last.
• A platonic Umbrella of Togetherness (according to most is conjured by Tris for her and Sandry in the Circle of Magic series.
• You can actually hear Captain Wentworth's heart breaking in Persuasion when he offers to walk Anne home in the rain with his umbrella, and the for-once-oblivious heroine innocently says she already has an escort, which is her distant cousin Mr Elliot, her father's heir. What's worse, the ladies in Captain Wentworth's company immediately start gossiping about Anne and Mr Elliot as a soon-to-be-engaged couple.
• Agnes Grey: Rosalie Murray thinks she has Mr. Weston wrapped around her finger as securely as every man in town, but Agnes is the one who he walks to the carriage with his umbrella.
• Leave it to Psmith uses an amusing variation as a Meet Cute. Psmith dashes out of the Drones Club with an umbrella for Eve and later refuses to let her return it. It takes her a while to figure out that it wasn't his umbrella to begin with; he stole it for her.
• In Daisy Miller, after Winterbourne returns to the Pincio to look for Daisy, the sight of Daisy and Giovanelli cuddling under her parasol makes him turn right around.
• In the German novel Gottes Bodenpersonal: Eine unwahrscheinliche Liebesgeschichte (God's ground crew, an unlikely love story), the Christian preacher against the evils of prostitution offers to share his umbrella with a hooker. The offer is platonic.The ensuing relationship is not. The hooker asks whether that wouldn't hurt his reputation, which he counters with an As the Good Book Says....
• This is how the romance is kicked-off in The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten when Amane Fujiyama shares his umbrella with Mahiru Shiina the most beautiful girl in school after finding her sitting crying in the rain - he decides to give her it to stop her getting a cold, which is how she notices him. When she realises he lives next door to her, and he lives alone, she starts cooking and cleaning for him as a thank you for his kindness which causes them to grow closer.
• Lampshaded in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. When the faun Mr Tumnus suggests that Lucy takes his arm so he can hold the umbrella over both of them, the text states that Lucy finds herself walking arm-in-arm with the strange creature, as if they had known each other all their lives.

Live-Action TV

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In a platonic love version, Giles walks Willow to the taxi (so she can catch the plane back to the US) under his umbrella.
• Used straight-up for courtship in an episode of The Commish. A police officer is advised to take his Girl of the Week to the park. When we see them there it's raining, only it's not a problem as they're both having a picnic under a pair of joined umbrellas.
• In the 2009 BBC miniseries Emma, Mr Weston shares his umbrella with Miss Taylor (future Mrs Weston) when it starts raining after the Sunday mass. In the novel, he met Emma and Miss Taylor when they were walking and he gallantly borrowed two umbrellas for them from Farmer Mitchell's because it was drizzling.
• Used as a nice metaphor in the K-drama The Entertainer. When the main character, Suk-Ho, briefly sees a therapist to work through guilt issues, he's asked by the therapist to draw himself. He sketches a dark, monochrome drawing of himself standing stoically in the pouring rain. The female lead later finds the drawing crumpled up in a drawer and, moved to offer Suk-Ho emotional protection, draws in a gaily colored bright green umbrella. Suk-Ho in turn finds the drawing some time afterward and is heartened by Geu-Rin's gesture of support. Eventually the trope becomes literal when Geu-Rin gives Suk-Ho an actual green umbrella, which he cherishes. When they finally start to come together as a couple, there's a moment when Gue-Rin is about to step out into a downpour—only for Suk-Ho to appear, the green umbrella shielding them both from the rain.
• Forever: Played with in "The Art of Murder" when Henry and Abigail are caught in the rain; instead of sharing one umbrella, Henry holds his coat spread out over their heads to provide improvised shelter and they dash for the museum entrance huddled under that.
• Heroes featured one of Isaac's precognitive paintings (used above) featuring Simone and Peter apparently embracing under an umbrella, which Isaac took to be a sign of their relationship. He's right.
• In How I Met Your Mother, The Mother's yellow umbrella is an arc symbol signifying the love of Ted's life. The Narrator — older Ted — made it clear that it had played a major role in their first encounter ("you know the short version [of how I met your mother], the one with the yellow umbrella"), and even before because the umbrella had got lost. Ted meets Tracy the Mother at the train station when it's raining. He comes to talk to her and she encourages him to cover under her umbrella with her. It's an example of Meet Cute when they playfully argue over whose umbrella it really is.
• A recurring flashback/dream of David Banner's in The Incredible Hulk (1977) is of himself catching up to his late wife, Laura, in the rain and squeezing under her umbrella with her while they both laugh.
• Person of Interest. In "Provenance", our heroes have to go to a black-tie event. John Reese having rejected any umbrella that doesn't double as a weapon, Harold Finch holds his own umbrella over him while walking from their taxi in the rain. It happens again while they're visiting the cinema in "Proteus". It's like the producers are trying to tell us something.
• The X-Files frequently made use of this trope. Comically so, on occasion—Mulder (David Duchovny) has quite a bit of height on Scully (Gillian Anderson), usually causing this sort of scene.◊ Definite Ship Tease.

Music and Music Videos

• In "Bus Stop" by The Hollies, the main characters continue to share an umbrella even on sunny days, leading others to stare "as if we were both quite insane".
  Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say
  Please share my umbrella
  Bus stop, bus go, she stays, love grows
  Under my umbrella
• Rihanna's single "Umbrella" makes obvious use of this image.
  You can stand under my umbrella, my umbrella, -ella, -ella...
• The song "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" by The Police plays with this trope; the singer has a crush on a girl he knows, but Cannot Spit It Out. As he says in the song, "It's a big enough umbrella / But its always me that ends up getting wet" (he gives his umbrella to the girl, instead of sharing it)! This bit was later quoted in "Seven Days" from lead singer Sting's 1993 solo album Ten Summoner's Tales.
• French chanson singer Georges Brassens had a song called "Un p'tit coin d'parapluie" ("a little piece of umbrella") about a boy who shares his umbrella with a girl, and whose chorus went: "A little piece of umbrella/For a piece of heaven/She sure looked like an angel".
• The Hebrew song "Two of Us Together Under One Umbrella" ("Shneinu Yahad Tahat Mitria Ahat") by Naomi Shemer. The refrain, roughly translated:
  Two of us together under one umbrella
  We're both skipping from one puddle to the next
  a Raining City has just this to say to us
  Life's a pretty thing, living life is great!
• Taylor Swift's music video for "ME!" has a scene where she's dancing in strange colourful thick rain and her Love Interest played by Brandon Urie comes to her with an umbrella which they share and dance off under. They share an umbrella in the live version as well.
• "Love Song" by NCT 127. A part of the first verse, roughly translated from Korean:
  It's a relief that the umbrella that's heading towards you is a small one
  This situation is unexpected
  Right when our shoulders touch

Theater

• In The Musical based on Little Women, it doesn't happen quite so as in the book. Bhaer finds Jo at Amy's wedding, on a day riddled with 'sun showers'. He proposes to her with the analogy of sharing a 'small umbrella in the rain'.

Video Games

• Rival Schools: United By Fate features this moment in Kyoko's ending as her to-be fiancee Hideo offers her an umbrella.
• In The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, look closely at the blackboard in the classroom — there's one of those Japanese umbrella diagrams. While the names are considerably lo-res, and thus almost unreadable, but if you get close to them a dialogue box will pop up with the text "Karane + Caw...".
• A scene in Persona 4: Golden has the MC and Yosuke sharing an Umbrella of Togetherness (after Yosuke "forces himself" under the MC's umbrella). The trope already has explicit romantic connotations, but this is also the very same scene where Kanji gets extremely flustered over the idea of doing the same thing with Naoto, his long-time crush, and says that they "would be just like a couple" if they did so... Yosuke also gets rather defensive when Kanji asks if he can just share the MC's umbrella with him as well.
• In the Dating Sim Always Remember Me, the protagonist shares an umbrella with the Shrinking Violet love interest that offers to walk her home when she's caught in the rain.
• In the Japanese version of Super Mario Kart the title screen has a Love Umbrella with Mario's and Peach's names under it.
• In Bravely Second, Yew and Magnolia share an amusing scene when Magnolia offers to share her umbrella with Yew, unaware of the implications while he blushes. Edea whispers the meaning to Magnolia, who then tries to pull Yew in more tightly.
• Tekken: Heihachi's stage from the second game has an aiaigasa of his and his late wife, Kazumi, drawn on the floorboards of the temple. This bit is brought up in the trailer for the seventh game, which introduces Kazumi for the first time.
• In Sonic Frontiers, one of Sonic's idle lines on Kronos Island mentions this trope (namely, expressing that he wished it was happening), but the trope itself doesn't actually appear in game. Given that it's Amy he mentions, this also serves as yet another Sonamy moment.
  Sonic: Wish we were sharing an umbrella, Amy...
  • This line would, however, later be referenced in Sonic Superstars, where, in Pinball Carnival Zone, one can find a graffiti drawing of, indeed, Sonic and Amy sharing an umbrella.
• Stardew Valley: Sebastian's 8-heart event ends with him offering to let the player character stand under an umbrella with him, which they accept.

Visual Novels

• Katawa Shoujo: Hisao and Rin share an umbrella together in her route, fitting with the game's Animesque tone.
• In Little Busters!, Riki and Kurugaya share an umbrella together while on their first date. At first, both of them try to play it cool and let their own shoulders get wet so the other is fully covered, but they soon realise it's silly and just walk together happily.
• In Tokimeki Memorial Girl's Side's DS version, the ending credits play while a blackboard is filled with various doodles. The last doodle to appear is an umbrella image of the heroine and the chosen guy.
• In True Love Junai Monogatari, at some point the Player Character will find himself umbrella-less on a suddenly rainy day. Two girls will make offers to walk him home under her umbrella: the first is his Patient Childhood Love Interest Mikae and the other is Good Bad Girl Mayumi. The PC can only choose one of them, though, risking losing love points with one girl while increasing them with the other.
• Seizh of Under the Moon is closely associated with rain, and sharing umbrellas comes up multiple times in his routes.
• During the Momoyo Route of Majikoi! Love Me Seriously!, Yamato takes Momoyo out for a date in a bid to win her love. When it starts to rain, you have the option of buying one or two umbrellas. If you chose one, this trope ensues.

Webcomics

• Red String has Kazuo offering Karen his umbrella here. Karen being (at this point in the plot) the lead girl Miharu's romantic rival and Kazuo being the lead guy and fiance of Miharu.
• Sinfest: Have you noticed how the kanji for "rain" resembles an Umbrella of Togetherness?

Western Animation

• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • The Gaang was given an umbrella by a man that was told by a Fortune Teller that it will rain. Since Sokka is caught up in Arbitrary Skepticism, Katara and Aang are the only ones using it come rainfall.
  • Zuko and Mai share a huge beach umbrella on the beach — one gets the impression they were going for the "emos hate sunlight" image.
• Hey Arnold! played this trope as a "love at first sight" kind of thing between Arnold and Helga as the first time she saw him, and ever felt that anyone ever saw her, was when the rain stopped falling on her and she noticed Arnold holding an umbrella over her head.
• Infinity Train: A variation of this occurs in "The Past Car". One of Amelia's memories shows her and her Childhood Sweetheart taking shelter from the rain in a phone booth and laughing. Amusingly, Tulip, a logical and impatient 13-year-old, dismisses the memory as unhelpful when she sees it.
• Miraculous Ladybug: In "Stoneheart," the second part of the Origins 2-parter, we learn that this is how Marinette falls in love with Adrien. After he'd failed to make a good first impression on her, he offers her his umbrella when she's caught without one in the rain. Unfortunately for Marinette, however, he's already in love...with her superhero identity.
  • In season 4, this exact scene is recreated in Mr Pigeon 72, except this time it's Marinette who offers this same umbrella. It happens after Marinette's newfound duties as a guardian estranged her from Adrien for a moment, and emphasize the fact that Marinette accepts her love for him once again. Furthermore, it seems to indicate the moment when Adrien starts to fall for Marinette.
  • According to Alya's instagram, they also shared such a moment as Cat Noir and Ladybug during a rainy patrol◊.

Real Life

• In Japan couples often share an umbrella because it gives them an excuse to get close to each other without making a scene in public.
  • One couple in Shibuya, Tokyo, was interviewed while sharing an umbrella during a snowstorm, resulting in an art meme called "Special Feeling" to sprout from it, stemming from the guy being openly affectionate and making his girlfriend embarassed.

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