Hinata x Komaeda

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Pairing
Pairing: Hajime Hinata x Nagito Komaeda
Alternative name(s): JPN Pairing Name/s: 狛日 (Komahi), こまひな (Komahina)
ENG Pairing Name/s: Komahina, Hinakoma
Gender category: Boys' Love; Yaoi; M/M; Slash
Fandom: Dangan Ronpa
Canonical?: Fanon
Prevalence: Popular; Most Popular M/M Pairing for Dangan Ronpa 2: Goodbye Despair
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Hinata x Komaeda, most known as Komahina, is a juggernaut pairing within Dangan Ronpa fandom. The ship is between Hajime Hinata and Nagito Komaeda, both prominent characters. It has been shipped since Dangan Ronpa 2: Goodbye Despair was released in 2012.

Hinata is the protagonist of Goodbye Despair and Komaeda is his rival, as well as his ally. By some metrics, such as Archive of Our Own, Hinata x Komaeda is the most popular ship in all of Dangan Ronpa fandom.

The ship is similar to the other popular Dangan Ronpa protagonist/rival pairings: Naegi x Togami from Dangan Ronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc and Saihara x Ouma from Dangan Ronpa V3: Killing Harmony. Although both of the mentioned pairings are the most common BL ships in their entries' fandoms, Trigger Happy Havoc's is Ishimaru x Mondo instead.

Many Hinata x Komaeda works are also Kamukura x Komaeda, since Kamukura is another form of Hinata, explained more on his article. Many fans ship both.

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Hinata x Komaeda Fandom

Japanese-speaking

Many works of manga, fanart and fanfic for Hinata x Komaeda can be found on Pixiv and Twitter, to name a few websites. In Japanese, this ship is most often called 狛日 (Komahina), meaning Komaeda attacks and Hinata receives in the BL coupling. The opposite is also commonly shipped and is called 日狛.

In terms of Doujinshi, there are many which feature Hinata x Komaeda:

English-speaking

Many works of aesthetic edits, fanart and fanfic for Hinata x Komaeda can be found on Archive of Our Own, Tumblr, Wattpad, Instagram and Amino, among other websites. The most kudos'd fanwork on Archive of Our Own featuring only this pairing as its featured ship is i can't take you anywhere by dimolto[8] as of January 2024.

In Tumblr Fandometrics' Year in Review 2021 and AO3 Ship Stats 2021, it was ranked as one of the 100 most popular pairings site-wide on Tumblr and AO3 respectively, so 2021 was a pretty big year for Hinata x Komaeda fans.

Although English-speaking DR fandom as a whole has relatively few zines, there are many which feature Hinata x Komaeda:

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