Yanagi/Kirihara

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Pairing
Pairing: Yanagi/Kirihara
Alternative name(s): YanaAka, AkaYana
Gender category: M/M
Fandom: Prince of Tennis
Canonical?: No
Prevalence: Major
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Yanagi/Kirihara is the ship between Yanagi Renji and Kirihara Akaya from Prince of Tennis. In Japanese fandom, the accepted ship name uses Kirihara's given name instead of his surname; YanaKiri and KiriYana are not in active use on Pixiv.

Canon

Yanagi Renji and Kirihara Akaya were teammates and sometimes played as doubles.

Fandom

There was a dedicated Livejournal community, yanagixkirihara, linked in the profile of go_go_rikkaidai, but the journal was deleted and purged with no known archive of its activity.

Common Tropes in Fanworks

  • Friends to Lovers: their teammate/friend relationship developing into a romantic one
  • Slice of Life: the two of them sharing sweet day to day life scenes together
  • Futurefic: them getting together in the future, often after they retired from playing tennis

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