#abemiha

[pkaykim]

First year, sometime

[2129888]

mihashi still hasnt called abe by his first name when its just the two of them. i think about this a normal amount

[ponpox]

The struggle of getting Mihashi to call Abe "Takaya"....

[anicream]

my oofurixmas gift for @holydangyo on twitter! sleepy nishiura boys and a shoulder hug :))

[jeremy-pakhitou]

Little drawing of the sillies before I go back to making story boards ~

[pocari-tears]

Oofuri Secret Santa 24' let's gooooo!! This year I went with the first idea that popped into my mind - I had fun drawing it though ;D Hope you like it, Flowers!

@oofurixmas admins, tysm for organizing this yet another year!!!! I will always contribute 🫡

[heartfeltarcher]

kghn / abmh

[miroyuuu]

i just noticed mihashi's hands visibly blush pink after abe holds them...

[dnana-2809-blog]

Here are another ships that I love (sports anime/manga edition).....

[im-not-here0]

Abe went from this

To this ✨

[dricacchi]

i love drawing mihashi's we're-so-over-we're-so-back eyebrows

[pkaykim]

[2129888]

@pkaykim i'm so happy i got to be your secret santa this year wow... your art is like a balm on my soul but also makes me crazy every time i see it cannot stress this enough big fan. anyways until i learn how to write fanfic please take this missing moment in comic form! class 2-4 i pray for you...

@oofurixmas thank you for all your hard work organizing this event! the dedication and love of oofuri fans is always so amazing to see!!

[ponpox]

If you fall I will hold on to you

[ikkisoramine]

First drawing of the year!!

[hestzhyen]

Oofuri and AbeMiha in the Year of Our Lord 2025?

Help I've fallen into a time warp and my mind's back in 2007/2008 obsessing over extremely passionate baseball dorks again.

They care so much about each other, it's crazy.

And the growth both of them go through to overcome their personal shortcomings is so wholesome.

I was re-reading to catch up, and... wow...

The "guy talk" is one of the best parts about this manga.

Neither Mihashi nor Abe have had a first love yet, huh. And while Mihashi likes women in nurse uniforms, Abe doesn't have anything specific in mind- he doesn't even have fantasies he uses as "material". While they're devoting themselves to each other for the next three years to become one in mind and body. Slowly coming to understand each other while being so passionate about the other guy that they cry over him at least twice each.

Um.

Yeah, the brainworms are back in full force after laying dormant for about 17 years. AbeMiha, my beloveds... I'm rewriting a fluff one-shot I did for them back in 2007 and enjoying the nostalgia (and seeing how much I've improved since then). These silly creatures are still just as charming as I remember them being.

Enjoy this moldy out-of-context screencap from my hard drive.

I wonder if it's because Oofuri is a seinen and not a shounen, but there's a lot of skinship and typical teenage boy banter about sex too. Tajima full-on strips Mihashi at the pool in front of their teammates to show them his uncut dick, for Chrissakes. And Mihashi and Abe always get paired off together; they're explicitly told to cook breakfast for everyone alone to bond together, sleep in the same hotel room, are always trying to understand each other and communicate better...

I love them so much.

I know it's not as fruity to the Japanese, but even so, the ship was hugely popular for a while for good reason. The handholding and mutual devotion alone were kind of a big deal. I don't know where the relationship is at in canon right now (I have over 130 chapters to go to catch up, yikes) but I don't think that teased romance with Shinooka has gotten very far with either of them.

Or maybe it has, I genuinely don't know! It's hard to get a feel when the fandom is basically on life support. A series that has been around for about 20 years will naturally see people cycle out, especially when it comes to creating fan works and shipping, but I feel like I'm walking through a ghost town mostly filled with time capsules from a different era. So many dead LJ groups and broken links to shrines that fell into the abyss long ago... does a series this long need a perpetual anime to keep interest up? Or was it the long hiatus that cooled things off? Both?

Still the gayest and most wholesome battery as far as I'm concerned.

Anyway, I'll do my small part to give back by fixing up that old one-shot and see what I'm feeling like when I catch up. Maybe I'll write a "why ship this" essay like I did for HakuHiro too, who knows. Depends on how active the brainworms are and for how long. For now I'm just enjoying the good times and extremely technical matches all over again. The Nishiura boys are all so precious and AbeMiha are the most precious of all.