Give me evidence of NicoMaki
wtf no nicomaki is serious business
jkjk but anyways. to start off
from what i’ve gathered, nicomaki itself was kinda unintentional? i think back in the pv days, they were trying to push nozo/nico, eli/umi etc. but for some reason or another fans really liked nicomaki, so the creators caught on and started adding a bunch of nicomaki to the later pv’s and such
i don’t have any real links or sources, but the early, pre-anime drama cd’s had a lot of nicomaki, albeit a different dynamic. from what i understand, early maki’s personality was a lot more vain and pompous, and she and nico got into a lot of arguments over who was….hotter?? apparently there was even a cd where they started fighting, and maki was like “ah, no…don’t touch there”, which was referenced in the doujin 365.
i believe kimino sakurako (of strawberry panic fame) is responsible for writing everything that’s not the anime or songs. she’s the one responsible for all the altships in the manga and the rarepairs in the SID’s and such, and seems to ship nicomaki quite a lot. the nicomaki you see in the anime isn’t her work, however.
the manga really kick-started the pairing, i believe. maki is a lot more useless, nico is a lot more mysterious, and they’re like best friends/girl with a sidekick. nico attaches herself to maki (even telling her blog readers that she will be ‘going on a date with her best friend makkii’) and says a lot of stuff to make her doki. they do…a lot of gay things in there. 1) nico leaning over to wipe red bean soup off maki’s skirt, maki blushing at the proximity, 2) maki being insecure about her composition work but choosing to show nico, blushing and looking dazed when nico praises and hugs her. nico really has maki eating out of the palm of her hand though, and appears to like maki more for what she can offer, but i hope future chapters will prove me wrong.
you have this gay ass secret shortcut story where nico wants to share an umbrella with maki for whatever reason, and even jokingly confesses to maki, which the latter acknowledges but still can’t help but feel GAY about it. it’s okay maki, don’t push yourself
the SID’s themselves are pretty damn gay. nico’s and maki’s are about themselves, respectively, but they each have a chapter with the other (chapter 2 for nico, and chapter 4 for maki). then there’s the nicomaki SID itself, which tumblr user nikomaki has provided a translation for one of its chapters.
there’s an audio drama series where all the girls try to simulate love confessions within their subunits. i’ve listened to every one and nicomaki’s was the only one everyone actually approved of.
there’s like, one nicomaki moment every other chapter in sif. chapter 9 part 2 is what you can call the nicomaki chapter though. not to mention their matching UR set is gay even by UR standards, and recently in the jp version they had a super gay valentine’s day/white day arc, which tumblr user zoquatre was kind enough to translate. (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
here’s where the newer fans get confused: nicomaki is kinda scarce in the (first season of the) anime. but that’s where i like nicomaki best, really. they’re standoffish but not hostile with each other, and are seen willingly hanging out (in the background). there are some moments for them near the end, but i personally think they’re very telling.
the OVA is basically confirmed to be maki’s dream near the end. and in maki’s dream, nico is shown pretending to be apathetic over maki being too sick to attend school…and turns away to bite her thumb and have an ‘inner monologue’ where she tells maki to get well asap. but then you find out it’s nozomi voicing nico over, and nico gets extremely embarrassed and starts hitting her. nico also admits that little maki is even cuter than her and oh my god maki, your subconscious is really, truly gay
season 2 is the season where the creators decided to jam-pack like, every episode with nicomaki. you have episode 1 which is a monster in itself, episode 2 with the gay potatoes, episode 3 with maki being lowkey jealous over a-rise, episode 4 where maki’s jealous at the possibility of nico cooking for a boyfriend, episode 5 where nico clings onto maki and…much more. episode 10 where the others say they look good together, episode 11 where maki makes some sort of anguished declaration of love tells nico to not give up on muse, episode 12 where she playfully calls nico “miss number one idol in the universe” (a title which nico had referred to herself as early in the season) while giving off a really gay, genuine smile that still makes me doki
and then you have the series finale’s gay. lawn. cuddle.
you know it’s real when even your brother notices that nico being next to maki ruins the by-year order
and finally, you have the nicomaki duet, which was released a little after the anime ended. nozo/eli’s is super elegant with yuri symbolism and forbidden love, while nicomaki’s is…quite literally about them staring at the other for reasons they try to deny. there’s also magnet symbolism too, with that they are completely opposites yet are similar enough to understand the other’s true feelings and feel attracted to the other.
in other words, it’s VERY VERY GAY
this is about all i can think of off the top of my head, anyways. we all know nico ends up with the male alpaca in the movie judging from the official movie trailer, so rip nicomaki.