Bleach- IchiRuki, IshiHime, UlquiHime, ByaRen, etc.etc.etc.

Let's get this out of the 'way'- I am a girl. I read Bleach. No, those two facts do not automatically mean that I ship people, but...yeah, I do ship ^_^

My Bleach OTP:

IchiRuki. Ichigo x Rukia. Ichigo + Rukia. Howevertheheck you want to write it, KUROSAKI ICHIGO AND KUCHIKI RUKIA are together-together. I can and will provide my reasons for it in a bit.


What I think should happen with Hime:
Okay, no, let's get serious. I think she and Ulquiorra seriously would've had something going on, but Ulquiorra died. I support brief, evanescent UlquiHime, and definitely long-term IshiHime- and if you start telling me stuff like 'Ichigo likes her WAY more than Uryuu does!!!1111!1!!", I'll have to point out not-so-nicely that Ichigo literally NEVER notices Orihime, let alone her good attributes.
URYUU is the one that notices Orihime, compliments her, and actually LIKES HER. He SEES HER as MORE than a classmate. Ichigo simply DOES NOT NOTICE HER.

RenRuki or not RenRuki?
Not. Just not. I think they're like siblings; they grew up in Rukongai together, and yes- something might have come upon it, except Renji completely isolated himself from her during those forty years. It may not have been entirely his fault, but he certainly didn't help matters.
Side note- I found out recently that A) my martial arts sensei watches Bleach, and B) she also thinks that Renji and Rukia are siblings, as evidenced by how she named her two new puppies (from the same litter/batch!) Renji and Rukia. :DDD

Kaien/Rukia:
NO. NONONONONO. KAIEN WAS MARRIED TO MIYAKO. RUKIA IDOLIZED BOTH KAIEN AND MIYAKO. I choose to interpret this relationship as simply friend/sibling.

HitsuKarin:
It's so cute! It's total crack and they've only ever met in anime filler, but it's such a cute, good crack pairing!
Also, Karin is LITERALLY the only person who calls Toushirou by his given name. ONLY ONE. Even Momo doesn't...didn't...before she was horrifically attacked by accident and stabbed...but yeah. If I had to pick my favorite anime-only-filler-crack, it'd definitely be HitsuKarin.