History Main / TogetherUmbrella

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->''"Now that it's raining more than ever, \\
Know that we'll still have each other. \\
You can stand under my umbrella. \\
You can stand under my umbrella."''
->-- '''{{Rihanna}}''', "Umbrella"

Back in the day, it was not seen as kosher for a young woman to be seen in public with a man who was not a family member. One exception was during a rainy day, when a man could offer to share his umbrella with a young maiden in the street if she hadn't one herself.

It is a romantic image in media all over the world -- but it doesn't ''quite'' have the iconic "oomph" to Westerners that it does in Japan. The Japanese equivalent of the 'John [arrow through heart] Jane' love graffiti is drawing the pair's names standing under an umbrella.

Compare ParasolOfPrettiness, OldFashionedRowboatDate.
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* In ''SailorMoon'', Usagi and Mamoru do this at least once. Usagi also unduly flips out over Mamoru offering an older lady his umbrella out of kindness at one point.
** This trope is used early in the original manga, except the umbrella both foreshadowed the two of them becoming a couple ''and'' saved them from a nasty fall.
** It's platonic--unless you listen to some fangirls--when Makoto and Shinozaki are under his umbrella, right after her first love breaks her heart. It's so platonic, that Makoto ''herself'' dispells Usagi's squeals about them being in love when asked. She says that [[PlatonicLifePartners their friendship is actually more serious than any love she could have with a boyfriend.]]
** And later (chronologically but in an earlier episode) Motoki also offers an umbrella to Makoto, resulting in her developing a severe crush on him.
* In ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'', Haruhi walks Kyon home with the [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vlcsnap-282742.png school umbrella]]. [[SheIsNotMyGirlfriend They aren't a couple,]] [[{{Tsundere}} really.]]
* ''RanmaOneHalf'' has a magical umbrella which makes any two people who share it fall in love. (Is ''any'' item in that series ''not'' magical?).
** A "chapter title" illustration from the manga shows Ryoga and Akari standing happily under Ryoga's umbrella in a deliberate use of the trope.
*** Another one had [[LovePotion female-Ranma]] cheerfully whacking Ryouga to the ground with it.
** Also, the "carving one's names on a tree, under an umbrella-shaped symbol" version is used several times, especially by Kuno (to Ranma's annoyance, [[WhenTreesAttack especially when the tree took it seriously]],) but Genma and Nodoka did this too when they were dating.
** The song "November Rain" from one of the albums is about a rather sad, subverted version of this trope. The entire reason why Ranma is singing the song is because he's heartbroken over his fiancée, Akane, ditching him under the umbrella they were sharing with each other. Since him hurting her feelings was what caused her to leave, he laments throughout the song over how [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold he just can't seem to be tender with her]].
---> '''Ranma:''' Even rain that's about to freeze from cold is warmer than my heart. November rain, until my tears vanish, don't stop.
* Keiko, a previously [[FlatCharacter flat]] member of Nanami's GirlPosse in the Black Rose StoryArc of ''RevolutionaryGirlUtena'', more or less becomes the MonsterOfTheWeek after Nanami catches Keiko under an umbrella with Touga and reacts by throwing Keiko out of the group. Turns out that Keiko does have a crush on Touga, but Nanami's simply a ClingyJealousGirl with a BigBrotherAttraction. And Mikage uses it against everyone, pushing the lonely and troubled Keiko into becoming a Black Rose duelist.
* Played with in ''ThePrinceOfTennis'', where Kunimitsu Tezuka and Shuusuke Fuji ([[HoYay who are both male]]) [[ShipTease share a red umbrella]] [[SnowMeansLove under the snow]].
* Lucia and Hanon in ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' get caught in the rain under an umbrella, and although they really can't stand the implications, they haven't got a choice, since [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent getting wet will turn them into mermaids in the middle of the street]]. This doesn't stop Hanon from latching onto [[HotForTeacher her teacher]] at the first opportunity, leaving Lucia open to share her umbrella with Kaito.
* Asa's InstantFanclub in ''{{Shuffle}}'' is called Ai Ai Asa, playing off the word "aiaigasa" as well as the chant simply meaning "love love Asa".
* Sort of subverted in a bonus chapter in ''VampireKnight'': A teenage Juuri Kuran walks home from a human school in the rain even though Haruka showed up at her school with an umbrella. They both end up getting drenched since he shuts his umbrella when it is obvious she is too irritated with him for hiding all the umbrellas in their mansion earlier that day by storming ahead of Haruka in a huff. When Juuri asks why he did such a childish thing after ranting at him for several minutes, he simply replies, "I wanted to share an umbrella with you."
* The following examples are of the umbrella sketch:
** ''MartianSuccessorNadesico'' plays it straight.
** So does ''MyselfYourself''--used to imply {{Twincest}} nonetheless.
** ''Hakaima Sadamitsu'' has Yayoi/the Vulture using an old sketch in a wooden support beam to reveal her feelings to Sadamitsu. He's not amused when he finds it as the Vulture [[LaserGuidedAmnesia erased his memories of their childhood together]] when it possessed her; therefore, he doesn't know what the heck is going on.
* Similarly, ''CandyBoy'' has a whole episode devoted to Kanade setting up for one of this for her and Yukino.
* ''LightNovel/StrawberryPanic'' takes this trope to an absurd level--like most anything related to romance.
* ''LightNovel/MariaSamaGaMiteru'' has the episode "Holding a Parasol". It ends with a picture of Yumi and Sachiko sharing an umbrella under the sun.
* Hayate and Vita of ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' share an umbrella under the sun in the [[ComicBookAdaptation supplementary manga]]. And just to further drive up the LesYay of the moment, Hayate gently caresses the blushing Vita while they talk about how it would be wonderful if they could be together always.
* Kyouka from ''KyouranKazokuNikki'' is probably one of the few people to pull off the TogetherUmbrella ''indoors''.
* ''XxxHolic'' has a situation where Watanuki doesn't want to walk under one with Doumeki (whom he's an UnknownRival of) because they're both guys and he has this trope in mind. This is just one of many HoYay moments between them. (It is a Creator/{{CLAMP}} manga after all...)
* In ''TheGirlWhoLeaptThroughTime'', [[spoiler: Makoto, Chiaki, and Kōsuke are all sharing a red umbrella in a flashback. Chiaki loves Makoto, Makoto loves Chiaki, and Kōsuke probably knows that Chiaki loves Mokoto but isn't interested in her himself.]] [[BittersweetEnding (although she doesn't realize it until it's too late.)]]
* Greece and Japan share an umbrella in ''AxisPowersHetalia''. Also, Japan's partner Italy uses the umbrella symbol in a poster, drawing himself and Germany underneath it without really understanding what it means.
* Occurs during one of Hosaka's [[ImagineSpot daydreams]] in ''{{Minami-ke}}''.
* In Takahata's ''OnlyYesterday'' when [[spoiler: Teako decides to stay at the farm instead of going back to city, followed by ghost-like (yet charming) visions of herself and her classmates. She meets with Toshio, and as they walk side by side, the children construct a wooden 'together umbrella' and follow them with it, to assure the audience that the two will get together and have a happy future]]
* In the ending credits of ''GakuenAlice'', [[RomanticTwoGirlFriendship Hotaru and Mikan share an umbrella]].
** And in the manga, [[spoiler:Mikan's parents have one in the Special Abilities room. Cue everybody from Special Abilities and some not getting their names added to the umbrella, with Mikan (unknowingly) writing herself as the child of her actual parents.]]
* Also used in ''MidoriDays'', perhaps as not-so-subtle foreshadowing that Midori's feelings would not go unrequited for long.
* In ''{{Doraemon}}'': Nobita and Shizuka share an umbrella.
* Appears in ''SamuraiChamploo'', when in one episode Jin's GirlOfTheWeek ends up sharing her umbrella with him when he gets stuck in a heavy downpour without one.
** And it is somewhat implied that [[spoiler: he'll come back for her when her mandatory time on the island has ended]], so there's hope for the "togetherness" part yet.
* In ''FiveCentimetersPerSecond'', the umbrella symbol shows up on a chalkboard with Akari and Takaki's names under it. When they see it, Akari looks embarassed while Takaki hastily erases it, implying that some other kids had drawn it.
* Played straight in the ''FruitsBasket'' anime, where we have a scene where Yuki offers his umbrella to Tohru on the way home from school, much to Kyo's dismay.
** Also played with in the manga, where Tohru offers her umbrella to Kyo, since (as the Cat) he's utterly miserable in the rain. He gets flustered and angry, [[CanNotSpitItOut and turns her down]].
* ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'': Briefly glimpsed in Ikari's dream world, drawn on a door in a school.
* In the seventh episode of ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', "The School of Hard Knocks", in the corner of Kaito's picture of Giselle, their names are written under the umbrella in kanji. 4Kids edited out the easter egg, obviously, because anything remotely Japanese or romantic is evil.
* Done once in a {{Inuyasha}} episode. Miroku's hat had broken and he was left in the rain. Kagomi gave Sango her spare umbrella and Sango shared the umbrella with Miroku.
* In the 10th ending credits to {{Naruto}} Shippudden ([[BeachEpisode the beach ending]]), we see at the end that Sakura and Sasuke's names are written under the umbrella symbol...only to be washed away by a passing wave. [[ShipToShipCombat Make of that what you will.]]
* When Manga/HayateTheCombatButler is kicked out of the Sanzenin mansion, and is left sitting in the falling snow, Hinagiku shields him with hers while they talk and invites him to warm up at her place.
* Keichii and Belldandy do this once in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''.
* Tsuda and Shino from ''SeitokaiYakuindomo'' walk home this way once. They're aware that they look like a couple doing that, and so is the school CameraFiend not far behind them.
* SchoolRumble used this 3 times to ship Harima and Eri.
** When Harima offered to walk Eri home after her father left her in the rain.
** When someone drew an umbrella sketch with their names under it after the sports fest. [[BerserkButton Unfortunately for Harima]]...
** When Harima got a flash of inspiration for a manga and used Eri's umbrella to scratch it on the ground (it was a dud) trashing it in the process and he was forced to walk her home.
** [[GenreSavvy Tenma]] tried to invoke this between herself and Kurasuma in the first manga volume.
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** [[http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/157/130762148744.jpg Orhime hugging Riruka on the cover of chapter 451]] [[UmbrellaofTogetherness under an umbrella]].
** At the end of the "Everything but the Rain" flashback arc, [[spoiler: Ryuuken walks out into the GrayRainOfDepression, [[HeroicBSOD fully intending]] never to return home again. Katagiri, who has been {{ShipTease}}d with him throughout the arc, [[YouAreNotAlone coaxes him to come back with her]]. Under the umbrella she's holding. After that, no one was very surprised when they were [[TheyDo confirmed to marry later]].]]
* Non-romantic (or [[ShipTease is]] [[HoYay it]]?) example: ''{{Durarara}}'' has a flashback with {{Berserker}} Shizuo Heiwajima standing in the rain by the jail after being set up for a crime, feeling and looking completely alone. Off screen, we hear a voice calling his name. It's a very close friend he lost contact with, who then holds his umbrella up over Shizuo's head as they walk off together. This is the anime version of Tom's defining character moment, as he's been there for Shizuo ever since.
* In ''SasamiMagicalGirlsClub'', Anri fantasizes about sharing an umbrella [[LesYay with Tsukasa]].
* Anime/WeddingPeach: The love angels think Yanagiba has a girlfriend because of this trope. Later when they try to stage it themselves, Yousuke comes (with an umbrella) [[{{Hoyay}} to pick him up instead.]]
* The intro of ''Anime/OkusamaWaMahouShoujo'' ends with almost but not quite showing Ureshiko and Kagura under one umbrella.
* Played with in CodeGeass for [[spoiler: Lelouch and Shirley's]] FirstKiss. While going to meet her, he sees her standing in the rain and tries to hold the umbrella over her, but a combination of the shocking thing she tells him plus his surprise when she embraces him causes him to drop the umbrella, so they end up kissing in the rain.
* Happens off-screen between Yukari and Kouichi in Literature/{{Another}}. [[spoiler: Not that it matters a lot, since said umbrella ends up giving Yukari an ''ImpromptuTracheotomy''.]]
* In YumekuiMerry there is such an umbrella drawn on the wall of the old playground, with Yumeji and Isana names.
* ''[[InvokedTrope Invoked]]'' in LightNovel/{{Campione}}, when [[LoveInterest Erica]] snaps her umbrella in half while it was raining.
* Pretty much the point of ''Anime/TheGardenOfWords''. A high school student is walking through a park in the rain when he comes across an older woman sheltering under a gazebo. As it's the start of the rainy season, this happens regularly over the next few months. By the time summer happens, they keep hoping for rain so they'll have an excuse to keep meeting each other.
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[[folder: Comics ]]
* ''{{Foxtrot}}'' features a strip were Denise is muttering and cursing until it starts to rain, to which she squeals with delight. Peter comments on their newfound closeness; "Wow, good thing you brought this umbrella."
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[[folder: Film ]]
* ''ThreeTimes'': A boy and a girl stand under the same umbrella under the rain, and they tenderly join hands.
* ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ParapluiePoster.jpg Les Parapluies de Cherbourg]]'' (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg).
* ''EasterParade'' has the song "A Fella with an Umbrella," as Johnny falls in love with Hannah while they walk in the rain under the umbrella from a fruit cart, completing the film's LoveDodecahedron.
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[[folder: Literature ]]
* ''LittleWomen'': Jo and Professor Bhaer have their RelationshipUpgrade and FirstKiss under his umbrella during a muddy downpour.
** In TheMusical, it doesn't happen ''quite'' so - Bhaer finds Jo at Amy's wedding, on a day riddled with 'sun showers.' He proposes to her with the analogy of sharing a "[[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming small umbrella in the rain]]."
* Anne Shirley is offered shelter under a handsome stranger's umbrella in ''[[Literature/AnneOfGreenGables Anne of the Island]]'', although the romance doesn't last.
* A ''platonic'' TogetherUmbrella (according to [[{{Shipping}} most]]) is conjured by Tris for her and Sandry in the ''Literature/CircleOfMagic'' series.
* You can actually ''hear'' Captain Wentworth's heart break in ''{{Persuasion}}'' when he offers to walk Anne home in the rain with his umbrella, and the for-once-oblivious heroine innocently says she already has an escort!
* ''AgnesGrey'': Rosalie Murray thinks she has Mr. Weston wrapped around her finger as securely as every man in town, but Agnes is the one who he walks to the carriage with his umbrella. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming Awww...]]
* ''[[Literature/{{Psmith}} Leave it to Psmith]]'' uses an amusing variation as a MeetCute. Psmith dashes out of the [[SmokyGentlemensClub Drones Club]] with an umbrella for Eve and later refuses to let her return it. It takes her a while to figure out that [[spoiler:it wasn't his umbrella to begin with; he stole it for her]].
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[[folder: Live Action TV ]]
* ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' featured one of Isaac's precognitive paintings (used above) featuring Simone and Peter apparently embracing under an umbrella, which Isaac took to be a sign of their relationship. [[spoiler: He's right.]]
* ''TheXFiles'' frequently made use of this trope. Comically so, on occasion--David Duchovny has quite a bit of height on Gillian Anderson. Definite ShipTease.
* Used straight-up for courtship in an episode of ''TheCommish''. A police officer is advised to take his GirlOfTheWeek to the park. When we see them there it's raining, only it's not a problem as they're both having a picnic under a pair of joined umbrellas.
* Damon and Elena, in an episode of ''TheVampireDiaries''.
* A standard of many Korean {{Soap Opera}}s, usually between the [[OfficialCouple Canon Couple]].
** ''PlayfulKiss''
** ''TwinkleTwinkle''
** ''Big''
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''. In a platonic love version, Giles walks Willow to the taxi (so she can catch the plane back to the US) under his umbrella.

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[[folder: Music ]]
* Music/{{Rihanna}}'s single "Umbrella" (quoted above) makes obvious use of this image.
* A much earlier example is "Bus Stop" by Music/TheHollies.
--> "Bus stop, wet day, she's there I say\\
Please share my umbrella\\
Bus stop, bus go, she stays love grows\\
Under my umbrella"
** The main characters continue to share an umbrella even on sunny days, leading others to stare "as if we were both quite insane".
* The song ''Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic'' by Music/ThePolice plays with this; the singer has a crush on a girl he knows, but CannotSpitItOut. As he says in the song, ''"It's a big enough umbrella / But its always me that ends up getting wet!"'' (He gives his umbrella to the girl, instead of sharing it.)
* French folk singer Music/GeorgesBrassens had a song called ''Un P'tit Coin d'Parapluie'' ("a little piece of umbrella") about a boy who shares his umbrella with a girl, and whose chorus went: "A little piece of umbrella/For a piece of heaven/She sure looked like an angel".
* The Japanese song ''Ai Ai Gasa'' from [=TegoMass.=]
* The Hebrew song "Two of Us Together Under One Umbrella" ("Shneinu Yahad Tahat Mitria Ahat") by Naomi Shemer. The refrain, roughly translated:
--> "Two of us together under one umbrella \\
We're both skipping from one puddle to the next\\
a Raining City has just this to say to us\\
Life's a pretty thing, living life is great!"\\
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[[folder: Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/RivalSchools: United By Fate'' features this moment in Kyoko's ending as her to-be fiancee Hideo offers her an umbrella.
* In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'', look close at the blackboard in the classroom -- there's one of those Japanese umbrella diagrams. While the names are considerably lo-res, and thus almost unreadable, but if you get close to it a dialogue box will pop up with the text "Karane + Caw...".
* ''{{Persona 4}}:'' ''[[UpdatedRerelease Golden]]'' has Kanji getting flustered over the idea of doing this with [[spoiler: Naoto]]. Just to their right, Yu and Yosuke [[HoYay don't seem to have a problem with it]].
* In the DatingSim ''Videogame/AlwaysRememberMe'', the protagonist shares an umbrella with the ShrinkingViolet {{love interest}} that offers to walk her home when she's caught in the rain.
* In the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioKart'' the title screen has a Love Umbrella with Mario's and Peach's names under it.
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[[folder: VisualNovels]]
* ''KatawaShoujo'': Hisao and Rin do this together in her route, fitting with the games {{Animesque}} tone.
* In ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', Riki and Kurugaya share an umbrella together while on their first date. At first, both of them try to play it cool and let their own shoulders get wet so the other is fully covered, but they soon realise it's silly and just walk together happily.
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* ''RedString'' has Kazuo offering Karen his umbrella [[http://www.redstring.strawberrycomics.com/?p=337 here]]. Karen being (at this point in the plot) [[LoveTriangle the lead girl Miharu's romantic rival]] and Kazuo being the lead guy and fiance of Miharu.
* ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'': Have you noticed how the kanji for "rain" [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=4473 resembles an Umbrella of Togetherness]]?
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[[folder: Western Animation ]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** [[MinionShipping Zuko and Mai]] on [[BeachEpisode the beach]] -- one gets the impression they were going for the "[[EmoTeen emos]] hate sunlight" image.
** Much earlier, the Gaang was given an umbrella from a man that was told by a FortuneTeller that it will rain. Since Sokka is caught up in ArbitrarySkepticism, Katara and Aang are the only ones using it come rainfall.
* Disney's ''Disney/TheRescuers'' has a scene where Miss Bianca and Bernard share an umbrella.
* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' played this trope as a love as first sight kind of thing between Arnold and Helga as the first time she saw him, and ever felt that anyone ever saw '''her''', was when the rain stopped falling on her and she noticed Arnold holding an umbrella over her head.
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* [[http://www.dotchan.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=1519&mode=search This]] bit of ''RanmaOneHalf'' picture {{Shipping}} Ranma and Akane has the drawn version of the Together Umbrella (as the protagonists themselves [[IntertwinedFingers hold hands]]).
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* In Japan couples often do this because it gives them an excuse to get close to each other without making a scene in public.
* In a traditional Japanese wedding, a red umbrella is held over the couple.
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* Rihanna's single "Umbrella" (quoted above) makes obvious use of this image.

* A much earlier example is "Bus Stop" by TheHollies.

* The song ''Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic'' by The Police plays with this; the singer has a crush on a girl he knows, but CannotSpitItOut. As he says in the song, ''"It's a big enough umbrella / But its always me that ends up getting wet!"'' (He gives his umbrella to the girl, instead of sharing it.)

* A ''platonic'' TogetherUmbrella (according to [[{{Shipping}} most]]) is conjured by Tris for her and Sandry in the ''CircleOfMagic'' series.

** Also, the "carving one's names on a tree, under an umbrella-shaped symbol" version is used several times, especially by Kuno (to Ranma's annoyance, [[WhenTreesAttack especially when the tree took it seriously]],) but Genma and [[HotShounenMom Nodoka]] did this too when they were dating.

** At the end of the "Everything but the Rain" flashback arc, [[spoiler: Ryuuken walks out into the GrayRainOfDepression]], [[HeroicBSOD fully intending]] never to return home again. Katagiri, who has been {{ShipTease}}d with him throughout the arc, [[YouAreNotAlone coaxes him to come back with her]]. Under the umbrella she's holding. After that, no one was very surprised when they were [[TheyDo confirmed to marry later]].]]

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': [[http://img690.imageshack.us/img690/157/130762148744.jpg Orhime hugging Riruka on the cover of chapter 451]] [[UmbrellaofTogetherness under an umbrella]].

* [[http://www.dotchan.com/gallery/details.php?image_id=1519&mode=search This]] bit of ''RanmaOneHalf'' picture {{Shipping}} Ranma and Akane has the drawn version of the Together Umbrella (as the protagonists themselves [[IntertwinedFingers hold hands]].

* [[InvokedTrope ''Invoked'']] in LightNovel/{{Campione}}, when [[LoveInterest Erica]] snaps her umbrella in half while it was raining.

* [[InvokedTrope''Invoked'']] in LightNovel/{{Campione}}, when [[LoveInterest Erica]] snaps her umbrella in half while it was raining.

* A standard of many Korean {{Soap Opera}}s, usually between the CanonCouple.