Shipping wars are pretty common in Amagami. Even though each girl was given her own arc of 4 episodes. The shippers used to say they were feeling withdrawal from not being able to bash those who are not the love interest of that arc.
Aquarion Evol, oh boooooooy. The Zessica/Amata and Mikono/Kagura factions are totaly vicious against the Mikono/Amata pairing. Amata is called "tool" and "ungrateful bastard" for rejecting Zessica's love, Mikono is called "slut" and "weak" for not falling into Amata's arms right away and being confused about Kagura, Zessica used by self-projecting fangirls and fanboys who think Amata owes her cock because she loves him and would sacrifice lots of things for him. On the flip side Kagura is either made into a heartless and evil brute (ignoring how he isn't without his depths), or glorified la Zessica while his fans insist that Mikono owes him vagina for being his Morality Pet — so Mikono going for Amata instead makes her "a shallow and traitor whore" who "abaondoned Kagura and broke Zessica".
The arguments between fans of Attack on Titan get quite intense, especially fans of Eren x Mikasa, Eren x Historia, and Eren x Levi, although almost every ship involving Eren or Levi has been involved in a shipping war.
Bakugan is somewhat a curious case, as the main target is not Dan, but Shun, his Lancer and Foil. The first season teased Alice, while third season teased Fabia. Surprisingly, the shipwar is notably low on bashing and cursing, with each side prefering to pile evidence to try and top each other.
Black Butler pretty much is a war within itself nowadays, especially with the new season. (What else is expected though, when every male in the show is a total Bishōnen?) Despite the only confirmed canon pairing being the (platonic) love between Sebastian/Any Cat He Can Find and the closest thing Ciel has to a canon "loveinterest" is Lizzie many fangirls persist over pairings like Ciel x Sebastian, which has some Yaoi Fanservice in the manga and was taken up a notch in the anime (especially in season 2). Though Sebastian's obsession with (eating) Ciel's Soul may make it somewhat canon in its own right. You'll also stumble along Sebastian paired with Meirin, Finnian, Bard, Alois, Lau, Claude, Tanaka... Try giving a solid standing for your pairing in a ship board, or especially on YouTube, and you'll usually have at least 5 people calling you a bitch. This fandom tends to be nicer, but still.
Aside from the most common pairings of Master/Butler, Ciel/Sebastian and Alois/Claude, the circus arc opened a new possibility of a Heterosexual Pairing with Ciel. You now have the option of supporting Ciel/Lizzy, or Ciel/Doll aka Freckles. You can find a couple forums with wars about this. A lot of it is troll logic about how if Ciel really loved Doll, she'd be in the anime, or if he loved Lizzy, insert whatever reason you like. Oh, and if you think you're safe just sticking to Alois/Ciel, which is practically Belarus/Russia based on certain fansubs, you're not.
Actually, the only pairing that doesn't get too fought over is Lau and RanMao. It's rarely shipped, but no one fights over it. Probably because it's pretty undeniable that it's hot.
Ciel/Lizzie (and Lizzie in general) is getting more support lately, though, as we learn that Elizabeth did learn swordmanship, is good enough with it to protect Ciel from zombies, and she won't keep hiding it anymore... Did that bring wank? Of course it did, specially with rabid yaoi fangirls who jumped on to accuse Elizabeth's development was a total Ass Pull.
Black Cat: Creed/Train fans and Saya/Train fans don't really get along. Huge arguments were made over whether Train ever liked Saya as more than a friend, which evidently would make it more canonical than the pairing of Creed and Train. Not that any of this really matters, considering that Saya died very early in the story and that Creed is the Big Bad with a rather questionable grip on sanity and whose obvious homolust towards Train is equally obviously one-sided.
Due to being the primary Love Interests of Asta and Foils to each other, combat between Asta/Noelle and Asta/Mimosa is quite common.
While Asta has an Unwanted Harem of his own, the biggest combat ended up being Yami/Charlotte vs. Yami/Vanessa, due to the storylines of how they both fell in love with him.
Bleach: The Ship-To-Ship Combat between fans of Ichigo/Orihime versus fans of Ichigo/Rukia is particularly bloody.
Most of the existing Bleach forums out there were established during the Soul Society arc, a period of time when the fandom considered Ichigo/Rukia to be canon, so when Ichigo/Orihime began to develop, the forum environments turned hostile, with some moderators taking sides. Wank ensued, possibly causing the downtime of entire forums during peak periods. To this day, shipping sections on Bleach forums are usually heavily regulated or missing entirely, and the majority of Ichigo/Orihime fans have banded together on their own ship-oriented forum.
Some Ulquiorra/Orihime fans have also joined in the Ship-to-Ship Combat against Ichigo/Orihime. Orihime is frequently criticised for not falling out of love with Ichigo and is blamed for the Break the Cutie events that happen to her — some of them being caused by Ulquiorra. Alternatively, these "special" fans tend to deliberately handwave or completely erase Ulquiorra'slesssavorytraits to make him look like Orihime's "perfect prince" who'll whisk her away from Ichigo... nevermind that the major appeals of the couple would be the potential Mind Game Ship, Angel/Devil Shipping, Corrupt the Cutie and/or Foe Yay Shipping aspects.
Some yaoi and Ichigo/Orihime fans have jumped into the Ship-To-Ship Combat by bashing Ulquiorra/Orihime with accounts dedicated to it, and obnoxious stamps. Noting the first reference, it's particularly noticeable how much utter contempt there is for Orihime. She just can't win in fandom.
The manga is over at chapter 686, and the official couples are Ichigo/Orihime and Rukia/Renji. To say fans are conflicted over this would be an understatement; in addition to the bitter Ichigo/Rukia fans, fans of Orihime note that her cameo as Ichigo's wife, without ever exploring her deepening feelings for him, much less his feelings for her, feels like a bummer for both characters.
In the Candy♡Candy fandom the fights, scuffles and screaming matches between Candy x Terry and Candy x Albert fangirls have been going on for more than thirty years. The first cry at how the ending left Candy alone but more or less in peace (and might have opened the gates for a Candy/Albert match-up), while the latter accuse the opposing shippers of handwaving or ignoring all the emotional problems that Candy went through because of Terry.
Case Closed: Shinichi / Ran and Conan / Ai (keep in mind that Shinichi and Conan are the same person). Some boards even ban threads discussing either pairing. Though the English-speaking fandom is fairly peaceful, you still need to tread carefully.
Let's not even get STARTED on the shipping wars in A Certain Magical Index. Given that there are over TEN THOUSAND girls in his harem if we count the Sisters as individuals (and there's more than enough evidence to prove that), it gets pretty bloody over in that fandom assuming you're not in the sizable portion who just wants him to Marry Them All.
It gets particularly bloody between Touma x Mikoto shippers and Touma x Index shippers, given that they're the two main love interests of the series. While there isn't a lot of bashing, there's certainly a lot of evidence.
Touma x Mikoto shippers like to point out their various dates and how Index basically treats Touma like crap despite him basically taking care of her and protecting her and getting nothing in return - except for a bite on the head.
Code Geass: The pairing wars between Lelouch/Kallen and Lelouch/C.C. shippers can get pretty vicious at times. And they're hardly the only two ships out there: there's also Lelouch/Suzaku, Lelouch/Nunnally, Lelouch/Euphemia, Lelouch/Shirley, Lelouch/Rolo... yeah. That's not even getting into all the Suzaku ships, either: there's Suzaku/Euphie, Suzaku/Lelouch, Suzaku/Gino, etc..
The movie, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Re;surrection, fuel the shipping war further most especially in the end where Lelouch and C.C. ended up together and the latter is the one who resurrected the former. Fans of other pairings didn't take this very well...
Cowboy Bebop: Spike/Julia vs. Spike/Faye. Many Spike/Julia fans insist Faye is a slutty, obnoxious bitch who's too immature and whiny for Spike, while Spike/Faye fans often believe Julia's a fickle syndicate whore who destroyed Spike's relationship with his former best friend and ultimately got him killed.
D.Gray-Man: The shipping wars of pairing Allen with their favorite OTP. The sad thing is that he hasn't even really shown that much interest in any of them, being a confirmedCelibate Hero who has expressed adamant disinterest in anything romantic. There's the obvious wars between Lenalee/Allen and Road/Allen fans, and then there's the Ho Yay / Foe Yay Shipping fans (Kanda/Allen, Lavi/Allen, Tyki/Allen)...
In the Da Capo anime, Nemu is officially the winner of Junichi with the exception of Da Capo If, in which Kotori wins, mainly because Nemu's dead, since the sequel, Da Capo II, follows their grandkids. However, a lot of fans support some of the other girls since Nemu is usually seen as The Scrappy. Of the other remaining girls, Kotori often gets the most support, since she seems to get along very well with Junichi in the anime.
Hinanami (Chiaki and Hajime) and Komahina (Nagito and Hajime) didn't fight much in the visual novels' day, but soon started when the anime all but outright stated the former ship as canon while completely ignoring the latter. The only thing Komahina got was one Ho YayBig-Lipped Alligator Moment of Izuru and Nagito meeting, which was played as a joke and later overshadowed by Izuru and Chiaki's interactions. This predictably caused Hinanami fans to start preparing their victory fireworks and Komahina fans to start preparing their weapons.
The war between them was nothing compared to the three-way war of Munakata/Chisa vs Munakata/Juzo vs Juzo/Chisa, though. Munakata/Chisa fans call Juzo an irredeemable asshole trying to break their ship apart; Munakata/Juzo fans call Chisa nothing but a Clingy Jealous Girl whose sole purpose is living for Munakata; Juzo/Chisa fans call Munakata as an insane extremist who doesn't deserve Chisa; it just goes on and on. And it only got worse when it was revealed which of them Juzo was in love with: Munakata. Cue the Munakata/Juzo fans screaming how people were homophobes if they didn't ship it, with the other two insisting that Munakata/Juzo was only shipped by insane Yaoi Fangirls. Just...good lord. Thankfully, these arguments have died down now, and many instead opt to ship the three of them together.
With Ichigo and 002 being the most important girls in the promotional materials, and especially due to episode 2, you have Hiro/Ichigo and 002/Hiro shippers either at each other's throats or smugly claiming superiority over the other, similar to the Chidori vs Noriko debates.
Mitsuru/Kokoro vs. Futoshi/Kokoro. Those who defend the former argue that Kokoro's interactions with Mitsuru are much more interesting due to their opposite natures, and that could lead to some great Character Development, while her relationship with Futoshi doesn't have much depth beyond them being Sickeningly Sweethearts. The side of the fanbase that prefers Futoshi/Kokoro think such relationship wouldn’t work because of Mitsuru'sless than idealpersonality and his general treatment of his partner, while Futoshi's personality and relationship with Kokoro are endearing to watch. Furthermore, the fact that it would allude to Netorare doesn't help.
Death Note has a couple pairings, such as Light/L, Mello/Near, and Mello/Matt, along with pairing any of the above with an original character in fanfiction. In particular, a few years back, the Mello/Near shippers got into a nasty fight with the Mello/Matt ones.
There's also a minor shipwar between Light/Misa and L/Misa shippers. Needless to say, neither get on well with the Light/L shippers who were as much of an inspiration for the Het Is Ew trope as Heero/Duo. The shipping wars simply tend to be more along het and slash lines rather than within the slash and het fandoms, with Misa and Halle getting bashed because they take Light and Mello away from their potential male partners.
The Devilman fandom has always had one or another discussion about the nature of Akira's feelings for Ryo and Miki, but the newest adaptation DEVILMAN crybaby has brought them to the internet surface.
As mentioned, the bigest scuffle is between the Akira/Ryo and Akira/Miki fandom corners. On one hand Akira/Miki fans tend to dismiss Akira's canonical Homoerotic Subtext with Ryo and prop up solely his feelings for Miki, often accusing Akira/Ryo shippers of fetishizing homosexuality. On the other, Akira/Ryo shippers reduce Akira and Ryo's complex relationship solely to their Homoerotic Subtext, downplay Miki's importance to Akira and often call every single Akira/Miki fan "homophobic" (regardless of their actual views on LGBT+ people and contents)
As a bonus... Does anyone ship Miko with Kukun or with Miki? It doesn't get as heated as the example above though, likely due to Kukun being quite popilar and Miki being too much of a Nice Girl to hate; meaning one can choose either ship and not get that much flak for it.
The Digimon fandom suffered from a terminal case of Pair the Spares in its early years that went something like this: "Digidestined must be paired up in descending order by importance." Thus, Taichi/Sora, Takeru/Hikari and Mimi with either Koushiro, Yamato, or Jyou (despite that she rarely even speaks to the first two).
Takeru/Hikari was pretty popular since the first season. Then Daisuke appeared the next season, and a shipping war started. Which wasn't helped by the continued and increased Ship Tease of Takeru/Hikari in 02.
Taichi/Sora and Yamato/Sora fans still have it out once in a while. Taichi/Sora fans rationalize that Yamato comes off as a huge douche for part of the second season and therefore can't stand the thought of him ending up with Sora, or that Taichi and Sora were "obviously" flirting/in love with each other for the entire first season so Sora ending up with Yamato instead was a giant cop-out. Yamato/Sora fans use the Distant Finale, the fact that a good part of the Taichi/Sora Ship Tease was only 2 explicit lines of Taichi's in Adventure, how Sora willingly chose Yamato over Taichi without anyone pressuring her into it (and having her back off could have sexist Unfortunate Implications about her feeling that "she owes Taichi affection"), the other fact that Taichi got over Sora's supposed "friendzoning" in less than 24 hours (and even showed attraction to another girl named Catherine so he wasn't as "hurt" and "spurned" as Taichi/Sora fans insisted he was), and how it breaks the "Hero gests together with Heroine" clichés for rationalization, with some of them pointing out that many people end up with someone other than their oldest friend/first crush. And in the middle, the Taichi/Yamato fans- often considered the most populous shippers in Digimon fandom- are very bitter because of the constant Ship Tease between Taichi/Yamato in the first season, including official Taichi/Yamato art published in a magazine. The whole debate over whether Yamato and Sora were Strangled by the Red String or not will probably never fully die out, in fact, due to the apparent removal of actual Sora/Yamato Ship Tease from the Japanese original.
Not even the Digimon themselves were spared. In most cases, the Digidestined who were paired had their Digimon paired up with each other. The more well-known one is Patamon/Gatomon (or even Angemon/Angewomon), and Veemon/Gatomon. Though this becomes a bit of a shipping three-way battle when Wizardmon/Gatomon gets involved, and they've all butted heads with one another numerous times in the past.
Now that Digimon Adventure tri. is coming, the Taiora and Sorato fanbases are starting to come back to life. Since this season intends to focus on the first eight kids, the Takari and Daikari fanbases haven't got quite so cagey, yet.
The Dragon Ball fandom used to be pretty calm in terms of fans of various pairings, even when they conflicted.... and then Dragon Ball Super came along and gave Trunks a semi-official love interest in the form of Mai, with whom he had never otherwise interacted. All of a sudden, fans of Trunks/Pan and Trunks/Goten are viciously hating on Mai and saying she is "getting in the way", while fans of Trunks/Mai vocally deride other pairings for having little to no canon basis.
Durarara!!: Some Shizuo/Izaya fans will rip out the throats of anyone who mentions Namie or Vorona, while Mikado is just torn to pieces between everyone who wants him as their OTPuke.
Elfen Lied is notable for two reasons. First, the main Love Triangle is between the Unlucky Childhood FriendClingy Jealous Girlcousin and a psychopathic, sadisticYanderewith a tragic backstory. Second, because the anime writers got in on the shipping war in favor of Kouta/Lucy, while the manga supports Kouta/Yuka. Accordingly, Yuka's Clingy Jealous Girl tendencies are played up to the point of Flanderization, while Lucy's sadism and malice are played down in favor of her bitterness and rage at the world (which are easier to sympathize with). The anime also has Kouta explicitly say that he would rather take Lucy to the festival if Yuka hadn't asked him first, which wasn't the case in the manga, and omits Lucy's admission that she would have killed Yuka even if Kouta had been honest with her. Lucy also appears to survive her final battle in the anime, but as it's Cut Short, the anime team don't get to resolve the Love Triangle.
Natsu/Lucy vs Natsu/Lisanna. Lucy fans will often point out Natsu's lack of any sort of interest in Lisanna after her return, and fanfics will have her stay dead. Lisanna fans will cite the anime filler scenes that set her up as Natsu's tragic former love interest, their and fanfiction will often have Lucy turn out to have been a shallow replacement for her who is booted from or ignored by the guild upon Lisanna's return.
Erza/Jellal vs Erza/Natsu vs Erza/Gray. Gray and Natsu fans get along pretty well by uniting against Jellal. While he's got canon on his side (he and Erza are the only characters to even kiss thus far, the only main characters to admit to having mutual feeling, the only ones to have a heavily developed romantic history and interactions, the only...) it's easy for Natsu and Gray fans to point out that he's also the only one to have seriously harmed Erza, often claiming that being Brainwashed and Crazy at the time doesn't excuse him because he still physically did it, and it's easy to create a story where Erza comes to that same conclusion and decides to ignore him.
Wendy/Chelia vs Wendy/Romeo. This one is pretty peaceful compared to the above two wars and mainly comes down to whether you prefer to have Wendy in a Pseudo-Romantic Friendship or in a heterosexual one. Chelia has canon on her side by virtue of it focusing more on her relationship with Wendy compared to Romeo, but it's easy for fans to imagine Romeo develop a crush on Wendy given they're both the only two pre-teens about each other's age in Fairy Tail.
Food Wars! has the question of Soma/Erina vs. Soma/Megumi. Fans of the former generally bash Megumi for being "weak" and "dependent on Soma", whereas fans of the latter often hate Erina for being a TsundereDefrosting Ice Queen who was a bit too icy at first, even though she's gotten much better since. Smaller ships like Soma/Alice or Soma/Ikumi generally stay out of it.
As of episode 6, it's safe to say that the fragile peace has been broken and we have a full on ship war. After Rin's ungracious reaction to finally defeating Haruka, a good part of the fandom has started SCREAMING for his blood... and unsurprisingly, the leaders of this anti-Rin "movement" are the rabid Haruka/Makoto shippers.
And the "war" cotinued! Not only that, but a new "shipping faction" started to appear when Sousuke Yamazaki, a character from the original novels, was slated to appear in the second season. When Sousuke finally appeared and was shown to be very close to Rin, the fans went into either lovegasms or hategasms.
Although not as bad as it used to be, the Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) fandom fought hard over the classic trio of Ed/Winry, Ed/Rose and Ed/Roy. Poor Rose herself was on the receiving end of Die for Our Ship quite a bit, to the point that even mentioning her name on a Ed/Winry forum is... discouraged. (Winry and Roy were usually spared, due to greater potential for Tying Up Romantic Loose Ends and the fact that they were well-liked characters in general, whereas Rose was divisive even outside of the shipping wars.)
Fullmetal Alchemist: The Conqueror of Shamballa causes even more ship wars. Alfons/Ed became popular which only caused issues with people who shipped Edward with Winry, Roy, or Al. Noah isn't even on the radar for most shippers due to the disdain toward her but people will occasionally debate thatshe would be a good pair for either Al or Ed due to them being stuck on their side of the gate. People who ship either of the brothers with Rose tend to think of Noah as a poor substitute.
There's pairing Edward with Roy's or Winry's alters vs pairing them with Roy or Winry. Both of the former characters should exist somewhere but they were never shown besides Roy's alter appearing in a piece of official art. The debate largely ties in with people who write Edward as eventually going through the gate and reuniting with his friends while others acknowledge that's impossible and have him fall for the next best thing to his loved one.
Even more discouraging is throwing Armony and Sophie's names out as Ed pairings. The people who actually have played the games and know what you're talking about will either love/appreciate you, or want you dead. Even though Armony and Ed are pretty canon solely for Broken Angel, it's a small fanbase on the webs.
Armony and Ed's relationship is just one of teacher/apprentice and friendship, though. So calling it a "canon" romance is a really big stretch. That coupled with the first videogame having a bad reception in general, may explain why the couple isn't remotely as popular as the others.
Possibly the craziest section is the one who ships Ed/Fangirl (or Anyone/Fangirl). Yes, you read that right; wherever you go in the fandom, you're going to find at least a couple crazies who are completely convinced that they are married to Ed or Al, or at least dating them, and that the fictional characters hate the rest of the fanbase for even suggesting other pairings. It's sadly some Serious Business when these folks come out, because at least 70% of the time, they aren't trolling.
The manga fandom itself has had better luck, but wars have arisen between fans who insist that Roy/Riza and/or Al/Mei are Official Couples and fans who insist that there isn't enough evidence to claim that they are. Basically, it's ship vs. no ship here.
Some parts of the manga fandom do tend to be pretty militant toward fans who prefer non-canon couples to Official Couple Ed/Winry and the various "heavily implied" ones (Roy/Riza, Al/Mei and Ling/Lan Fan). It often becomes an engine of the everlasting "which version of FMA is better" war, since non-canon couples are far more popular with fans of Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), where Ed didn't have a canonical love interest and was overall Oblivious to Love.
When a Non-Serial Movie (The Sacred Star of Milos) was announced after the Brotherhood series ended, the new female lead Julia Crichton got calls of "she better not break up my OTP" shit right after the movie was revealed.
Future Diary had some minor ship wars between Yuki/Yuno fans and Akise/Yuki fans.
The Quintessential Quintuplets: This series confirms at the very beginning that Fuutarou will end up with one of the Nakano quintuplets, but leaves it unclear as to who this will be, so this is to be expected. It's taken to the point that some of the shipping factions have gotten names, e.g. the Nino shippers go by the moniker Nino Gang. There's also a subset of fans hoping for a Marry Them All ending.
Mobile Suit Gundam 00 has seen its share of Ship-To-Ship Combat, with fans endlessly debating about who Setsuna should be paired with, whether it be with Marina Ismail, Feldt Grace or Nena Trinity. It doesn't help that supplementary materials (which incidentally are considered non-canon) released lead to complications as to who Setsuna will really end up with, thus leading to further confusion and debate. Of course some ship him with Graham and Gundam as well.
Mobile Suit Gundam AGE is starting to see an intense shipping war between those who support Flit/Emily and those who support Flit/Yurin. While it's agreed that both pairings would be good and have their own high points (Yurin is a sweet Nice Girl and the Ensemble Dark Horse, but Emily has the advantage of knowing Flit for a longer time), the fact that Flit's son Asemu resembles Emily in concept and promotional art has some shippers going at it. The fact that the Wham Episode has poor Yurindie in the WORST way possible does NOT help the series's case.
You don't even need to pit 2/1 and 1/R fans against each other. Go to the "correct" fandom corner and say that Duo should top Heero. Watch the fangirls in that corner tearing each other down about that.
Haganai: Kodaka/Sena and Kodaka/Yozora shippers. In other parts of the vast reaches of the internet, there's a battle brewing between those who prefer to see Kodaka with Yozora, and others who would rather see him with Sena; the other girls are largely relegated to Demoted to Extra status in this regard. Amusingly, Kodaka himself keeps letting it slip that Rika is really his type... or would be with a better personality, but that goes for all the girls.
Haikyuu!!: There's a drift between people who ship Hinata with Kageyama and those who ship Hinata with Yachi.
If you ever see the name "Haruhi Suzumiya" used in conjunction with the word "shipping", get out while you still have the chance. Someone is going to get flamed. Odds are, everyone will. In other words, never discuss your favorite pair with Kyon involved. Side pairings aren't exempt either; Haruhi/Mikuru is particularly divisive even when Kyon isn't in the discussion.
With the resolution of the Greece Arc a lot of this has died down, with large parts of the fandom picking sides on the Hinagiku/Hayate/Athena Love Triangle, thanks in part to the reveal that Hina has a past with Athena too, Hayate still had feelings for Athena (which he told Hina no less), but was ultimately rejected before finally revealing that Athena was planning on coming back to Japan after all - even giving Nagi the empty box for the ring Hayate gave her as kids which many saw as a direct challenge.
The flames rose up again with the introduction of Ruka into the mix, some seeing her as a refreshing change of pace with her forwardness while others saw her development as rushed since she didn't take the time to get to know him that the other girls did. Then there was the promise to make him marry her if she won the manga competition with Nagi. That...didn't go over well with many. By now, the forums are still largely Hinagiku vs. Athena (with a small amount opting for the One True Threesome) and the much smaller groups who support him with Nagi or want Ruka to return.
The Hellsing fandom is usually divided over Alucard/Integra vs. Alucard/Seras vs. Girlycard/Walter vs. Integra/Seras vs...you get the idea.
The whole Alucard/Integra vs. Alucard/(insert other character here) wars is taken to an even further extent when one takes ot3f Kouta Hirano into consideration. Those who support the former pairing point to evidence that there's some sort of hidden romantic attitudes/sexual tension between the two. Those who support the latter pairing point out that the relationship between Alucard and Integra is purely "Master and Servant". And then there are those who believe the relationship is purely ambiguous...yeah...
The issue was that Hirano's statement about the relationship was given five years before the manga concluded as an answer to a person who asked how far will it go, a question that he was nervous to answer (like he would spoil his ending where Alucard returns/isn't dead). He has always been very enthusiastic and supportive about Alucard/Integra (and Pip/Seras) with cover art, complimenting Alucard/Integra Japanese pairing fansites with sketches (before 2chan started vicious wank about him that drove him off the internet), keeping exclusively romantic cosplay pictures of them in his camera during his travels, and making gag fanservice goodies for fans in Comiket. Somebody should ask him now that everything is over.
There's also Major/Integra or Maxwell/Integra vs. Alucard/Integra and Pip/Seras vs. other Seras pairings. Not in the Japanese/Chinese/Korean fandoms, however; they seem to be generally chill about pairings and shipping in general.
Hetalia: Axis Powers: Of course, when you've got a massive cast, a fair amount of Ship Tease, and a distinct lack of Official Couples, you can justify pretty much any pairing under the sun. The result is that people who ship Nation X with Nation Y will find themselves at odds with those who ship either X or Y with another character. Has it's own page here for specific examples.
Rika/Hanyuu vs Rika/Satoko vs Rika/Keiichi vs Keiichi/Satoko vs Akasaka/Rika.
The most obvious is Keiichi/Rena vs Keiichi/Mion. For some reason, Keiichi/Rena was more popular in the early days of the fandom (prior to Kai finishing), but now Keiichi/Mion is. Post-Kai anime OVAs seem to be having a field day with the Rena-Keiichi-Mion love triangle. This has only added fuel to the shipping war flames. There are, however, many who just opt to OT3 them.
Hikari no Densetsu: Hikari/Takaaki and Hikari/Mao, especially since the manga makes Mao her love interest and the anime makes Takaaki her love interest.
In the original Inazuma Eleven, a number of possible romantic teases where put into the original series, although no actual couples ever became canon (unless you count Rika's one sided love arch). Fast forward to Inazuma Eleven Go however, where the original cast are now all adults, and it's revealed that original series protaganist Endou Mamoru is going to appear as a married man. Many debates erupted all over the place about who his wife was going to be, until it was reveled to be Natsumi Raimon. ...This was controversial, to say the least, and enraged fans went onto the forums, Tumblr, and other such places, to express their disgust at such a choice. Many arguments ensued between the different sides, the side that supported the ship or didn't see what the big deal was VS those who apposed the ship completely. Most of the complaints by those who disliked the ship revolved around how it seemed out of nowhere, and left loose ends untied. Those who stick up for the pairing point out however, that it wasn't out of nowhere, the same logic applies no matter who you pair him up with, and that those who are complaining are just butthurt that their ship didn't become canon. Most people agree on the fact that the fandom would have split no matter what ship it had been, so it wasn't specifically the ship itself that was the problem however, and despite the complaints they kept Endou and Natsumi as the canon pairing in the anime.
The fandom is more or less evenly divided between fans who think that Kagome is an abusive Scrappy whose love for InuYasha isn't nearly as true as that of tragic paragon Kikyo, and fans who think that Kikyo is a psycho ex standing in the way of InuYasha and Kagome's true redeeming love. Never mind that one is the reincarnation of the other, and thus the question is less "who" than it is "when".
Sesshomaru-related Ship-to-Ship Combat intensified further when the anime sequelYashahime: Princess Half-Demon revealed that Sesshomaru has two half-demon daughters with no mother initially announced. Most fans viewed Rin as the likeliest candidate for the mother, which reignited bitter debates between Sesshomaru/Rin fans and anti-Sesshomaru/Rin fans over whether or not Sesshomaru/Rin becoming canon would be glorifying Wife Husbandry. When episode 15 confirmed that Rin was indeed the mother of Sesshomaru's daughters, the flames surrounding the fandom could be seen from orbit.
Jewelpet has a pretty minuscule fandom, so for the most part they're polite about this.
For a franchise-wide example, there are people who like Ruby/Granite and others who wish Ruby had stuck with Tour.
Lady Jewelpet is the most romance-focused season in the anime series, and right out of the gate it presents viewers with four girls (Momona, Lillian, Mizuki and Charon) and four boys (Cayenne, Romeo, Soarer and Levin) with promises that they'll all be hooked up by the end. When the show was very new, the ideal pairing combinations were hotly debated, and it was complicated by the fact that Cayenne looks like Momona's cousin and is the brother of Lillian. Later they introduced two other characters of each gender, Miura and Elena, complicating things further as Cayenne graduated and ended up spending a lot of time with Elena while Miura flirted with Momona in his absence. While in the end Momona and Cayenne end up together, there are still people who wish Momona had gone with Miura or Romeo (another big contender).
Some people prefer Momona/Lillian and are convinced that Lillian is much better suited for her than Cayenne, Romeo or Miura, but given the show it was glaringly obvious that wasn't going to pan out.
The Jojos Bizarre Adventure fandom used to be rather peaceful about it, despite all the possible Ho Yay combinations that could potentially clash. The keyword is: used to be. The fourth part, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable, has seen extremely ugly battles between Josuke/Okuyasu and Josuke/Rohan shippers, with Josuke/Okuyasu shippers accusing the Josuke/Rohan fans of being "pedophilia/ephebophilia supporters" since Josuke is a highschooler and Rohan is a young adult, while Josuke/Rohan fans claim that such detractors cannot distinguish fiction from reality and call them delusional. Others straight up don't like Josuke/Rohan as the two tend to bicker a lot in the part.
Ryuko x Mako vs. Ryuko x Satsuki. Both ships were extremely popular during the series original run. While the former's fate was left ambiguous, the latter fared much less well. The roots of Ryuko/Satsuki's death as a ship were planted in Episode 16 when a key reason for Satsuki's villainous nature was revealed. And said reason made people feel unsure about portraying her in romantic relationships (especially with other women). Then Episode 18 revealed that Satsuki and Ryuko are siblings. Combine the implications of those two revelations, and a fair amount of people abandonedRyuko x Sastuki. Of course, others did not.
Ira/Mako became a popular ship after the Naturals Election. To put it lightly, the disagreements between Ryuko/Mako and Ira/Mako in particular are... not pretty. Especially after the series ended with Ryuko and Mako going on a date, and Mako even kissing her... but then the epilogue shows Satsuki tagging along, and then it cuts to a nervous Gamagoori dressed in a suit holding flowers with Mako approaching. The amount of bile between the two factions exploded, primarily driven by Het Is Ew.
And then there are those that ship Ryuko and Satsuki with often humanized versions of their Kamui which either gets them derided or praised by other fans of the show for being a top tier, but popular, Crack Ship.
Ao-Kuro shippers (Aomine x Kuroko) against Kaga-Kuro shippers (Kagami x Kuroko). Aomine and Kagami are very similar in many ways, both being Kuroko's past and present 'Light' respectively. More often than not, Kaga-Kuro fanfic will usually portray Aomine as an antagonist, and vice versa for Ao Kuro fanfics.
Momo-Kuro (Momoi x Kuroko) against Ao-Momoi (Aomine x Momoi). Momoi has a heavy crush on Kuroko since their middle school times, but chose to go with Aomine to Touou high-school to take care of him instead ('childhood friend's duty' as noted by Momoi). This causes fans to argue whether Momoi's feelings for Aomine is purely platonic or not. Plus, Aomine once mentioned that he likes "women with big boobs", which Momoi clearly has. One of the end cards in the anime which showed Momoi lying down with Aomine doesn't help either, it was a blatant Ship Tease by the animators, leading fans to question their relationships even more.
Ao-Momoi vs Ao-Kuro. Moments after the end-card was shown, a fan-edited version replacing Momoi with Kuroko was instantly uploaded to the internet.
While Little Witch Academia (2017) ended up not having any romance, it still featured a lot of Ship Tease between Akko and Diana and between Akko and Andrew which caused both ships to cement themselves as the most popular in the fandom. However, Diana/Akko is theFan-Preferred Couple, and has been since the original short films with with Andew/Akko as a very distant second. To say that the two sides don't get along is an understatement, with Yuri Fans that make up the Diakko fandom either ignoring or hating on Andrew for being male in a show about witches while Ankko fans tend to relegate Diana to the background. Ironically, the most common One True Threesome of Akko/Andrew/Diana appears to be a fandom of its own as Diakko and Ankko fans both can't stand sharing Akko.
Before the series aired, which introduced Andrew and ramped up the teasing between Akko and Diana, there was some conflict between Sucy/Akko and Diana/Akko shippers too.
Love Hina: Put a Motoko/Keitaro and a Naru/Keitaro shipper in the same room. There will be blood. And don't add a Shinobu/Keitaro shipper. You risk getting an Earth-Shattering Kaboom right in your face. Then bring in a Mutsumi/Keitaro shipper. Say your prayers, everyone.
Lucky Star: The Konata/Kagami army vs. the smaller but equally hardcore Konata/Miyuki camp, even though this anime spends much of its time satirizing anime tropes and conventions. Oh, the irony.
Lyrical Nanoha: The battles between the Nanoha/Fate and Nanoha/Yuuno factions, which is not helped by the creators knowing about it and fueling both sides with loads of Ship Tease to keep the flames burning. There even seems to be a division in the lesser ranks of the production themselves; for example the Megami Sound Stages seem to support Nanoha/Yuuno; while the actresses who play Nanoha and Fate are convinced they're a couple. These flames, however, while apparently violent, tend to be pretty friendly overall (perhaps due to the theme of the show itself), and people who take it as Serious Business are routinely mocked in the fandom.
Nanoha/Chrono was a third fleet in the running for a long time, too. You should have seen the looks of disbelief when the authors sank the possibility of Chrono/Nanoha or Chrono/Fate by pairing him up with Amy and making his mother adopt Fate (not that this last one would stop some people, of course). At least the shippers of that have some comfort: it's canon in Triangle Heart 3: Sweet Songs Forever, in which neither Yuuno, Fate nor Amy exist.
Anyone who spends time on the AnimeSuki Forum learns about the historic and brutal 300 vs. LegionFlame War. The supporters of NanoFate shipping called themselves Legion due to their sheer numbers, while YuuNano shippers called themselves 300 since they're so few.
Macross Frontier fandom has fighting between those who want Alto to end up with Sheryl Nome (the accomplished star), or with Ranka Lee (the Moe starlet). Naturally, this irks the fans who are in it for the Humongous Mecha, the story or the music, or some combination thereof, as one anonymous 4Chan user put it: "This kind of ship-to-ship combat doesn't belong on /m/!"
More interesting is that while all Macross series have love triangles, this one is especially complicated since there is some subtext between Ranka and Sheryl and even some scenes that can imply a threesome end. So the shipping war is actually between Ranka/Alto, Sheryl/Alto, Sheryl/Ranka and Ranka/Alto/Sheryl.
The fandom for the original Super Dimension Fortress Macross had plenty of this too. Replace "the accomplished star" with "the Broken BirdBridge Bunny" (Misa), and the "moe starlet" with "the Chinese Girl that became a rising Idol Singer" (Minmay) and BRACE YOURSELF for the Hikaru/Misa fans going absolutely BERSERK at the mere mention of Minmay, bashing her and falsely accusing her of being a slut who played with Hikaru's feelings since the beginning (despite how she has problems of her own) and who is oh-so inferior to the Ultra Mature And Powerful Strong Woman Misa (despite Misa being much more complex than that).
Downplayed in Macross Delta where you got Hayate/Frejya shippers and Hayate/Mirage. Though it's obvious that Hayate has more scenes with Frejya than with Mirage, many Hayate/Mirage shippers are still determined that the ship will still sail despite the lack of Ship Tease and even pointed out that Frejya might not last long after she noticed that her singing is affecting Hayate and she herself is slowly dying. Meanwhile, Hayate/Freyja shippers find that Hayate/Mirage is a lost cause because there's not enough scenes for Hayate and Mirage to be a couple. Though the shipping wars is not too extreme like the other Macross shows, both sides agreed that the Delta's Love Triangle aspect is undeveloped due to Executive Meddling. In the finale, Hayate chooses Frejya despite Mirage's confession and many Hayate/Freyja can't help but feel sorry that for the Hayate/Mirage shippers.
Never EVER ask Madlax fans who is a better love interest for Madlax. If you pick Vanessa, you'll be harshly told that she's dead so she shouldn't really count. If you pick Limelda, people will scream at you that she's an icky Psycho Lesbian who killed Vanessa and doesn't deserve Madlax.
Sinja (Sinbad x Ja'far) shippers versus Sinju (Sinbad x Judar) shippers. Fanart of Sinbad often features either Ja'far or Judar as his romantic interest. While Sinbad's relationship with Judar is more a case of Foe Yay Shipping as with Ja'far, both ships are more or less equal in power.
There's people out there that would prefer see Morgiana with Hakuryuu rather than Alibaba despite canonical evidence that shows she likes the latter...
Also, if you support Kougyoku's crush on Sinbad, you might be marked for a very painful death.
Maria Watches Over Us started getting a lot of this as older characters graduated and were replaced with new girls:
Yumi/Sachiko was always paired up against Yumi/Sei, with Sachiko being Yumi's Implied Love Interest and Sei openly expressing affection towards Yumi and being somewhat perverted towards her, but Touko's introduction as Yumi's kouhai really caused a ship war.
Similarly fans loved Sei's and Shimako's bond but then Sei went off to college and Noriko was introduced. Shipping debates went off on whether Shimako should wait for Sei or if she should pair up with Noriko, made even worse when Sei/Youko fans took the opportunity to have the two get together in college.
In the Mazinger universe fandom you find two kind of people: those that think that Kouji Kabuto was in love with Sayaka Yumi, and those that think that he barely cared for her like a friend (Sayaka has always been his Official Couple or at the very least Implied Love Interest, but you talk about facts to a shipper) and he paid more attention to any other woman that showed up in the series (Misato, Erika, Minerva...). Kouji/Maria are the largest faction of the second group by far, due to the sheer amount of people watched Grendizer first. And then you have the people who ships Sayaka with Boss, or the arguments among Duke/Hikaru and Duke/Rubina shippers. However, debates between shippers are refreshingly civil and without mud-slinging.
Beware of the My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom! fandom. As a reverse harem series with several interesting potential partners for Catarina, the arguments can get messy. As Catarina has both male and female admirers, the war between het and yuri shippers runs as hot as one might expect, and Geordo and Keith both specifically attract a fair amount of both defenders and haters; the former is Catarina's legal fiance and the latter is her adopted brother (which carries much different connotations in Japan and America).
The My Hero Academia fandom, infamous for its Gotta Ship 'Em All status has a lot of arguments over shipping, particularly anything with Midoriya, who is shipped with pretty much everyone, but the most prominent are probably Midoriya/Todoroki, Midoriya/Uraraka, Midoriya/Bakugou, etc. The latter of the three gets a lot of criticism because Bakugou was Midoriya's former bully. There's also a lot of bickering between Midoriya/Todoroki and Todoroki/Momo shippers. Bakugou/Uraraka is a popular ship as well, with it not only pitted against Bakugou/Deku, but Bakugou/Kirishima as well. And as if the circle couldn't go further, Bakugou/Kirishima fans tend not to get along with Kirishima/Mina fans.
Outside of the protagonists, there are aplenty of ships that dislike the other. There’s Jirō/Yaoyorozu and Kaminari/Jirō, with the former believing Jirō is by fan speculation a lesbian and the latter either saying Kaminari and Jirō are closer or acting as the middleman and making Jirō bisexual. Then there’s the well-known clash between Eraserhead/Ms. Joke with Eraser Head/Present Mic, not to mention Eraserhead with All Might and Eraser Head/Midnight into the mix. Hawks is also a pretty popularly shipped character, either with Dabi or Endeavor. The Hawks/Dabi fandom usually call out Endeavor’s past romantic dilemma, and stating Endeavor is too undeserving for a second relationship and/or that the ship has an uncomfortable age gap since Hawks is the same age as Endeavor's second-oldest child, while the Endeavor/Hawks fandom often states that neither party of the Hawks/Dabi ship fully trusted each other. In the Paranormal Liberation War Arc Hawks starts to show his true colors to the PLF and Dabi is quick to burn Hawks for killing Twice. Endhawks fans claim this pretty much invalidated the ship, while Dabihawks fans ended up shipping it harder.
Naruto had a perfect storm of many, many popular pairings involving many characters, and very subdued and ambiguous romantic development over a long period of time. It got very bloody as relationships developed. Even after the series ended and Canon was decided, you can still see scuffles between any combination of Naruto/Hinata, Naruto/Sasuke, Naruto/Sakura, and Sasuke/Sakura. Even smaller pairings involving more minor characters can go to war, like the battles among Sai/Ino, Shikamaru/Ino, and Shikamaru/Temari.
It's unlikely that Boruto will ever have the wild shipping combat that its predecessor has, but even early into its run, the Shipping Wars are beginning. Prior to the anime's start, fans were already shipping the kids, but it was civil. The main pairing was Boruto/Sarada due to Sarada following Boruto around in the manga Epilogue. The first episode of the anime introduced Sumire, a Hinata-like girl who instantly was shipped with Boruto. She's had a hard time with BoruSara fans. While Boruto/Sumire fans are still dwarfed by the BoruSara supports, two factors made the war less one-sided: Sumire's background making it clear she's more than just Hinata clone she first seemed, and the manga making it overt that Sumire does have romantic feelings for Boruto, feelings that have been acknowledged by other characters.
As a series with a boy with 31 girls as his harem, Negima! Magister Negi Magi is bound to have this. Even though Asuna/Negi and Nodoka/Negi are the two favorites, Chisame/Negi got more popular later on, having at least one in-universe endorser, rabid fans who tout it as if it was already canon and, funny enough, turned out to actually be canon. However, most of the fights do get ameliorated, mainly because there is one shipping that everyone can agree on: Setsuna/Konoka. God help those who go against this sacred pairing.
Apparently, UQ Holder! kinda made it worse (or better, depending on taste:) apart from Negi/Chisame becoming canon Negima-wise, the UQ canon's Negi/Eva pairing took center stage. And that is not even counting the pairings for Negi's grandson Touta who, as of late has garnered his own; the focus are centered more on Touta/Eva, Touta/Kuromaru, and Touta/Kirie, the later two mirroring the Setsuna/Konoka and Negi/Chisame pairings, respectively to a certain extent.
Neon Genesis Evangelion is abundant with this, though of a more subtle and insidious brand than any of those above. There is great mutual hostility between the Rei/Shinji shippers, and the Asuka/Shinji shippers, which isn't helped by the fact that Asuka and Rei pretty much hate each other in canon. There are also the more controversial Misato/Shinji shippers, the Kaworu/Shinji shippers, and the occasional fans of Mana Kirishima. Thanks to the ambiguity of the series, each shipper has their own personal character interpretation which each defends with fanatical fervor even against others within the same shipping subset.
The fact that there are several Alternate Continuity settings to work with can complicate matters even further.
The Rebuild of Evangelion films have also helped reignite the debate by giving a new continuity to work with. The Ship Tease between Shinji and Rei made many shippers jumping the gun and declaring them Official Couple, whereas Shinji/Asuka supporters argued that Shinji/Asuka got plenty Ship Tease too, and the Rei/Shinji couple was doomed anyway because would inevitably would be revealed that Rei has been built with the DNA of Shinji's mother Yui just like in the original series and that she and Shinji are simply confused about the type of love they have for each other. Finally Evangelion3.0 wrote off Shinji/Rei, and now the fight boils down between the Shinji/Asuka fans and Mari/Asuka shippers, apart from giving the Kaworu/Shinji pairing more ground. However, 3.0 + 1.01 torpedoed all the ships and have Shinji settle with Mari, of all people, despite the minimal screentime together in the entire movie. Fans of the sunken ships interpret this as Hideaki Anno giving the middle finger to the franchise's intense shipping war.
Nisekoi is one of the most prominent examples in recent history. Any thread about the series on any fansite can be derailed into a giant inferno by posting six simple words: "Who should Raku end up with?" The Raku/Chitoge, Raku/Onodera and Raku/Marika shippers WILL BE AT EACH OTHERS' THROATS. And that's not even counting those who ship Raku with Tsugumi, Haru, Yui, Ruri, Shuu, Claude, Kyoko-sensei...
There was also the odd case of Shuu/Ruri, where the most heated arguments were between fans who loved the ship and the Ship Tease and those who hated it and denied there was any teasing at all. When the Ship Tease later in the series was too overt to deny, the arguments then focused on how Shuu didn't "deserve" Ruri. There didn't always have to be a rival ship (though sometimes Raku/Ruri and Raku/Shuu were invoked), and the focus seemed to be more on just not letting Ruri end up with him.
One Piece, as a No Hugging, No Kissing series, doesn't have that many shippers. However, it is full of deep bonds between characters and sometimes vague interaction between them that could serve as a basis for a potential relationship. Some of the biggest conflicts between the fandom are:
Who Luffy should end up with: Nami, the brave navigator of his crew, with whom he shares a very deep bond which can be seen as romantic or not with ease — and not to mention Nami seems to be quite focused on other matters rather than whether Luffy will bone her or not. Or Boa Hancock, empress of Amazon Lily Island who fell madly in love with him, although her displays of affection are Played for Laughs and while Luffy is grateful for her help during the Marineford arc, he explicitly stated that "he wasn't going to marry her". Things cooled off, until Hancock returned in Wano Filler and had a moment with Luffy, the shipping combat began again.
Of course there is also a lot of disagreement on the topic of who Nami herself should be with: the aforementioned airhead of a captain Luffy, girl-crazy cook Sanji or the stoic, serious swordsman Zoro.
Luffy/Nami and Sanji/Nami shippers got their most heated around the Zou and Whole Cake Island arcs (since special focus was given Luffy, Nami and Sanji) like when Nami tearfully hugs Luffy tightly when she meets him again... but she's crying over Sanji (cue arguments). Then, in Whole Cake Island Pudding got in involved as Sanji Love Interest bride which was encouraging to Luffy/Nami fans and annoyed Sanji/Nami fans then it was revealed Pudding was Evil All Along which made Sanji/Nami shippers happy at the apparent Sanji/Pudding Ship Sinking. Then at the Tea Party, Pudding actually falls in love with Sanji after he compliments her third eye which made it seem like the ship was rekindled especially since Sanji saved Pudding despite her trying to kill him. Then in another twist Sanji has a bigShip Tease moment with Nami right in front of Pudding who is left behind, which pissed off both Sanji/Pudding and Luffy/Nami fans. Then in one more twist from Oda (who you'd think was doing this intenionally at this point) Pudding kisses Sanji before the arc ends, however Pudding also takes Sanji's memories away and flees while Sanji leaves her to save Luffy. Not mention the fight between Luffy and Sanji where the latter beat up the former in front of Nami as an act for his family, Luffy/Nami shippers were furious at Sanji considering it a betrayal and the slap Nami gave Sanji as validation of the ship sink between Nami and Sanji. When Nami forgives Sanji later on, Luffy/Nami shippers were bitter about it, saying Sanji didn't deserve it. Ironically the Zoro/Nami fans have died down through all this, mainly due to Nami not having any real screen time with Zoro.
Luffy/Nami fans also accuse Toei of favouritism since they added Sanji/Nami moments to Zou, Whole Cake Island and even Wano. Though that's an unfair accusation since Toei produced plenty of Luffy/Nami moments as well like in Adventure of Nebulandia and One Piece Film: Gold.
Robin also gets some attention from shippers, albeit in her case it is mostly limited to whether she is better fit for Team Dad shipwright Franky or Zoro.
There is also a pretty big following for the coupling of Sanji and Zoro, because of their constant married-couple-like bickering, although these people mostly don't involve in arguments over other pairings for understandable reasons...
Also, there's a small but very loyal corner of Zoro/Luffy shippers who want their own share of deep and mutual trust to go beyond. And not all of them get along with other Luffy-shipping fans.
The Ship-To-Ship Combat in Oreimo is mostly between the Incest Subtext fans who ship Kyousuke and his sister Kirino and the No Yay fans. Among the No Yay fans, there are fans for Kyousuke-Manami (who consider her the most sane and normal of the choices) against fans for Kyousuke-Kuroneko/Ayase/other girls (who are seen as the more interesting choices).
The Ouran High School Host Club fandom has conflict between the canon pairing Tamaki/Haruhi and other pairings, particularly Hikaru/Haruhi, but Kyoya/Haruhi is also popular. Some even support the twincest Hikaru/Kaoru pairing.
After episode 19 of Penguindrum, there has been some seriously fierce ship wars between fans of Kanba/Himari, Shouma/Ringo and Shouma/Himari. It's extremely complicated to explain due to how much of a Mind Screw the series is, but basically it's like this: the third ship didn't have much Ship Tease until the aforementioned episode, and since it goes between the other two, the fans of said "other couples" were seriously thrown off and started warring against it due to possible Ship Sinking. The Kanba/Himari supporters are 'specially loud in their displeasure, due to the Broken Base factor in regards to Kanba the Memetic Badass and Shouma being Not Basass Enough For Fans; the other "faction" mainly tends to panic about the possible consequences, but generally don't bash Shouma.
Persona 4: The Animation: After episodes 9 and 10 (the ones dealing with RiseKujikawa), the shippers went rather wild: Rise/Narukami fans (the MC is named Yuu Narukami in the anime continuity) rubbed the buttloads of Ship Tease they got in the faces of everyone and claimed "RISE END CONFIRMED!" in many forums and Image Boards (specially on 4chan). Which obviously didn't go well with the Chie/Narukami and the Yukiko/Narukami fans — specially the Yukiko/Narukami shippers, since Yukiko seemed to be the one favored until then. And many panicked in the moment Naoto sorta joined in...
And then it was massively subverted. At least on 4chan, two opinions ended up overriding the others: that the Ho Yay between Narukami and Yousuke was totally there ("YOUSUKE END CONFIRMED!"), and that Brotagwould get everyone laid.
What is generally considered the bloodiest ship war ever took place in this fandom. The main debate seems to be what combination of the constantly-fluctuating Power Trio should hook up; there's at least thirty possible sides, each with a knife to the throat of the others. Also, there's the Rocketshipping (Jessie/James) debate, although there's no one else to pair them up with - Anti-Rocketshippers simply hold the opinion they're not interested in each other (and usually that James is gay).
The main war was between Pokéshippers (pairing up Ash/Satoshi and Misty/Kasumi) and Palletshippers (Ash/Satoshi and Gary/Shigeru).
Perhaps the fanatical nature of Ship-to-Ship Combat is best exemplified by the fact that the Ship War can be described as HAVING TREATIES and civil wars. There are times to just give up, fanboys AND fangirls.
Even to this day, it still happens. With every season introducing new female companions his age, each brings a new wave of the fanbase shipping her with Satoshi/Ash and accepting no substitutes. We have Pokéshippers (Satoshi/Ash and Kasumi/Misty), Advanceshippers (Satoshi/Ash and Haruka/May), Pearlshippers (Satoshi/Ash and Hikari/Dawn), Negaishippers (Satoshi/Ash and Iris), Amourshippers (Satoshi/Ash and Serena), and Aureliashippers (Satoshi/Ash and Lillie). Negaishipping is the weakest of the six, while Pokéshipping and Amourshipping are the most prominent ones and have a bigger war going on than with the rest.
Some of the uglier cases are of shippers who will wage war against all other people who are not in support of their ships—and this does not mean just people who ship other characters, but non-shippers and non-fans too. That is, they take up a With Us or Against Us stance: The entire human population who is not an ally is an enemy.
The Tezuka x Fuji pairing is often bashed by fans who ship them with others, specially Fujicest and Atobe x Tezuka fans ( And it's made worse after Fuji and Tezuka DO get Ship Tease in the manga itself — apparently inspited by the anime subtext). Taka x Fuji fans are NOT innocent of this either, as sometimes Taka/Fuji fan corners are made of passive-aggressive jabs about how Tezu/Fuji fans are "only in for the pretty UNLIKE OUR MUCH DEEPER SHIP".
The few Ryoma x Sakuno and An x Momoshiro fans are often automatically accused of being "homophobic" or "having the icky, useless girls take Ryoma away from Momo" by slash shippers... even if these "homophobes" do ship some slash couples alongside the het ones.
The Het Is Ew factor gets even worse if you even mention the girls from the Dating Sims. These stupid whores! They "straighten" super gay gay GAY characters with their evil vaginas and steal them from their "more deserving" male lovers, EWWWWWWW!
Inui x Kaidoh fans bash Yanagi and the Inui x Yanagi pairing and fans, accusing Renji of being hateful and cruel towards Inui as well as a bad and abusive friend when they were younger;
Sanada x Yukimura fans bash Atobe and say he's "stealing" Sanada from his beloved leader and Childhood Friend when he could have whoever else he wanted. Sanada x Atobe fans bash Yukimura and accuse him of being a self-absorbed verbal abuser who manipulates his "Love Martyr" Sanada into loving him for his own amusement.
After episodes 7 and 8, a possible secondary ship war started among the Sayaka/Kyouko, Sayaka/Kamijou and Sayaka/Madoka groups. With a huge side dish of Hitomi/Kamijou, or better said, "HITOMI YOU WHORE, GET AWAY FROM SAYAKA'S MAN!".
The STSC is notably absent between Mami/Kyouko and Mami/Madoka. Even with the official description of Mami's hypothetical witch-form having representation of both Kyouko and Madoka in it.
People who support Sayaka/Kyouko are not on good terms with Mami/Kyouko shippers and they hate the fact that Kyouko killing Oktavia (Sayaka's witch form) to save Mami from despair and ultimately leaving herself vulnerable to witch attack afterward. The feeling is mutual, as Mami/Kyouko shippers argued that Mami is the one who taught Kyouko everything she knew and insisted that Sayaka is the third wheel. The existence of Nagisa (Charlotte's human form) in canon storyline managed to soften the shipping war between these two pairings.
Back in the early days of the Internet, the large and prolific Ranma ½ fanfic community engaged in a huge three-sided shipping war among the partisans of Ranma's three "official" fiancées. The flanderization, mischaracterization, recriminations, demonization, and outright nastiness still echoes through fanon more than a decade later.
It got so silly that people actually accused a group called "The Defenders of the True Fiancée" of spreading viruses and hacking websites. One particularly notorious shipper even accused the animators of conspiring against his favorite character.
Reborn! (2004): Oddly averted. Everyone is free to ship whatever they like, and very few people would have a serious debate about it, since most people are multi-shippers. Considering Tsuna and the huge cast, it's not hard to see why. Although there seems to be opposition between Gokudera/Tsuna shippers and Yamamoto/Gokudera shippers.
Rurouni Kenshin fandom has no shortage of shipping wars to decide who was/would be be better for Kenshin: Kaoru or Tomoe. Though they're usually one-sided: Tomoe wasn't introduced till the final arc of the manga and doesn't even show up in the anime (only the Tsuiokuhen OVA) and is the tiniest bit dead by the time the main story starts.
Don't forget Shura, the Pirate Lady Kenshin meets. A smaller fanbase desperately wanted her to be with Kenshin.
Megumi also became quite the victim of ship-based bashing. Kaoru/Kenshin shippers did not take her teasing personality in stride as well as her open interest in Kenshin (which she didn't relinquish until the Kyoto arc), and accused her of being a whore who only wanted to get into Kenshin's hakama and hated Kaoru (despite Megumi being a Cool Big Sis to Kaoru and doing what she could to help her when she had an Heroic BSoD). They mellowed out later and started shipping herwithSanosuke instead, and then Tomoe took her place as "Kaoru's love rival".
Very ironically, some rabid Sanosuke/Megumi did NOT take the apparition of Magdaria and the Ship Tease she got with Sanosuke well at all, and even Magaria's death wasn't enough to shut them up. ("Weh weh, the bitch is dead but Sano is so saaaad! Why did they create that bitch only to get her killed and make Sano cryyyyy! WAHWAH!")
Sailor Moon: Considering the core cast contains no less then ten main characters, there are literally dozens of one-season villains and one-shot "best friends", and the two members of the most official couple have five or more suitors apiece - and there are several canons to the series - it's no wonder the franchise is a quagmire of ship related insanity. Specifically, the debates between Mamoru fans and Seiya fans can get really ugly. There's also the Uranus/Neptune shippers versus the "they're just close cousins!" sect... although that one is more a battle against outright lies (example: Prince Uranus) by fans who don't like same sex pairings.
The release of Sailor Moon Crystal added more fuel to the fire. The survival of Jadeite and Nephrite at the end of episodes 3 and 5 respectively as well as the bigger influence of the Shitennou as a whole in the plot has revived the once very ugly debate regarding the scrapped manga subplot about the Shitennou and the Inner Senshi having romantic links and sent many Les Yay fans and Kunzite/Zoisite shippers into screaming fits. Things have only gotten worse after episode 10, with the fans throwing entitled tantrums at the revelation from Act 10 about the past Senshi and the past Generals having had romances before everything went From Bad to Worse.
The Sen/Shi vs Kun/Zoi shipping wars are especially ugly. More extreme Kun/Zoi fans went into violent rages over the very possibility of them not being together, while extreme Sen/Shi fans would try to shut them up by claiming it could never be canon outside the 90s anime. Whether or not Kun/Zoi could have been a possibility in the manga is a hot topic thanks to differing scanslations of the Materials artbooks and what Kunzite and Zoisite's seiyuu had to say about it in an interview.
Saint Seiya: In the countries where it's most popular, there's usually ship wars that go way beyond the levels of verbal hate and acrimoniousness, often expanding itself into Real Life bashing.
The more remarkable examples are the wars of Het Yay fans (fueled by the massive creation of Relationship Sues, since there's so few women in the cast) against Ho Yay fans and vice-versa. In several occasions the ship war went to extremes of public detracting of fanwork artists' personal lives, public menace of aggressions and even real legal offenses.
Not to mention how the fanatical Yaoi fangirls mix this with Not Badass Enough for Fans, trying to erase and deny ANY kind of influence that the few girls in the cast had on the guys, either romantic or friendship-like, just because they think the girls are all weak and stupid and "not feminist enough to deserve being paired up." Shun/Hyoga shippers are really bad about it, bashing Princess Freya from the filler Asgard arc despite how much of a Plucky Girl she is and hissing at the mere mentions of Shun's Unlucky Childhood Friend Jun. And the less said about their thoughts on Saori, the better.
The Ho Yay fandom gets involved in several bitter ship wars within itself, most noticeably motivated by the debates of "what should be the "right" guys to ship according to what we see" and "what guys are never acceptable to ship together". These can get very, very bloody: i.e. you do NOT go into the path of a Shiryu/Seiya fangirl and tell her Shiryu should go with Mu instead without expecting at least some snark, and at worst nonstop flames.
The het side wasn't much better, to be honest. The Shaina/Seiya and Saori/Seiya shippers are horrifyingly cruel to each other and their characters: Shaina is "a stalker and a slutty bitch", Saori is "pathetic, a coward, and not feminist enough". They also like to bash the crap out of Miho despite how she, in practice, is put firmly in the Unlucky Childhood Friend role.
SHUFFLE!, dear God, SHUFFLE!. The fiercest Ship-To-Ship Combat happens between the InstantFanclubsAi Ai Asa-senpai and Kitto Kitto Kaede-chan.
Generally, Ai Ai Asa-senpai members are the targets of an Enemy Mine by all the other fanclubs, even going as far as to call Asa a "selfish bitch."
Amongst Shugo Chara! fans, there is definitely animosity between the Tadase/Amu and Ikuto/Amu factions, with the expected Die for Our Ship mentalities.
Back in the early years of the Slayers fandom, there were some pretty heated ship wars between Lina/Gourry and Lina/Zel shippers, made even more fun by Lost Universe with shared voice actors and character archetypes, not to mention fanon shared continuity. It's calmed down considerably since.
Sonic X: Tails/Cosmo vs Tails/Cream. Fans are prepared to kill the characters off to get their ship. In Tails/Cream's case, this isn't necessary; Cosmo died in the last episode. However, Tails/Cosmo fans find ways to return her to life, often via the seed Sonic found. This is illustrated in a somewhat disturbing manner here.
Within the Soul Eater fandom, you've got poor Death The Kid. Should he end up with Maka? Chrona? Black*Star and/or Soul? Or, perhaps he should end up with either Liz or Patti (or both, due to Kid's love of symmetry)? You're pretty much in a metaphorical mine field with this one.
There's also Soul/Maka VS Soul/Black*Star VS Soul/Blair.
And, while we're on the subject of Maka, the most popular people to pair her up with are Soul, Kid, and Chrona. Fans often disagree over which one is the true OTP.
Fans of Chrona/Maka are divided on whether it'smaleChrona/Maka or femaleChrona/Maka.
Tamao and Yaya didn't have it easy despite a good army of shippers for their side for Strawberry Panic!. While the original vote was open-ended, the anime had the pairings settled as Nagisa with Shizuma and Hikari with Amane. And Tamao doesn't even have another girl to fall back on... talk about fighting for a sinking ship.
The love triangle in Tamako Market is especially debated because it's bisexual: Mochizou (male) and Midori (female) both like Tamako (female). Tamako/Midori teasing caused many Yuri Genre fans to flock to the series but many were hostile towards Mochizou, however oddly Midori received most of the hate as she actively tried to get in the way of Mochizou liking Tamako. The ship wars died though with The Movie, Tamako Love Story, especially due to many fans not even seeing the series proper. Mochizou and Tamako are the Official Couple. Midori/Tamako fans were upset at the Ship Sinking but many were happy that Midori wasn't randomly paired with a boy, like what happens in many series.
Tenchi Muyo! has had several bloody ship wars that have been known to tear apart forum communities. Everyone has their favorite girl. Back in the day the major ship wars were between Tenchi/Ryoko and Tenchi/Ayeka fans, but as of late, Tenchi/Sasami fans have become more vocal. The fact that the series pretty much has a canon Harem Ending has done little to quell the fury of the shippers who think Tenchi should end up with only their favorite girl.
Tiger & Bunny is mostly a peaceful fandom, but it's starting to show early symptoms of this since Kotetsu / Karina and Kotetsu/Barnaby fans have been spotted fighting it out. Is Karina a "girly thus weak" little bitch who gets in between the oh so sacred Ho Yay between Kotetsu and Barnaby? Is Barnaby a selfish, immature Jerkass who treats Kotetsu like shit just to satisfy his ego - sooooo unlike the sweet, pretty Karina would? Be careful about expressing such thoughts...
There was also Kurogane/Fay and Chi/Fay, although the latter ship pretty much died out later on
Vampire Knight: Zero/Yuuki vs. Kaname/Yuuki in particular. Is Kaname a creepy and incestuousFetishized Abuser who wants to dominate Yuuki's life? Is Zero a wangsty moron who gets in between Kaname and Yuuki's True Love? Is Yuuki a "Canon Sue", thus "undeserving" of both guys? This whole ship war between both ships is the reason some fans stopped reading the manga altogether.
Even Wandering Son's normally calm fandom gets in on ship wars sometimes. The main issue is Nitori/Takatsuki vs Nitori/Anna vs Saori/Takatsuki. Nitori/Saori fans are never in on the wars because few fans ship it, despite Saori's unrequited love being a major part of her character. Nitori and Takatsuki has had a lot of fans since early on, made worse by the anime upping the Ship Tease, however their relationship is frequently debunked in-series and the two are portrayed as platonic. Many shippers consider Nitori's canon girlfriend Anna to have a mean personality or just don't like her with Nitori. Saori/Takatsuki is a completely different bag of worms for having a huge amount of Foe Romance Subtext, then later just Ship Tease, but no one being able to tell how intentional it was. The anime caused Nitori/Doi to become a thing however more than a few fans were Yaoi Fangirls who don't even see Nitori as female. Other fans usually ignore the ship in debates because Doi is a bully to Nitori and Nitori has shown no interest in boys (besides Takatsuki for a while).
In The World God Only Knows, thanks to nineOne True Pairings and one canon Cargo Ship (as explained in the manga's YMMV Page), Keima is somehow locked inside a 10-way tussle... until the author finally decided via FLAG 267 to sink all but one ship involved. Cue rabid fans who are not in favor of the Keima/Chihiro pairing raging at the outcome, as evidenced by this pic of comments◊ from /a/. (Content warning for 4chan being even nastier than usual, open at your own risk.)
Yamada-kun and the Seven Witches have two particularly large shipping factions - Yamada x Shiraishi (the Official Couple) and Yamada x Odagiri (Odagiri being Yamada's most serious suitor). The fact that the factions are almost the same size (if Odagiri has had much more or much less screen-time than usual, her faction tends to be a bit larger and more vocal, and the same goes for Shiraishi) can really make the shipping wars enduring. Yamada x Noa and Yamada x Miyamura also have some followers, and sometimes those will interfere in the war.
Yu-Gi-Oh! 5Ds Scoopshippers, take arms! Tonight, the Careshippers come! But THEY ARE NOT PREPARED!
Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL. Despite having characters' ages that even younger than the original series, managed to have even more than it. The main Ho Yays of Astral/Yuma, Shark/Yuma, Kaito/Yuma and Shingetsu/Vector/Yuma take the cake.
Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V actually avoided most of the shipping wars. Due to the counterparts having strong Ship Tease with Yuya and Yuzu getting the most. Season 1 actually had decent amount of ship war mostly focused around Yuzu with her most popular ships being Yuya, Yuto and Masumi. This died down near the end of season 1 when Masumi started to appear less, Yuto fused with Yuya and Yuya and Yuzu got monstrous amounts of ship tease till the rest of the show. The main war was mostly between Serena's ships which were mostly split between Yuri, Reiji, Sawtari and Yuzu.
YuYu Hakusho: Hiei/Kurama vs. Hiei/Mukuro. Also, Yusuke/Keiko vs. Yusuke/Anyone else. And let's not get started on how many get together with either Hiei or Kurama and begin their own combat...
The fourth episode has another example with Miu, who admits that in the past, she had a falling out with another doujinshi artist she was collaborating with because of their shipping preferences.
In Case Closed, Ran comments that Ayumi and Conan would be a cute ship. Her best friend Sonoko ships Conan with Ai, however. Hilarity Ensues.
At one point in Durarara!!, Walker and Erika both ship themselves and Kadota, but they argue about who should be at the center. Walker think it should be Kadota x Erika x Walker, while Erika think it should be Walker x Kadota x Erika. Kadota isn't pleased about them discussing such things and would rather not be involved in any of this.
Chapter 189 of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War is all about a shipping war involving the Ishigami, Miko, and Tsubame Love Triangle. Kaguya and Osaragi are on team Ishigami/Tsubame while Fujiwara and Onodera are on team Ishigami/Miko.
The sixth episode of Kiss Him, Not Me, in an animated-original plotline, best friends Serinuma and Nishina fall out over how to ship the cast of a Show Within a Show (an obvious reference to Touken Ranbu). The odd thing is that they're shipping together the same couple; the disagreement is over who is uke and seme (ie, which of the two takes the lead).
Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku has fujoshi comrades Narumi and Hanako who share many fandoms and pairings. Unfortunately, they can never agree on the seme/uke dynamics of those pairings. This is depicted metaphorically as two samurai enjoying a drink together before drawing their swords. They even disagree on how a hypothetical pairing of their boyfriends would work.
, where in the wank was sparked over alphabetical order of the characters' names. Something like this happened in Japan as well
Unfortunate Implications about her feeling that "she owes Taichi affection"), the other fact that Taichi got over Sora's supposed "friendzoning" in less than 24 hours (and even showed attraction to another girl named Catherine so he wasn't as "hurt" and "spurned" as Taichi/Sora fans insisted he was), and how it breaks the "Hero gests together with Heroine" clichés for rationalization, with some of them pointing out that many people end up with someone other than their oldest friend/first crush. And in the middle, the Taichi/Yamato fans- often considered the most populous shippers in Digimon fandom- are very bitter because of the constant Ship Tease between Taichi/Yamato in the first season, including official Taichi/Yamato art published in a magazine. The whole debate over whether Yamato and Sora were Strangled by the Red String or not will probably never fully die out, in fact, due to the apparent removal
