Sayolisa

Sayolisa is the femslash ship between Sayo Hikawa and Lisa Imai from the BanG Dream! fandom.

Canon
Sayo and Lisa are both members of the professional band Roselia, Sayo is the guitarist while Lisa is the bassist. Both of them are third year students, Sayo goes to Hanasakigawa Girls’ High School while Lisa goes to Haneoka Girls’ High school.

Initially, Sayo tends to have difficulties when opening up to others. She has a harsh, blunt, and strict manner of speaking. Sayo is very fussy and seeks for perfection on everything she sets her sights on. She is rather cold in nature no matter the proximity of closeness of the person she is speaking to, and is too serious for her own good. She also stubbornly denies liking certain things that do not fit her strict look, such as fluffy animals and french fries. On the contrary of her sister Hina, Sayo is sharp, fairly stiff, and has rather amazing deduction skills. Sayo is very formal, addressing her bandmates and others by their last name (excluding her sister and Tomoe). Sayo repeatedly aims for excellence and perfection, to the point in which she believes bands are not for “fun” but rather for improvement and growth. She tends to deny anything she does not personally believe is best for others, prone to making remarks that are occasionally seen as rude, despite such remarks not always being reflected on the standards she actually feels. Additionally, Sayo possesses inferiority complex issues that are the cause of her younger twin sister doing. Hina is a prodigy who aces anything she takes action upon without any difficulty. Such actions are the root of Sayo’s complex. All of this explains the difficulty Sayo has when thinking of others, as well as the hatred and rage she gets when being compared or even remotely reminded of her twin sister. However, she does show to care for others despite pushing them away.

On the other hand, Lisa has an outgoing, and friendly personality. Lisa is a lively girl who follows gyaru type of fashion, but makes an effort to keep her interest in amigurumi a secret since she believes it does not match her extravagant image. Lisa is also known as the backbone of the band, she constantly steps up as a mediator in tense situations and keeps things going, She is also skilled at baking cookies and normally bakes them for her bandmates with the help of Sayo in multiple stances as “Keep up the great work” snacks. But despite her caring and outgoing personality, Lisa can also be very serious on multiple occasions. Scolding Yukina for not doing her homework, Telling Ako to not stay up too late playing video games, and many other things. Lisa tends to care about the people she is close to, to such a fault in which she tends to often put the blame on her shoulders and questions her abilities as the bassist of Roselia.

On account of their opposite goals and personalities, they both help each other achieve their objectives, in addition to always bringing out the best in each other. Despite Sayo's rude and rather blunt remarks, she always means well on what she says and aids Lisa in realizing the small details of her skills and reassuring her of how much she is actually worth. Lisa’s caring nature on the other hand, helps Sayo learn how to soften up to people and not be so harsh and fussy towards herself and others, she helps Sayo become easier to approach. Furthermore helping her relationship with Hina by giving her advice.

Fanon
Sayolisa is one of the more popular pairings for both Sayo and Lisa. It's often rivaled by Lisa's and Sayo's most popular pairings, Yukilisa and Sayotsugu respectively. At first it wasn't all too popular, but after the release of a few of Roselia's stories, more particularly Band Story 2, Neo-Aspect, the ship got much more popular. Fans particularly like how the two brought each others growth and work together really well as seen in Neo-Aspect, and the fact that Sayo and Lisa spend a lot of time baking together. Sayolisa is the 10th most written pairing on the AO3 Bandori tag and even won 19th place with 387 votes on a western fandom-made ship poll for twitter fans.

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Trivia

 * For Lisa's 2019 Birthday, Sayo mentions the following in her card, “Happy Birthday. I tried my hand at baking a cake”, and during Lisa’s birthday event, Sayo's limited time lobby conversation says, “Happy Birthday, Imai-san. We should go to the pool again soon.”