Yukisayo

Yukisayo is the femslash ship between Yukina Minato and Sayo Hikawa from the BanG Dream! fandom.

Canon
Yukina and Sayo perform in the same professional girl band, Roselia. Yukina is the main vocalist while Sayo is the guitarist. Yukina and Sayo formed Roselia together on the day they first met.

Bloom Of The Blue Rose
As shown in Roselia's First Band Story, one day that Yukina declines Lisa's invitation to go shopping and heads for Live House CiRCLE instead. When she enters the live house a band is performing on stage and she notes that "the guitarist is great and far beyond normal skill while the rest aren't worth mentioning". As the performance ends, she learns the guitarist's name: Sayo. Later, Yukina moves to the backstage and overhears Sayo arguing with her band members and as she listens to her words she thinks Sayo is just like her. As Sayo decides to leave her band, she suddenly exits the room and bumps into Yukina who stops her and asks her to form a band together.

Sayo states she can't give Yukina an answer because "she doesn't know how skilled she is or how much passion she has", so the vocalist invites her to listen to her performance and then decide. Sayo accepts. As she listens to Yukina's performance, Sayo says she has never heard anything like Yukina's voice and firmly considers her as the one she has been looking for all this time.

Sayo then says to Yukina that "her performance is better than any music she has ever heard before" and greedily accepts to form a band with Yukina. Also, this is the first time we can see Sayo smile. Yukina and Sayo's relationship is then built around passion for music, ambition, admiration and loyalty.

Later on, when Roselia members come to know that Yukina was considering to directly enter the contest alone without the band thanks to a woman in suit, Sayo feels betrayed and let down, she's clearly the most hurt and is very mad at Yukina.

"You told me that together we could achieve great things... You told us all that we would find our own brand of music... But all along, you were just saying whatever you needed to whoever would do, just to get you into that festival...? Is that it?!"

- Sayo in Roselia First Band Story "Bloom Of The Blue Rose" Chapter 15

What is intriguing is that Sayo takes it very personally, especially reflected in the following conversation with Lisa where her second sentence sounds like it's filled with nothing but jealousy.

In the manga, the situation is even worse and Sayo states that Yukina "has lost her trust."

Days later, Yukina declares she has declined that woman's offer and expresses her true feelings to the other members, to Sayo in particular since she was still mad, then she asks to keep playing together as a band even if it feels selfish.

"I mean… maybe it was once, when I was looking for members, but... when I found you, Sayo... when we all come together, it became less about my father, and..."

- Yukina in Roselia First Band Story "Bloom Of The Blue Rose" Chapter 18

As Yukina talks about her father, the members understand they all have some personal reasons to play in this band and happily make up. When Ako asks if Roselia has reunited, Yukina and Sayo state at the same time that they never broke up. Lisa and Rinko then laugh at their synchronized reactions.

In Yukina's initial 3* card's story, Yukina and Sayo are waiting for the other Roselia members to arrive to the family restaurant, which eventually becomes the band's regular meeting place. When Sayo orders fries Yukina is surprised about it but Sayo denies liking them, which leads to them talking about their band's current state. While they criticize the other members' conduct but also mention they never put their instruments down while at practice, they end up saying "It almost as if their instruments are a part of them." Upon realizing what they'd just said, they both get embarrassed. When Ako and the others finally arrive, she starts eating the fries, and Yukina becomes surprised when Sayo proceeds to eat some as well.

Quotes
"You told me before. You said we cannot bring our personal feelings into the band. However... these feelings of yours... I can understand. Why we continue to play is one thing, but why we want to start in the first place...? Everyone has their own reasons. Everyone has their issues. The reason we hold on to them is because we can't let go. All we can do is keep moving on... right?"

- Sayo in Roselia First Band Story "Bloom Of The Blue Rose" Chapter 18

Fanon
Although Yukisayo had a bit of a slow start when it came to its popularity, it is currently one of the more popular pairings for both Yukina and Sayo, mainly rivaled by Yukilisa, Sayolisa, Sayotsugu and SayoHina. Similar to many other ships in the BanG Dream! fandom, the ship has had some weird drama in the Western fandom, mainly relating to both Yukina and Sayo's characters. However as time went on, and as both Yukina and Sayo developed as characters through event stories, the ship started becoming more popular.

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Trivia

 * The very first actual fanfic in the BanG Dream! Girls Band Party tag on AO3 was a Yukisayo fic.