NejiYuyu

NejiYuyu is the femslash ship between Nejire Hadou and Yuyu Haya from the My Hero Academia fandom.

Canon
Yuyu is first introduced in season 4 of the anime to help Nejire prepare for her upcoming beauty pageant. (A beauty pageant always takes place during the U.A school festival). Multiple times, Yuyu states that Nejire is more of the “cute type” rather than the “sexy type”. Nejire’s cuteness is evidently a thing Yuyu feels strongly about.

Nejire soon introduces Yuyu to Midoriya. Upon being questioned, she explains to Midoriya that she originally began doing pageants after Yuyu suggested she did. She went in to say that she continued to partake in them as she found them to be really fun. The last thing she adds is that she’s really determined to win that year since it’s her last chance to, as she’ll be graduating U.A the following year. This will also be her final chance to prove herself against the girl she’s repeatedly lost to, Bibimi Kenranzaki.

Not too long later, Nejire finally has her chance to perform. Yuyu can be seen in the audience as she roots for her, an intense look on her face. For one part of the competition, Nejire uses her quirk in a special performance. Despite likely having seen this time-after-time before, Yuyu is awed by her beauty. At the pagent’s end, Nejire is finally declared the winner. Yuyu is overjoyed by this, as much as to cry tears of joy for Nejire’s much-deserved win. causing Yuyu to cry tears of joy At the end. Nejire is declared the winner, and Yuyu cries tears of joy for her win.

Semi-Canon
Yuyu makes her second appearance in volume 4 of the light novel series, “School Briefs”. Yuyu makes her second appearance in volume 4 of the “School Briefs” light novel. The chapter, “Beauty Pagent” centers the girls who partook in said pagent, and Yuyu as well.


 * Kendo and Nejire are talking, before Kenranzaki interrupts them, first to say “may the best woman win”, but then to insult Nejire’s dress. Nejire is hurt by this, as she thought it was cute. Yuyu suddenly appears to defend Nejire, telling Kenranzaki to back off of her. She is compared to a “loyal hunting dog ready to defend its master.”
 * Later, Yuyu finds a large nail in Nejire’s shoes. This angers her, and she comes to the conclusion that it must’ve been Kenranzaki who’d done this. She then heads over to yell at her.
 * Nejire gets upset at this, and tells her to stop blaming Kenranzaki with no proof. Kenranzaki then offers to help find the culprit, which upsets Yuyu, who doesn’t trust her not to hurt Nejire.
 * Yuyu remains quiet through the search, and Nejire repeatedly looks back at her. Kendo wonders if the girls are fighting.
 * Knowing that she feels upset, Kendo offers to talk with Yuyu. Yuyu explains that she was the one to first suggest the pageant to Nejire, as she’s “a total cutie” to her. She continues that she was sure that Nejire would bring home the crown.
 * If the judges don't see how cute Nejire is, their eyes must be malfunctioning, because nobody in the galaxy can hold a candle to Nejire.”
 * Kendo thinks to herself, “It’s like she’s bragging about her amazing sweetheart!” The thought of the girls like this warms her heart.
 * Yuyu states that she wants Nejire to win so bad that she gets worked up to the point where she’s barely even herself, and that worries Nejire. She says that she’s the worst for making her feel that way.
 * Soon after she says this, Nejire appears and calls for Yuyu and Kendo, startling them. Nejire goes to say something to Yuyu, but is quickly interrupted by Tamaki, who’d just found the culprit.
 * After catching the culprit, everyone calms down, though Nejire is still rather upset over Kenranzaki’s words. Yuyu intervenes by saying that Nejire was more minimalistic and cutesy rather than gaudy like Kenranzaki.
 * Nejire then walks over to Yuyu, smiling. She adds that “Yuyu is Yuyu”, which confuses Yuyu. Nejire explains that she wasn’t being herself, and even if she's not acting like herself, that’s still a part of her, and she loves all of her.
 * Yuyu asks what if she hated some parts of herself, and Nejire says that if that happens, then she just needed to rev herself up. Nejire goes on to say that she was going to win the pagent for Yuyu.

Fanon
Relative to most pairings in the show, NejiYuyu is considered a rare pair, mostly due to the lack of screentime for Yuyu. However, it is a fairly popular pairing for both girls, due to their closeness when they are seen together. Nejire wants to win for Yuyu, Yuyu cries when Nejire wins, and the two girls both address each other by their first names. Although semi-rivaled by NejiTama or NejiMiri, more often then not the two are portrayed as dating and hanging out alongside MiriTama, the two couples being good friends.

Fandom
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Trivia

 * In the character info pages in the manga, Kohei Horikoshi states that Yuyu likes cute things, and thinks that Nejire is "the cutest thing in the galaxy".