Bakusquad

Bakusquad is the friendship between Mina Ashido, Katsuki Bakugou, Denki Kaminari, Eijiro Kirishima and Hanta Sero from the My Hero Academia fandom.

Eijiro Kirishima and Katsuki Bakugo
Eijirou and Katsuki are close friends, shown to hang out often when their classmates immediately turn to Eijirou to find out Katsuki's whereabouts. Eijirou is the only classmate Katsuki views as an equal, and he often calls him by his real name instead of the the nickname "shitty hair". They often go hiking together, and even went on a day usually spent with someone you fancy, suggesting they may have romantic interest in each other.

Eijiro Kirishima and Mina Ashido
Mina and Eijirou went to the same middle school. Eijirou was jealous of her skills with people and heroic nature, and felt inadequate in comparison. They were never friends in middle school, but now they are shown to be close, as and frequently encourage and compliment each other. Mina has referred to them as "horn-buddies", as they both have horns sprouting from the tops of their heads. In Eijiro do or die moment when he was fighting rappa thats when Eijiro flashback happened then he got inspired by Mina jumping in the face of danger when he couldn't. and if you noticed Eijiro sled in front of fatgum the same way Mina sled in the front of her friends. In chapter 156 Mina did a new move called "acid man" Mina got inspired by Eijiro Unbreakable form. Mina said to Eijiro "I got it from unbreakable!" then Mina give Eijiro a cute smile at him then Eijiro smiled back and said "Yeah!".In Chapter 280 Dabi set the forest on fire so the hero can get to the leauge of villains and gigantomachia (The big villain in Eijiro flashback) The hero's needed to get anesthetics in to gigantomachia mouth to stop him. So mina ran through the fire in her acid man from with the anesthetics ready to throw it in gigantomachi as mt.lady pins gigantomachia down. As mina was going to throw it gigantomachia turned to mt.lady and said "The Shotest Path to Master...What a bad call to waste time on flies...There is no need...I need to shake them off so they re-group again...Everything is for my master" as gigantomachia grabs mt.lady by the face and throws her off him. Mina hears "Everything is for my master" Mina get the flashback from Eijiro flashback when she jumped infront of him. Mina trys to throw the anesthetics but she drops it then mina trys to get it back as she crys then you can see gigantomachia hand coming down to crush mina but then Eijiro jumps out of the forest that was on fire in he's unbreakable from then pushes Mina out the way of gigantomachia hand making gigantomachia hand crush Eijiro but Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu catches Mina then tells her how him and Eijiro run throw the fire at the same time but Eijiro Ran faster then him to save Mina. gigantomachia gets up but see's Eijiro climing up gigantomachia arm as Eijiro yells "I AM RED RIOT!! I WILL NOT LEAVE BLOOD BEHIND ME!!" EIjiro yells as Mina watching him in shock and disbelief. Eijiro goes to throw the anesthetics into gigantomachia mouth but toga throws a knife that breaks it. but then Eijiro take Mina anesthetics that she dropped, Eijiro yelled "ASHIDO!! YOUR...CHVALRY...I WON'T LET IT GO TO WASTE!!" Eijiro yelled as he throws Mina's anesthetics into gigantomachia mouth.

Denki Kaminari and Katsuki Bakugo
While Denki and Katsuki didn't initially get along- Katsuki finding Denki to be a particularly annoying extra, and Denki finding him rude and a bully- their relationship has developed to a point where they're somewhat friendly acquaintances. Denki often teases and provokes Katsuki, occasionally going a little too far and being yelled at by Katsuki.

Denki Kaminari and Mina Ashido
Denki and Mina are often paired together within the series, implying they are close friends and hang out together often. When Mina is excitedly talking about being on a hero team with a few of her other classmates, Denki asks, "what about me?" and Mina bluntly replies, "no." This seems to an ironic statement though, as they are seen brushing their teeth together only a few panels later, one of many instances of them interacting casually. They've apparently bonded over being the two lowest ranking students in the class. Together, they fail their first-term practical exam, when they underestimate their opponent's capabilities and fall into his trap.

Denki Kaminari and Hanta Sero
Denki and Hanta share a close friendship. They often interact, making jokes with one another, and seem to like each other's company well enough. They are seen multiple times together, such as in the seating during the Sports Festival Arc, packing up for the Training Camp Arc, and generally when the class is together.

Eijiro Kirishima and Denki Kaminari
Within the classroom, Kirishima sits behind Kaminari, and they are shown talking on more than one occasion. After Kirishima's hero debut where he defeats his first villain, Kaminari is first to congratulate him, and then proudly showing everyone else his friend's accomplishments.

Overall
In the provisional licensing exam, Katsuki, Eijirou and Denki teamed up, taking down Seiji Shishikura. All of them eventually passed the exam. They demonstrated good teamwork, and mutual faith in each other.

Katsuki does not refer to anyone by their name except for Eijirou; instead, he has mean nicknames for all of them. Mina is "raccoon eyes" due to her large black sclera, Denki is "dunce face" because of the after-effects of his quirk and Hanta is "soy sauce" or "plain face" in the dub. Katsuki seems to consider calling someone their real name a sign of respect; thus why he only does this with Eijirou.

While Katsuki is slowly growing as a character, it is important to note that he still doesn't see anyone other than Eijirou as a true equal. This suggests that he can't really be considered friends with anyone else just yet, and therefore Bakusquad can't be considered fully canon. Their comradery has a ways to go before they can be considered a genuine friend group.

While their status as an exclusive friend-group is a fanon concept, many of their individual friendships are strongly established, making their canon-status semi-canon.

Fanon
In fanon interactions, the Bakusquad are shown to be an inseparable bunch, getting into hijinks and driving the more sensible Katsuki up the wall. Bakugou usually falls into the role of "aggressive mom friend" by angrily caring about his friends, getting annoyed when they do dangerous things, and masking his concern with disdain. To outsiders it may look like he's fed up with them, but the others all know he cares about them. A popular trope is Bakugou fondly referring to them as "his idiots".

Denki and Hanta are seen as the memers of the group, often associated with popular vines and memes, while Mina is portrayed as the therapist. She also is popularly recognized as the most fun of the group, along with being thought of as a Tik Tokker, or a VSCO girl when the trend arose. Eijirou can be seen as the “cinnamon roll“ of the group, or the most innocent member, although others might disagree. Katsuki is recognized as the leader, due to the squad being named after him, and is thought of as being the mom friend, or the one that makes sure the others are alright. This idea is popularly contradicted with the idea that Hanta is the mom friend instead of Katsuki.

Fanon Bakusquad usually has the gang as a group of "memers", and fanworks for them are often silly and shit-posting in nature. The tone of fanworks is usually light-hearted and humorous, a contrast to the more angsty side of the greater MHA fandom.

A big part of fanon Bakusquad is how Katsuki really sees the other members. While in canon, he's often dismissive of them, and thinks himself superior, fanon Bakusquad explores the idea of Katsuki gradually beginning to see them as equals and friends in their own right.

While in the anime/manga they are usually shown interacting one on one, Bakusquad fanon interactions tend to place them all together, with the gang meeting up for meal times, having sleepovers or movie nights, and regularly going places together.

The Bakusquad is commonly thought to be the anti-Dekusquad, another friend group between Tsuyu Asui, Tenya Iida, Izuku Midoriya, Shouto Todoroki and Ochako Uraraka. There's no canon rivalry between the two groups, but the rivalry between their namesakes Bakugou and Deku is enough for the fandom to support the idea. They are opposites in the tone of their friendships; the Bakusquad is loud and chaotic, the Dekusquad is more calm and controlled.

While Bakusquad is not a romantic pairing, it is frequently accompanied by the slash ship of KiriBaku, between two of it's members. Bakusquad is often a side pairing in KiriBaku fanworks, with the squad being supportive of or even encouraging them to pursue the relationship.

Other romantic pairings that often relate to the Bakusquad are KamiJirou, SeroMina, KamiMina, KamiSero, KamiSeroMina and Kacchako.

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 * Occasionally, Kyouka Jirou is also included in the Bakusquad, due to her friendships with Denki and Katsuki, and even less frequently, so is Ochako Uraraka, given her friendships with Katsuki and Mina.