Yukimaya

Yukimaya is the femslash ship between Maya Yamato and Yukina Minato from the BanG Dream! fandom.

Canon
Yukina is the Vocalist and Songwriter/Lyricist of the professional band Roselia, while Maya is the Drummer of the idol band Pastel*Palettes (PasuPare). They both third-years at Haneoka Girls' Academy.

Both girls are very dedicated musicians and are very knowledgeable on a variety of musical topics. Maya is a tomboy at heart, she has very geeky tendencies and rambles a lot about music and technological/musical equipment. She's incredibly ecstatic whenever music is brought up, it can be seen very clearly how much she loves music. Yukina herself is a very formal, stoic and perfectonistic person. She won't hesitate to speak her mind when someone's underperforming and takes music incredibly seriously. Despite how cold-blooded Yukina is seen to be, she deeply respects Maya and her extensive knowledge on musical topics.

Their first interaction would be in the Event Story "Backstage Methods" in which Maya, one of the backstage crew of Haneoka's Theatre Club, asks Yukina and Roselia's keyboardist, Rinko Shirokane, for help creating custom outfits for their new production. Yukina says she'll try not to be a burden, but Maya assures her that there's no way they'd be a burden and that she's grateful for their help. The rest of the story deals with the set-up of the play, with Maya often praising and being grateful towards Yukina and Rinko for their help. In Maya's Card Episode "The Stage in My Mind", she reminiscences on little memories she's had while building a set with the crew, Yukina asking her to elaborate more. She brings up past experiences she's had and asks Yukina if she had any memories that stood out while working on the set. Upon remembering those moments, they come to a parallel between theatre and music. As they continue working on the set with the others, they continue talking about their experiences.

Their second and most prominent interaction is in the Event Story "Hopeful Session". Maya buys a CD at the Flea Market, and manages to find a second CD inside. She stays after-school in her classroom to listen to it, absolutely amazed by the quality of the song, particularly how it feels like a new world halfway through. However, she finds herself puzzled as she cannot figure out who made the song. After discussing it with fellow musician Tsugumi Hazawa, Yukina overhears from the next classroom and asks to listen to it as well. She says that "It must be quite the song to excite [Maya] that much." Maya is delighted to hear more opinions on this mystery song, and the three plan to meet at Tsugumi's cafe to discuss it more. After listening to the song at Hazawa Cafe, Yukina notes the change in the song's feeling, describing it exactly how Maya had thought when she first listened to it. Maya replies that she knew Yukina would notice that, and that she thought the same. As two more peers, Kasumi Toyama and Rimi Ushigome, are added to the discussion, Yukina ends up having to run off to practice eventually, and thanks Maya for introducing her to such a lovely song. Later on they find out the song was created by Marina Tsukishima, the owner of the livehouse CiRCLE. When Maya, Yukina and the others decide to play the song together in an impromptu band, Yukina points out that Maya was trying too hard to mimic the drumming in the CD. Maya simply says she was trying to make it sound like the drums in the original. Yukina recalls Maya saying that "there is no right or wrong way to experience music", asking her if she meant to exclude herself from the statement. Yukina understands that session musicians often try to match the sound of the band they're playing, but that she wanted to hear Maya's own sound. As they discuss further, they come up with the idea to hold a concert to play the song at CiRCLE. Ultimately the performance ends up without a hitch. Maya and the others express their gratitude for the experience together and Maya invites Yukina to talk about the live concert for the others. An official 4-Koma called "The Best Support" delves a little deeper into the talk near the beginning with Maya, Yukina and Tsugumi. Maya mentions that she only bought the CD since her wallet has a habit of buying material relevant to the magazine columns she writes for. Yukina, trying to express her gratitude, plans on buying one of the next issues that Maya is featured in.

In Yukina's Card Episode "After-School Band Members" for the Hopeful Session event, she and Maya have a talk between the two of them about the whole experience playing Marina's old song together. After running into Yukina at CiRCLE, Maya apologizes for dragging Yukina into such a strange concert, but Yukina is grateful for the opportunity and the things she learned during that time. Maya is relieved and mentions how excited she was to perform with Yukina, saying her soothing voice was the highlight of the show. Yukina was pleased having run into that song in the middle of writing her current one, reminding her of how music needs to be written with emotion. Maya acknowledges this, saying the experience reminded her of "how complex music can be." Yukina remarks that she knew Maya would say that. After Maya suggests the idea of doing jam sessions together, Yukina agrees, thankful to know that "there are others outside [Roselia] that [she] can speak with." and that it was helpful to see from other perspectives. Maya then remembers that Roselia planned to apply for the highly-regarded Future World Fes. Finding out they already applied, Maya tells Yukina that she'll definitely be there to cheer her on, and that she's excited to hear Yukina and Roselia's powered-up sound. Yukina says that they will win the contest, Maya replying that she knows they will, also asking Yukina to tell her what it's like up there when the time comes. Yukina suddenly brings back the after-concert talk at the cafe, taking note that during the time, she felt like she was the only one talking. Curious, she asks Maya about her opinions on Yukina's performance during the concert, no matter how small. The Episode ends off with Maya beginning to share her opinions to Yukina.

Aside from the Event Story interactions the two share, Maya and Yukina are on generally good terms and are implied to talk very often, even practicing together.

Fanon
Yukimaya is a rarepair within the fandom. The event "Backstage Methods" didn't gain it much popularity whatsoever, but it gained a bit more traction as the "Hopeful Session" event released, where the event had the two interact a lot more. That, and any small interaction they have in the lounge also appealed to people as a ship. With both characters being especially devoted to music, a common headcanon amongst fans is that the two would spend a lot of time talking about music, practicing together and learning from one another. It is often overlooked since Yukina is often paired off in Yukilisa or Yukiran and Maya being paired in Mayaeve.

Fandom
FAN FICTION

Trivia

 * Both Maya and Yukina are cat-lovers, and very big cat-lovers at that. They even both have cat-themed Halloween costumes.
 * They've only ever been in two events together: "Backstage Methods" and "Hopeful Session" together, the latter being their only 4* pairing together.