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.

As shown in Roselia’s Band Story 1, one day that Yukina declines Lisa’s invitation to go shopping and heads for 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. Then Sayo 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 built around passion for music, ambition, admiration and loyalty.

In Roselia’s Band Story 1, 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, Roselia Band Story 1 "Bloom Of The Blue Rose" Chapter 15

What is intriguing is that Sayo takes it really personally, especially in this sentence that doesn’t sound like anything but jealousy.

"You and Minato-san are childhood friends, aren’t you? I’m sure nothing will change there."

- Sayo, Roselia Band Story 1 "Bloom Of The Blue Rose" Chapter 15

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, Roselia Band Story 1 "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.

"We never split up."

- Yukina and Sayo at the same time, Roselia Band Story 1 "Bloom Of The Blue Rose" Chapter 18

Fanon
Yukisayo was one of the first ships in the BanG Dream! fandom and it was very popular, for example the first fanfiction on Ao3 was a yukisayo one. Today, it is still one of the more popular pairings for both Yukina and Sayo, rivaled by Yukilisa, Sayolisa, Sayotsugu and SayoHina.

Fandom
FANFICTION

Hikawa Sayo/Minato Yukina tag on Ao3

FANART

ゆきさよ tag on Pixiv