ShizuKasu

ShizuKasu is the femslash ship between Shizuku Osaka and Kasumi Nakasu from the Love Live! fandom.

Canon
Shizuku and Kasumi are best friends and fellow 1st year students. In both the game and the anime, they were two of the five original Nijigasaki School Idol Club members, that broke up due all of them having very different style tastes.

Anime
When Kasumi was furious upon finding out that the old club room had been occupied, Shizuku consoled her by saying that she also thought the president was scary, but she shouldn't have sneaked into her office either. While Shizuku seemed to have lost hope that the club would return, Kasumi was still convinced to try to get the president to return the club room to them. Shizuku asked Kasumi if she had talked to Setsuna about it, to which Kasumi replied that she never saw Setsuna outside the club. In the end, Shizuku left because of drama club business and told Kasumi that she would contact her later, and Kasumi was very angry thinking that Shizuku didn't care as much about the club as she did. Howver, the club was restored at the nd, so Shizuku and Kasumi could continue with their activities again.

When Shizuku was rejected from her protagonist role in a play she started to push herself more than usual and Kasumi noticed that she was acting strange. She told that to Rina and other students, and then Kasumi realized for one of the students that Shizuku was being replaced in a play. After that, she invite Shizuku to go out together with Rina, in order to cheer her up. First they went to eat a huge cake, which Casumi first gave Shizuku a bite of and then motivated her to eat it all. When Shizuku was talking to Rina about how she felt on stage, Kasumi saw Shizuku gloomy again and told her to cheer up so she could be more cheerful for the performance and get her role back. Shizuku realized that Kasumi knew what was wrong with her, and Kasumi told her not to hide her problems and to tell her friends so they could help her, but Shizuku replied that she was fine. Kasumi was still angry and worried for Shizuku, and then Rina told her that may Shizuku ishiding what she actually feels and that she need someone just like she needed Ai, motiving Kasumi to talk with Shizuku once more.

Then Kasumi met Shizuku alone in a classroom, she told her that her parting yesterday was very sudden and that she would like to know if something bad happened to her. Shizuku told her again that she was fine, but Kasumi quickly grabbed her cheeks, stared at her and saw that her eyes were swollen. Kasumi got angry with her, telling her not to hide what she feels, especially from a friend like her. Shizuku finally told her that the reason why she was like this is because she started doing theater precisely because she felt different from others because of her tastes and she thought that theater would help her "act" to fit in better with others, but now in her role she had to "expose herself" and she did not feel capable of it. Shizuku became more desperate, expressing her fear that people would hate her for who she is and believing that if being an idol or an actress meant expressing herself, she couldn't, until Kasumi nearly punched her in the face which ultimately turned out to be a finger swipe to the forehead. Kasumi told her that she didn't have to care what others think of her, and made a proof of it by having the two express what they think of each other. First of all, Kasumi talked about "how pretty she is" and how even so there are people who don't give her compliments, asked Shizuku if she thought she was cute or not, and Shizuku replied that she seemed a bit cute. Kasumi then spoke about how stubborn, stubborn, and untrusting Shizuku is, to which Shizuku replied that none of those words were compliments. Kasumi then told her that Shizuku doesn't have to worry about what people think, because Kasumi loves everything about her. In the end, Kasumi left embarrassed by what she said to her, and told Shizuku that she had to win that second audition because she "made her say all that", while Shizuku was left laughing. On stage, Shizuku's character mentions that she wanted to be herself and that she didn't care that people hated her because there are people who said they loved her, referring to what Kasumi told her. Kasumi saw her performance very excited and proud for Shizuku

Moments

 * Before Nijigasaki School Idol Club first concert started, Kasumi asked Shizuku if her fringe looked weird and Shizuku replied that she looked cute.


 * When their concert ended, Shizuku gived Kasumi a hairpin as thanks for the play, which is the hairpin that she always wear in canon.

Fanon
ShizuKasu is one of the most popular ships whithin the Love Live Nijigasaki fandom. Although it started from the fact that the two are first years and close friends, it exploded in popularity from the episode Shizuku, Monochrome, for how Kasumi convinced Shizuku to expose herself no matter what the other think. Their moments on the All Stars story also helped to the ship's popularity. In AO3, the ship has 100+ works, being the 2nd most writted Love Live!: Nijigasaki School Idol Club ship.

Fandom

 * FAN FICTION