Community Information:

This is a community dedicated to the beautiful ship/pairing called Katsuyu—Katsuki Bakugo x Tsuyu Asui—from My Hero Academia. The alternative ship name of Katsuyu is BakuTsuyu (爆梅雨).

If you like Katsuki Bakugo and Tsuyu Asui together romantically as a ship, then this community is for you! (We welcome all platonic depictions of Katsuyu as well, but the more romantic, the better!)

The Reason Behind Creating This Community on Pillowfort:

We Katsuyu shippers exist—via fanart, doujinshi/fan comics, and fanfiction across the Western and Japanese fandoms of My Hero Academia—but we've never had a dedicated safe, public, and organized community for us to discuss and spazz about Katsuyu together, despite potential language barriers (e.g., English vs. Japanese).

Thanks to Pillowfort's user- and community-centered values (and its current invitation-only system and no anonymous users), we can now have a platform where we can safely discuss and spazz about Katsuyu!

The Explanation Behind the Ship Name:

Katsuyu is derived from 勝 (ka, which can be read as katsu and means "to win") in Katsuki Bakugo's first name and 梅雨 (tsuyu, which means "rainy season") in Tsuyu Asui's first name. In kanji, it's written as 勝梅雨, read as KaTsuyu, and means "winning rainy season." The Western fandom primarily use this ship name in English. Most fans write the ship name as "Katsuyu" instead of "KaTsuyu" because of how English ship names work with mashing two character's names together (i.e., Katsuki and Tsuyu both have "tsu" in their name, so the ship name became "Katsuyu").

Katsuyu's alternative ship name is BakuTsuyu. BakuTsuyu is derived from 爆 (baku, which means "explosion") in Katsuki Bakugo's last name and 梅雨 (tsuyu) in Tsuyu Asui's first name. In kanji, it's written as 爆梅雨, read as BakuTsuyu, and means "exploding rainy season." Japanese fans primarily use this ship name; some fans in the Western fandom also refer to Katsuyu as BakuTsuyu. Due to the meaning of this ship name, some Japanese fans also use the emojis 💥🐸.

Both ship names are OK to use! Just be aware that most of us in the Western fandom will use Katsuyu. If you want to look up Japanese Katsuyu content on other websites, make sure you use the tag 爆梅雨 (BakuTsuyu).

Q: But, wait, isn't Katsuyu that slug from Naruto?

A: Yes, yes, it is—but that Katsuyu's name is written as カツユ (katsuyu) and is taken as the onmyoji reading of the word "slug" in Japanese (蛞蝓, which is read as namekuji).

To avoid potential confusion when searching, posting, and tagging content (at least until Pillowfort comes up with a better way to post relevant content in specific fandoms when searching site-wide than within a community), we recommend you tag your Katsuyu-related content as #katsuyu, #bakutsuyu, and #爆梅雨.

Rules & Guidelines:

• Post and discuss about Katsuyu-related content in this community.
  • If there are additional ships, people, or content alongside Katsuyu (e.g., there's fanart you'd like to share that contains Katsuyu and IzuOcha), please give a warning and tag them accordingly.
  • If it's not Katsuyu-related at all, do not post to this community.
• Be polite and kind to everyone and their works in the Katsuyu community.
  • No use of disrespectful, racist, sexist, or insulting language toward other Pillowfort users.
  • Harassment and hate will not be tolerated.
  • Do not give critiques on people's works unless they ask for it.
  • Remember: there is a difference between a critique vs. insult to someone's work.
• Be respectful to other people's OTPs and NOTPs.
  • Even though we're all Katsuyu shippers, some of us are also multi-shippers of Katsuki Bakugo and Tsuyu Asui with other characters and may agree or disagree on other ships that are not related to Katsuyu. No ship wars are allowed within this community.
• SFW and NSFW Katsuyu-related content are allowed in this community, but NSFW Katsuyu-related content must depict Katsuyu as at least 18-year-old consenting adults—no depictions of minors allowed.
  • Furthermore, you must mark your post and discussion and tag NSFW content as NSFW, R-18, and/or 18+.
  • Remember: Katsuki Bakugo and Tsuyu Asui are still minors in canon, and we have minors and people in our community who would not be comfortable with NSFW content.
  • Admins/moderators will immediately take action if any post or discussion violates this.
• Avoid posting about spoilers from later seasons of the anime and chapters of the manga.
  • Some of us in this community don't keep up-to-date with My Hero Academia's anime or manga, so please avoid spoiling content from later seasons or chapters.
  • If you'd like to have a discussion on something Katsuyu-related in the manga or manga that counts as a spoiler, please add the chapter/ep number and the word spoiler in the title (e.g., "(Ch182 Spoilers)" or "(S3E4 Spoilers)") and add a content warning in bold text (e.g., Warning: Ch182 Spoilers).
  • If you're not sure something is a spoiler, tag it and mention it as a content warning.
• Promote your Katsuyu content to the community!
  • Spread the love of Katsuyu, but remember to tag it appropriately.
  • If your Katsuyu content is hosted outside, you're welcome to repost it here on Pillowfort and/or link it to whatever your main is.
• When sharing Katsuyu-related content that is not yours, link the source.
  • For example, if the content is a picture or comic of Katsuyu, link the source—do not repost it within this community as images unless it is content that you created. The same goes for written content.
  • Reposting content that is not yours will have consequences.
• Have fun!

The moderators for this community are:

• dejiko001