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Hasunosora Girls' High School Idol Club
103rd School Year (2023-24)
104th School Year (2024-25)
A group of 6 school idols from Hasunosora Girls' High School, located in the mountains just outside Kanazawa, in Ishikawa prefecture. Unlike the other main groups in the franchise, this school idol club had been founded long before the start of the story, and is well-established at the school. They have their own game (Link! Like! Love Live!) where players can follow their activities throughout the school year in real time, though their songs do appear in Love Live! School idol festival 2 MIRACLE LIVE! alongside those of the other Love Live! groups.
The group gained 3 new members during the 2024 school year, one for each sub-unit.
In General
Bloom the smile! Bloom the dream!
- Breaking Old Trends:
- The first group to begin with an even number of characters, as well as pre-formed sub-units. They're also the first group to have members are not set in said subunits, being able to shuffle around, and later on having new members added to.
- Instead of focusing on the full group or solo acts, Hasunosora has the sub-units as the main focus. Notably, the girls don't even have individual call-and-responses like the other groups, and instead have sub-unit catchphrases.
- The first series where school idols are treated as an established club activity, with roots in the school that predate the story, and knowledge and legacy costumes passed down from year-to-year within the club.
- They're also the first group without a member that has any international descent, the closest being Rurino who was studying abroad before the story began.
- Famed In-Story: Aside from being well-known and very popular at Hasunosora, Kozue and Tsuzuri are also known enough outside of it that they've both been scouted by other schools, Kozue in Chapter 8 and Tsuzuri in the backstory during the previous year. Megumi is revealed to be this as well once she enters the story, with the three of them being known as the "Hasu Triangle" (after the Summer Triangle asterism).
- Master-Apprentice Chain: This relationship is particularly emphasized at Hasunosora, where traditionally the sub-units consist of one senior member mentoring a younger girl in their school idol activities.
- Non-Uniform Uniform: The costumes for their debut single "Dream Believers" are styled like school uniforms, but with differences that highlight each sub-unit's style.
- Cerise Bouquet's berets and use of earth tones evoke elegance and the image of proper young ladies.
- DOLLCHESTRA's chokers, bared shoulders, and long boots give them a cooler and more mature look.
- Mira-Cra Park!'s short sleeves, ribbon belts, and extra frills make them feel carefree and whimsical.
- Real Time: The other trait that separates Hasunosora from the other series in the franchise is the fact that their activities are timed to follow a real school year. The story debuted in April at the start of the Japanese school year, and the school festivals and summer vacation match with real-life timing as well.
- Virtual Youtuber: While they still do live performances, broadcasts, and videos like all the other Love Live groups, the Hasunosora girls also stream and perform as their characters, like VTubers.
- Vocal Evolution: In the first two chapters, Kozue's voice is pitched noticeably higher, while Sayaka's and Tsuzuri's are lower and firmer. As their characterizations become better defined, though, their performances settle into the current forms.
Cerise Bouquet
Cerise Bouquet's first single, "Reflection in the Mirror"
The "Pure" sub-unit, consisting of Kozue Otomune and Kaho Hinoshita, and later Ginko Momose. Their music ranges from elegant ballads with an occasional traditional Japanese influence, to more cheery and girly pop songs that still remain calmer than Mira-Cra Park!'s high-energy style.- Breaking Old Trends: This is the first "pure"-style sub-unit in the franchise to feature the protagonist. It is also the first to feature The Leader.
- Floral Theme Naming: Coincidentally, all three voice actresses also have surnames relating to plants.
- Gratuitous French: "Cerise" is French for "cherry".
- Lighter and Softer: Evoked most clearly with their debut single "Suisai Sekai" (Watercolor World). Their music has a softer and more elegant feel than the other two sub-units.
- Theme Naming: A noticeable number of their song names are in the form of 4-character compounds, such as "Suisai Sekai" mentioned above. As this form is associated with old idioms, it adds to the sub-unit's cultured, refined image.
Kaho Hinoshita
- Image Color: Sun YellowGrade: Second Year (103rd Class)Birthday: May 22Height: 155cmSymbol: BunnyVoiced by: Nozomi Nirei (Japanese)
A first-year at Hasunosora, having come all the way from her home in Nagano so that she could "bloom" and live an exciting, fulfilling high school life, free from her overprotective parents. Cheerful and friendly, she has a tendency to jump headlong into things, for better or worse.
- Breaking Old Trends: Kaho is the first Love Live! protagonist character to not be The Leader of her unit (in either a literal or functional sense).
- Call-Back: To Ayumu Uehara, one of the lead characters in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. Like her, Kaho has an affinity for bunnies, the pink color and is commonly associated with a "blossoming flower" motif.
- Delicate and Sickly: Kaho used to be cooped up in her home due to being sick frequently. Her health eventually stabilized, but her parents continued to be extremely overprotective of her, which frustrated Kaho to no end as they stopped her from hanging out with friends and doing fun activities. Though she's improved a lot, she still has the lowest stamina in the group.
- Detrimental Determination: In Chapter 3, much like Honoka before her, she ignores Kozue's and Sayaka's advice to rest and avoid overworking herself, and continues to train late into the night before a concert. As a result, she hurts her ankle, almost falls over, and causes Kozue to injure her leg while saving her, and both of them to miss the concert.
- Didn't Think This Through: She has a tendency to go overboard in her actions, perhaps due to not having had to learn self-restraint since her parents restricted her activites anyway. Her reaction to Hasunosora not being as she expected is to try to run away down an unfamiliar mountain. She somehow ends up chased by an otter, and it's pointed out she was lucky she didn't get hurt.
- Floral Theme Naming: A literal translation of her name is something like "Flowery canvas beneath a sunny field".
- Flower Motifs: Her family cultivates flowers, her name references flowers, and she words her dream as "blooming" like a flower, which evolves into "making everyone's smiles bloom" after she fully commits to being a school idol.
- I Have This Friend: She tries to discuss her misgivings about Hasunosora with Kozue using this trick. Kozue quite obviously sees through it, but plays along.
- Mood-Swinger: Sayaka remarks that Kaho's moods are very obvious, like an on-and-off lamp, due to how quickly she jumps between enthusiasm and depression as she learns about Hasunosora. It does get toned down as she settles into being a school idol, though.
- No Sense of Personal Space: She can be overly forward in her friendliness, which more reserved people like Sayaka and Ginko find off-putting at first.
- Plucky Girl: Even when she gets down, she never stays down for long, and always springs back to a positive outlook.
- Refusal of the Call: Kaho gets the invitation to join the School Idol Club early on, but she declines and dodges attempts from its members to get her to join up. She eventually gets a temporary gig working as the club's manager for a week in preparation for an upcoming performance, although she is still hesitant to have anything to do with school idols.
- Second Year Protagonist: Like Kanon before her, she doesn't start out as this but grows into one during the group's second school year.
- Supporting Protagonist: Beyond the character introduction chapters, a lot of the plot and drama tends to be driven by the second-years and their experiences of the preceding year. While Kaho does have her own dream of blooming brilliantly like a flower, she doesn't start out all that invested in Love Live!, and for the most part she's just enjoying herself as a school idol and doing her best for her friends. In some ways, her story role is similar to the non-protagonist first-years of previous series. She seems to realize this herself later, and begins to take a more proactive approach starting in Chapters 15-16.
Kozue Otomune
- Image Color: Mermaid GreenGrade: Third Year (102nd Class)Birthday: June 15Height: 167cmSymbol: PhonographVoiced by: Nina Hanamiya (Japanese)
A second-year student at Hasunosora, and current president of the School Idol Club. An honors student good at both sports and academics, and admired by many. She takes being a school idol very seriously, and her goal is to win Love Live.
- Academic Athlete: An honor student who also excels at sports.
- Breaking Old Trends: Kozue notably fills the role as The Leader of the unit, a trait previously reserved for protagonists.
- Bridal Carry: In Episode 1 Part 2, upon hearing that Kaho's legs are tired, Kozue tries to carry Kaho back to Hasunosora this way. Kaho immediately protests and asks to be put back down.
- Cool Big Sis: Serves as a big sister figure to Kaho, especially as she teaches the latter about school idols.
- Facepalm: A very frequent gesture of hers, often due to having to deal with Tsuzuri's or Megumi's quirks.
- Fantasy-Forbidding Parent: Downplayed. Her family was initially against her becoming a school idol, seeing it as less of a "true art" as the more traditional forms of music they practice, but she was able to convince them to accept her choice.
- Fire-Forged Friends: With Megumi. Tsuzuri notes that they used to have frequent arguments and shouting matches, but after their shared bad experiences, they've become more understanding of each other and respectful of the other's strengths.
- Foil: To Kanan Matsuura. They share a number of traits, such as their image color, penchant for Training from Hell, and being a kind big sister-like figure to the younger group lead, but their personalities contrast. Kozue is formal and proper in behavior, but tends to be a worrywart, while Kanan is generally relaxed and easygoing. In the past, when faced with the possibility of Tsuzuri being recruited by another school, Kozue panicked and went overboard making sure that they won the Love Live regionals, to cement Tsuzuri's place as a Hasunosora school idol. Though she ultimately did so to keep the everyone in the School Idol Club together, in the end Megumi was injured and a wedge was driven between herself and Tsuzuri. Compare and contrast with Kanan, who chose to put aside their school idol dreams in order to not worsen Mari's injury and allow her to go study abroad, yet also ended up causing a misunderstanding with Mari due to not telling her why.
- Formal Characters Use Keigo: She speaks and addresses others formally, which makes her calling Tsuzuri and Megumi by their first names without honorifics stand out, highlighting how much they've been through together. After their heart-to-heart in Chapter 15, she drops the "-san" for Kaho as well.
- Gentlewoman Snarker: She's not shy about getting her digs in, but she's always very polite about it.Sachi: (talking about rain) It's the humidity, y'know. Makes my hair go flat.Megumi: Right, it makes you even smaller than usual...Sachi: Don't call me "small"!Kozue: It's all right. Sachi-sempai is reliable even though she's small.Sachi: Kozue...did you just stab me in the back while pretending to take my side?
- Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She’s graceful and elegant and much-admired for those traits, but also a fitness freak who's strong enough to casually pick Kaho up in her arms. In a side story, she is also seen training with dumbbells to boot.
- Hopeless with Tech: She has a hard time browsing to search for information on her phone, and thinks that saying "pochi"note will work the same as actually pressing the button.
- Jack of All Trades: Due to coming from a music-focused family, Kozue is able to play quite a variety of instruments, including guitar, piano, violin, flute, trumpet, and saxophone. She's also trained in classical ballet.
- Nice Girl: She's very gentle, kind and polite.
- Not So Stoic: She's more elegant and quiet than really stoic, but in Chapter 15, after making sure everyone else was all right and thinking Kaho had left, she finally breaks down crying herself over not winning the Love Live! finals.
- The Perfectionist: Downplayed. She has very high standards for herself and is prone to blaming herself when things go wrong, but is reasonable enough to listen to others. In Chapter 18, she mentions to Kaho that she used to be much worse about this, setting such impossibly high expectations for herself when it came to music that she had no time left to connect with others.
- Spoiled Sweet: The Token Rich Student in her group, and also one of the nicest members.
- Statuesque Stunner: Though not as much as a Huge Schoolgirl like Tsuzuri, she's much taller than the average Japanese schoolgirl, and easily one of the most attractive girls in her group.
- Team Mom: As the club president, Kozue watches over the other members and makes sure they aren't overworking or having any other problems. After they lose the Love Live! finals, she makes sure to talk to everyone one by one to help them sort out their feelings if needed, at the expense of her own, which she would have just cried through in private if Kaho hadn't stumbled in on her.
- Terrible Artist: One of Kozue's few flaws.
- Token Rich Student: Her family owns multiple beach villas, one of which Kozue utilizes as an abode for the club's training in a Beach Episode.
- Training from Hell:Kaho: Umm... Sempai, this... is the training schedule for a whole week, right...?Kozue: Oh, this is all for one day, of course.
Ginko Momose
- Image Color: Light Blue (?)Grade: First Year (104th Class)Birthday: October 20thHeight: 162cmSymbol: Origami CraneVoiced by: Hina Sakurai (Japanese)
A new first-year at Hasunosora from its 104th class. She is from a family in Ishikawa that practices traditional Kaga embroidery, and admires traditional arts and crafts of all kinds. Her grandmother was a Hasunosora student, and a member of the School Idol Club back when it was just the Arts and Music Club.
- Accent Slip-Up: She usually speaks standard Japanese, but slips into the local Kanazawa dialect when surprised.
- Expy: She is very reminiscent of Shioriko Mifune, with a similar appearance and hairstyle, proper way of speaking, and having traditional Japanese dance as one of her skills.
- Friendless Background: She mentions not having had friends close to her own age before, and that she gets along better with older folks.
- Kimono Is Traditional: She wears kimonos as casual wear, which meshes with her love for the traditional.
- Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Ginko's inaugural first card, "Dream Believers", adds a new Skill concept called "Dress", which adds more cards to the Deck when activated. Cards added to the Deck by Dress have their own AP costs and Skills (whose effects scale to the Skill Level of the Active Skill that summoned them), but their Passive Skill "Instance" immediately destroys them after being played, requiring the Skill to be used again to summon new copies.
- Proper Tights with a Skirt: Unlike with Tsuzuri, she really seems to fit the prim and proper image associated with the trope.
- Textile Work Is Feminine: She practices her family's trade of Kaga embroidery, and likes to design and make clothes as well. She's also the most traditionally feminine of the three new members in her grade.
DOLLCHESTRA
DOLLCHESTRA's first single, "Sparkly Spot"
The "Cool" sub-unit, consisting of Tsuzuri Yugiri and Sayaka Murano, and later Kosuzu Kachimachi. Their songs have an Electronic Music feel with often dramatic and deeply personal lyrics.- Darker and Edgier: Their lyrics tend to be on the darker side, as are the visuals for their music videos. In addition, quite a few of their stage costumes are primarily black.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: Some of their visuals have elements of this, most prominently in the lyric video for "Tsukimakase".
Sayaka Murano
- Image Color: Ice BlueGrade: Second Year (103rd Class)Birthday: January 13Height: 157cmSymbol: Alarm clockVoiced by: Kokona Nonaka (Japanese)
A first-year at Hasunosora, hard-working, serious, but sometimes a bit awkward. She has been doing figure skating since she was very young.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: While she was pretty dismissive of Kaho in the game at first, in the manga she's more open and they quickly become good friends after meeting.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: After pairing up with Tsuzuri, Sayaka's duties include waking her up and making sure she eats lunch, which Sayaka ends up making more often than not. The trope is also treated more seriously than usual; the game story shows in detail how much patience and effort it takes for her and Tsuzuri to learn to communicate with each other.
- The Confidant: Once they settle into their relationship, she becomes this for Tsuzuri. While the latter can seem odd and nonsensical at times, there is usually a reason behind her words. By listening patiently and nudging her along with questions, Sayaka is able to help Tsuzuri straighten out her own thoughts and realize what her real issue is, at which point she is able to sort things out herself.
- Foil: To Riko Sakurauchi. While Riko has her share of being the Butt-Monkey, both she and Sayaka are relatively sensible compared to others in their group. Both start out with talent in a non-idol discipline (piano and figure skating respectively), but have hit a slump by the time the story starts. However, while Riko saw becoming a school idol as the same as abandoning her piano-playing, and had to be convinced otherwise by Chika, Sayaka joins immediately after seeing Kozue and Tsuzuri perform, with the goal of getting herself out of her figure skating slump.
- Formal Characters Use Keigo: She speaks and addresses others formally, out of respect and also partially out of habit, as she too fears that her overly stiff attitude might drive others away.
- Graceful Loser: Due to being used to competition from her figure skating experience, she's the one who takes the club's loss at the Love Live! finals the most calmly and objectively, knowing there's nothing to be done but to move on and improve.
- Hypercompetent Sidekick: She's always been this to Tsuzuri, but grows into this for Kozue as well after experiencing taking care of the club in Chapter 12. After all, she knows what needs to be done now, and she does enjoy fulfilling others' expectations and being relied on.
- Impossibly Tacky Clothes: Her tomato sweater.
- Jumped at the Call: Compared to Kaho, who hesitates about wanting to become a school idol, Sayaka is immediately on board after a convincing invitation from Yugiri and an outstanding stage performance. It's revealed that she was so gung-ho about it because she wanted to break out of her comfort zone and figure out how to improve on her original passion: figure skating.
- Only Sane Woman: As compared to the more flighty and energetic Kaho, and especially as compared to Tsuzuri.
- Non-Uniform Uniform: Wears a beige cardigan outside her winter uniform.
- The Reliable One: When Kozue is out sick, she ends up taking care of the paperwork and administrative duties required to run the club and its activities. She also actually enjoys being relied on by others and answering their expectations.
- Supreme Chef: In addition to usually cooking for Tsuzuri, in Chapter 11, she is able to match the flavors of a high-class Ryokan Inn well enough to help out in their kitchen.
- Technician Versus Performer: Sayaka is the technician relative to both her sister (in figure skating) and Tsuzuri (as school idols), both of whom are natural prodigies. She puts incredible effort into practice and training, but ends up being told she's "not expressive enough". She gets her breakthrough once she learns to be more true to herself when performing, rather than worrying about living up to others.
- She also has this dynamic with Kaho when they first start out. She focuses on training and improving her skills, while Kaho jumps into performing despite being a total newbie. The story doesn't take any side, though, as both of them gain plenty of fans; Sayaka for how hard and diligently she works, and Kaho for her enthusiasm and obvious enjoyment of performing.
Tsuzuri Yugiri
- Image Color: My RedGrade: Third Year (102nd Class)Birthday: November 17Height: 171cmSymbol: PenguinVoiced by: Kotoko Sasaki (Japanese)
A second-year at Hasunosora, with a uniquely odd personality but a genius performer on stage.
- The Ace: She has a natural talent for performing, captivating anyone who sees her, and is able to copy dances just by seeing them.
- Broken Ace: On the other hand, she's never been all that sure of what people are praising her for, and due to something her sempai once said, she's had it in her head that she still doesn't qualify as a school idol, no matter how good her personal performances. These doubts and her communication issues cause a lot of her inner conflict.
- Brutal Honesty: She tends to say whatever comes to mind, including things others would prefer she didn't, such as how Kozue is bad with technology.Tsuzuri: How nice of you, Megu.Megumi: I'm always nice.Tsuzuri: But you're actually sincere this time.Megumi: You didn't have to be that specific!
- Buffy Speak: Part of her communication issues is that she tends to choose odd words to explain things that no one else understands, such as comparing a pirouette to wheat gluten, rolled fishcake, and shellfish. Either she's trying to express the stiffness/relaxedness of the movement, or she's craving oden.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Despite everyone's misgivings about Tsuzuri joining the Open Campus committee, she ends up giving great advice and suggestions that turn the event into a rousing success. By singing said advice.
- Cloudcuckoolander: Possibly the strongest example in the franchise so far. While it contributes to some funny and cute scenes, it's also shown how difficult it is for her to communicate her feelings, and the effort and patience it takes on all sides to understand each other.Tsuzuri (to a fish): Where did you come from?Reika: That's merchandise! Put it back, quickly!
- Eccentric Artist: In addition to her dancing, Tsuzuri's also noted to have great artistic sense. First seen in Chapter 8 when she makes penguins out of shaved ice, and then in Chapter 11, when she plates a dish while helping at the inn and creates something indescribably avant-garde.
- Eccentric Mentor: The way she teaches Sayaka is rather obtuse, and her different way of viewing things sometimes results in very astute remarks that the others hadn't thought of.
- First-Name Basis: She calls all the girls by their first names, and only the first two syllables if they're longer. It highlights her obliviousness to social norms.
- Huge Schoolgirl: At 171cm, she is as tall as the average Japanese man, and the tallest school idol so far.
- Innocent Prodigy: While she's older than the usual age bracket, her innocent personality still evokes this sometimes, especially when she's childishly delighted at being praised.
- Innocently Insensitive
- Non-Uniform Uniform: In addition to the Proper Tights with a Skirt that she shares with Ginko, she also wears different shoes, gloves and a choker with her uniform. The latter is kept in the summer uniform as well.
- No Social Skills: Is oblivious to some social norms, having trouble in putting her thoughts into words. She is aware of this, and is trying her best to improve with the help of other club members.
- Quizzical Tilt: It's a standard motion in the game, but Tsuzuri uses it markedly more often and noticeably than the other girls, due to her Cloudcuckoolander status. It's to the point that she does it in concert intro videos.
- Sleepyhead: She has trouble getting up in the mornings without Sayaka there to wake her. She also apparently fell asleep at her entrance ceremony and had to be carried to her classroom.
Kosuzu Kachimachi
- Image Color: Yellow (?)Grade: First Year (104th Class)Birthday: February 28thHeight: 152cmSymbol: KendamaVoiced by: Fuuka Hayama (Japanese)
A new first-year at Hasunosora from its 104th class. The youngest daughter of a fishing family from Tsuruga in Fukui prefecture, she joins the School Idol Club and DOLLCHESTRA out of admiration for Sayaka.
- The Baby of the Bunch: She's youngest in a family of ten (though they're not all siblings, her grandparents and cousins live with them as well), and is also the current youngest member of the club.
- Character Catchphrase: She shouts "Chesuto!!" to pump herself up, which she got from her grandfather. Slightly odd as the term is associated with southern Kyushu.
- Chronic Self-Deprecation: She very matter-of-factly describes herself as not being good at anything, or even being a burden for people around her, as if it were the most obvious thing ever. This might be a factor in why she's so eager to challenge things and get some accomplishments to her name.
- Gathering Steam: "Dream Believers" Kosuzu Kachimachi has the Passive Skill "Accumulate", which decreases its own AP cost every time the card is played in the same stage.
- Height Angst: It's subtle, but the way she speaks about possibly reaching two meters at some point implies there's a little of this.
- I Just Want to Be Special: One of her goals is to find something she can be proud of herself for.
- Plucky Girl: She is stated to like challenging new things, and isn't afraid to keep trying no matter how often she fails.
- Third-Person Person: Going further than most, she refers to herself by family name instead of given name.
- Trademark Favorite Food: She loves fish and seafood in general, due to being from a fishing family.
Mira-Cra Park!
Mira-Cra Park!'s first single, "Identity"
The "Smile" sub-unit, consisting of Megumi Fujishima and Rurino Osawa, and later Hime Anyoji. Like other Smile units before them, their songs are upbeat, fun pop numbers with lots of energy.- Denser and Wackier: They are this compared to the other two sub-units. Their song themes include such things as the weird dreams one has while sleeping in class ("Do! Do! Do!"), adventure video games ("Kokon Touzai"), and Sentai heroes ("Nonfiction Hero Show").
- Genki Girl: All of their songs are high-energy. Interestingly, the members' personalities take an unusual spin of the trope, with Rurino being introverted and easily overwhelmed when pushing herself too much to socialize, while Megumi is more mature than she looks and acts, and has Hidden Depths despite her sunny disposition. They're also the second sub-unit whose members are not Genki Girl in the franchise, after A•ZU•NA.
- Out of Focus: Up through Chapter 8, the story has only focused on Cerise Bouquet and DOLLCHESTRA, with Rurino and Megumi only appearing in brief interludes. They don't fully enter the story until Chapters 9 and 10, and consequently have fewer songs than the other two sub-units.
Rurino Osawa
- Image Color: Ruri PinkGrade: Second Year (103rd Class)Birthday: August 31Height: 151cmSymbol: Charging BatteryVoiced by: Kanna Kan (Japanese)
A friendly and happy-go-lucky girl who seems like she can get along with anyone, though when her energy runs out...
Officially joins the School Idol Club and the story in Chapter 9.
- Asian Speekee Engrish: Justified, as Rurino really is just bad at English, so her brief attempts to speak it are legitimately mangled in ways similar to the trope.
- Bespectacled Cutie: She's shown to wear glasses in private. She also wears them during the performance of "Colorfulness", given that the song is about everyone being themselves and enjoying themselves in their own way.
- Character Catchphrase: Often ends a sentence with "Ruri thinks," after which she'll append "therefore Ruri is." Even when it doesn't really make sense.
- Childhood Friends: With Megumi, since elementary school.
- Cute Little Fangs: It's not usually apparent due to the more realistic style of the game's 3D modeling, but she does have one. It's more visible in 2D artwork.
- Foreign Exchange Student: On foreign exchange in California at the beginning of the story, returning in Chapter 9.
- Genki Girl: Subverted. She seemingly looks like the stereotype, but is an introvert at heart and frequently exhausted if she engages in too much social interaction (which she refers to as "a battery"). She also prefers solo and calming activities. However, the cheerful side of her isn't fake, she genuinely has fun with her clubmates and just has a hard time balancing her energy.
- Mobile Shrubbery: In Chapter 12, she's taken to going around in a cardboard box while her social battery is recharging.
- Nice Girl: The core cause of her "social battery" issue is that she is so much this that she has trouble stopping herself from trying to make everyone around her happy, even when she doesn't have the energy to keep up. Due to her own experiences, she is also more prone to considering those who might have a different idea of "fun" than she or her friends do; the cause of her conflict with Megumi in Chapter 17 is her trying to convince the latter that fun isn't only max energy and excitement.
- No Hero to His Valet: She loves Megumi dearly, but is very aware of her flaws and isn't shy about pointing them out.
- Third-Person Person: Uses "Ruri" in place of first-person pronouns.
Megumi Fujishima
- Image Color: Angel WhiteGrade: Third Year (102nd Class)Birthday: December 20Height: 160cmSymbol: Streaming Microphone KitVoiced by: Kona Tsukine (Japanese)
A second-year at Hasunosora who has been in the entertainment biz since she was very young. While a member of the School Idol Club, she is on hiatus from school idol activities at the start of the story.
Rejoins the School Idol Club in Chapter 10.
- Book Dumb: Her grades are said to be poor, as she doesn't bother doing anything she doesn't find interesting. She also has trouble with kanji characters.
- Brilliant, but Lazy: Maybe not brilliant per se, but given that she does poorly in class and is particularly bad with kanji, when it comes to writing lyrics she has a perfect grasp of the process and can pop out several sets in short order (though perfecting them takes a little more work). Lampshaded by Rurino after Megumi explains.Rurino: Megu-chan, why are you bad at studying...?Megumi: If I'm bad at studying, then it's studying's fault, not mine. And that's not the point.
- Career-Ending Injury: It's eventually revealed as the story progresses that Megumi was injured the previous year, and had to suspend school idol activities because of that. While her injury is physically healed, she is still unable to dance on stage, and a large chunk of her story is about her overcoming it.
- Childhood Friends: With Rurino, since elementary school.
- Expy: Of Kasumi Nakasu. While slightly more mature due to her experiences and being looked up to by Rurino, Megumi shares the same focus on her own cuteness and popularity and basic kindness underneath a bratty exterior. The main plot of Chapter 11 is even about her acting out a plan that's ultimately well-meaning, but made unnecessarily convoluted and underhanded so she can look good in the process. And like with Kasumi, it completely backfires on her.
- Fire-Forged Friends: With Kozue. Tsuzuri notes that they used to have frequent arguments and shouting matches, but after their shared bad experiences, they've become more understanding of each other and respectful of the other's strengths.
- Former Child Star: She was in showbiz as a child and had appeared on television before. As she is still a popular streamer and has found a new path as a school idol, she's at least escaped the worst consequences of this trope.
- Kawaiiko: She's well-aware of her own charms, and tends to play up the cuteness for her fans.
- Old Shame: Her very first livestream back when she was a first-year. She takes her "cute but ditzy" act to such over-the-top obnoxiousness that present Megumi can't stop herself from verbally tearing "herself" a new one.
- Rich in Dollars, Poor in Sense: She has to watch a video she doesn't like... but if she does it on her computer, she might get mad and smash the thing. So what does she do? Rent out an entire screen at the movie theater to watch it on!
- The Social Expert: She is noted to be this among the second-years, rounding out Kozue's singing ability and Tsuzuri's dancing prowess.
- Spoiled Sweet: Megumi can act rather spoiled and superficial, sulking or throwing tantrums when things don't go her way and not bothering with things she doesn't enjoy (like schoolwork), but she's kind and supportive to her friends, especially Rurino.
- Stepford Smiler: In Chapter 10, she confesses to Rurino that her bright and confident personality is a facade to encourage the latter, and that she hides all of her insecurities, hard work, and failures that went into it.
Hime Anyoji
- Image Color: Violet (?)Grade: First Year (104th Class)Birthday: September 24thHeight: 160cmSymbol: Achievement TrophyVoiced by: Rin Kurusu (Japanese)
A new first-year at Hasunosora from its 104th class. A hardcore gamer and a fan of Mira-Cra Park! since the preceding year, she joins the School Idol Club hoping to share her love for gaming. She is a game streamer herself, under the screen name "Tsumayoji."
- Gamer Chick: She loves gaming (FPSs in particular), and has won gaming tournaments before.
- Idiot Hair: She has a small one that's not always visible due to being further back, where her ponytail starts.
- Motor Mouth: Her normal speech is actually a bit slow tempo, but like Setsuna, it gets much faster when she goes into fangirl mode (mainly when it comes to Mira-Cra Park!).
- Non-Uniform Uniform: She wears a pink hoodie over her uniform, and has black bows on her socks.
- Parental Abandonment: She mentions that her parents are gone (though not why), and that she's been raised by her older sister, who was also the one who got her started with her love of gaming.
- Promoted Fangirl: An in-universe example, in that she's been a huge fan of Mira-Cra Park! since before she joined.
- Punny Name: Her screen name is a play on her surname, but is also homonymous with "toothpick".
- Rose-Haired Sweetie: Played with. She's quite cheery, but also a hardcore competitive gamer who likes first-person shooters.
- Sweet Tooth: She loves sweets, the sweeter the better.
Others/Supporting Characters
Sachi Oogami
- Grade: Graduated (101st Class)Voiced by: Konomi Kohara (Japanese)
Hasunosora's Student Council President, and the granddaughter of the school's director. Also a former member of the School Idol Club.
- The Ace: In Chapter 16, it's revealed that she was apparently the only second-year student in the club during the previous year, and thus she performed as a member of Cerise Bouquet, DOLLCHESTRA, and Mira-Cra Park! all at the same time! The first-years are duly awestruck that she was able to pull that off.
- Bad "Bad Acting": Her impression of the "evil student council president".
- Breaking Old Trends: She's a full inversion of Love Live!'s tradition of having the student council president as an initial antagonist, as she's instead trying to do her best to protect the club from closing. Though also unlike her predecessors, her position and rules at Hasunosora also mean she can't re-join the club, less so with her graduation.
- Crutch Character: Gameplay-wise, Sachi's sole card acts like this, being an extremely useful support card that can work in any setup, but cannot itself be used as a song center, and getting removed from the deck after three uses.
- Graduate from the Story: As a third-year in a story that moves in real-time, the issue of her graduating has come up as she got more developed. And as expected, she does graduate in March 2024.
- Mechanically Unusual Fighter: Sachi Oogami's card, "Hasunosora Girl's High School Idol Club 101st Class", has several unique traits due to not technically being a member of the current Hasunosora School Idol Club.
- She is able to fulfill any sub slot on any other character's card trio, but not main slot.
- She lacks any Special Appeal whatsoever, as she cannot be the Center for a song and thus cannot be in a main slot.
- Her unique passive, "Graduation", removes her card from the deck permanently for the remainder of the stage once it is used three times.
- In exchange for her downsides, her Active Skill possesses the effects of every card type.
- Obstructive Bureaucrat: Fully inverted as of Chapter 13. She left the club and became student council president expressly to use her clout as the director's granddaughter to give the other students, and the School Idol Club in particular, more freedom to carry out their activities, have outings, etc.
- Older Than They Look: She's visibly shorter than Kaho, who's only 155cm, and looks tiny next to Kozue, but she's older than either of them as a third-year student.
- Sixth Ranger: While she's no longer a club member, she still hangs out often with the others, and thus appears in various cards.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: She pulls this on Kaho when they meet in Hasunosora's storage room, making Kaho think she's a spirit.
- Stealth Mentor: For a certain value of "stealth". In Chapter 12, she plays with the series' Obstructive Bureaucrat tradition and presents the first-years with challenges to clear, or she won't allow them a stage to perform on at the Rindo Festival. Comes complete with evil laugh and antiquated dialogue. It's pretty blatant that she's only doing it to teach them something about school idols, though since the first-years don't know her that well, Kaho and Rurino treat her "enmity" seriously. After that chapter, she reverts to being a more standard teasing Big Sister Mentor.
Futaba and Minori
Kaho's younger twin sisters.
- Floral Theme Naming: Their names should reference leaves and seeds, respectively.
- Strong Family Resemblance: They're basically miniature Kahos with different hairstyles.
Kaho's Mother
- Voiced by: Naoko Matsui (Japanese)
Kaho's mother. She is a former student of Hasunosora Girls' High School.
- Helicopter Parents: She remains very protective of Kaho due to her previous health issues, though she doesn't sound too excessive about it. Kaho does still feel very stifled, though, and remains a bit short with her when they speak.
- Strong Family Resemblance: She's essentially a much older Kaho.
Tsukasa Murano
- Voiced by: Moe Toyota (Japanese)
Sayaka's older sister, and the reason she took up figure skating.
- Career-Ending Injury: She was an exceptional skater, but due to an injury two years earlier, she became unable to continue.
- Sibling Yin-Yang: According to Sayaka, her personality is much closer to Kaho's than to Sayaka's.
- 10-Minute Retirement: After seeing some of Sayaka's school idol performances, she feels finally able to put her feelings in order, and announces that she'll officially retire from figure skating. But when Sayaka and Tsuzuri clear up their misunderstandings and perform together at her retirement show, she gets so inspired that she changes her mind, and decides to switch disciplines to ice dance instead.
Reika
- Voiced by: Emi Uema (Japanese)
A lady who works at the Omicho Market in Kanazawa. It's unclear exactly what her job is, but the girls from the School Idol Club occasionally help her out with odd jobs around the market.
- Wax On, Wax Off: Tsuzuri takes Sayaka to work for Reika at the market to help her figure out what she's missing in her performances. It works.
- The Faceless: She has no model, so whenever the club interacts with her, the camera is solely focused on the members in question.
Dorm Mother
- Voiced by: Chika Ookubo (Japanese)
The supervisor of Hasunosora's student dormitories.
- The Faceless: She has no model, so whenever the club interacts with her, the camera is solely focused on the members in question.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She enforces the school rules because it's her job, and isn't actually any stricter than she has to be. Though Kaho remains intimidated by her, she does wish the best for all the students.
Ena, Biwako, and Shiina
- Grade: Second Year (103rd Class)Voiced by: Rena Maeda (Ena), Hikaru Iida (Biwako), Rina Tsukishiro (Shiina) (Japanese)
Kaho's trio of classmates. Inspired by Kaho doing her best as a school idol, they eventually join the school choir.
- Alphabetical Theme Naming: Continuing the themed naming for the friend trios in the other series, but since they've run out of numbers, they've moved on to letters ("A", "B", and "C", respectively).
- Nice Girl: They're always supportive of Kaho, even when they learn she's considering switching schools, despite being saddened by the news.
- The Faceless: They have no models, so whenever Kaho speaks to them, the camera is solely focused on her. This isn't the case in the Link! Life! yonkomas and the flowers manga, where their appearances are shown.
