Kanata Konoe

Kanata Konoe is a main character in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. She is a third year student of Nijigasaki High School. She is a member of QU4RTZ, a unit under the reformed Nijigaku and is a co-founder of the original group. Her image color is violet.

Background
Kanata is known as the group's "sleeping beauty", Kanata has the uncanny ability to somehow relax anybody in her presence. She formerly attended Shinonome Academy and has a younger sister named Haruka. Along with Shizuku Osaka and Emma Verde, Kanata works with the Love Live! School idol festival app.

Kanata attends Nijigasaki on a scholarship, so she studies really hard at night everyday, thus her sleep deprivation.

Personality
Kanata is often seen as being very sleepy and often takes naps during the day. She is very easygoing and prone to napping in the laps of others, although in the Niji-Yon 4-koma series she seems to like Emma's lap the most. She also carries a pillow around with her at school.

At times, she will appear to be sleeping but is actually awake and listening to what's going on around her.

Despite seeming always tired, Kanata is motivated as a school idol by her younger sister and others' praise. She often mentions her dream of being able to take a nap with the audience during a performance. Kanata loves being doted on, but is also very sisterly and capable of looking after others. She loves being a big sister, and tends to look after the other idols in various, little ways. Kanata can be very diligent in matters that are important to her. Her grades are good despite her sleepiness.

Clubs and Hobbies
She is skilled at cooking, and the best cook in the club. She is a member of the Health Committee. It is revealed in Season 1 Episode 7 that Kanata works part-time as a grocery store clerk at a shopping center named SOROR.

Appearance
Kanata has a slim figure with long, messy, light brown hair and dark violet eyes.

Songs
The songs featuring Kanata are:

Solo

 * Nemureru Mori ni Ikitai na
 * My Own Fairy-Tale
 * Märchen Star
 * Butterfly
 * Silent Blaze

Group

 * TOKIMEKI Runners
 * Love U my friends
 * Mirai Harmony
 * Just Believe!!!
 * Nijiiro Passions!
 * Sweet Eyes
 * NEO SKY, NEO MAP!
 * Zensoku Dreamer
 * Yume ga Koko Kara Hajimaru yo
 * Hurray Hurray
 * L! L! L! (Love the Life We Live)
 * Miracle STAY TUNE!
 * Yume ga Bokura no Taiyou sa
 * Ryouran! Victory Road
 * Colorful Dreams! Colorful Smiles!
 * Twilight
 * Future Parade
 * Level Oops! Adventures

QU4RTZ

 * Sing & Smile!!
 * Beautiful Moonlight
 * Make-up session ABC
 * Twinkle Town
 * Swinging!
 * Not Sad
 * ENJOY IT!
 * 4 SEASONS

Collaboration

 * LIVE with a smile! (Featuring Aqours and Liella!)

Chronology
NOTE: The Tapestry Manga's story took place in the ALL-STARS continuity rather than the Anime.

Etymology

 * The name Kanata means "beyond, other side, yonder, there" (彼方).
 * Kanata's surname Konoe means "near, early, akin, tantamount" (近) (kono) and "bay, inlet" (江) (e).

Trivia

 * Kanata fulfills the smile attribute of the Nijigaku third years. According to her old N-Rarity cards in Love Live! School idol festival, she originally fulfilled the cool attribute.
 * Kanata was originally introduced to Love Live! School Idol Festival mobile game exclusively as a N rarity character in 2013.
 * Prior to any announced plans of a new Love Live! project, Bushiroad held multiple seemingly inconsequential popularity polls on the LLSIF app in which participants could vote for their favorite N rarity character. By the end of this campaign, Kanata Konoe finished in third place.
 * Later in 2017, when the Perfect Dream Project (temporary name of Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS) was announced, Bushiroad revealed that the three N rarity characters with the most votes from the previous polls would be fleshed out and added as new school idols for the project.
 * This included new artwork and designs that were more consistent with the style and quality typical for the main cast members in µ's and Aqours, as well as the promise of casting official voice actors.
 * To date, all of her songs musically make heavy reference to clocks, especially it's ticking, by way of their beat, metrics, and more explicitly, mechanical sounds and/or literal clock ticks.
 * Kanata and her younger sister Haruka share a bedroom with a bunk bed. Kanata sleeps on the bottom bunk while Haruka sleeps on the top bunk.
 * Shinonome Academy, Kanata's former school in the School Idol Festival Series games, is within the Shinonome district near Nijigasaki.
 * In the anime, it was never suggested that Kanata attended Shinonome Academy while her sister Haruka still attends the said school.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.