Emma Verde

Emma Verde is one of the main characters of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. She is a third year at Nijigasaki High School. Her image color is light green. She is a member of QU4RTZ, a unit under the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club.

Background
Emma hails from Switzerland, and like the tranquil and majestic landscapes of the Swiss Alps, possesses a heart that is just as gentle and glowing. Coming from a family with eight younger siblings, she would leave her home country to pursue becoming a school idol in Japan, eventually transferring to Nijigasaki High School. She shares a dorm with Karin Asaka, whom she develops a close friendship with.

She uses the Italian word "Buono" (meaning "good") when introducing herself, which indicates that she is from the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, which includes the canton (Swiss Confederation member state) of Ticino and some southern parts of Grisons. Her family name "Verde" means "green" in Italian.

Along with Shizuku Osaka and Kanata Konoe, Emma works with the Love Live! School idol festival app, where the three of them originally appeared as N-rarity characters. She formerly attended the Y.G. International Academy.

Personality
Emma is a kind and easygoing girl with a healing nature. She is very cheerful, pleasant, and tries to look after the other idols. She aims to be encouraging and to help others smile.

Like Shizuku, Emma tends to keep her worries to herself because she doesn't want others to worry about her. She gets nervous easily.

Having 8 brothers and sisters back home, she can relate to Kanata on the joys of being an older sister. Her family regularly sends her video letters so they can stay connected.

In an All Stars bond episode, she reveals that her dream to become a school idol was the reason why she studied Japanese and eventually came to Japan. She first learned about them after seeing a TV show about them in Switzerland on a night where a snowstorm meant she had to spend the night alone. Her pursuit of her dream has also allowed her to combat being homesick.

It was also revealed in All Stars that she met Mai Natsukawa, the idol that inspired her. The song Aion no Uta is originally Mai's song that she performed during her last concert as an idol.

Clubs and Hobbies
In her free time, Emma likes to go on woodland walks, and sometimes play in the river. She enjoys quilting as well. Emma also has a pet goat named Neve.

She likes food, especially bread crusts. In an All Stars story scene, she narrowly bests Hanayo Koizumi in a dumpling eating contest after both she and Hanayo ask for their favorite foods (bread and rice respectively) as side dishes, sustaining their appetite.

Songs
The songs featuring Emma are:

Solo

 * Evergreen
 * Koe Tsunagou yo
 * Aion no Uta
 * La Bella Patria

Group

 * TOKIMEKI Runners
 * Love U my friends
 * Mirai Harmony
 * Just Believe!!!
 * Nijiiro Passions!
 * Sweet Eyes
 * NEO SKY, NEO MAP!
 * Zensoku Dreamer

Subunit

 * Sing & Smile!!
 * Beautiful Moonlight

General

 * Emma fulfills the pure attribute of the NijiGaku third years.
 * She is the first Love Live! heroine who is fully a foreigner (compared to Eli Ayase, who is a quarter Russian, and Mari Ohara, who is half American with Italian ancestry). She is also the first whose foreign roots are primarily in Western Europe.
 * She has the most number of siblings ever, with a total of 8. (One brother is shown in the School Idol Festival app 4komas, and at 6 sisters in the Koe Tsunagou yo live performance in First Live with You! concert).
 * She has a pet goat back in Switzerland named "Neve" (the Italian word for "snow").
 * She has the largest bust size (Second largest if you count Chiduko Sakamaki's B95 from School Idol Festival.) of any Love Live! heroine – her 92 centimeters beating Nozomi Tojo's previous record of 90.
 * Emma was originally introduced to Love Live! School Idol Festival mobile game exclusively as an 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 the campaign, Emma Verde finished in first place, Shizuku Osaka finished in second place, and 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 Aquors, as well as the promise of casting official voice actors.

Anime-specific

 * The opening scene in Something I Can Only Do Right Now reveals that Emma just arrived from Switzerland and the first (and only) school she enrolled in Japan is Nijigasaki. She didn't transfer from Y.G. International Academy.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.