Haruka Konoe

Haruka Konoe is a supporting character in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. She is a first year student of Shinonome Institute, and Kanata Konoe's younger sister.

She is also appeared in Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS as a supporting character and in Love Live! School idol festival as an N-rarity idol.

Background
Haruka is a first year at Shinonome Institute and the representative of her class. She is part of her school's idol group. Her sister was part of the idol group with her until she transferred to Nijigasaki High School. She works with the Love Live! School Idol Festival app.

Personality
In stark contrast to her older sister, Haruka is much more energetic and hardworking. Before Kanata transferred to Nijigasaki, Haruka would often be the one to wake her up when she fell asleep at school. Haruka is often greatly irritated by Kanata's laziness, especially when it causes the two of them to be late.

Haruka also appears to believe in having perfect behavior and manners, as she once said that she needed to "do something about" the personality quirks of the other members of her idol group, as if they were things that needed fixing, and once criticized Kanata for leaving her clothes around, stating that it is "un-ladylike" to do so. This is likely the main reason for Haruka's responsibility and dependability.

As mentioned by Kanata, Haruka is very supportive of Kanata being a school idol, and her praise is what motivates Kanata to be a school idol.

Etymology

 * The name Haruka means "distant, remote" (遥).
 * Haruka's surname Konoe means "near, early, akin, tantamount" (近) (kono) and "bay, inlet" (江) (e).

Notes & Trivia

 * Unlike the rest of the main characters' siblings, Haruka has a different eye color from her sister.
 * Haruka and her older sister Kanata Konoe share a room and a bunker bed together.
 * In the anime, Haruka can be spotted using a cup with a Pocky print. This is due to the fact that her birthday, November 11, coincides with Pocky & Pretz Day in Japan.
 * Unlike her older sister, she isn't skilled at cooking.
 * Despite being the younger sister, she tends to scold her older sister.
 * Her seiyuu, Kaede Hondo, is known for voicing Maple in Bofuri and Elaina from Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina. She also voices idol characters such as Sakura Minamoto from Zombie Land Saga, D'Artagnyan in Mon-Soni! D'Artagnan no Idol Sengen, and Reo Igarashi in If My Favorite Pop Idol Made It to the Budokan, I Would Die.
 * She makes her anime debut in the 7th episode of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club TV anime.
 * She has also appeared in Kanata's 14th and 15th bond episodes in Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS, SchFes 4-komas, and in Kanata's thought bubbles in Nijiyon.