Chika Takami

Chika Takami is the primary protagonist in Love Live! Sunshine!!. She was a second year student at Uranohoshi Girls' High School prior to its closure and is currently a third year student at Numazu High School, being temporarily integrated at Seishin High School before the former's opening. She is the leader of CYaRon!, a sub-unit under Aqours and is the leader and founder of the group. Her image color is orange.

Background
Chika is the second year student at Uranohoshi Girls' High School who launched Aqours. She is the youngest of three sisters and comes from a family with a known for its open-air, ocean-view hot springs. She is neighbors with former Otonokizaka first year student Riko Sakurauchi and is childhood friends with Kanan Matsuura and You Watanabe.

Chika's elder sisters are Shima and Mito. According to magazine material, her sisters are also fans of μ's, though this does not seem to have been retained in the anime adaptation. They also own a large dog named Shiitake.

In the first episode, on a trip to Tokyo with You, the two learned about school idols and the Love Live! tournament after seeing a screen with school idols at the Akiba Dome, including µ's. She becomes fascinated with the idea of school idols, so she decides to start, with You, a school idol club of their own at their high school.

Personality
Chika is very energetic, goofy, sociable and has a very strong sense of perseverance. The latter point is especially notable, as it is shown multiple times in the anime, such as when she kept on trying to persuade the school council president, Dia Kurosawa, to let the School Idol Club be approved. Her positive, can-do attitude gradually begins to affect everyone around her as well as the anime progresses. Her energetic and perseverant nature also makes her rather impatient and easy to tease about giving up, only to make her even more perseverant on achieving her goal.

Due to her usual positive nature, however, she tends to hide her more sensitive side, and tries hard not to cry when she is frustrated, as she feels it would drag down others' morale if they were to see her feeling sad. This can be seen during Season 1 Episode 8, when she is deeply frustrated on the inside after Aqours' disappointing performance compared to the other school idol groups.

Chika heavily dislikes when her friends get into confrontations she deems petty, being one of the very few things that can anger her. This can be seen in Season 1 Episode 9, where she mediates a dispute between Kanan and Mari after a nervous Dia is unable to calm things down. She loves and treasures the friendships she's made throughout her years at school, especially with You, who has been her childhood friend. Since Riko moved to Uchiura, however, Chika becomes very interested in befriending her new fellow second year. Season 1 Episode 11 eventually culminates with this on her and Riko comforting a jealous You about this. On the other hand, she's not above making snide, deadpan expressions whenever one of her friends is acting strange, such as with Yoshiko.

In one of the audio dramas, it is revealed Chika not only has a habit making puns, but of explaining them without being asked as well.

Clubs and Hobbies
Chika is talented in horizontal bar, table tennis, and calligraphy. She also loves softball and going to karaoke booths.

Appearance
Chika has a slim figure. She has bright orange hair that reaches her shoulders, which she ties into three small braids on the left side and ornates with a three-leaf clover hair pin on the right side. Her eyes are pink.

Other Data

 * Note: Dengeki G's Magazine is a monthly magazine that is part of the Love Live! and Love Live! Sunshine!! multimedia projects. As it is usually the first source of news for all major projects under these titles, its monthly sections will detail how the project has progressed over time. The issues are usually published a month ahead of time. For example, the July 2010 issue would've been released on 30th May 2010.

Audio

 * Does not work on iPad, or any medium that does not support the .ogg audio format.

Songs
The songs featuring Chika are:

Etymology

 * The name Chika means "thousand" (千) (chi) and "song, poetry" (歌) (ka).
 * Chika's practice shirt has the Japanese character "チ" (chi), the first syllable of her name.
 * Japanese fans have also reversed the kun and on readings in her name, with "thousand" (sen) and "song" (uta), to form Sen'uta (せんうた) as a name of endearment for Chika.
 * Chika's surname Takami means "tall, high" (高) (taka) and "sea, ocean" (海) (mi).
 * The leaders of µ's and Aqours both have the kanji 高 in their family names: 高坂穂乃果 Kōsaka Honoka, 高海千歌 Takami Chika.

Trivia

 * Chika fulfills the smile attribute of the Aqours second years.
 * Chika is a fan of µ's, and her favorite member is Honoka Kosaka.
 * Both are the leaders of their respective groups; both are also second years who fulfill the smile attribute.
 * On Chika's pajama shirt, it has the romanization of her first syllable as "C" (Shown in Season 1 Episode 2).
 * She also shows the "Mikan 🍊 fruit" on the back of her pants (shown in School idol diary Manga volume 1).
 * In real life, Chika's family's inn is based on Yasudaya Ryokan.
 * The rest of Aqours call Chika as "Chika-chan", except Kanan Matsuura and Yoshiko Tsushima, who simply call her as "Chika", Dia Kurosawa, who calls her as "Chika-san", and Mari Ohara, who calls her as "Chika-chi". In Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS, Nozomi Tojo and Ai Miyashita also call her "Chika-chi".
 * Chika, You Watanabe and Hanamaru Kunikida are the only Aqours members to share a favorite food: Mikan.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.