Hanamaru Kunikida

Kunikida Hanamaru is one of the nine main characters of Love Live! Sunshine!!. She is 15 years old and a first year in Uranohoshi Girls' High School. She was born on March 4. Her image color is yellow. She is voiced by Takatsuki Kanako.

Background
Her family runs a local temple that has been passed down for generations.

She is Kurosawa Ruby's best friend.

Personality
Hanamaru (or 'Maru') is a hardworking girl who works diligently at her family's temple. She spends a lot of time by herself reading and often gets distracted by interesting books and often accidentally wastes hours that way. Because of her home and hobbies, she doesn't watch much television or keep up with the latest trends, making her quite old-fashioned and out of date. She is often teased about this, but she is usually defended by her best friend Ruby. However, as Ruby is kind of a crybaby Hanamaru usually ends up comforting her instead, which Hanamaru finds cute.

She is a little self-deprecating, calling herself a 'chibi procrastinator' and 'neither cute nor interesting' and claiming that she aspires to be like Ruby, who she sees as 'beautiful, cute, and dazzling.' She is extremely close with Ruby, often calling her cute, and decided to become a school idol in order to support Ruby in her endeavour, even though she didn't know anything at all about idols to begin with. She has a distinctive verbal tic and dialect, ending all of her sentences with "zura", as well as using "ola" as a first-person pronoun to refer to herself.

Clubs and Hobbies
She is part of the choir, and she has a talent in singing solo. She loves literature. It's her ambition to become a female writer some day.

Trivia

 * Hanamaru is the fictional artist of Maru's 4-koma, a 4-frame comic strip detailing Aqours' activities that started serialization in Dengeki G's Magazine October 2015.