Nozomi Tojo

Nozomi Tojo is a main character in Love Live!. She was a third year student at Otonokizaka High School until she graduated in the anime's series finale, but still retained her status in Love Live! The School Idol Movie. She is a member of lily white, a sub-unit under μ's. Her image color is purple.

Background
Nozomi is a third year student and the former vice-president of the school's student council, being succeeded by Umi Sonoda. She is originally from the Kansai region, and it is shown in Season 2 Episode 8 that she and her family had moved around for most of her childhood. However, she speaks in a relaxed Kansai dialect after having lived there for a few years during her childhood. She is fluent in a few other languages as well, including English. She is best friends with Eli Ayase.

In the manga, Nozomi isn't in the student council; instead, she is the only member left in the Supernatural Phenomenon Research Society, a club that she attempted to recruit Eli into. In addition to this, she grew up in Akihabara and adopted her dialect to match her fondness for the supernatural.

Since the first episode, Nozomi has shown her support for Honoka's group and their dream for being school idols, helping them find ways to work around Eli's orders so they can succeed on their dream, though she does help them directly as well. After Eli joins μ's on Season 1 Episode 8, she joins the group as well since she always wanted to do something with who she considers her friends. She is also the person behind the name of μ's; she decided it since it was the pronunciation for "Muse", which are what the nine Greek goddesses and daughters of Zeus are known as, and she knew the nine girls would eventually come together like them.

Personality
As the former vice-president of the student council and the eldest member of μ's, Nozomi appears as a pretty wise, mysterious and mature girl with an almost all-knowing vibe to her, due to her tarot reading and fortune-telling skills. She's gentle and kind, as well as rather conspirative, usually being the first person to advise μ's whenever they run into an obstacle or trouble, and will usually remain calm and collected during most situations. This carries on even after joining μ's.

Nozomi has a very mischievous side, often teasing the other girls and causing them to get flustered. At times, she can seem perverted as well, as she sometimes threatens to punish some of the members of μ's by grabbing their breasts from behind, her most common target being Nico. This is most prominently seen in Season 1 Episode 7, in order to keep Honoka, Rin and Nico into studying and not fail their exams. This punishment was deemed the "washi washi" by Nozomi herself.

While mischievous, Nozomi also cares deeply for the other girls, and she highly cherishes the friendships the group has formed between them. An example of this is on Season 1 Episode 10, when she noted Maki wasn't getting along well with the other girls, as she tries to bring Maki closer to them. In Season 2 Episode 8, it is also shown that since Nozomi and her family had moved around for most of her childhood, she was very shy and never really had any friends. She began to break out of her shell after meeting Eli, even though she is still unable to bring herself to approach anybody else until Honoka decides to form μ's. Nozomi states in the same episode she had always wanted to do something with her friends, and considers the nine members' friendships with the other a miracle.

Clubs and Hobbies
Nozomi was Otonokizaka High School's student council vice-president before Umi succeeded the position. During the time Honoka and her friends are forming μ's, she also finds an interest in helping them as much as possible, often finding a way to work around Eli's orders. She enjoys helping out at the local Kanda Shrine, and likes spiritual things such as "power spots" and charms, though she is best known for her fortune-telling skills by using her deck of tarot cards, which she uses as her secret method of quickly fitting in or whenever she is forced to change environments. It is also stated that she likes taking naps.

Appearance
Nozomi has hip-length dark purple hair that she ties into two low pigtails with bangs swept to the right side, turquoise eyes and she has a slim figure.

Audio

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Songs
The songs featuring Nozomi are: Solo = Junai Lens I’ll smile for yours Moshimo Kara Kitto µ's= Bokura no LIVE Kimi to no LIFE Yuujou No Change Snow halation Baby maybe Koi no Button Natsuiro Egao de 1,2,Jump! Mermaid festa vol.1 Mogyutto "love" de Sekkin Chuu! Aishiteru Banzai! Wonderful Rush Oh,Love&Peace! Bokura wa Ima no Naka de WILD STARS Kitto Seishun ga Kikoeru Kaguya no Shiro de Odoritai START:DASH!! Wonder zone No brand girls Kakumei desu ne? Kamisama! LONELIEST BABY Music S.T.A.R.T!! LOVELESS WORLD Takaramonozu Paradise Live ENDLESS PARADE Koremade no Love Live! Sore wa Bokutachi no Kiseki Datte Datte Aa Mujou Donna Toki mo Zutto COLORFUL VOICE Yume no Tobira SENTIMENTAL StepS Love wing bell Dancing stars on me! KiRa-KiRa Sensation! Happy maker! Soshite Saigo no Page ni wa Shangri-La Shower Ruteshi Kisuki Shiteru Dreamin' Go! Go!! Mi wa µ'sic no Mi Super LOVE=Super LIVE! Angelic Angel SUNNY DAY SONG Bokutachi wa Hitotsu no Hikari HEART to HEART! Arashi no Naka no Koi dakara Korekara MOMENT RING Sayounara e Sayonara! A song for You! You? You!! Natte Shimatta! lily white = Shiranai Love*Oshiete Love A-NO-NE-GA-N-BA-RE! Binetsu Kara Mystery Kimi no Kuse ni! Aki no Anata no Sora Tooku Futari Happiness Onaji Hoshi ga Mitai Otohime Heart de Love Kyuuden Omoide Ijou ni Naritakute Shunjou Romantic Duo & Trio = Otome Shiki Ren'ai Juku Garasu no Hanazono ？←HEARTBEAT

Chronology
Season I= Season II = Manga =

Etymology

 * The name Nozomi means "hope" (希).
 * Nozomi's surname Tojo means "east" (東) (to) and "article, ray of light" (條) (jo).

Trivia

 * Nozomi fulfills the pure attribute of the µ's third years.
 * The said attribute can be considered ironic given her tendencies of fondling in the anime's first season, and the interactive character in the ALL-STARS menu occasionally continues to depict her this way.
 * The tarot deck that Nozomi uses isn't actually a real deck, but a hybrid of two.
 * In the first season, all the cards she is shown drawing are from the Major Arcana of the Rider-Waite tarot deck, which is odd in itself that her spiritual power only has her drawing from 22 instead of the whole 78-card deck.
 * In Season 2 Episode 6, she is shown drawing the Two of Disks: Change, which is a Minor Arcana card from Aleister Crowley's Thoth tarot deck. This deck is relatively less famous than the Rider-Waite tarot deck, and it is likely the writers resorted to it only because they couldn't find another card with an appropriate name for the episode's theme.
 * In the manga adaptation, Eli and Nozomi are complete strangers. In addition, Nozomi's personality is more bubbly and energetic.
 * While Nozomi made a cameo in one of the Famitsu App 4Komas for Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, Aina Kusuda doesn't reprise her role as the character in the voiced comics.
 * In Nozomi's Love Live! School idol diary chapter, she revealed that she had never had a crush on a boy due to the repetitive transfers between schools she had to make. However, spending time with her friends has helped her notice that love isn't bad.
 * In 2019, stolen fanart of Nozomi was altered slightly and printed on merchandise for American singer-songwriter Billie Eilish. Eilish was unaware of the decision made by the merchandise company until Twitter users exposed the company's art theft of Love Live! Nozomi Tojo fanart originally drawn by Makoto Kurokawa. The merchandise has since been discontinued and the company issued an apology. This became known as the Billie Eilish Nozomi Merchandise Scandal.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.