Honoka Kosaka

Honoka Kosaka is the primary protagonist in Love Live!. She was a second year student of Otonokizaka High School until she graduated at the end of Love Live! The School Idol Movie. She is the leader of Printemps, a sub-unit under µ's and is the leader and co-founder of the group. Her image color is orange, though she is also represented with pink. Her solo album is called ''Honnori Honokairo! (ほんのり穂乃果色!)''.

Background
Honoka's family owns a Japanese sweets shop named Homura. She lives at the back of the shop with her mother, father and her younger sister.

Since she was young, she has been friends with Kotori Minami, and she befriended Umi Sonoda after inviting her to a game of hide-and-seek. She is also friends with Fumiko, Hideko and Mika at school. Her grandmother and her mother are both graduates from Otonokizaka.

Personality
Honoka is an optimist who is never afraid to take risks. She is always in a good mood and likes to look at the bright side of things. She is determined and once her mind is set on something, nothing can stop her. This is believed to be the driving force behind μ's formation and success. But because of her persistent personality, she often overexerts herself.

Her personality is similar to Rin Hoshizora's because they are both determined, hard-working, and fun-loving. For example, in Season 1 Episode 7, Honoka, Rin and Nico Yazawa had to work hard to pass exams in order to enter Love Live!, and are known as the 'Three Idiots'.

She likes to eat bread, but she does not like eating red bean paste or white bean paste despite working at her family's Japanese sweets shop.

Clubs and Hobbies
Honoka enjoys swimming and collecting stickers. Her special skill is often finding money on the streets, which she attributes to good luck. She is also the leader of the school idol group μ's. Starting from the second season, she succeeds Eli Ayase as Otonokizaka High School's student council president.

In the manga version, before starting an idol club, Honoka is in the Kendo club with Umi and is good enough to win a tournament.

Appearance
Honoka has a slim build. She has brownish orange hair that she ties into a ponytail on the right side and blue eyes.

Audio

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

Songs
The songs featuring Honoka are:

Solo

 * Ai wa Taiyou Ja Nai?
 * Mou Hitori Ja Nai yo
 * Someday of my life
 * Senkou Resolution
 * Yume Naki Yume wa Yume ja nai
 * Shiawase Iki no SMILING!

μ's (Group)

 * 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!!
 * Korekara no Someday
 * 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
 * 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!

Printemps (Sub-unit)

 * Love marginal
 * Sweet&sweet holiday
 * Pure girls project
 * UNBALANCED LOVE
 * Puwa Puwa-O!
 * Eien Friends
 * Nightingale Love Song
 * CheerDay CheerGirl!
 * MUSEUM de Dou Shitai?
 * WAO-WAO Powerful day!
 * NO EXIT ORION

Duo & Trio

 * Mermaid festa vol.2 ~Passionate~
 * Susume→Tomorrow
 * Future style

Chronology
NOTE: Due to its separate continuities, Both the Anime and Manga's stories are not canon to each other unless otherwise specified. Season I = Season II = Manga =

Etymology

 * The name Honoka means "grain" (穂) (ho), "from" (乃) (no) and "fruit, reward, carry out, achieve, complete, end, finish, succeed" (果) (ka).
 * Honoka's surname Kosaka means "tall, high" (高) (ko) and "slope, hill" (坂) (saka).

Trivia

 * Honoka fulfills the smile attribute of the µ's second years.
 * Honoka's practice shirt has the Japanese character "ほ" (ho), the first syllable of her name, which became her character icon. In My Wish, she wears a sweater with the romanization of her first syllable as "Ho".
 * Although Honoka's image color is orange, her outfits are usually pink.
 * Honoka liked milk when she was in elementary school.
 * As Honoka is seen eating bread in the Anime, the profile data of the strawberries being her favorite food may be considered as an informed attribute.
 * The only thing Honoka is good at, other than cheering people up, is making rice cakes.
 * The various media in the project disagree on the relationships between the second-years. In the manga which was published earlier, Honoka is closer to Umi as the two of them are childhood friends and not Kotori, but in the anime and other newer media, the three of them are all childhood friends.
 * There has also been a Q&A answered in a magazine which stated that Honoka and Kotori are childhood friends because their mothers were also childhood friends, and they've always been living on the same street.
 * In the manga, which was published before the anime, both Umi and Honoka were portrayed to be members of the kendo club.
 * While in the anime, it was not revealed which area of Tokyo Honoka lives in, she lives in the lower district of Chiyoda, near Akihabara in the manga.
 * According to Kotori's Q&A answer, Honoka's side ponytail was originally made by Kotori back when they were children.
 * While Honoka commonly refers to herself in first person in the anime, she usually speaks in third person in School Idol Festival.
 * Honoka is the favorite µ's member of fan and Aqours leader Chika Takami.
 * In Love Live! Sunshine!! Season 1 Episode 12, a child who looked similar to Honoka appeared during their visit to Otonokizaka High School as a homage to her character, giving Chika a push forward.
 * Honoka is the first second year student to hold the position of the student council president, the second would be Setsuna Yuki.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.