Hanayo Koizumi

Hanayo Koizumi is one of the nine main characters in Love Live!. She is a first year in Otonokizaka High School. Her image color is green, though she is also represented with teal and yellow. She is a member of Printemps, a sub-unit under µ's. She succeeded Nico Yazawa as the president of the Idol Research Club after the third years have graduated and at the end of the movie, was succeeded by Yukiho Kosaka and Alisa Ayase.

Background
Hanayo has been friends with Rin Hoshizora since they were children who has always said she wanted to be an idol as Hanayo's mother used to be an idol. She lives with her father, mother, grandfather and her grandmother.

Personality
Hanayo is a very shy, quiet character who doesn't normally voice her opinions. She is very reserved and will often let other people make decisions for her because of this. Hanayo is also easily scared. However, her personality changes when it comes to school idols, as she is very enthusiastic about them. She doesn't usually state her desires either, so when she wanted to become an idol she didn't say so for a while and needed a push from Maki and Rin to become one. Despite her timid nature, she is quite kind-hearted and considerate to her friends feelings, similar to Kotori Minami.

Hanayo loves to eat anything, especially rice balls. For that reason, she usually gets upset with her weight, as shown in Season 2 Episode 7.

Clubs and Hobbies
Hanayo is interested in drawing and origami and is obsessed with school idols. She is a caretaker for the school's alpacas, and became the Idol Research Club's president after the third-years graduated.

Audio

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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 =

Trivia

 * Hanayo fulfills the pure attribute of the µ's first years.
 * The name Hanayo means "flower, blossom" (花) (hana) and "light, sun, male" (陽) (yo).
 * Hanayo's surname Koizumi means "small" (小) (ko) and "spring, fountain" (泉) (izumi).
 * Hanayo occasionally wears glasses, though she rarely uses them. At the beginning of Season 1 Episode 5, she is seen without her glasses and wears contacts.
 * In the anime, Rin is the only known character to address Hanayo as "Kayo-chin". She is also sometimes referred to as "Kayo" by others in other media.
 * "Kayo" is an alternate reading of the kanji in her name.
 * Most notable in Love Live! School idol festival, in which Maki addresses Hanayo as such.
 * In Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS, Kasumi calls Hanayo "Kayoko" or "Hanako" (to match Shizuku's nickname "Shizuko", Rina's nickname "Rinako", and Shioriko's nickname "Shioko").
 * In the audio drama, she was once addressed to be "Kayoppe" by Honoka in Love Live! Tatoeba Konna Love Train audio drama.
 * Love Live! fans also call her "Pana" because a phonetic change happens when "h" comes after "n" during "RinHana", hence "RinPana".
 * Hanayo originally had an older brother.
 * Given Hanayo's enthusiasm about rice, fans inferred that this is the only food she ever wants to eat. (whether the rice ball she ate has no filling is unclear.)
 * This was further emphasized in Love Live! The School Idol Movie, as she broke down to tears after eating bread for a few days on her trip to America.
 * Later solidified in one of the School Idol Diary Special Edition chapters where she was shocked after Rin adds curry onto her white rice.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.