You Watanabe

You Watanabe is a main character 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 a member of CYaRon!, a sub-unit under Aqours. Her image color is light blue.

Background
She is a second year and a classmate of Chika Takami, who is her childhood friend along with Kanan Matsuura. She is in class 1 and is student number 28. Her father captains a ferry and she would like to have his job someday. Her catchphrase is "Yousoro!" (ヨーソロー！), on which she salutes like a sailor. This is often accompanied by the phrase "Zensoku zenshin!" (全速前進！). She also has a cousin named Tsuki Watanabe, who lived in Italy.

In the first episode, on a trip to Tokyo with Chika, 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. After Chika becomes fascinated with the idea of school idols, You follows her into opening a school idol club of their own at their high school.

Personality
You is an energetic, tomboyish and positive girl with an outlook of focusing on her goals, which can sometimes cause her to take action without thinking things over first. Her positive attitude also makes her one of the more charismatic members of the group. Since she would like to have her father's job as the captain of a ferry, she tends to salute when she says her catchphrase "Yousoro!", often in the place of "hello" and "good-bye".

You loves the friendship she has forged with Chika over the years, so she slowly grew jealous of Riko Sakurauchi's friendship with Chika when she invites her to join Aqours. This is hinted in Season 1 Episode 10, and is expanded upon in Season 1 Episode 11 when the members of Aqours find out the group originally consisted of her and Chika, rather than Chika and Riko. After Mari Ohara confronts her on it, You expresses her feelings to her best friend, and stops being jealous of Riko.

Clubs and Hobbies
Due to her upbringing, her daily routine includes weight training and running. You is shown to have many talents: one of them is high diving, and she is good enough at it to qualify for the national team. She can also intuitively forecast the weather. She is also a very good chef, able to cook and turn Yoshiko Tsushima's and Mari's prepared dishes into curry as seen in Season 1 Episode 10. She loves the uniforms of uniformed occupations, which is why she acts as Aqours' wardrobe supervisor alongside Ruby Kurosawa, able to illustrate concept art of idol costumes and make them with no prior experience.

Appearance
You has a slim figure and is athletic. She has curly light greyish-brown hair that reaches her shoulders and has light blue eyes.

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

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Songs
The songs featuring You are:

Etymology

 * The name You means "day/weekday, sun" (曜).
 * You's surname Watanabe means "transit, ford, ferry, cross, import, deliver, diameter, migrate" (渡) (wataru) and "environs, boundary, border, vicinity" (辺) (be).
 * Watanabe is is a common surname in Japan.

Trivia

 * You fulfills the pure attribute of the Aqours second years.
 * In the early stages of Aqours, You was originally a first-year student.
 * You owns a white and yellow snapback with her name printed (YOU) in red letters, she usually wears it during practice.
 * You doesn't normally wear glasses, but during Episode 11, she was shown wearing them.
 * In real life, You's home is based on Cafe Orandakan.
 * You has similar features to µ's members Kotori Minami and Hanayo Koizumi; her hair is similar in design to Hanayo's, but longer and looser (Hanayo's hair ends mid-neck while You's reaches down to her shoulders). She and Kotori share the same light greyish-brown hair color.
 * Using SIF attribute as another factor, this is further supported as You is a 2nd Year Pure, which is the same as Kotori's status and is the same attribute as Hanayo's.
 * "Yousoro" is a ship command which means to straighten the ship. After giving a steering instruction, the captain issues this command to tell the helmsman to straighten the ship in the direction it is facing now.
 * Since her name looks like the English pronoun, it leads to some puns and jokes by the fandom.
 * You was voted by fans on the AbemaTV special for SIF All-Stars in January as the Aqours member most likely to star in a morning drama.
 * You Watanabe was originally Japan's favorite Aqours girl. Winning the 2nd Single Center Election Poll making her the "Leader" for their second single: Koi ni Naritai Aquarium.
 * In the December 2019 issue of Dengeki G's, the editors tallied how many times You had said "Yousoro!" throughout the anime - 12 times in the first season and 6 times for the second. Their count for the number of times she saluted someone was 26 in season one and 13 in season two.

Gallery

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