Emma Verde

Emma Verde (エマ・ヴェルデ Ema Verude), also known as just Emma, is one of the ten main characters of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. She is a third year at Nijigasaki High School. Her image color is light green. She is a member of QU4RTZ, a sub-unit under the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club.

Background
Emma is from Switzerland and has eight younger siblings. She formerly attended the Y.G. International Academy.

Along with Shizuku Osaka and Kanata Konoe, she works with the Love Live! School idol festival app, where the three of them originally appeared as N-rarity characters.

In the Nijigasaki High School dorms, she shares a room with Karin Asaka.

She uses the Italian word "Buono" (meaning "good") when introducing herself, which indicates that she is from the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, which includes the canton (Swiss Confederation member state) of Ticino and some southern parts of Grisons. Her family name "Verde" means "green" in Italian.

Personality
Emma is a kind and easygoing girl with a healing nature. She is very cheerful, pleasant, and tries to look after the other idols. She aims to be encouraging and to help others smile.

Like Shizuku, Emma tends to keep her worries to herself. She gets nervous easily.

Having many brothers and sisters back home, she can relate to Kanata on the joys of being an older sister. Her family regularly sends her video letters so they can stay connected.

In another All Stars bond episode, she reveals that her dream to become a school idol was the reason why she studied Japanese and eventually came to Japan. She first learned about them after seeing a TV show about them in Switzerland on a night where a snowstorm meant she had to spend the night alone. Her pursuit of her dream has also allowed her to combat being homesick.

Clubs and Hobbies
In her free time, Emma likes to go on woodland walks, and sometimes play in the river. She enjoys quilting as well.

She likes food, especially bread crusts. In an All Stars story scene, she narrowly bests Hanayo in a dumpling eating contest after both she and Hanayo ask for their favorite foods (bread and rice respectively) as side dishes, sustaining their appetite.

Songs
The songs featuring Emma are:
 * Evergreen (solo)
 * TOKIMEKI Runners (group)
 * Koe Tsunagou yo (solo)
 * Love U my friends (group)
 * Sing & Smile!! (as part of QU4RTZ)
 * Beautiful Moonlight (as part of QU4RTZ)
 * Mirai Harmony (group)

Trivia

 * She is the first Love Live! heroine who is fully a foreigner (compared to Eli, who is a quarter Russian, and Mari, who is half American with Italian ancestry). She is also the first whose foreign roots are primarily in Western Europe.
 * She has a pet goat back in Switzerland named "Neve" (the Italian for "snow").
 * She has the largest bust size (Second largest if you count Chiduko Sakamaki's B95 from School Idol Festival.) of any Love Live! heroine – her 92 centimeters beating Nozomi's previous record of 90.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.