Ayumu Uehara

Ayumu Uehara is a main character in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. She is a second year student at Nijigasaki High School. She is a member of A・ZU・NA, a unit under the reformed Nijigaku and is a co-founder of the group. Her image color is light pink.

Background
An ordinary girl with no exceptional talents, Ayumu is seemingly content with just living a normal high school life. But when she and her best friend, Yu Takasaki, stumbled upon a school idol performance for the first time, a new path would suddenly appear in Ayumu's world. Despite not being able to sing or dance, Ayumu would nevertheless venture on to become a school idol herself.

Personality
Ayumu is a hardworking girl that puts everything into what she does. She does not believe she is very skilled at her school idol activities, but she continues to try her hardest to excel in them. She is generally insecure in her abilities. Her struggles revolve largely on confidence and how that relates to her pathway to her dream as a school idol. This is illustrated by both her solos songs and the Nijigasaki anime.

She is kind, innocent, and sincere, often responding to the mischief from Karin Asaka and Kasumi Nakasu in a pure manner, which throws the two of them off-guard. However, she doesn't do this intentionally and is truly a pure-hearted girl. She tries her best to be helpful to others.

She can also be rather clumsy at times.

Clubs and Hobbies
Ayumu likes Pokémon, as confirmed in the 4koma.

She tries to study fashion and other "girly" things.

Appearance
Ayumu has a slim figure with pinkish brown hair that she ties into a bun on the right side and yellowish hazel eyes.

Songs
The songs featuring Ayumu are:

Solo

 * Yume e no Ippo
 * Kaika Sengen
 * Say Good-Bye Namida
 * Dream with You
 * Awakening Promise
 * Break The System

Nijigasaki High School Idol Club (Group)

 * TOKIMEKI Runners
 * Love U my friends
 * Mirai Harmony
 * Just Believe!!!
 * Nijiiro Passions!
 * Sweet Eyes
 * NEO SKY, NEO MAP!
 * Zensoku Dreamer
 * Yume ga Koko Kara Hajimaru yo
 * Hurray Hurray
 * L! L! L! (Love the Life We Live)
 * Miracle STAY TUNE!
 * Yume ga Bokura no Taiyou sa
 * Ryouran! Victory Road
 * Colorful Dreams! Colorful Smiles!
 * Twilight
 * Future Parade
 * Level Oops! Adventures
 * Eien no Isshun
 * OUR P13CES!!!

A・ZU・NA (Sub-unit)

 * Dream Land! Dream World!
 * Cheer for you!!
 * Kakushiaji!
 * Happy Nyan! Days
 * Maze Town
 * Folklore ~Kanki no Uta~
 * Infinity! Our wings!!
 * Poker face & Onegai! Fairy
 * Romance no Naka de
 * Blue!
 * Dancing in the Light

Collaboration

 * LIVE with a smile! (Featuring Aqours and Liella!)

Chronology
NOTE: The Tapestry Manga's story took place in the ALL-STARS continuity rather than the Anime.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.

Notes & Trivia

 * Ayumu fulfills the pure attribute of the NijiGaku second years.
 * The name Ayumu means "walk, step" (歩) (ayu) and "dream, vision" (夢) (mu).
 * Ayumu's surname Uehara means "above, top, upper" (上) (ue) and "field, plain" (原) (hara).
 * Together with Ai Miyashita and Rina Tennoji, Ayumu works with Famitsu App.
 * In the Famitsu App 4-koma, Ayumu is shown to own a pet snake named Sasuke. However, in one of the All Stars Daily Theater segment, her conversation with Chika Takami implies that Ayumu doesn't own any pets which disprove the existence of her pet snake Sasuke from the Famitsu 4-komas.
 * Sasuke makes an appearance as Ayumu's plush toy/pillow in Muteki-kyuu*Believer PV. It also became one of the official goods for Nijigaku's 2nd Live. Ayumu also wears a hairpin of Sasuke in this official art.
 * According to Setsuna Yuki, Ayumu has a "serious mode" when she plays something she likes; this happened when Setsuna showed her Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.
 * As seen in the second season's 12th episode, Ayumu is shown to have some fluency to English as she was able to understand the e-mail sent by a fan from the United Kingdom.