Yu Takasaki

Yu Takasaki  is one of the ten main characters of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club and the anime equivalent of the player character in Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS. She is a second year of Nijigasaki High School. She is the club's manager and song composer.

Background
Yu is Ayumu Uehara's childhood friend.

Personality
Even though she is supposed to be the player's self-insert, the game gives her a solid personality. Yu is described as insightful, reliable, quick to take action and very caring of the Nijigasaki idols. She is shown to have a deep passion for idols, which inspires her goals and actions in the game.

She is very perceptive about the girls' feelings, and works very hard to be a good leader for them. She is initially shown to have the tendency of self-isolating when working on new songs, pulling all-nighters so she can achieve perfection. After losing to Maki Nishikino in a contest, she started composing with the other members next to her.

General

 * Prior to the reveal of her name, the character was nicknamed "Anata (あなた)". It literally means "You".
 * This also results in a recurring meme of the fans designating Yu Takasaki as the fictionalized version of themselves.
 * The meaning of her name (高咲 侑) was given by a fan, who chose the 高 kanji because of Kousaka (高坂) and Takami (高海). 咲 is because she comes from Nijigasaki. 侑 is because as it is written, "Anata" means "You". It is sounds like "Yu", that could also mean "To help" which fits Yu's personality and role as the club's manager.
 * Even though she is the anime equivalent of the Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS player, many fans consider her as the real POV protagonist of the game.

Anime-specific

 * Prior to the reveal of the second visual, some fans speculated whether Yu's energetic personality is merely an informed attribute since she is shown to have an emotionless expression on her design, even though she is said to be enthusiastic as written in the description.
 * Yu is the second shortest character in the group.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.