Riko Sakurauchi

Riko Sakurauchi is one of the nine main characters of Love Live! Sunshine!!. She is a second-year in Uranohoshi Girls' High School. Her image color is light pink. She is a member of Guilty Kiss, a sub-unit under Aqours.

Background
She is a second-year student who joined Chika's class after moving from Akihabara, Tokyo. She transferred from Otonokizaka High School. She is neighbors with her friend Chika.

Personality
She is reserved, modest, and likes indoor activities. She may look calm and mature, but she often flies into a panic, jumping to conclusions and making mistakes. She does not think she is special, so she does not want to become a school idol. However, her friend Chika Takami drags her into it.

In spite of her reserved personality, she loses her calm to the point of moving recklessly when faced with a dog. Her fear of dogs is revoked as of Season 2 Episode 5 and eventually gets her own dog in Season 2 Episode 13. She also starts acting like Yoshiko Tsushima sometimes. She is also a fan of Doujinshi Manga especially Agokui and Kabedon genre as seen in season 1 episode 7 & 11 and when her friends sees her with her manga she will panic or act defensive by hiding them or saying she only brought them for a certain reason.

Clubs and Hobbies
Her talents are playing the piano and viola. Her hobbies are painting, handicraft, and cooking. She is the composer of Aqours.

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

 * Does not work on iPad, or any medium that does not support the .ogg audio format.

Trivia

 * She wore pigtails as a child, as seen on Season 1 Episode 2 and the HAPPY PARTY TRAIN PV.
 * She seems to have a preference for doujinshi belonging to two niche sub-genres of kabedon and agokui, under the girls' love (ガールズラブ gāruzu rabu) or yuri (百合) genre.
 * In real life, Riko's home is based on an apartment next to Yasudaya Ryokan. There is actually a road between the two buildings which had their distance shortened in the anime.
 * Unlike the other members of Aqours, Riko wears a slightly longer skirt in her school uniform.
 * In Season 2 Episode 5, Yoshiko calls her Lili/Lily/Riri as mentioned in the Dengeki G's November 2016 prose story. Her little demon name Lili/Lily (or Riri due to phonetic change) is named after "Lilith", a character in Jewish mythology and is often envisioned as a dangerous demon of the night. Riri is the double pronunciation of the first syllable of her first name.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.