Rina Tennoji

Rina Tennoji is a main character in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. She is a first year at Nijigasaki High School. She is a member of QU4RTZ, a unit under Nijigaku. Her image color is paper white, though she is also represented with gray.

Background
In the ALL STARS story, she was invited to become a school idol by the player character. Along with Ai Miyashita and Ayumu Uehara, she works with Famitsu App.

Personality
Rina is not good at conveying emotions on her face. Because of this, she makes use of the "Rina-chan Board", a sketchbook that she draws her emotions on. Rina is also friends with Mia, who met her in Chapter 22 of ALL STARS.

Despite her flaws, Rina is still trying to change herself by communicating and talking more with her friends. She admires Ai for her confidence and friendliness. Rina gets nervous easily but continues to try her best.

As a school idol, she hopes that people will cheer for her so that she can show everyone her true smile.

Clubs and Hobbies
Rina is very good with technology and "creating things". She wears the "Auto Emotion Convert Rina-chan Board" on stage and other activities that require both hands. She's often seen with gadgets such as a quadcopter or just working on a tablet or laptop. She makes and enjoys talking about apps. She has a pet robot cat named Aran (アラン).

She often shows a strong interest in science. She excels in both Science and Math but struggles with her Japanese class.

Rina is good with arcade and video games. She also seems to have a deep fondness for animals.

Appearance
Rina is very short with a slim figure. She has messy pink hair which reaches her shoulders and yellow eyes.

Songs
The songs featuring Rina are:

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

Etymology

 * The name Rina is a common female name and can be written with various kanji characters. (璃) (ri) means "glassy, lapis lazuli". (奈) (na) can have multiple meanings and can be associated with various sounds like "na."
 * Rina's surname Tennoji means "heaven/heavenly, sky, imperial" (天) (ten), "king, prince, monarch, sovereign, potentate" (王) (no) and "temple" (寺) (ji). It is said to be a surname derived from the Shitenno-ji temple.

General

 * Rina fulfills the smile attribute of the NijiGaku first years.
 * Rina has different nicknames from different members of Nijigaku: Kasumi Nakasu calls her Rinako (to match Shizuku Osaka's nickname Shizuko and Shioriko Mifune's nickname Shioko) and Ai calls her Rinari. In ALL STARS, Nozomi Tojo calls her Rina-chi.
 * In ALL STARS, Ai credits herself with assisting Rina in coming up with the Rina-chan board, and helps her with the drawings.
 * Rina is the shortest out of all of the Love Live main characters at 149 cm (or 4'11").
 * Most of Rina's song titles are all written in katakana. This is likely due to the fact that she isn't very good with emotional expression and how she struggles with modern Japanese.
 * The auto-emotion convert Rina-chan board has hardware that senses faint electrical signals in the facial muscles to display different expressions.
 * It is implied that her auto-emotion convert board is waterproof, as she is able to swim with it.
 * Rina is the third character to be slapped, except not by a childhood friend this time. The first two characters to be slapped by childhood friends are Honoka Kosaka and Kanan Matsuura. Rina was also not slapped through the head, unlike Honoka and Kanan, and only slapped on the hand.
 * Despite the Love Live! Virtual School Idols being announced first in early 2022, Rina is the first from the Love Live! Series to debut as a Virtual YouTuber.

Media-Specific (Manga, Anime, School Idol-Diary)

 * The 18th chapter of the Famitsu App 4koma shows Rina being capable of crying, though this only applied to that continuity.
 * Her robot cat, Aran, was first mentioned in the radio dramas then made its way into Miyako Hito's "Nijiyon" 4komas. The design was then adapted into an illustration in Dengeki G's magazine, made a brief appearance in Rina's Tsunagaru Connect insert song MV, and finally adapted into one of the illustrations for School Idol Festival ALL-STARS.
 * The Mirai Harmony PV shows that her board can instantly change her drawn expressions without flipping them, likely just for subtle/background laughs.
 * In the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Anime, Rina doesn't possess the "Rina-chan board" until episode 6, The Shape of Smiles (〃＞▽＜〃).
 * Needless to say, after said episode, she tends to pull up her board at will (whenever expressing something extreme or something primary like tasting a good pancake) as she seems fine to talk without it.
 * In Shizuku, Monochrome she even had a drawn expression of Shizuku's face during an "orchestrated" capture with Kasumi, giving a call back to the Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS main story line, where she did the same for Emma and Karin.
 * Shizuku's version of the Rina-chan board also makes an appearance during Nijigasaki High School Idol Club Shuffle Festival when Kaori Maeda (as Shizuku) performed Doki Pipo ☆ Emotion.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.