Emma Verde

Emma Verde, 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 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 an 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 Koizumi 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)
 * Aine no Uta (solo)

Trivia

 * Emma fulfills the pure attribute of the NijiGaku third years.
 * She is the first Love Live! heroine who is fully a foreigner (compared to Eli Ayase, who is a quarter Russian, and Mari Ohara, 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 word 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 Tojo's previous record of 90.
 * Emma was originally introduced to Love Live! School Idol Festival mobile game exclusively as a N rarity character in 2013.
 * Prior to any announced plans of a new Love Live! project, Bushiroad held multiple seemingly inconsequential popularity polls on the LLSIF app in which participants could vote for their favorite N rarity character.
 * By the end of this campaign, Emma Verde finished in first place, Shizuku Osaka finished in second place, and Kanata Konoe finished in third place.
 * Later in 2017, when the Perfect Dream Project (temporary name of Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS) was announced, Bushiroad revealed that the three N rarity characters with the most votes from the previous polls would be fleshed out and added as new school idols for the project.
 * This included new artwork and designs that were more consistent with the style and quality typical for the main cast members in µ's and Aquors, as well as the promise of casting official voice actors.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.