Emma Verde

Emma Verde is a main character in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. She is a third year student at Nijigasaki High School. She is a member of QU4RTZ, a unit under Nijigaku and was a member of the original group. Her image color is light green.

Background
Emma hails from Switzerland, and like the tranquil and majestic landscapes of the Swiss Alps, possesses a heart that is just as gentle and glowing. Coming from a family with eight younger siblings, she would leave her home country to pursue becoming a school idol in Japan, eventually transferring to Nijigasaki High School. She shares a dorm with Karin Asaka, whom she develops a close friendship with.

She uses the Italian word "Buono" (meaning "good") when introducing herself, which indicates that she comes from the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland, which includes the cantons (Swiss Confederation member state) of Ticino and the Grisons. Her family name "Verde" means "green" in Italian.

Along with Shizuku Osaka and Kanata Konoe, Emma works with the Love Live! School idol festival app, where the three of them originally appeared as N-rarity characters. She formerly attended the Y.G. International Academy.

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 because she doesn't want others to worry about her. She gets nervous easily.

Having 8 siblings 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 and on weekends, Emma will typically spend an hour chatting with them via webcam.

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.

It was also revealed in All Stars that she met Mai Natsukawa, an idol who sings the song Emma heard as a child that inspired her to be a school idol. The song Aion no Uta is originally a song by one of Mai's seniors which was passed down to her. Mai performed the song during her last concert as an idol.

Clubs and Hobbies
In her free time, Emma enjoys going on outdoor expeditions that include woodland walks and playing in the river, often packing a lunch with her and spending upwards of 7 hours being surrounded by nature.

She enjoys quilting as well. Emma also has a pet goat named Neve.

Emma 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.

Appearance
Emma is tall with a slim figure. She has semi-long auburn hair that she ties into two short low braids, freckles across her nose and light blue eyes.

Songs
The songs featuring Emma are:

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

Trivia

 * Emma fulfills the smile 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 the most number of siblings ever, with a total of 8. (One brother is shown in the School Idol Festival app 4komas, and 6 sisters in the Koe Tsunagou yo live performance in the First Live with You! concert).
 * In ALL STARS and comics, Emma was the eldest of her siblings, however in the anime, Emma was the second child of the siblings.
 * She has a pet goat back in Switzerland named "Neve" (the Italian word for "snow").
 * She has the largest bust size (Second largest if one counts Chizuko 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 an 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 the 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 Aqours, as well as the promise of casting official voice actors.
 * In the anime, it is revealed that Emma arrived from Switzerland before enrolling to Nijigasaki rather than transferring from Y.G. International Academy.
 * In comparison to her appearance in both School Idol Festival and ALL STARS, Emma's bust size is realistically depicted in the anime.
 * The Emma-themed bromide for the Animate Fair exclusive "Nijigasaki Original Bromides", her appearance in a school idol outfit in The Memory of Dreams, "Evergreen" outfit in TOKIMEKI Runners (The Place Where the Rainbow Begins) and Let This Thrill Resonate—. restored her original large bust size.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.