Ruby Kurosawa

Ruby Kurosawa is a main character in Love Live! Sunshine!!. She was a first year student at Uranohoshi Girls' High School prior to its closure and is currently a second year student at Numazu High School, being temporarily integrated at Seishin High School before the former's opening. She is a member of CYaRon!, a sub-unit under Aqours. Her image color is pink.

Background
Ruby is a first year student who is the younger sister of Dia Kurosawa, who she shares a strong bond with. She is from an old family involved in fishing management whose name is well-known around the area. The Kurosawa family also owns a number of companies including real estate, entertainment, human resources and restaurant management. Ruby is almost always nearby her best friend, Hanamaru Kunikida.

In the anime, in the first episode, Ruby is shown to display a big interest in school idols. Season 1 Episode 4 shows that she used to be a fan of school idols, sharing this hobby with Dia, although something caused her older sister to seemingly lose that interest, which is revealed in Season 1 Episodes 6, 8 and 9 to be Dia's failure as a school idol. Ruby's love for school idols remained intact, but the event made her secretly keep it away from her sister. She later joins Aqours in Season 1 Episode 4, after counting with her sister's support.

Personality
Ruby is very shy and timid, which makes it hard for her to get along with other people. She has a tendency to utter or scream "Pigii!!!" when she doesn't like something; in the event she screams, her face will turn red as she does so. She has never talked to any males besides her father before, so she has always been bad at dealing with the male gender. Although she is fearful and easily upset, she does has a tough interior forged by her role as the daughter of a rich, well-known family.

Ruby is very close to her friend, Hanamaru. She also meets Leah Kazuno in TOKYO, who she also becomes very close with.

From a different perspective, Ruby is adaptable and mostly admired by her friends, and they support her no matter what; despite the fact the Second Years are considered "the heart" of Aqours, Ruby does not have difficulty getting along with the rest of the group unlike her fellow First Years' or the Third Years', as seen in Season 2 Episode 2. Her catchphrase is "Ganbarubii!" (がんばルビィ！), a portmanteau between "ganbaru" (頑張る) and her own name; she uses this phrase to encourage herself or others to do their very best. Ruby also speaks in the third person from time to time, just like Hanamaru. However, she tends to use "watashi" as a first-person pronoun.

Due to the strong bond she shares with her sister Dia, Ruby will immediately display her tough interior and defend her sister when a negative point of her is brought up, as seen in Season 2 Episode 8. Ruby is also shown to have a playful and mischievous side of her when she teases Yoshiko Tsushima's Fallen Angel behavior and her embarrassing moments (alongside Hanamaru), which annoys Yoshiko all the time. She also despises spicy food, as seen in Season 1 Episode 10, when she eats a takoyaki filled with tabasco sauce instead of octopus sauce.

Clubs and Hobbies
Her hobbies are needlework and fashion. Her talent is in coordinating outfits, which makes her, alongside You Watanabe, Aqours' wardrobe supervisor. Like her sister Dia, she displays an admiration for other idols, despite coming from a traditional family.

Appearance
Ruby is short with a slim figure and semi-long red hair which she ties into twintails and turquoise eyes.

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.

Songs
The songs featuring Ruby are:

Etymology

 * Ruby's surname Kurosawa means "black" (黒) (kuro) and "marsh" (澤) (sawa).

Trivia

 * Ruby fulfills the pure attribute of the Aqours first years.
 * Ruby's favorite member of µ's is Hanayo Koizumi. (In the manga adaptation, Ruby's favorite µ's member is Rin Hoshizora.)
 * Both are first years that fulfill the pure attribute.
 * Both are shy members and best friends with a cheerful one (Rin and Hanamaru).
 * In real life, the Kurosawa mansion is based on the Okawa mansion, which has been designated a cultural heritage property of Numazu since the Edo period. The historical owner of the mansion was also a wealthy family involved in fishing management, similar to the Kurosawa family.
 * Ruby had long hair before starting middle school.
 * Ruby owns merchandise of a character named Paaru-chan, one of which being a coin purse she typically wears on her practice clothes.
 * Aside from the Official Introduction and the manga adaptation of Sunshine!!, Ruby's androphobia is not utilized in her subsequent appearances since the anime.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.