Honoka Kosaka

Kousaka Honoka is one of the nine main characters in Love Live! She is 16 years old and a second year in high school. Honoka was born on August 3rd and is a Leo. Her main color is orange. She is 157 centimeters tall, and her blood type is O. She is the center of Printemps, a mini-idol unit under μ's. Her solo single is called "Honnori Honokairo! (ほんのり穂乃果色!)". Honoka is voiced by Emi Nitta.

Background
Honoka's family own a Japanese sweets shop. She lives at the back of the shop with her mother, father, and little sister. Since she was young Honoka has been friends with Minami Kotori and met and befriended Sonoda Umi after inviting her to a game of hide and seek.

Personality
Honoka is an optimist who is never afraid to take risks. She is always in a good mood and like to look at the bright sides of things. Honoka doesn't enjoy eating red bean paste despite working at her family's shop that sells Japanese sweets.

Clubs and Hobbies
Honoka enjoys swimming and sticker collecting.

Chronology
In Episode 1 Honoka finds out about the news that her school is going to close. At first she is devestated by this news but then is told that the reason the school is closing is because not enough first years are enrolling. Determined to save her school from closing, Honoka starts brainstorming ideas on how she can increase the number of enrollments before discovering an idol group called A-Rise. She sees how popular they are and how many people are interested in attending A-Rise's school and so Honoka decided to form an idol group, hoping that she can attract attention to the school. she asks her close friends, Minami Kotori and Sonada Umi if they wanted to but Umi doesn't agree. She later, hears Maki singing and playing "Aishiteru Banzai!". She asks Maki but she says no. Honoka starts practing dancing while her friends find her and that convinces them to join.

She then asks Maki to compose a song for them but she disagree. Later, Honoka opens up a contest for their idol group but realises that she needs a song for the group. She then asks Maki again but she rejects, although in the end Maki help the group secretly.

After the first live, Honoka continues to "lead" her fellow friends towards various actions, including adding three new member to the group (Maki, Rin and Hanayo), merging with existing Idol Club (which also makes Niko join the group), and even inviting Eri, who actually wanted to join them from the beginning.