Kanan Matsuura

Kanan Matsuura is one of the nine main characters of Love Live! Sunshine!!. She is a third-year in Uranohoshi Girls' High School. Her image color is green. She is a member of AZALEA, a sub-unit under Aqours.

Background
A third-year student living alone with her grandfather on the offshore island Awashima, who runs a diving shop there. She is childhood friends with Chika Takami, Dia Kurosawa and Mari Ohara.

In the anime, she has a hard time attending classes as she must take care of the shop while her father recovers from a fractured bone.

Personality
Breezily mature, she rarely sweats the details and usually maintains a calm, cool demeanor. She deeply cares for her friends and puts their needs above her own, going to great lengths to ensure they get what she thinks is best for them.

Kanan loves nature, claiming that she is happy every day just by being able to see the dazzling sun and blue skies.

Despite this, it is shown that Kanan is afraid of lightning, as showing in season 2 episode 2.

Clubs and Hobbies
She is talented in diving and ship handling, likely from being brought up in a diving-gear shop. She also loves astronomical observation and swimming. She has incredible stamina as she often goes diving and jogs everyday in the morning, which causes the rest of Aqours to find it difficult to keep up with her. During practice, she leads the training of the group.

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.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.

Trivia

 * In real life, her diving shop is based on the frog museum in Awashima Marine Park.