Hanamaru Kunikida

Kunikida Hanamaru is one of the nine main characters of Love Live! Sunshine!!. She is 12 years old and a first year in Uranohoshi Girls' High School. She was born on March 4. Her image color is yellow. She is part of a mini idol unit with Matsuura Kanan and Kurosawa Dia.

Background
A first-year student, the daughter of a family who's run a nearby temple for generations.

She is Kurosawa Ruby's best friend.

Personality
Hanamaru (or 'Maru') is a hardworking girl who diligently works at her family's temple. She spends a lot of time reading alone and is easily distracted. Because of how she was raised as a temple girl, she doesn't watch the television much nor does she use the internet, making her outdated. She is often teased due to this, but is usually defended by her best friend, Ruby. However, Ruby ends up crying first, causing Hanamaru to comfort her instead.

She seems to be quite self-depreciating, calling herself a 'chibi procrastinator' and 'neither cute nor interesting'. Gentle and caring for those around her, but often finds herself going in circles anyway. She aspires to be like Ruby, whom she sees as 'beautiful, cute, and dazzling'. She became a school idol in order to support Ruby in her endeavor, even though she didn't know anything about idols.

She has a distinctive verbal tic and dialect, ending all of her sentences with "zura", as well as using "ola" as a first-person pronoun to refer to herself.

Clubs and Hobbies
She's a gifted singer, earning her a spot in a choir. A fan of reading, she has a deep fondness for Japanese literature. It's her ambition to become a female writer some day.

Video
Character Introduction = 2016 Valentine's Message =

Audio

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Trivia

 * Hanamaru is the fictional artist of Maru's 4-koma, a 4-frame comic strip detailing Aqours' activities that started serialization in Dengeki G's Magazine October 2015.