Ayumu Uehara

Ayumu Uehara is one of the main characters of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. She is a second year at Nijigasaki High School. She is a member of A・ZU・NA, a unit under the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. Her image color is light pink.

Background
An ordinary girl with no exceptional talents, Ayumu is seemingly content with just living a normal high school life. But when she and her best friend, Yu Takasaki, stumbled upon a school idol performance for the first time, a new path would suddenly appear in Ayumu's world. Despite not being able to sing or dance, Ayumu would nevertheless venture on to become a school idol herself.

Personality
Ayumu is a hardworking girl that puts her everything into what she does. She is not very skilled in her school idol activities, but she continues to try her hardest. Sometimes, she becomes anxious about her capabilities, but she can be comforted by her fellow idols.

She is kind, innocent, and sincere, often responding to the mischief from Karin Asaka and Kasumi Nakasu in a pure manner, which throws the two of them off-guard. However, she doesn't do this intentionally and is truly a pure-hearted girl. She tries her best to be helpful to others.

She can also be rather clumsy at times.

Clubs and Hobbies
Ayumu likes Pokémon, as confirmed in the 4koma.

She tries to study fashion and other "girly" things.

Songs
The songs featuring Ayumu are:

Solo

 * Yume e no Ippo
 * Kaika Sengen
 * Say Good-Bye Namida
 * Dream with You

Group

 * TOKIMEKI Runners
 * Love U my friends
 * Mirai Harmony
 * Just Believe!!!
 * Nijiiro Passions!
 * Sweet Eyes
 * NEO SKY, NEO MAP!
 * Zensoku Dreamer

Subunit

 * Dream Land! Dream World!
 * Cheer for you!!

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.

Notes & Trivia

 * Ayumu fulfills the pure attribute of the NijiGaku second years.
 * The name Ayumu means "walk" (歩) (ayu) and "dream, vision" (夢) (mu).
 * Ayumu's surname Uehara means "above, top, upper" (上) (ue) and "field, plain" (原) (hara).
 * Along with Ai Miyashita and Rina Tennoji, Ayumu works with Famitsu App.
 * In the Famitsu App 4-koma, she is shown to own a pet snake named Sasuke. However, in one of the All Stars Daily Theater segment, her conversation with Chika implies that Ayumu doesn't own any pets which disprove the existence of her pet snake Sasuke from the Famitsu 4-komas.
 * Sasuke makes an appearance as Ayumu's plush toy/pillow in Muteki-kyuu*Believer PV. It also became one of the official goods for Nijigaku's 2nd Live. Ayumu also wears a hairpin of Sasuke in this official art.

Anime-specific

 * Ayumu is the third character in the franchise to directly confess to another female character, the first being Honoka Kosaka to Kotori Minami in Season 1 Episode 9, and the second being Riko to Chika Takami in Season 1 Episode 10. (But whether Ayumu's confession is also romantic is unclear.)
 * Unlike Honoka and Riko, Ayumu confessed to Yu Takasaki in the very first episode.
 * In the anime, Ayumu seems to have a more personal, vested interest in becoming a school idol. Whereas in the game, Ayumu only agrees to become a school idol in order to help the player character (Yu) gather enough members for the School Idol Club.

Other

 * Prior to her later appearance in the Anime adaptation, Ayumu Uehara is infamously depicted (though in some extent) as a clingy yandere akin to Kotori Minami and You Watanabe (post We've Got Stewshine), though this was originated from a joke photoshop of her official bio in the game's website with her quote "I like you so much." repeatedly copied, though other (and minor) inspirations such as the character depicted in the Famitsu App 4komas.
 * Ayumu is also shown to be on Yu's side in every scene she's in.
 * If you look carefully, she occasionally changes her expression (notably in Haruka, Kanata, and Beyond) when Yu interacts with other girls.