Maki Nishikino

Nishikino Maki is one of the nine main characters in Love Live!. She is 15 years old and a first year in Otonokizaka High School. Maki was born on April 19 and her zodiac sign is Aries. She has crimson hair and violet eyes. Her main color is red. She is 161 centimeters tall. Her favorite food is tomatoes, and her blood type is AB. She is part of BiBi, a mini idol unit. Maki is voiced by Pile.

Background
Maki comes from a wealthy family of doctors and is somewhat pressured to become a doctor like her parents, which would lead her into giving up music. Because of her wealth, it is discovered in Episode 10 that Maki's parents own a beach house. Therefore, μ's gladly insisted Maki to go ask her parents if they could use it, which they allow. In S2 Episode 2, it is revealed that her family also owns a vacation house at the mountains.

Personality
Maki has the qualities of a tsundere and has a hard time admitting her true feelings to her peers. She also has somewhat childish beliefs due to the group finding out that she still believes in Santa Claus. Maki is also quite stubborn as shown when she was being invited to play at the beach, she was withdrawn from the group and not interested in playing with them.

Her personality often clashes with Yazawa Nico, such as calling Nico stubborn during S2 Episode 4. Rin, however, tells her "You're one to talk," implying that Maki is stubborn as well.

Clubs and Hobbies
Maki is skilled at playing the piano, and is the composer of µ's. Her other hobbies are photography and stargazing. Her special skill is achieving full marks on tests. She also became the Idol Research Club's vice president after the third years graduated.

Other Character Statistics
Studies: ★★★★★

Reflexes: ★

Aggressiveness: ★★★

Conformity: ★★★

Self-confidence: Skyrocketing

Chronology
Season I = Season II =

Trivia

 * One of her famous lines is "Nanisore? Imi wakannai.", literally meaning "What's that? I don't understand you."
 * In the anime, Nico is the only member of μ's Maki uses honorifics to, specifically "Nico-chan."

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