Yu Takasaki

Yu Takasaki  is one of the main characters of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club and the anime adaptation's equivalent of the player character in Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS. She is a second year at Nijigasaki High School. She is the club's manager and song composer. Her image color is black.

Background
Yu is Ayumu Uehara's childhood friend and lives beside her. She's also Ayumu's classmate. After seeing the performance of legendary school idol Setsuna Yuki, Yu's love for school idols blossomed and she seeks the Nijigasaki Academy School Idol Club.

Personality
Even though she is supposed to be the player's self-insert, the game gives her a solid personality. Yu is described as insightful, reliable, quick to take action and very caring of the Nijigasaki idols. She is shown to have a deep passion for idols, which inspires her goals and actions in the game.

She is very perceptive about the girls' feelings, and works very hard to be a good leader for them. She is initially shown to have the tendency of self-isolating when working on new songs, pulling all-nighters so she can achieve perfection. After losing to Maki Nishikino in a contest, she started composing with the other members next to her.

General

 * Prior to the reveal of her name, the character was nicknamed "Anata (あなた)". It literally means "You".
 * This also results in a recurring joke of the fans designating Yu as the fictionalized version of themselves, referring her as "We/Our/Us". This also applies to her voice actress.
 * The meaning of her name (高咲 侑) was given by a fan, who chose the 高 kanji because of Kousaka (高坂) and Takami (高海). 咲 is because she comes from Nijigasaki. 侑 is because as it is written, "Anata" means "You". It sounds like "Yu", which could also mean "To help" which fits Yu's personality and role as the club's manager.
 * Even though she is the anime equivalent of the Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS player, there is a debate about whether she is the true POV protagonist of the game, though her unique personality may clash with the player's featureless characteristic.

Anime-specific

 * Prior to the reveal of the second visual and her voiced appearance, some fans speculated whether Yu's energetic personality is merely an informed attribute since she is shown to have an emotionless expression on her design, even though she is said to be enthusiastic as written in the description.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.