Rina Tennoji

Rina Tennoji is one of the eleven main characters of Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. She is a first-year at Nijigasaki High School. Her image color is white. She is a member of QU4RTZ, a unit under the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club.

Background
She was invited to be a school idol by Ayumu Uehara's childhood friend. Along with Ai Miyashita and Ayumu Uehara, she works with Famitsu App.

Personality
Rina is a shy girl who is not good at expressiveness. Because of this, she hides her face with her "Rina-chan Board", a sketchbook that she draws her emotions on. She often insists on her cuteness since she refuses to show her face.

Despite her flaws, Rina is still trying to change herself by communicating and talking more with others. She admires Ai for her confidence and friendliness. Rina gets nervous easily but continues to try her best.

As a school idol, she hopes that people will cheer for her so she can show everyone her real face with a true smile.

Clubs and Hobbies
Rina is really good with technology and "creating things". She wears the "Auto Emotion Convert Rina-chan Board" on stage and other activities that require both hands. She's often seen with gadgets such as a quadcopter or just working on a tablet or laptop. She makes and enjoys talking about apps. She has a pet robot cat named Aran (アラン).

She often shows a strong interest in science. She excels in Sciences and Math but struggles with her Japanese class.

Rina is good with arcade and video games. She also seems to have a deep fondness with animals.

Songs
The songs featuring Rina are:

Solo

 * Doki Pipo ☆ Emotion
 * Teletelepathy
 * Analog Heart

Group

 * TOKIMEKI Runners
 * Love U my friends
 * Mirai Harmony

Subunit

 * Sing & Smile!!
 * Beautiful Moonlight

Trivia

 * Rina fulfills the smile attribute of the NijiGaku first years.
 * Rina has different nicknames from different members of Nijigaku: Kasumi calls her Rinako (to match Shizuku's nickname Shizuko) and Ai calls her Rinari.
 * Ai credits herself with assisting Rina in coming up with the Rina-chan board, and helps her with the drawings.
 * She is the shortest of all of the Love Live main characters at 149 cm (or 4'11").


 * The Mirai Harmony PV shows that her board can instantly change her drawn expressions without flipping them, likely just for subtle/background laughs.

Gallery

 * Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.