Mia Taylor is a main character in Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club. She is a third-year student at Nijigasaki High School. She recently transferred from New York and is fluent in both English and Japanese. She is a member of R3BIRTH, a unit under Nijigaku. Her image color is platinum silver.[1]
In All Stars, she was a member of the Association.
Background[]
She was brought to Nijigasaki (more specifically "dragged") by her friend Lanzhu Zhong. She was first introduced in Chapter 19 of Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS. Despite coming from a family of esteemed musicians, Mia would much rather prefer the life of a homebody and eat nothing but burgers. Mia is considered a 'music prodigy' by Lanzhu; she was an American college student before immediately transferring into Nijigasaki as a third year due to her skills, despite only being 14 years old.
In Chapter 29 of the main story, Mia officially joins the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club as its 12th member and 11th school idol alongside Lanzhu.
Appearance[]
Mia has boycut-styled platinum silver hair and has grey eyes. She also has a visible silver rectangular earring on her left ear.
Personality[]
Mia is a very straightforward and competitive girl, to the point of declaring war on the player as a songwriter out of the blue. However, her confidence is a façade and she actually tends to feel insecure about her songs' quality compared to the player's. At some point, she tried to determine why she felt this way despite being convinced that her own songs were better than the player's and went to discuss the other girl's songwriting skills with Rina, who suggested she get closer to the player in order to better understand her.
Chronology[]
| No. | Title | Air Date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "A Brand New Thrill" (新しいトキメキ "Atarashii Tokimeki") |
April 2, 2022 |
| 2 | "Overlapping Colors" (重なる色 "Kasanaru Iro") |
April 9, 2022 |
| 3 | "sing! song! smile!" | April 16, 2022 |
| 4 | "Ai Love Triangle" (アイ "Love Triangle") |
April 23, 2022 |
| 5 | "Dreamland Is Now Open!↑↑（＊'▽'）" (開幕!ドリームランド↑↑（＊'▽'） "Kaimaku! Dorīmurando↑↑（＊'▽'）") |
April 30, 2022 |
| 6 | "Choose Your "Love"" (“大好き”の選択を "'Daisuki' no Sentaku o") |
May 7, 2022 |
| 7 | "The Memory of Dreams" (夢の記憶 "Yume no Kioku") |
May 14, 2022 |
| 8 | "TOKIMEKI Runners (The Place Where the Rainbow Begins)" (虹が始まる場所 "Niji ga Hajimari Basho") |
May 21, 2022 |
| 9 | "The Sky I Can't Reach" | May 28, 2022 |
| 10 | "Kasumin☆Wonder Tour" (かすみん☆ワンダーツアー "") |
June 4, 2022 |
| 11 | "The Past, the Future, and Now" (過去・未来・イマ "Kako, Mirai, Ima") |
June 11, 2022 |
| 12 | "Cheer!" (エール！ "Eru!") |
June 18, 2022 |
| 13 | "Let This Thrill Resonate—." (響け! ときめき—. "Hibike! Tokimeki—.") |
June 25, 2022 |
Songs[]
The songs featuring Mia are:
L! L! L! (Love the Life We Live)
Miracle STAY TUNE!
Colorful Dreams! Colorful Smiles!
Twilight
Yume ga Bokura no Taiyou sa
Ryouran! Victory Road
Future Parade
Level Oops! Adventures
Eien no Isshun
OUR P13CES!!!
Hurray Hurray (12 Members Ver.)
TOKIMEKI Runners (12 Members Ver.)
Love U my friends (12 Members Ver.)
Just Believe!!! (12 Members Ver.)
Wachu Gonna Do
KAGAYAKI Don't forget!
Sugar Sugar Yummy Yummy Parfait
Go Our Way!
SINGING, DREAMING, NOW!
Wawawa☆What's up!
Fly with You!!
New Year's March!
Nijigasaki Gakuen Kouka
Doko ni Itemo Kimi wa Kimi
Eternalize Love!!
Yakusoku ni Nare Bokura no Uta
Boooooom Boooooom Bee!!
LIVE with a smile! (Featuring Aqours and Liella!)
Etymology[]
- The name Mia is a common Western name which is diminutive from the name "Maria".[2]
- Mia's surname Taylor is a surname of English origin, which means "tailor".[3]
Notes and Trivia[]
- Mia fulfills the cool attribute of the Nijigaku third years, sharing both an attribute and year with Karin Asaka. In All Stars, she fulfills the pure attribute instead.
- She has an older sister[4], Chloe Taylor, though she doesn't appear in the anime until the second part of the Final Chapter movies.
- She is the first main character in the franchise to have not be born in Asia or Europe.
- Canonically to the franchise, she is the youngest school idol as of 2025.
- Even though later in the franchise we get introduced to school idols who were also of middle school age at the time of their introduction (e.g. Wien Margarete from Liella! and Ceras Yanagida Lilienfeld from Hasunosora) unlike Mia, Margarete and Ceras have been shown to have grown a year older, meaning that Mia is still the youngest school idol in the franchise.
- Her songs are greatly reminiscent to the English pop-songs in the 2000s.
- In the international release version of the game, Mia's profanity ("shit") has been inconsistently translated as "Dammit" despite being spoken out loud from the original dialogue.
- The 26th chapter of the story shows that Mia isn't actually skilled in cooking (such as not knowing how to make hot chocolate and using a washing machine to wash vegetables) due to her lifestyle.
- Prior to the confirmation of her potential appearance in the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club anime's second season, a leaked listing of the 6th Capsule Rubber Mascot line indirectly supported this hypothesis, as Mia was drawn wearing the anime-styled bowtie.
- She is one of the first characters in Love Live! to speak English and use cuss words.
- Due to her voice actress' lineage, her English speeches often contain an Australian accent.
- Mia is the only character in the Nijigasaki High School Idol Club anime to have her male parents shown on-screen.[5]
Gallery[]
- Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.
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References[]
- ↑ Mia's Image Color プラチナシルバー (platinum silver)
- ↑ Wiktionary - Mia
- ↑ Wiktionary - Taylor
- ↑ TV Anime "Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club" Season 2 Broadcast Special Commemorative Bond Episode
- ↑ Briefly appeared in The Sky I Can't Reach