

Because of this, she decided to avoid wearing skirts and dresses in public, other than for her uniform. In addition, she sometimes acts like a cat and does the signature curved-mouth look.Īs a child, Rin was often teased for wearing skirts. She is very well known for having a huge heart for cats and for acting like them she tends to utter nya~! (meow), either as a way to end her sentences or to show her happiness. She generally ends her sentences with nyan~! (Meow) and is known for making a cat-like smile constantly, as parts of her cat-like personality.Rin is a first year student who has been friends with Hanayo Koizumi since they were children. One notable example of this is when she, Honoka Kosaka and Nico Yazawa utilized everything they had in order for them to pass the exams required for them to be able to enter the Love Live! tournament. She's also very hard-working and stubborn, never giving up when she sets her mind on a certain goal. She spends much of her time teasing Hanayo Koizumi in spite of how much she genuinely does care about the latter. She's a passionate athlete who's very skilled at all kinds of sports, her best known ones of which being hurdling, football and basketball.

However, she was soon able to overcome this and join the μ's in episode 4 Hanayo and Maki Nishikino, even supporting the former in her own wishes and desires to be a school idol. It's later revealed that her insecurity when it comes to wearing a skirt was what rendered her unable to become an idol at first, in spite of her desperately wanting to be one. As a result of this, she did everything she could to refrain from wearing skirts in public with the sole exception being for her uniform. Rin was often teased for when she was younger for wearing skirts. Her catchphrase nya~! (meow) as both a way to end her sentences or to express her happiness. Rin herself is generally known by others for her intense love for cats and even going as far as to act like them. Rin and Hanayo Koizumi, another idol in the series, had been childhood friends.
