Honoka Kosaka

Honoka Kosaka is the primary protagonist of Love Live!. She is a second year in Otonokizaka High School. Her image color is orange, though she is often represented with pink. She is also the leader of Printemps, a sub-unit under µ's and the leader of the group itself. Her solo album is called Honnori Honokairo! (ほんのり穂乃果色! lit. Faint Honoka Color!).

Personality
Honoka is an optimist who is never afraid to take risks. She is always in a good mood and likes to look at the bright side of things. She is determined and once her mind is set on something, nothing can stop her. This is believed to be the driving force behind μ's formation and success. But because of her persistent personality, she often overexerts herself.

Her personality is similar to Rin Hoshizora's because they are both determined and hard-working. For example, in Season 1 Episode 7, Honoka, Rin and Nico Yazawa had to work hard to pass exams in order to enter Love Live!, and are known as the 'Three Idiots'.

She likes to eat bread, but she does not enjoy eating red bean or white bean paste despite working at her family's Japanese sweets shop.

Appearance
Honoka is 159 cm tall, which is average for a girl her age, with long ginger hair that she's had since childhood usually let down to her waist. She has blue eyes and fair skin, such as in the picture to the right.

She doesn't have a standard outfit, seeing as she is a school idol with many changes in clothes (the one on the right is her card from the White Day set in the Love Live rhythm game, but there are hundreds more cards all with different outfits), but she does tend to dress in a more traditional Japanese manner when she's out of idol outfits and school uniforms.