You Watanabe (Love Live!)

You Watanabe is one of the main characters from the Love Live! Sunshine!! series.
== Charactah Account ==
Chika's childhood friend, and one of Aqours' costume designers alongside Ruby. She's athletic, and Chika's first supporter in forming the group. She really loves all kinds of uniforms. She's also a member of the high diving club at Uranohoshi Girls High School, and is good enough to qualify for the national team.
You is an energetic, tomboyish, and positive girl with an outlook of focusing on her goals who sometimes tends to take action without thinking things over first. Her positive attitude also makes her one of the more charismatic members of the group. Since she would like to have her father's job as the captain of a ferry, she tends to salute when she says her catchphrase "Yousoro!", often in the place of "hello" and "good-bye".
You loves the friendship she has forged with Chika over the years, so she slowly grows jealous of Riko Sakurauchi's friendship with Chika when she invites her to join Aqours. This is hinted at in Season 1 Episode 10, and is expanded upon in Season 1 Episode 11 when the members of Aqours find out the group originally consisted of her and Chika, rather than Chika and Riko. After Mari confronts her on it, You expresses her feelings to her best friend, and stops being jealous of Riko.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* BANZAI! digital trippers
* Happy Party Train
* Kimi no Kokoro wa Kagayaiteru kai?
* Koi ni Naritai Aquarium
* KU-RU-KU-RU Cruller!
* Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars
* Love Live! Sunshine!!
* Love Live! Sunshine!! Season 2
* Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie: Over the Rainbow
* Rimuru of the Phantom Sun: Sunshine in the Slime
* Yohane of the Parhelion: Sunshine in the Mirror
=== Light Novels ===
* Love Live! Sunshine!! School Idol Diary
=== Manga ===
* Love Live! Sunshine!!
* Love Live! Sunshine!! Comic Anthology Sweet Lily
* Love Live! Sunshine!! Comic Anthology: Nakane Nata 4-koma Gekijou
* Love Live! Sunshine!! CYaRon! Comic Anthology
* Love Live! Sunshine!!: Maru no Yonkoma
* Love Live! Sunshine!!: School Idol Diary
=== Video Games ===
* Crash Fever
* Love Live! School Idol Festival
* Shadowverse
== Trivia ==
* You fulfills the pure attribute of the Aqours second years.
* In the early stages of Aqours, You was originally a first-year student.
* You owns a white and yellow snapback with her name printed (YOU) in red letters, she usually wears it during practice.
* You doesn't normally wear glasses, but during Episode 11, she was shown wearing them.
* In real life, You's home is based on Cafe Orandakan.
* You has similar features to µ's members Kotori Minami and Hanayo Koizumi; her hair is similar in design to Hanayo's, but longer and looser (Hanayo's hair ends mid-neck while You's reaches down to her shoulders). She and Kotori share the same light greyish-brown hair color.
** Using SIF attribute as another factor, this is further supported as You is a 2nd Year Pure, which is the same as Kotori's status and is the same attribute as Hanayo's.
* "Yousoro" is a ship command which means to straighten the ship. After giving a steering instruction, the captain issues this command to tell the helmsman to straighten the ship in the direction it is facing now.
* Since her name looks like the English pronoun, it leads to some puns and jokes by the fandom.
* You was voted by fans on the AbemaTV special for SIF All-Stars in January as the Aqours member most likely to star in a morning drama.
* You Watanabe was originally Japan's favorite Aqours girl. Winning the 2nd Single Center Election Poll making her the "Leader" for their second single: Koi ni Naritai Aquarium.
* In the December 2019 issue of Dengeki G's, the editors tallied how many times You had said "Yousoro!" throughout the anime - 12 times in the first season and 6 times for the second. Their count for the number of times she saluted someone was 26 in season one and 13 in season two.
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== External Links ==
* You Watanabe at Love Live! Wiki
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