Eli Ayase

Eli Ayase, also known as Eri and Ericchi, is one of the main characters from the Love Live! School Idol Project series.
== Charactah Account ==
A cool quarter-Russian third-year and president of the Student Council. She's the last girl to join μ's and serves as the group's choreographer. Eli has a sister, Alisa, who went to Otonokizaka Middle School. She is the leader of BiBi, a sub-unit under μ's.
Eli is shown to be a perfect role model to the students in Otonokizaka High School. As the former student council president, she is often portrayed as a cold and strict character due to her responsibilities, and being against the idea of Honoka Kosaka and her friends forming an idol group to get more attention from the public. However, ironically, Nozomi Tojo reveals that Eli was also trying to save the school, but was denied permission to take action by the chairwoman.
Eli is highly respected and well-known among the students, especially among her juniors, which call her 'Eli-senpai'. Unlike Nozomi, she appears rather stoic and skeptical in the early episodes, but it is shown that Eli is actually very kind and caring towards people who are close to her, like her little sister. She is also dependable as her grandmother entrusted her the responsibility of preventing the school from being shut down. Other than being admirable, Eli also has a lot of fans in the school. After she joined the group, their popularity rose and their ranking among the school idols increased, achieving more fame.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Bokura no Live Kimi to no Life
* Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars
* Love Live! School Idol Project
* Love Live! School Idol Project 2nd Season
* Love Live! The School Idol Movie
* Love Live! The School Idol Movie: Theater Manner Commercial Movie
* Love Live! School Idol Project OVA
* Love Live! School Idol Project: μ's →NEXT LoveLive! 2014 - Endless Parade Encore Animation
* Love Live! School Idol Project: μ's →NEXT LoveLive! 2014 - Endless Parade Makuai Drama
* Love Live! x Watering KissMint Collaboration CM
* Mogyutto "Love" de Sekkinchuu!
* Music S.T.A.R.T!!
* Natsu-iro Egao de 1, 2, Jump!
* Snow Halation
* Wonderful Rush
=== Light Novels ===
* Love Live! School Idol Diary
=== Manga ===
* Love Live!
* Love Live! Comic Anthology μ's Precious Days
* Love Live! Comic Anthology μ's Sweet Memories
* Love Live! School Idol Diary
* Love Live! School Idol Diary Second Season
* Love Live! School Idol Diary Special Edition
=== Video Games ===
* Love Live! School Idol Festival
* Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars
* Puchiguru Love Live!
== Trivia ==
* Eli fulfills the cool attribute of the µ's third years.
* The name Eli means "picture, painting" (e) and "village" (ri).
* Eli's surname Ayase means "brilliant fabric design, kimono design" (aya) and "swift current, rapids" (se).
* In early PVs, Eli and Umi were often shown together, implying they seemed closer before the story for the anime was established.
* Early illustrations of Eli show her being able to play the guitar, suggesting her potential role as composer for μ's.
* According to Love Live! School idol diary, Eli studied in Otonokizaka Middle School, while the anime mentioned that she was admitted mid-semester.
* Eli originally had 2 little brothers before they were eventually replaced with Alisa.
* In the manga, Eli grew up in Japan rather than in Russia and was already familiar with the second years, especially Honoka. In addition to this, she was a lot more carefree and outspoken than in the anime.
* Eli is Dia Kurosawa's favorite μ's member.
** Both Eli and Dia are third year students who fulfill the cool attribute.
** Both Eli and Dia are student council presidents.
*** Eli stepped down as student council president in Season 2, while Dia retains her position until her graduation.
** In School Idol Festival All Stars Daily Theater episodes, Ruby tells Eli that Dia is her fan and admires her but is too shy to tell Eli herself. Eli later brings up her conversation with Ruby to Dia and reveals that she admires her in return.
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== External Links ==
* Eli Ayase at Love Live! Wiki
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