Kotori Minami

Kotori Minami, also known as Minalinsky, is one of the main characters from the Love Live! School Idol Project series.
== Charactah Account ==
Minami Kotori is known for having her head in the clouds. Despite this, she is the group's designer. Kotori has a very huge aptitude for fashion, and is very good at drawing the costumes for the group. Kotori is shown to be very kind to her friends, and does genuinely care about them, especially about their feelings.
Kotori is also shown as the most indecisive person among all nine members, and tends to have Sonoda Umi and Kousaka Honoka, her childhood friends, make decisions for her. She also has a hard time expressing her feelings, since she always takes other people's feelings into consideration.
She is μ's wardrobe supervisor and helps with the choreography. It was discovered that Kotori worked in a maid café in Akihabara and is a famous maid named "Minalinsky." She was known as a "Legendary Maid" in Akihabara due to her kindness, cuteness, and soft voice. She also likes making candy.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* A Song For You! You? You!!
* 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! 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 Intermission Drama
* Love Live! The School Idol Movie
* Love Live! The School Idol Movie: Theater Manner Commercial Movie
* 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
* The iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls Comic Anthology - cute
=== Video Games ===
* Love Live! School Idol Festival
* Love Live! School Idol Festival All Stars
* Love Live! School Idol Paradise Vol. 1 Printemps Unit
* Puchiguru Love Live!
== Trivia ==
* Kotori fulfills the pure attribute of the μ's second years.
* While Kotori usually speaks in third person, she still occasionally speaks in first person, using the pronoun "watashi".
* Kotori owns a yellow pillow which she treasures enough to go all the way back home to retrieve it, as seen in the fifth PV, and is never seen sleeping without it. She is also seen with her yellow pillow in her Yume no Tobira Rare card in Love Live! School idol festival.
* Kotori is known for a photo-bomb at one of the bottom corners of the screens, sometimes referred to by fans as a "Koto-bomb".
** This is a recurring joke from as early as the first PV, to the first season's opening theme, to the "Happy maker!" animated sequence, and eventually "Bokutachi wa Hitotsu no Hikari".
* Another recurring theme is the bird emoticon: (・８・), which is also used by her voice actress Uchida Aya in blog posts and Twitter whenever she mentions Kotori.
** It even makes its appearance in the anime, such as within S1 Episode 9.
* The various media in the project disagree on the relationships between the second years.
** In the manga which was published earlier, Honoka is closer to Umi as the two of them are childhood friends and not Kotori.
** In the anime and other newer media, the three of them are all childhood friends.
** There has also been a Q&A answered in a magazine which stated that Honoka and Kotori are childhood friends because their mothers were also childhood friends, and they've always been living on the same street.
* As Tsubasa Kira refers to Kotori as the "ex-Akiba Charisma Maid" in S2 Episode 3, she has either stopped working as a maid or lost the title to someone else.
* It is possible for the kanji of her last name to reference the Minami-za, the last remaining Kabuki theater in Kyoto.
** Kabuki itself is an expressive form of Japanese theater that includes—but is not limited to—dance, song, and an emphasis on elaborate costume. This may explain her heavy role as a seamstress of exaggerated and elaborate costumes and ties with the musical and dancing theme of the series.
* In Love Live! School idol diary, Kotori is shown to have yandere traits as she is shown talking about wanting to see Umi break down in defeat because she thinks it's cute, and she even made her own doll of the latter's likeness, which she pats every day before going to school.
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== External Links ==
* Kotori Minami at Love Live! Wiki
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