Riko Sakurauchi

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**Riko Sakurauchi** (桜内 梨子 Sakurauchi Riko) is one of the main protagonists of the original *Love Live! Sunshine!!* Anime.

## Character

Riko is a modest, down-to-earth second-year transfer student from Akihabara's Otonokizaka Girls' Academy. She was a young pianist, but somehow stopped and moved to Numazu so she could 'feel' the sea. She has a fear of dogs, despite that the Takami family's dog, Shiitake, seems to take an interest to her. She also is revealed to have an interest in various shōjo and yuri manga, often buying collections on her brief returns to Tokyo. After joining Aqours, she becomes the composer of the group.

She is also a member of the mini-sub group Guilty Kiss.

## Fanfic appearances

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### *JOURNEY (1978-1981) The Movie*

Riko appears in this fanfiction movie as one of the supporting characters, & the maid of the Perry family created by User:Minasan88.

### *The Love Live Movie: Muse And Aqours Forever*

Riko appears in this fanfiction created by The One Who Is Interested In Idols

### *Sunshine Heroines*

Riko appears in the magical girl AU by NicoKnees123. Her theme color is pink and she is the power of nature.

### *Love Live! Sunshine!! The School Idol Movie 2: Over The Next Rainbow*

Riko appears in this second Love Live! Sunshine!! movie created by Starshine101.

### *Love Live! The School Idol Movie 2: Farewell, Muse!*

Riko and her friends were mentioned in this movie created by Starshine101.

### *Love Live! The Professionals!!*

Riko is currently the Music teacher at Otonokizaka Academy where she studied before moving to Numazu and met Azusa and became friends.

## Notes & Trivia

### Official Data & Canon

* Voice actors: **Rikako Aida** (Japanese), **Jeannie Tirado** (English), **Josefin Hagen** (German), **Kenz Ancero** (Tagalog)
* She has a mother & a father.
* Her favorite food is Hard-boiled Eggs & sandwiches.
* Her hated food is green peppers.
* Her traits of hating dogs were originally Ruby's.

### Meta and *Out of Canon*

* Riko is so far: the only Aqours member to have multiple memetic mutations.
* In the *Love Live!* community, Riko became one of the major examples of lesbian-based jokes and contents, given her interests to kabedon doujins, and her relationship with Chika while confessing to her since Season 1, Episode 10.
* In terms of fandom shipping, she was usually paired with Yoshiko due to one article from Dengeki G's.
	+ Unlike most of the ships in *Sunshine!!*, the pairing between her and Yoshiko is the most divisive (mainly in the international fanbase), this was likely due to YoshiMaru/YohaMaru (Yoshiko Tsushima x Hanamaru Kunikida) being the closest official couple and have more ship tease prior to YohaRiko's popularity.
* Ever since the first season's 10th episode, several fans also tend to portray Riko as a girlfriend-stealing cheater/manipulator, either for laughs or sincere.

***NOTE: This section contains information that is considered as speculation/fanon.***

* Like the Kurosawa sisters, Riko is also a subject for Kidfic, with her results mainly coming from Maki Nishikino and Umi Sonoda, until her real mom appears in Episode 5. (And again, they think that Riko was adopted by her.)
	+ But is her real surname Sonoda or Nishikino?

## Other Links

* Sakurauchi Riko in the Love Live! Wikia