Kanan Matsuura

**Kanan Matsuura** is one of the nine main characters of *Love Live! Sunshine!!*. She is a third year in Uranohoshi Girls' High School. Her image color is green. She is the center of AZALEA, a sub-unit under Aqours, and while kind and quiet she is a very passionate sports girl. She is talented in diving and ship handling, likely from being brought up in diving-gear shop. She also loves astronomical observation and swimming. She has incredible stamina as she often goes diving and jogs every day in the morning, which causes the rest of Aqours to find it difficult to keep up with her. During practice, she leads the training of the group.

## Her Good Ranking

### Her Heroic Deeds

* She is very selfless, mature, kind, helpful and supportive towards her friends and teammates in becoming School Idols as well as looking after everyone's well-being, practically having the role of a team mom.
* She puts her friends' needs above herself very often and is going to great lengths to ensure they can get what she thinks is best for them especially when caring about Mari and Chika's safety and helping and mentoring Yoshiko with her training.
* She does care for their friends' safety as well, especially Mari's and Chika's, and worries a lot about their future and that they will do the right thing for themselves; in fact, her aloof attitude towards Mari at the beginning was just an act, and all out of kindness and selflessness. Kanan indeed didn't want Mari to stop from pursuing her future possibilities, and after the incident where Mari was injured, she disbanded the group, also preventing Mari from getting hurt again.
* When Mari slaps Kanan for what happened to the first formation of Aqours because of her, she instead offers a hug to reconcile and have a good cry together.
* She's also especially protective of Chika, who she outright considers as a younger sister of hers, also preventing her to perform the special routine the third years originally devised years ago, as not only is it difficult to pull off, but it could also risk injuring her or worse.
* She is also kind and sweet towards animals, as seen when she pets a kitten in the temple.
* Along with the others, but especially with Dia, she suddenly stops Mari's greedy mother from forcing her daughter into an arranged marriage with a rich young man Mari doesn't know at all.
* Kanan also takes responsibility of working at her family's shop after her father gets injured, not going to school for a long time because of this.

### Why She Doesn't Stand Out

* In spite of her most admirable act of saving Mari from a forced marriage in the movie passing the in-story standard, said act is shared by all nine members of the Aquors, making her fail the system standard to each other.

## Trivia

* Like quite a few of the characters on this wiki, Kanan used to be Pure Good for a really long time. As the admirable standards on Heroes Wiki changed, however, Kanan's Pure Good status was re-evaluated, and she was removed from the category for failing the system standard of  *Love Live!*.
* She is one of the few Heroic Benchmarks to have an admirable act that potentially makes them stand out by passing the in-story and baseline standard, but due to said act being shared, she ultimately fails the system standards.

## External Links

* Kanan Matsuura on the Heroes Wiki
* Kanan Matsuura on the *Love Live!* Wiki

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