Rin Hoshizora

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   **Rin Hoshizora** (星空 凛 Hoshizora Rin is one of the main protagonists of the original *Love Live! School Idol Project* Anime.

## Character

Rin is an athletic first-year student skilled in hurdling, association football and basketball. Like Honoka, Rin has a cheerful personality but loses motivation easily and is a tomboy. She is best friends with Hanayo, who she tends to look after, and has a habit of ending her sentences with "-nya" (the Japanese equivalent of meow). She has a complex about looking "cute" due to an incident in her childhood in which several boys made fun of her for attempting to dress more feminine. She is eventually able to get over it with the help of her friends and expresses her femininity more.

She is also a member of the mini-sub group lily white.

## Fanfic appearances

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### JOURNEY at Block Craft World (1978)

Rin appears in this fanfiction series as one of the supporting characters, a member of Side B, & where she is shown to have a good energetic friendship with Aynsley Dunbar created by User:Minasan88.

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

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

### *Tokimeki PokéLive! and Twinbee*

Rin appears in this *Pokémon*/*Love Live!*/*Tokimeki Memorial*/*Twinbee* crossover series by User:ShizukuOsakaFan99.

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

Rin appears in this second fanmade Love Live! movie created by Starshine101.

## Notes & Trivia

### Official Data & Canon

* Voice actors: **Riho Iida** (Japanese), **Faye Mata** (English), **Kim Pomeda** (Tagalog)
* Her favorite food is Ramen.
* Her most disliked food is Fish.
* Her charm point is her cute and shapely butt.
* Rin fulfills the smile attribute of the µ's first years.
* Unlike the rest of μ's, Rin does not wear a vest in her summer uniform.
* Her surname, "Hoshizora", means "starry skies".
* Rin is known to often refer to herself in the third person.
* According to the September 2011 issue of the Dengeki G's Magazine, Rin originally had an older sister.
* Rin is the only known character to address Hanayo as "Kayo-chin".
* In the 5th and 6th titular chapters of School Idol Diary novels, Rin is, ironically, allergic to cats and dislikes fish despite acting like a cat, Hanayo and Rin once found a stray cat but they could not adopt it due to Rin's allergies.
* Despite changing her training outfit in Season 2 Episode 5, she still retains her original outfit in the ending sequence.
* Rin is shown to have some romantic feelings to Hanayo in both the final chapters of the *Love Live! School idol diary Spring-Colored Valentine* novel and manga; She declares to Hanayo that she cannot live without her and wanting to become her bride. The last page of the manga adaptation had Hanayo kissed her in return, albeit off-frame.
	+ Ironically, this makes her and Hanayo the ONLY canon couple in the entire franchise, before Nozomi and Eli/Nico and Maki's eventual relationship could potentially come to fruition.

### Meta and *out of Canon*

* Due to her wearing shorts and pants rather than skirts in her childhood, the fandom (though exclusive to the international circles) had made fun of it by claiming Rin's gender as a boy. The joke has been waned over the years, because referring to her as a boy may indirectly erase all character development she received in the past few episodes.