Honoka Kousaka

Honoka Kousaka is the main protagonist from the ''Love Live! School Idol Project'' franchise.

Honoka is a second year in Otonokizaka High School. Her image color is orange, though some people represent her with pink. She is also the leader of Printemps, a sub-unit under µ's and the leader of the group itself.

In the Heroes Coalition fics, Honoka attends the Vanguard Academy as a student.

Appearance
Honoka has cinnamon-colored, medium-length hair she has a hot-pink bow holding the left side of her hair into a ponytail. She has long, small, slant, eyebrows the same color of her hair above her two blue eyes.

Personality
Honoka is an optimist who is never afraid to take risks. She is always in a good mood and likes to look at the bright side of things. She is determined and once her mind is set on something, nothing can stop her. This is believed to be the driving force behind μ's formation and success. But because of her persistent personality, she often overexerts herself.

Her personality is similar to Rin Hoshizora's because they are both determined and hard-working. For example, in Season 1 Episode 7, Honoka, Rin and Nico Yazawa had to work hard to pass exams in order to enter Love Live!, and are known as the 'Three Idiots'.

She likes to eat bread, but she does not enjoy eating red bean or white bean paste despite working at her family's Japanese sweets shop.

Clubs and Hobbies
Honoka enjoys swimming and collecting stickers. Her special skill is often finding money on the streets, which she attributes to good luck. She is also the leader of the school idol group μ's. Starting from the second season, she succeeds Eli Ayase as Otonokizaka High School's student council president.

In the manga version, before starting an idol club, Honoka is in the Kendo club with Umi and is good enough to win a tournament.

Trivia

 * Her practice shirt has the Japanese character (ho), the first syllable of her name, which became her character icon. In My Wish, she wears a sweater with the romanization of her first syllable as "Ho".
 * Though her image color is orange, her outfits are usually pink.
 * She liked milk while she was in elementary school.
 * The only thing she is good at, other than cheering people up, is making rice cakes.
 * Honoka from the Dead or Alive series has a strong resemblance to her.
 * 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, but 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.
 * In the manga, which was published before the anime, both Umi and Honoka were portrayed to be members of the kendo club.
 * While in the anime, it was not revealed which area of Tokyo she lives in, she lives in the lower district of Chiyoda, near Akihabara in the manga.
 * According to Kotori's Q&A answer, Honoka's side ponytail was originally made by Kotori back when they are just childhood friends.
 * While Honoka commonly refers to herself in 1st person in the Anime, she usually refers to herself in 3rd person in School Idol Festival.
 * In Love Live! Sunshine!! Season 1 Episode 12, a child who looked like Honoka appeared during their visit to Otonokizaka High School as a homage to her character, giving Chika Takami a push forward.


 * In the Heroes Coalition fics, Honoka has a crush on Chimera Wyld.