__Height:__ 161 cm

Maki Nishikino is a first-year​ high school student in Otonokizaka High School. She has a beautiful voice and loves jazz music more than anyone else in the group. At first, she didn't want to join µ's because she had decided to inherit their family's hospital and take up medicine in college, but after joining forces with Rin to push Hanayo to join, she decides to follow the same path and join along with her two fellow first years.

Otonokizaka High School stands on the border of three cities: Akihabara&mdash;a pop culture mecca that's evolving by the minute; Kanda&mdash;a conservative, cultured city where history and tradition reign supreme; and Jinbo&mdash;a quiet area reserved for a more mature, sophisticated population. Amidst this culture clash, the school now faces closure due to the enrollment of fewer and fewer students. 
With the school planning to close within three years, nine female students come together with one thing in mind&mdash;form a pop idol group to revive the school's popularity and keep it from shutting down. "In order to protect our beloved school, there's only one thing we can do... become pop stars!" 
Their goal is simple: Become an overnight sensation and use their nationwide media exposure to promote their school and bring in a wave of new students to the ailing area. A simple but solid plan, they figure. Naturally, they're nervous and wonder if this plan can really succeed, but for better or worse their new journey has begun... 
"All we can ask for is just a tiny bit of support from you. We truly believe that with your help, we can change the world around us. We will make our dreams come true!" 
(Source: NIS America)

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Pile is a Japanese singer and voice actress. She is of Japanese and Korean descent.


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An American voice actor, voice director, and script writer for Funimation, New Generation Pictures, and Bang Zoom! Entertainment. She's been working in the anime industry since 2004. She grew up in the San Diego area, California, and has been married to Tony Patterson since 2009. Outside of voice acting, Caitlin has worked as an ESL teacher in Spain.

The second season of Love Live! School idol project. 
 
At the intersection of three cities—Akihabara, Kanda, and Jinbocho—the traditional Otonokizaka High was facing a crisis of being closed down. Second-year student, Honoka Kosaka, decided to become a school idol, a trend that has been growing in popularity, in order to increase the number of students applying for her school. With her childhood friends, Kotori Minami and Umi Sonoda, they combined their efforts to form the group, μ's. 
 
A while later, Maki Nishikino, a songwriter, Hanayo Koizumi, who always dreamed of being a school idol, Rin Hoshizora, Hanayo's friend, and Nico Yazawa, the president of the Idol Study Club, joined the group, all with the aim of entering the school idol festival, Love Live. 
 
Additionally, Eli Ayase, the student council president, and Nozomi Tojo, the student council vice president, joined μ's, bringing the group to a total of nine members. After overcoming many problems, ranging from the closing of the school to Kotori's study-abroad incident to μ's going on hiatus, what will the girls aim for next!? 
 
(Source: NIS America)

Although μ's, the defending champions of the school idol tournament, plans to dissolve their group after the graduation of their senior members, they receive news that leads them to holding a concert event! The 9 girls continue to learn and grow in this new and unfamiliar world. What is the last thing that these girls can do as school idols? With the clock ticking, what kind of meaning will the μ's members find in performing the most exciting live performance? 
 
(Source: NIS America)

Second single for the anime-idol group Love Live! The CD includes a b-side song together with both a-side and b-side karaokes plus an original drama part. DVD includes an animation shot video of Snow Halation. 
They have changed their group's name to &mu;'s (Muse).

Bundled with the sixth single of the anime's μ's idol group.

Positioned in the midst of Akihabara, Kanda and Jinbocho, the traditional Otonokizaka Academy is on the brink of reorganization. Nine girls rise up to this school crisis! In order to save the school, the girls have decided to... become idols!? The girls' challenges start here... 
(Source: Comic Walker)

Love Live! School idol project. DVD bundled with the debut CD single of the fan-voted idol project.

Music video bundled with the fifth single of the anime-idol group &mu;'s.

Bonus included in a Blu-ray/DVD disc of μ's live concert that took place in Saitama Super Arena on February 8th and 9th, 2014.


Love Live! School idol diary is a collection of side stories that happen concurrently alongside the TV anime's events! With each new story told from the point of view of a different member of the beloved idol group μ's, who knows what to expect!? Come along once again to Otonokizaka High, and experience all-new never before seen stories about the legendary school idols!

Third single for the anime-idol group, &micro;'s!

Music video bundled with the fourth single of the anime-idol group &mu;'s