Love Live! School Idol Diary: Hanayo Koizumi

In Love Live! a group of high school girls come up with an ingenious plan to make their school a bit more popular so that it won’t have to close down – they decide to form an idol band! This series of light novels, Love Live! School Idol Diary, retells the same story as the anime but from the point of view of one of the main members of μ’s. This fifth volume is the turn of Hanayo Koizumi – a shy girl, skilled at drawing who has dreamed of becoming an idol ever since she was little. If you’re invested in the story of this timid would be idol star, you’re sure to enjoy this light novel adaptation which retells events from her point of view with a few interesting backstory details revealed too!