Leah Kazuno

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Leah Kazuno
Kanji	鹿角理
Romaji	Kazuno Ria
Debut	Season 1 Episode 7
Statistics
Gender	Female
Birthday	December 12
Year	Second Year (Movie) First Year (Seasons 1 and 2)
Height	153 cm
Blood Type	AB
Three Sizes	B 79, W 56, H 81
Other
Zodiac Sign	Sagittarius
Favorite Food	Apple Pie
Disliked Food	Fermented Vegetables
Portrayals
Seiyuu Kanji	佐藤 日向
Seiyuu Romaji	Satou Hinata
English Dub	Amber Lee Connors

Leah Kazuno is a supporting character in the Love Live! Sunshine!! anime. She is a second-year student at the Seisen Girls' Academy. Leah, alongside her older sister Sarah Kazuno, are the two members of Saint Snow until their disbandment in Season 2 Episode 9. Togethery they serve as the primary rival to Aqours for much of the anime. She has an antagonistic relationship with much of the main cast until Saint Snows loss in Season 2 Episode 8. Her image color is white.

Background

Leah lives in Hakodate, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan alongside her older sister Sarah Kazuno. They live in and run their family's restaurant where they sell New Years Whale Soup and other specialty Hokkaido dishes. She often has trouble socializing, only really being close with her sister. She is noted later in the anime as saying she has a hard time talking to others. As such, she has some difficulty making friends preferring to keep her distance from her peers.

Leah is first seen in Season 1 Episode 7 practicing at Kanda-jinja alongside her sister for their performance in the same Tokyo event that Aqours were invited to. Her relationship with the main cast is set immediately on an antagonistic course as she greets the group by performing an aerial somersault over Ruby Kurosawa, Hanamaru Kunikida, and Yoshiko Tsushima before walking off without a word. She would later encounter Aqours again, silently standing by Sarah backstage at the Tokyo event.

Together Saint Snow takes the stage and performs the same song they had earlier been practicing at Kanda-jinja, SELF CONTROL!! This performance garners rapturous applause from the audience, as well as leaves Chika Takami standing speechless backstage. Despite this reaction, however, their performance was not good enough for them to win, only garnering enough votes to achieve 9th place overall. This result appears to weigh heavily on Leah as tears well in her eyes when encountering Aqours after the event.

Saint Snow would go on to make it through the Love Live! qualifying round. Soon after this, Leah and Sarah would meet up with Aqours again near the end of Season 1 in Episode 12. They discuss what it means to be School Idols and what made μ's and A-RISE as great as they were. Following this, Saint Snow go along with Aqours to view the announcement of Championship tournament bracket at the Akiba Dome.

Clubs and Hobbies

Leah dedicates herself wholly to Saint Snow until her sisters graduation at the end of Season 2. Following this she attempts to start her own Idol Club at Seisen Girls' Academy, though she struggles at first to do so.

It can be inferred Leah is also very athletic and potentially a skilled gymnast given her ability to launch herself over Aqours with ease in Season 1 episode 7.

Appearance

Leah is slightly shorter in stature than most of her contemporaries in Love Live! Sunshine!! Her hair is a deep Mauve color worn in high pigtails tied up using thin white ribbons. Her eyes are a deep crimson color that are usually held in an intense glare.

She can usually be seen wearing her Seisen Girls' Academy uniform.

Songs

Song info here

Discography

The songs featuring Leah are:

Trivia

• Leah's character and design share a lot of parallels with Ruby Kurosawa. They are often seen as two sides of the same coin.
  • Both girls wear their medium-short hair in high pigtails.
  • Both girls hair are different shades of red with Leah's having the darker hue.
  • Both girls look up to their older sisters and strive to do their best for them.
  • While Ruby is a positive and upbeat girl, Leah starts with a more reserved and aloof attitude.
• Leah often acts as backup or support vocals to her sister, often providing rap interludes across various songs.
• The shrine which Leah practices with Sarah is the same one that μ's trains at during the events of Love Live!! School Idol Project.
• The room in which Leah and Sarah meet with Aqours in Season 1 Episode 12 is the same rroom that A-RISE meets with μ's during the events of Love Live!! School Idol Project.