Wien Margarete

Wien Margarete
Wien Margarete
Kanji	ウィーン・マルガレーテ
Romaji	Uīn Marugarēte
Statistics
Birthday	January 20
Year	First Year (Season 3) Third Year (Junior) (Season 2)
Height	161 cm
Blood Type	A
Other
Zodiac Sign	Aquarius
Favorite Food	Chocolate
Debut
Debut	Season 2 Episode 2
Japanese Voice Actress/Actor
Seiyuu Kanji	ゆいな
Seiyuu Romaji	Yuina
Icon and Signature
Icon	File:Wien Margarete (Icon).png
Signature	File:Wien Margarete signature.png

Spoiler Alert!
This article contains details about plotlines described in the anime.
Do not proceed unless you want to be spoiled.

Wien Margarete is a main character in Love Live! Superstar!!. She is a second-year student at Yuigaoka Girls' High School and a third-generation member of Liella! and KALEIDOSCORE. She was also the leader of TomaKanoTe.

She was initially introduced as a supporting character and rival in Season 2, Episode 2. In her initial appearance, she was a third-year junior high student competing as a solo idol. In the second season's finale, she enrolled as a first-year student at Yuigaoka. She debuted as a soloist with the song Butterfly Wing.

Her image color is elegant purple.^[1]

Background

A girl from Vienna, Austria; the youngest daughter of an important musical family. She has been called a prodigy for singing since she was a little girl. In order to follow her older sisters' footsteps, Margarete tried to enroll in a prestigious music academy in Vienna, but she failed the entrance exam. However, her parents decided to give her a second chance, and they made a deal with her involving Love Live, which is famous enough for people in Vienna to know about it. If she wins first place in the Love Live, they will use their influence to get her admitted to the academy as a transfer student. Determined to achieve her dreams, Margarete decided to travel to Japan in order to participate in Love Live.

After Liella! was chosen to advance to the finals of Love Live!, Margarete's family suggested bringing Kanon back with her to Austria instead and learn music from her, much to her disagreement. Once graduating from middle school, Margarete enrolls in Yuigaoka and forms her own school idol club in an attempt to take down Liella! on her own terms. Margarete picks up a part time job working at the Shibuya family cafe, and reluctantly lives with Kanon's family during her stay.

Appearance

Margarete has a slim figure with long, purple hair that is curly, with half of her hair being in a braid along the top of her head. Her eyes are green in color. When she was a third year junior student, she wore a uniform consisting of a red vest, black jacket and a white collared shirt with a black tie. As a Yuigaoka student, she wears a uniform consisting of a dark blue blazer, a black shirt and skirt and a white collared shirt with a red ribbon.

Personality

Margarete is a cold-blooded, passionate and stoic girl, who can act recklessly or overdramatically when fussy. She is extremely competitive and outright hostile to other idols she sees as threats. Originally signing up as a Love Live! contestant as a solo idol in her final year of middle school, she boldly makes it known that she has no interest in either school idols or Love Live! other than setting out to prove she can easily win the competition by herself.

Once forming a unit with Kanon, Margarete slowly reveals her kinder side, but she never loses her competitive nature. Margarete isn't fond of people who don't put in a lot of effort, as shown when she argues with Tomari who has been skipping practice.

Her favorite saying is, "Stick to your guns."

Hobbies

Margarete is shown to be skilled at both ballet and singing, incorporating ballet into her choreography.

Songs

The songs featuring Margarete are:

Gallery

Please refer to this character's Image Gallery.

Trivia

In both Japanese and German, Wien refers to Vienna, the capital of Austria.
While foreign names in Love Live! are typically written with given name before family name, Margarete's name is written with her family name before her given name.
- This may be because names are written with family name first in some parts of Austria.^[2]
Margarete is depicted as fluent in both Japanese and English, making the second character in the franchise to be fluent in those two languages following Mia Taylor.
- In "Dream," Margarete tweets her posts in English.
- Her best subject is stated to be foreign languages.
Like Mia Taylor, Margarete came from a family of esteemed musicians.
In the MV of Butterfly Wing, she is shown to be a ballet dancer.
Like Lanzhu Zhong in Love Live! School Idol Festival ALL STARS, Margarete originally serves as a rival character and/or antagonist.
She is the first character in the franchise to be upgraded to the status of main character after debuting as a supporting character.

References

[1] ttps://www.lovelive-anime.jp/yuigaoka/live/live_detail.php?p=4thlive

[2] ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surnames_by_country

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