Happy Birthday Hanayo! ♡

I don’t really know how to start, this is my first birthday post but I will try my best for best girl because that’s what she deserves!

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Let’s start from the beginning…

I started playing Love Live! as a complete outsider, because the game gained a lot of popularity back then and some of my friends were playing. My best girl was Nico, she was the only one I knew at the time (Because… Memes) and she was (and still is) very cute!

I had some problems playing the game so I was not really in the fandom for a while… But, silly Naka, you can’t escape Idol Hell~ And 2 years later, I finally came back to the game (Nico was still my best girl but I also knew other girls from previous gameplays) and after sometime I decided it was time to watch the anime because I was here to stay!

Anime fact you all should know by now: Hanayo appears earlier than Nico. So I was seeing the anime without any real connection to anyone but Nico and then…

She appeared...

I didn’t knew who she was, I didn’t even remember seeing her in-game! But the more she appeared, the more I knew about her and, consequently, the more I liked her.

I learned that she resembles my current self but also my past self, almost like a alternate version of me! She is a shy chubby girl who needs help from her best friend to do relatively simple things just like me now ♡ And her short hair and childhood dream of being an idol made me remember me as a child! That makes me relate and understand her!

She’s always beautiful and cute in every card, drawing, etc., she makes me smile just by being her! Have you seen her smile? It’s so precious ♡

Also… Her love for rice? I was literally called "rice girl" by my family because I really loved rice unlike the other children and I still love rice so much that I can eat a bowl full of rice everyday in every meal and never get tired? The fact that we have a favorite food in common and we react the same is really funny to me!

I also love how she gets so serious about idols and you can see real passion put into everything she does that is idol-related!

Her solo, Nawatobi, is the best song on the whole project to me! Her voice is so sweet and beautiful (like always) and the instrumental is calm and pretty! The lyrics are so sentimental and relatable and the part where she almost cries makes me cry with her…

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I try my best to give her my love in many different ways~

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On my 18th birthday, one of my gifts was a guitar! I wanted to name it so I thought… And had 2 ideas: Hanayo (Koizumi) & Len (Kagamine) and I chose Hanayo because, in portuguese, we refer to a guitar as a “she” and I wanted a female name to go along with that but mostly because her name is so special to me because she helped me to remember my old dream of being a singer/musician ♡

My first event SR was Moon viewing Hanayo ♡ At the time I had a low rank and didn’t play on expert so it was really hard to get her! For the first time, I was really dedicated to an event, spending love gems and even having alarms on my phone to play the event!

My first tier was Tier 2 in the Suki Suki Puwa Puwa event, because it was Hanayo’s last solo event and I felt that it was the perfect time to tier for the first time ♡

I’ve bought all the Hanayo promo cards available on the Sticker shop and I’ve started to keep all the Hanayo rares just because it’s Hanayo and I love all her cards, even the “useless” ones ♡

I was really sad when I learned that the fan titles only started to appear on Rank 100+ and I thought that I would never play the game enough to be at rank 108 and express the love for her… But that day actually came and now I have the title and I’m always showing my love for my best girl ♡

But the biggest proof of my love for Hanayo was definitely the Christmas Hanayo UR, my Ultimate Dream UR. Since the very beginning, on my first accounts, I saw this set being released and I absolutely loved it! I really tried to get someone but I never got anyone... After changing my best girl to Hanayo, I saw her UR from the set, which was strangely familiar even though I don’t remember seeing her in-game before liking her, and i fell in love with it, having a little bit of hope that someday she would come home on a solo! That day… Never came, but I kept trying and hoping. On September 2017, I went to the sticker shop to see the available UR’s and I saw her there. And this time, I couldn’t resist! I had Promo Riko (Without max bond and level) Initial Hanayo (My first UR , still unidolized) and Yukata Umi (Saving my Smile Team, still unidolized) and, even though they were important on their own way, my Dream UR was even more ♡ Even though I will not have the max album rewards, my First UR is only available by album and screenshots and my smile team died for a while, I never regret sacrificing them to have her on my main screen everytime I open the game… She gives me so much luck since ♡

In return, she gives me the love back when I least expect it!

My first UR was Initial Hanayo and she came home from a soloyolo ♡ It’s not one of my top 10 favorite cards but I still love her so much because it's Hanayo's!

I REALLY loved Rainy Season Hanayo and I tried to tier again for her but I ended up stopping mid-event because tiering is very stressful to me… (Also, the Suki Suki Puwa Puwa event was still recent to me and I was still recovering from it.) But, one day, I did a solo and, even though I had a really low chance, she came home ♡

I bought Nendoroid Petite Angelic Angel Ver. Blind Boxes during the last year’s Iberanime and I got Eli, Maki and Kotori... I didn’t buy more boxes because I didn’t have more money and Hanayo was, like most of the time, decided to not come home… Sometime later, I was jokingly asking my (really lucky) friend for a Nendoroid Petite and he seriously accepted and didn’t believe me when I said that it was joke so he went with me to buy a blind box and I asked for him to choose the box and THIS HAPPENED SO FAST LIKE HE CHOSE ONE AT RANDOM AND I WAS SAYING “Wasn’t it funny if, after buying 3 boxes, Hanayo came home just because you bought and chose the box” AND I DIDN’T FINISH THE PHRASE I JUST SCREAMED AND ALMOST CRIED AND I WAS TREMBLING SO MUCH

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I don’t have a big collection of Hanayo stuff…

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The Wall™

The Weeb Corner™

But that doesn’t stop me from showing my love for her in different ways!

I saved 120 lovegems for Hanayo’s Birthday!

(I know that I didn’t save much but I would like you all to know that I am/was addicted to soloyoloing and this is a big step for me)

I also did 2 blue ticket scouts, the first one being a Nozomi SR and the other being...

And a soloyolo using her birthday lovegems ♡

I’ve planned some things to do for her birthday but I didn’t finish them yet ;v; So I will post them in the comments when their done ♡

This birthday post originally had 1561 words and 9575 characters according to Google Docs and I’ve never written anything this big, especially using English, so this is another way of showing my love for her!

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