Vol.3: Leah Kazuno Uncaged Background

Leah is a girl; but she spent time with boys as much as she spent time with Sarah in her younger days. They played sports, such as football, baseball, or even vaulting - with one of the boys as the vault. Some of her friends back there said playing with them has probably built up her character nowadays.

When Leah was small, she once get into trouble with other parents; and her family. She had got bullied by boys 2 or 3 years older with sexually teasing. She even got knocked in the head sometimes. And one day, she just couldn't take it and just fought back brutally. There were 3 boys that always teased her like that, and she beated them: one had bleeding from biting, one had panda eyes, and the other got a sprained ankle. Since then, no one would touch her, even her friends were terrified whenever she shouted at them when they were losing.

Personality Change

Originally, the Kazunos lived in Hyogo. Leah and Sarah's parents worked in Japan for an international travel services trading company. Because of the their job particularity, they decided to move across Japan, also not forgetting to assign their daughters into the new school. When this happened, Leah was only 8 years old. She had a tearful farewell party with all of her friends, and her parents allow them to sleep over her house the night before departure.

After this incident, Sarah later said on Dengeki G that she had a really hard time pull Leah out of the shell she created for herself. Her little sister became more quiet, hot-tempered, and aggressive towards other people didn't suit her. Due to the fact that the Kazuno parents are off for months, maybe even years, Sarah was the only one to help Leah get out of her self-degradation.

Interests & Hobbies Music

When Leah was 13, she became curious when her sister seemed to get off from class more often. Later on Sarah answered she was on a dance club and playfully asked if Leah wanted to join. She then proceed to battle dance one of the best dancers there on the theme of "It's Tricky" by Run-DMC, while Sarah covered her mouth in shock the whole time. Not only that, she did impressions of famous dancers "awfully well". Leah then got auto-permission to join the club without an interview or audition.

Later on, she practiced singing - it went well, but her voice was not as high and strong as Sarah's. So she changed to rapping. It went horribly smooth: she was once lip-syncing and practicing "Rap God" - Eninem with a low voice, but then everyone found out and cheered loudly. With great support, she repeated the fastest part and later performed in front of more than 2,000 people in the school prom - everyone went crazy, even Sarah couldn't believe what begun as a teaseful question to her sister has turned out with such an amusing result.

The rest, we've already seen.

One more thing: She's the "Jack of all trades and master of "nearly" all" when it comes to musical instruments, especially electric guitar. She also plays drums quite well, and currently learning the piano. Despite all of the above, Leah still claimed she is a "terrible bass player".

Sports

Because of the childhood of just playing with boys the whole afternoon, Leah developed a great love with gymnastics, or just sports in general. Her main favorite is (of course) gymnastics. In addition, she played football with the local team's lads every weekend. Many people who has played with or against her stated that she was one of the most skillful players, although she played in an all-guy team. ***"She reminded me of that crazy guy from Argentina - small, but extremely agile"***, one player said.

She is also a supporter of Consadole Sapporo and Liverpool F.C. Due to that second team, she is often teased and joked by her fans for having "family rivalry" since Sarah often watches Manchester United and "kinda like them".

Gaming

Leah is a big fan of School Idol Festival and admitted to "use SOME OF her income from after school work to make in-app purchases". She even made her own SIF gaming arcade machine (with the help from her friends) and use SIF Custom Festival to creates ridiculously hard songs, then record her attempt to play the maps and upload them to her channel on Youtube. Many fans has exclaimed her to be "Inhuman" and "SIF Queen".

"Most songs I created, it usually took me 5-6 hours to write down and apply the notes to the sheet. Then another 30 minutes on card skills, and by the way, the videos you see me play is not one-hits. Let's call it this: we have 12-star maps like Psychic Fire, Nico Puri, Junai Lens and Beat In Angel, Solider Game - which claimed to be nearly impossible, right? Well, my maps are about 13 or 14, maybe even 15 stars if we use the SIF scale. I kid you not, I made a map in the morning, then play it for 2 hours nearly-non-stop in the afternoon. (Got asked how many times) I'd say on average, 60-80 plays, and all of the songs I made are in full version. That's about 4 minutes of spamming, then memorizing; multiple like 30 times. Heck, I'm consider wearing contact lens now (laughs) I think that alone explained for itself how much I spend my time on these things."

Not only SIF, Leah is die-hard when it comes to football games. She is said to be the only person, among the main 11 characters in Love Live, to play a game CONSTANTLY outside of SIF and actually make it a series. She plays both FIFA and PES.

Relationships (Other than Sarah Kazuno and Aqours members) Parents

Saint Snow's father and mother worked in Japan for an international travel services trading company. They gain a massive income every year and extract one third of their money into a joint bank account they made for their daughters - which they can take as ownerships when Leah surpasses 21.

They goes from home a lot, and Sarah stated both her and Leah has used to this a long time, yet they still miss them sometimes. But whenever they get home, they treat them as much as possible to make up. Last year, the Kazuno family flew to Dubai for a week as a present for Leah gained entrance to the school Sarah was studying.

They also show they're caring, despite their geographic distance. They don't put too much pressure on Leah and Sarah, but they do warned them to be good civilians and stay away from all the traps.

Arasu Hideto (Coming soon) Ryo Shusora (Coming soon) Other Trivia

- Leah has 7 different outfits in Love Live: sleeping/home clothes, uniform, practice outfit, maid, Self Control, Awaken the Power and Dropout. She included all of them in one of her videos, which is a reference to this video.

- When playing football, Leah is known for always attempting - and scoring goals - in many difficult poses that if you don't land properly, will cause serious injuries. Sarah has a 2-minute video in her phone just showing Leah praticing one-time shots with the ball in mid-air, bicycles, and overhead kicks.

Leah is also known for pulling knuckleballs extremely well; in fact, she has challenged pro goalkeepers from Japan and lots of them have failed to block her shot.

- In a Love Live Livestream, Leah was asked when would she consider a serious relationship. She answered that would not be same-sex - as many fans wish - and the guy needs to be ambitious. This has caused many disappointment to the fanbase and many people have (jokingly) blamed her for "leaving the gay gang" or "leaving Ruby alone after everything she's done".

- Leah once revealed on Dengeki G that when she was 14 years old, she got involved in an infamous incident. She appeared on a prank video made by two Youtubers in Japan, in order to warn people about how easy it is to get robbed when you stick your nose to your smartphone. Leah was one of their targets while she was calling for her sister, and as soon as she got robbed, Leah ran and caught the main character in only 20 steps, then proceed to slide-kicking him from behind, causing the guy to fall over and actually break his right knee. Not only that, she repeatedly got on top of him and punching him in the face, while he was screaming in pain. Everything only ended when the video gang panically ran to the drama spot, briefly explained to her everything was staged. Leah eventually calmed down, took the guy to the hospital with the group, then she got a trip home by them and agreed to let them publish the video as long as her voice and appearance was blocked.