Love Live! Sunshine!!'s Chika Takami Appointed as the Ambassador for Nishiura Mikan in Izu
First the rice goddess, now we have the mikan maiden!

Hot off the juicy presses in Japan, on February 12 in a ceremony at LaLaport Numazu, Aqours leader Chika Takami was appointed as the ambassador for Nishiura Mikan. Nishiura Mikan is a local brand of a type of mandarin orange (depending on different parts of the world, mikan are classed as a different product than oranges in Japan) that are grown in Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture from local company JA Nansun, who offered the ambassadorship to Chika.
【沼津】JAなんすん様より熱いオファーを頂き、本日、高海千歌が『西浦みかん大使』に就任致しました!!
— ラブライブ!シリーズ公式 (@LoveLive_staff) February 12, 2020
千歌ちゃんに代わって高海千歌役・伊波杏樹が、ららぽーと沼津にて行われた大使就任式に出席しました。
これからも沼津のみかんを、地元の元気を世界に伝えていきます!!????????????
#lovelive pic.twitter.com/gcqbnyHriR
Mikan is a local product of the area where Love Live! Sunshine!! is set and has been seen in the TV anime series many times, including with Chika dressing up as the fruit. While today was the formal celebration and signing of the contract, Chika has been seen on Nishiura Mikan in the past, as well as advertising campaigns. On behalf of Chika, her voice actor Anju Inami attended the inauguration ceremony and signed the required paperwork. In the past, Inami visited the real-life mikan farm for a TV special and has promoted the fruit around Japan.
今日は朝早くから☀️
— 伊波 杏樹 (@anju_inami) February 12, 2020
静岡県沼津市にて
嬉しい式に登壇してきました♡
それは。。。
〝西浦みかん大使〟の就任式!
なんとこの度!
ラブライブ!サンシャイン!!
高海千歌ちゃんが就任しました!
すごいぞ千歌ちゃん…!
Aqours 5周年と共に
西浦みかんを盛り上げていきます????
みかん好きを全世界へ…っ pic.twitter.com/junCvqZugj
In Love Live! Sunshine!! TV anime, Chika's favorite food is mikan, with her official color being orange. Inami, on the other hand, refutes this and claims that Chika's color is actually mikan "because mikan is the local color!" If you visit Numazu, the real-life home of Aqours, you'll be able to try all the different mikan products on sale!
Now if only an orange-based company wanted Hime as an ambassador... she and Chika could be orange-based fruit friends!
Sources: Love Live! on Twitter, Anju Inami on Twitter
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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs the YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.