RinaLan

RinaLan is the femslash ship between Rina Tennoji and Lanzhu Zhong from the Love Live! fandom.

Canon
Rina Tennoji was the first year student of Nijigasaki High and a member of the School Idol Club since the club has been rebuilt from being disbanded. While Lanzhu Zhong was the second-year student who transferred to Nijigasaki from Hong Kong to become a school idol. They first met when Lanzhu arrives at the school and immediately host a short live before formally declaring a rivalry with the School Idol Club by her own association. Rina then assist the club to challenge Lanzhu’s association at the School Idol Festival before Lanzhu finally gave up and joined the idol club. Their stories differs in both ALL STARS game and the anime adaptation.

In ALL STARS, Lanzhu formed a school idol association upon arriving at Nijigasaki High, hires Ai and Karin from idol club to become the top school idol, and declares prohibition of forming another other idol club to join her association. Despite the restrictions imposed by the association and taking Ai from the club, Rina continues to help the idol club gains fans in order to challenge Lanzhu in the School Idol Exhibition. Rina doesn't mind Lanzhu bringing Ai to the association as she still treats them as friends. At one point when Lanzhu loses her temper due to brief fight with her childhood friend Shioriko and immediately departs the school to return to her home country shortly after she disbands the association by herself, Rina was able to trace Lanzhu heading to the airport and informs everyone about the situation. After the club successfully convinced Lanzhu to stay at Nijigasaki, Rina welcomed her with open heart upon joining the club.

In the anime, Lanzhu arrives at Nijigasaki to meet the school idols, however she want to be a solo idol all by herself rather than joining the club. Rina and their members were able to contact Lanzhu why she pursue a solo idol than joining the club, leading the group to form a subunit to prove Lanzhu about the school idols. Lanzhu eventually realize the experience of being school idols at the second School Idol Festival and bids them a farewell at the post-festival before departing back to her hometown. Knowing that Lanzhu will depart from the country, Mia calls for a help and Rina tries to hold down Lanzhu until Mia arrives and successfuly convinced Lanzhu to return to school and eventually joined the idol club. While at the club, Lanzhu and Rina do recognize Kurobane sisters who watched at one of Lanzhu's concert. During the special live event, Lanzhu momentarily hugged Rina in the Future Parade part and the scene of them was displayed outside the cinema in overseas screening.

Fanon
RinaLan is considered as the one of the rarest Nijigasaki pairs to date due to little to no relations across all the canon stories. The only instance they made an interaction is a still shot of the pairs displaying outside the cinema during Future Parade segment. With Rina’s interest to blonde girls and anyone with bright-colored hairs, pairing Rina with Lanzhu is perhaps an odd choice but probably works. It is currently has fewer works from most fanarts and fics due to lack of their relations outside from canon. Like most underappreciated Nijigasaki ships, RinaLan rarely clash with other popular pairs

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Trivia

 * Both shares a pink-haired color and an ahoge hair.