OC Bios

(timeframe – 22 years after the start of im@s anime)

Name: Akiyama Hanako (秋山花子)
Birthdate: August 25
Age: 15
Hair Color: Blue
Eye Color: Magenta
Height: 157 cm
Weight: 43 kg
Three Sizes: 82-56-81
Image Color: Cyan
Idol Type: Passion
Image Stat: Dance
Affiliation: 527Pro
Units: ☆pop (w/ Sakura), Eko Ojo (エコー 王女 - Echoing Princess – w/ Yoshino)
Preferred Genre: Dance-Pop
Genre Specialty: Goth-Pop
Seiyuu: Minase Inori singing - speaking
Birthplace: Shibuya, Japan

Family: Akiyama [nee Kisaragi] Chihaya (mother), Akiyama Keito (father), Akiyama Yuuta (brother), Kisaragi Chigusa (grandmother), Kisaragi Yuudai (grandfather), Kisaragi Yuu (uncle – deceased)

Nicknames: Hana-chan, Chīsana Hanabira (Little Petal - 小さな花びら – idol nickname)

Personality Traits: Bubbly and perky, nothing can rain on her parade, sees the upside to everything, a bit disillusioned about her idol career, can be a bit airheaded at times, overly affectionate with her brother

Bio: Hanako grew up idolizing her mother’s singing. She loved hearing her mother sing and the happy feeling it gave her. Despite her mother being a national celebrity, Hanako grew up a relatively normal childhood though was prone to getting sick frequently when younger. After her brother was born her mother began to immerse herself more into her music career and eventually within a few years became rather inattentive. Hanako did not have a problem with this as her brother did and normally ignored this fact.

When she began kindergarten she befriended Sakura, an extremely shy girl who turned out to be the daughter of one of her mother’s old acquaintances from 765Pro. Hanako already grew to love Haruka and Azusa as aunts, due to them babysitting her and her brother frequently, and grew just as attached to Takane when she began to babysit her as well. It was during this time that her ‘Hime-baachan’ introduced her to ramen and got her hooked on it.

As a teen Hanako began to have the delusional fantasy that if she became an idol that she could become just as famous as her mother. The only problem was that she lacked actual singing talent…or at least comparable talent to that of Chihaya. At 15-years-old Hanako tricked Sakura into going to an audition with her and the two began their careers as idols. Though Hanako did not, and still does not, know the only reason why she was selected was because 527Pro was only interested in acquiring Sakura but the teen, who did not want to become an idol in the first place and only did so for Hanako’s sake, refused to join unless they also allowed Hanako to join.

Hanako’s career as an idol was extremely slow moving, not helped by the young girl’s refusal to take any job she didn’t seem cute enough. She only wanted to be seen as a cute idol and hated taking roles that did not fit that category. Hence why her singing talent was so poor, when given more serious songs Hanako is a decent singer but she normally refused to sing them. Nonetheless Hanako kept believing in her delusional fantasy that she could make it big time as long as she stuck it out as an idol and relied on her dancing skills.

Hanako’s reality came crashing down when, after a live, she overheard the production crew criticizing her performance and her overall lack of talent outside of dancing. Coming to terms that she would never become famous like her mother, Hanako rethought her whole position as an idol. She now goes by the motto: “When I was little, my mother would always sing to me. It made me so happy inside that I couldn’t help but smile. I want to bring that same feeling to everyone I sing to so they can smile too”. Even though she has now been largely type-casted as a cute idol only, she attempts to break out of this mold by taking on more serious roles and does begin to take vocal lessons to help improve her singing.

Trivia:
• Starting when she was a toddler, Hanako frequently got sick with high fevers – out of pure concern Chihaya would cancel jobs when she could to take care of her even if Keito already took off from work as well. By the time she was 7-years-old she grew out of this but will still get a very high fever whenever she does get sick.
• Hanako was around 8-years-old when Chihaya fully immersed herself in her music career and began to be completely absent. Unlike Yuuta, Hanako has no problem with this as she remembers her mother always being there for her whenever she was sick as a child.
• Hanako hates being compared to Chihaya.
• She won’t let on to anyone but she feels insecure over her singing as she knows she’s nowhere near the level her mother was as an idol and still is as a professional singer.
• Loves eating ramen with Takane.
• More than anything, Hanako wants Chihaya to attend one of her lives. And more so, even though she knows it most likely will never happen, she wants to sing on stage with her mother.
• During kindergarten, Azusa lost Hanako during a fieldtrip to the zoo and she somehow ended up in one of the enclosures. Chihaya never again allowed Hanako to go on fieldtrips that Azusa was chaperoning by herself.

(timeframe – 22 years after the start of im@s anime)

Name: Akiyama Yuuta (秋山有太)
Birthdate: November 4
Age: 11
Hair Color: Blue
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 148 cm
Weight: 38 kg
Seiyuu: Yamashita Daiki
Birthplace: Shibuya, Japan
Current Residence: Shibuya, Japan

Family: Akiyama [nee Kisaragi] Chihaya (mother), Akiyama Keito (father), Akiyama Hanako (sister), Kisaragi Chigusa (grandmother), Kisaragi Yuudai (grandfather), Kisaragi Yuu (uncle – deceased)

Nicknames: Yuu-chan (by Chihaya), Yuu-chii (by Hanako), Kakko (Brat - かっこ – by Sakura)

Personality Traits: Normally appears uninterested by things, rather be left alone, plays video games all the time, resentful towards his mother, has a hard time telling people how he feels

Bio: The younger of the two siblings, Yuuta is the spoiled baby of the family. He is not social in the least and eschews conversating with others if possible. Yuuta does not like the fact that his mother is so obsessed over her career most of the time. At times he feels that she loves her career more than she loves her family. He knows this isn’t the case but when confronted with her lack of presence, he can’t help but begin to feel that way all over again.

Unlike his sister, Yuuta takes strongly after his mother. He is not able to tell his mother his true feelings and normally just ignores her instead. He truly loves his mother but is frustrated that he cannot find the words to explain to her how hurt he is that she is never around when he really needs her. This leads to him just giving up on trying to sort out his feelings and he instead immerses himself in his video games to take his mind off his emotions.

Yuuta is not happy that his sister decided to become an idol to simply become a clone of their mother. He is greatly opposed to this and will berate her performances in the hopes that she will quit. Even when his sister has her revelation and rethinks her position as an idol, he is still not pleased with her being an idol at all.

Trivia:
• Does not like the amount of attention his sister gives him and is embarrassed by it.
• He secretly listens to his mother and sister’s music and in actuality is their biggest fan.
• His father is worried he may become a NEET later in life if he doesn’t change his habits.
• Has a habit of saying “Keh…” when annoyed or upset about something.
• He openly states that he doesn’t think his sister will make it as an idol and normally tries to discourage her. He mostly does this because he doesn’t want her to turn out like their mother and become obsessed with her career if she does make it in the music business.
• Gets along well with Ritsuko, despite the fact Ritsuko is the one that makes Chihaya’s schedule in the first place.
• He gets along very well with Haruka and is friends with her son.
• Given he’s just started puberty and is still a bit immature he has developed childish crushes on both Azusa and Takane due to their physiques. When he later meets Miki, he develops one on her due to the same reason.

(timeframe – 22 years after the start of im@s anime)

Name: Sakamoto Ichiko (坂本イチ子)
Birthdate: April 24
Age: 10
Hair Color: Blue
Eye Color: Brown
Height: 138 cm
Weight: 32 kg
Three Sizes: 69-50-68
Image Color: Coral Pink
Idol Type: Passion
Image Stat: Vocal
Affiliation: 527Pro
Units: Bebii JUMP (ベビーJUMP - Baby JUMP – w/ Atsuko), Hoshizora (星空 - Starry Sky – w/ Chinatsu and Maria)
Preferred Genre: Pop
Genre Specialty: Pop
Seiyuu: Yamamura Hibiku singing - speaking
Birthplace: Ueno, Japan
Current Residence: Ueno, Japan

Family: unnamed mother, unnamed father, Sakamoto Atsuko (sister)

Nicknames: Puchi-nii (by Atsuko), Kinpouge (Buttercup - キンポウゲ – by Yoshino), Iko-niichan (by Sakura)

Personality Traits: Mature for her age, looks up to her sister and the older idols, likes to act older than what she is, also an otaku like her sister

Bio: Wanting to follow her sister, Ichiko debuted as an idol about a year after her. Ichiko is carefree and joyful in nature yet lets off an air of maturity that doesn’t seem to fit her age. Between the two sisters, Ichiko is normally the one to act like the older sister yet this doesn’t stop her from looking up to Atsuko.

Ichiko is willing to do pretty much any job without hesitation and doesn’t need to be asked twice to do something. Much like her sister, she is also energetic even when not on stage but not on the hyperactive levels that Atsuko can reach.

She has no problems with being treated as a child and knows her to use her cuteness to her advantage. Like how some of the idols have put it, she could get away with murder with how sweet she acts.

Due to her age, her mother has asked the producer to make sure Ichiko is not overworked so she normally isn’t scheduled to have as many jobs as the older idols.

Trivia:
• Being the two youngest idols in the group, she is best friends with Chinatsu.
• Ichiko prefers to hang around Yoshino, Yurika, and Sakura when not with her sister.
• For some reason Sakura is very attached to Ichiko.
• While she is willing to do any job, Ichiko prefers to work with the older idols when possible and do more ‘grown-up’ songs.
• Outside of being an idol, Ichiko enjoys playing soccer.
• Ichiko enjoys watching anime, specifically mahou shoujo, and collects figurines from her favorite series.

(timeframe – 22 years after the start of im@s anime)

Name: Kubo Haruto (久保晴登)
Birthdate: September 10
Age: 48
Hair Color: Tan
Eye Color: Hazel
Height: 177 cm
Weight: 68 kg
Birthplace: Kashima, Japan
Current Residence: Shibuya, Japan
Seiyuu: Ishida Akira
Occupation: President of KuboPro, Producer at KuboPro

Family: Kubo Hasumi (ex-wife), Kubo Masuyo (son), Shijou Takane (ex-lover), Shijou Sakura (daughter), Umeki Yumi (possible daughter), possible other children

Nicknames: Haru-kun and Anata-sama (by Takane), Kubo-sama (by Yumi)

Personality Traits: Extremely manipulative, a playboy who uses the women (normally the performers he recruits and produces) around him to get what he wants, can sweet talk his way through anything, callous and cares little for those around him, puts on a very convincing façade around others

Bio: ‘Mistake’ was the word Haruto had to bear with ever since he could remember. He grew up being told that his parents had him by mistake during their senior year in high school. Though still being responsible they sent him to a luxurious condominium in Tokyo to be taken care of by his aunt when he was around 7-years-old. Neither side of his grandparents would even take him in. They saw him as a thing that almost destroyed their children’s futures. This caused Haruto to despise his family. He would always wonder why his mother even went through with having him in the first place. Haruto never got close with anyone throughout his childhood and teenage years. He never went out of his condominium unless necessary and he never came out of his bedroom whenever his aunt would come over to make him food.

Haruto quickly became popular in high school; he was tall, good looking, and had an aloof nature that made all the girls gush over him. He went out with quite the number of girls, wanting to know what 'love' was. He never quite understood it though. None of his relationships lasted long, as the thought of commitment made him feel physically sick. Haruto would cringe every time ‘I love you’ came from their mouths. He quickly became known as a heartbreaker and soon was seen as the wild boy the girls needed to try to tame. Not being able to find love through emotion, he decided to find the meaning of love physically. Finding that he could not find love through physical means as well, Haruto would close off his heart to others permanently.

Wanting nothing but money and fame, Haruto began a production company shortly after graduating from college at 22-years-old. He found easy targets to recruit, idols that wanted to enter the entertainment industry as real performers. He found them easy to persuade and they were relatively cheap to hire and proved to earn him fast cash. Within a few years of beginning his company, he became a multi-millionaire and gained the money and fame he always wanted. There was a new desire he wanted to quench that came to the surface…a need to physically be in control of his performers. With many of his performers being ex-idols, they were extremely inexperienced with love and were easy to seduce.

He also found a new thrill…to tell the performers how much he loved them to simply just crush their hearts when they learned the truth. He enjoyed watching as their hearts broke and their faith in love destroyed. He wanted them to feel the same distorted feelings he had of love.

Eventually, Haruto’s big ticket meal came in. Recently leaving 765Pro to become something more than just an idol, Haruto by chance met Shijou Takane. Knowing how famous and well known she was as an idol, Haruto quickly saw the dollar signs, as well as an easy score, appear before him. He would go on to buy her dinner as well as sweet-talk her the entire time into joining KuboPro, promising to make her the best idol-turned-performer ever. Unfortunately the naïve, young woman believed him completely, took his offer, and unknowingly sealed her fate by joining KuboPro.

Haruto became Takane’s personal producer and normally had her scheduled for performances on TV shows and booked a number of lives as well as selling CD albums. For his own personal enjoyment he would also talk her into doing some gravure work as well. Using his charm to win her over easily, Haruto began to have an affair with Takane. Being genuinely in love with and devoted to him, Takane proved easy to manipulate, and Haruto continued the affair for nearly two years, something he previously never did before with his other affairs.

Though this affair took a turn Haruto feared could happen, Takane would end up pregnant. Hoping to force her to quit instead of needing to confront her face-to-face, Haruto began to schedule her for vigorous and dance-heavy routines that the performer was not able to easily do even when not pregnant. This ended up back firing on him as Takane proved to be stubborn and refused to abandon her career that easily, which ended up landing her in the hospital at one point when she collapsed on stage.

Becoming annoyed with the constant need to cancel her jobs and to lie to the tabloids over her health; Haruto would give her a final ultimatum. She could either have the child and end her career or simply just end the pregnancy and continue like nothing happened. With Takane being adamant on going through with the pregnancy, Haruto saw no use for her any longer and revealed his true nature to her. He completely broke Takane’s heart by telling her that he never loved her and was only with her to keep her from leaving the production company. He then went on to berate her ability to be a mother, citing her own lack of commonsense and ability to take care of even herself half the time let own a baby. He then voided her contract, effectively firing her. Though this did not come without a threat, if she were to go back on stage through any production company other than his own, Haruto promised to ruin her career permanently by releasing their affair to the public.

Though unlike the other times where he found a thrill in breaking other’s hearts, he found he felt no joy when he did so to Takane and he admittedly felt the tiniest bit of remorse afterwards, even if that remorse was short lived. This however did not stop him from continuing his tendency to have affairs with the performers he personally produces. He learned from his previous mistake with Takane and no longer carries out any affair as long as they had. Eventually his wife would leave him, taking their son with her. Haruto is in all essence alone with just himself, his money, his company, and his many meaningless affairs. And he seems to be completely fine and content with that.

Trivia:
• Besides Sakura, Haruto is rumored by his staff to have other children with the performers he has seduced and had affairs with. It is believed that the idol he is currently producing, Umeki Yumi, is one of his illegitimate children.
• Even though he did not love her, Haruto did have some slight feelings for Takane due to the long lasting nature and extent of their affair.
• His ex-wife, Hasumi, was also a performer he seduced and slept with when KuboPro first was started. Though he ended up getting blackmailed by her and was forced to marry her.
• He is currently estranged from his son, Masuyo, who is currently a male idol at 315Pro.
• Haruto has not spoken or seen Takane since the day he fired her and ended their affair. Because of this he has yet to meet Sakura and was never told when she was born.
• Upon Sakura’s debut as an idol, Haruto began to keep tabs on 527Pro but would stay out of their way…at first.

(timeframe – 22 years after the start of im@s anime)

Name: Akiyama Keito (秋山啓人)
Birthdate: April 27
Age: 37
Hair Color: Black
Eye Color: Magenta
Height: 168 cm
Weight: 62 kg
Seiyuu: Toyonaga Toshiyuki
Birthplace: Osaka, Japan
Current Residence: Shibuya, Japan
Occupation: Publicist

Family: Akiyama [nee Kisaragi] Chihaya (wife), Akiyama Hanako (daughter), Akiyama Yuuta (son), Kisaragi Chigusa (mother-in-law), Kisaragi Yuudai (father-in-law), Kisaragi Yuu (brother-in-law – deceased), unnamed mother (deceased), unnamed father (deceased)

Nicknames: Kohou-san (広報さん – Public Relations – office nickname)

Personality Traits: Very clumsy and bumbles when speaking often, is a very patient person, very optimist, a bit self-conscious, prone to being a nervous wreck at times, known to make stupid jokes due to slip of the tongue comments

Bio: Keito grew up a very average childhood. He was an above average student, had a few good friends, and also had the support of his parents. The only tragic thing Keito can say happened to him when younger was during his teen years when his mother died unexpectedly during his first year of high school. Keito and his father grew closer during this time and were the emotional support the other needed.

Following high school, Keito’s father got him a job at a major music company a family friend of his worked at. Joining the company as a publicist, Keito moved to Shibuya to work under his father’s friend as an intern. Within a few days of joining, Keito was given his first client. This client was a songstress that had just joined the company a month prior and that songstress was Kisaragi Chihaya.

When he first met Chihaya he accidently dropped his papers everywhere and then afterwards mistakenly introduced himself as “Kato - 佳斗” (roughly translates to good-for-nothing) which caused the songstress to break out in fits of laughter.

Keito was then invited to accompany Chihaya to a CD recording, so that he could learn more about her before becoming her publicist. The moment he first heard her singing he fell head over heels for her.

With neither of them dating anyone before, him being a nervous wreck, and Chihaya being oblivious at times, the two did not start dating until a few months after meeting. This was due to Keito finally getting the nerve to ask her out, even if the way he did so caused Chihaya to burst out in laughter due to his bumbling approach.

Their relationship moved at a very slow pace in the beginning. During the time they dated they would end up breaking up twice but would wind up back together shortly after. Two years after dating each other they would end up getting married. Shortly after getting married Chihaya would end up pregnant with their first child, Hanako. Four years later Chihaya would become pregnant again with their son Yuuta.

Keito has tried multiple times over the years to get Chihaya to cut back on her work but every attempt normally ends in failure. While he has his own boat-load of work himself, Keito tries to be there for Hanako and Yuuta as much as possible to compensate for Chihaya not being there most of the time.

Trivia:
• Keito gets along very well with his mother-in-law and considers her a second mother of sorts.
• Keito tries to get his son to do something other than play video games all day, fearing he’ll become a NEET later in life. This normally, and comically, ends in failure.
• Keito, while having respect for Ritsuko, has shown his discontent for her over the way she over schedules Chihaya for jobs.
• Much to his embarrassment Azusa, Takane, and Haruka see him as being both a mother and father at times and have included him in their clique.

(timeframe – 22 years after the start of im@s anime)

Name: Umeki Yumi (梅木佑未)
Birthdate: April 7
Age: 14
Hair Color: Auburn
Eye Color: Hazel
Height: 163 cm
Weight: 45 kg
Three Sizes: 83-54-81
Image Color: Hunter Green
Idol Type: Cool
Image Stat: Vocal
Affiliation: KuboPro
Units: Inazumanoarashi (稲妻の嵐 – Lightning Storm – w/ Suki, Erisu, and Shioko)
Preferred Genre: Rock
Genre Specialty: Pop Rock
Seiyuu: Kitamura Eri singing - speaking
Birthplace: Shibuya, Japan
Current Residence: Shibuya, Japan

Family: Umeki Namika (mother), Kubo Haruto (possible father), Kubo Masuyo (possible half-brother), Shijou Sakura (possible half-sister)

Nicknames: Akuma Aidoru (Devil Idol - 悪魔アイドル – by fans and other idols)

Personality Traits: Manipulative and uses those around her to get what she wants, typically very vain, will defame others to look good, a brownnoser who will do whatever she’s told to do, loves to get attention

Bio: Yumi was seen as a burden by her mother when she was born. Her mother openly blamed her for the loss of her music career but would not disclose the identity of who her father was. Without her mother’s love or her father in her life, Yumi grew up lonely and learned to rely on herself from a very young age.

Yumi normally pushes away others who try to befriend her and is mostly a loner at her school. She does not like letting other people in and does not know how to properly maintain any type of relationship. Yumi only became an idol after her mother insisted, and gave her no choice, that she become an idol at KuboPro with Haruto as her producer. Despite her attempts to talk her mother out of it, Yumi begrudgingly accepts and becomes an idol.

Yumi has no passion as an idol and only stays one in the hopes it will please her mother. She hopes that if she does a good enough of a job as an idol that her mother will become happy with her for once and actually show her some sort of affection.

The only motivation she has to stay at KuboPro is the attention Haruto seems to give her over the other idols. She relishes in the attention he gives her and ironically sees him as a father figure in her life.

Trivia:
• It is unknown if Yumi knows the possibility of Haruto being her father.
• Prior to her birth, Yumi’s mother was a singer produced by Haruto. Namika and Takane did not get along when they were both at KuboPro and competed with each other for Haruto’s attention.
• Yumi and her mother do not have a good relationship and act more like roommates than mother and daughter. Yumi desperately wants her mother to show her some type of motherly love or affection.
• Despite the way she typically acts, Yumi does not like being alone and wishes to have at least one true friend in her life.

(timeframe – 22 years after the start of im@s anime)

Name: Urushido Risako (漆戸利沙子)
Birthday: November 4th
Age: 17
Hair Color: Pearly Purple
Eye Color: Viridian
Height: 156 cm
Weight: 42 kg
Three Sizes: 85-57-83
Image Color: Slate Gray
Idol Type: Passion
Image Stat: Visual
Affiliation: 527Pro
Units: Kanamagari (Golden Melody - 金曲 – w/ Sakura and Hiromi), Akuma no Tsume (Devil’s Claw - 悪魔の爪 - w/ Yurika)
Preferred Genre: Pop Rock
Genre Specialty: Pop Rock
Seiyuu: Iguchi Yuka singing - speaking
Birthplace: Asakura, Japan
Current Residence: Mitaka, Japan

Family: unnamed mother, unnamed father (deceased), unnamed stepfather, unnamed younger stepsister

Nicknames: Ko-chan (by Hiromi and Sakura), Kouhai Akuma (Junior Devil - 後輩悪魔 – by Yurika)

Personality Traits: Friendly and upbeat normally, is quite loud and boisterous, overly confident most of the time, extremely gullible, oddly intelligent in random subjects, very competitive

Bio: Risako is a very confident person, to the point of overconfidence 99.9% of the time. At times she can be rather cocky and self-minded without realizing it. She is very energetic when it comes to competing with others and does not take losing well. She speaks in a jolly nature and can unintentionally come off as arrogant because of this as some think she’s doing this mockingly. She has a good sense of humor and likes to crack jokes…even if they are the worst ones anyone has ever heard.

Risako has a knack for accurately judging people’s character and can sense whether a person is truly good or bad deep down. Despite her good intuition with judging character, Risako can be easily persuaded by others due to her easily believing everything she hears.

Risako does not like to talk about her father and will skirt around any conversation involving him. He was sick for many years, before Risako was even born. Both she and her mother knew he would eventually die from his illness. From a very young age she accepted this and believes she has come to terms with his death, despite the very opposite to be true.

Trivia:
• Even though it took a while for them to get along initially, Risako is the only person at 527Pro that Yurika is friends with.
• Risako is known to easily believe the most outrageous and unbelievable lies. Hiromi normally, and quite easily, pranks her daily.
• She is terrified of most animals but loves reptiles and owns a python that previously was owned by her father before he passed away.
• Risako is not allowed over Sakura’s home after the incident she accidentally caused by bringing her pet snake with her one time.
• Her father died when she was 11-years-old from a congenital heart condition. He had gotten Pii-chan (the python) three years prior to his death.
• Her mother only recently got remarried. She gets along very well with her stepfather and stepsister.