Ichigo Hoshimiya

Ichigo Hoshimiya (星宮 いちご Hoshimiya Ichigo^?)is one of the main characters of Aikatsu!, and a student of Starlight Academy. She is cheerful and has a cute personality; her choice in her cards reflects this. Her favorite brand is Angely Sugar. She was later put into a unit called Soleil (ソレイユSoreiyu) with Aoi Kiriya and Ran Shibuki.

Bio

Ichigo was a middle school freshman like many girls her age. After seeing Mizuki's performance with Aoi and her little brother Raichi, she gets inspired and joins Starlight Academy, which is the beginning of her idol career. She's a complete novice, yet she is optimistic and works hard to become a top idol. She doesn't have much knowledge about the entertainment world, so she always has her best friend, Aoi Kiriya, to teach her.

Appearance

Ichigo is seen wearing her Starlight Academy outfit more often than any other outfit. Her hair is blonde and reaches down to her waist, and she is often shown wearing a head band with a big red bow in her hair. Like every other Starlight Academy student, she uses Aikatsu cards to transform into her stage outfits. Her regular stage outfit is like other standard stage outfits so far throughout the series: a top with accents that match a poofy, frilly skirt bottom. Ichigo's in particular is of a white blouse with short, puffy sleeves with a tie that matches her bow, a wide collared, light pink vest, a frilly white cuff bracelet, a poofy, frilly skirt with a pink plaid design that matches the shown inside of her vest, and light pink, crossover heels that match her vest. Her vest, cuff bracelet, and socks all feature a ribbon (with a similar color to her bow) with a golden heart in the center. When she is exercising, her hair is in pigtails and she wears a white jump suit with pink sleeves and accents.

Personality

Ichigo is a cheerful girl and is always willing to help others no matter what. She often spaces out, but is friendly and caring like her mother, Ringo. However, she often pushes herself to her limits and is a bit naive. Her personality is known to most as one of the moe types. She wishes to become a top idol together with her best friend Aoi Kiriya. Many parts of the series focuses on Ichigo learning lessons, her optimism and hardworking personality being the two qualities she relies on. She also appears to not understand on some conditions despite of how she has been noted many times that she is the main heroine. She also loves to eat. It was stated by Ringo in episode 25 that she inherited her love for food from her father.

Idol

As an idol, Ichigo often uses the brand Angely Sugar as it is her favorite. Her aura is composed of pink and orange cherry blossoms with various colored bubbles. Her main color theme is Hot pink. She was also seen to have worn a coord made by Futuring Girl for a special occasion in Episode 17. Then Spicy Ageha in Episode 21 and Episode 23.

Relationships

• Aoi Kiriya

Aoi has been Ichigo's best friend since 5th grade. Both Ichigo and Aoi, along with Ran; love to do fun stuff in Aikatsu. Aoi is also Ichigo's groupmate in Soleil.

• Ran Shibuki

Ran is Ichigo and Aoi's friend. Ran is also Ichigo's groupmate in Soleil. However, with her title "Beautiful Blade", she has noted a few times to act as a tsundere.

• Raichi Hoshimiya

Raichi is Ichigo's little brother. Unlike his sister, Raichi knows a lot about the Idol world.

• Ringo Hoshimiya

Ringo is Ichigo's mother. Ringo is revealed to be Miya in episode 47 which made Ichigo shocked.

• Taichi Hoshimiya

Taichi is Ichigo's father.

Etymology

Hoshimiya (星宮) Hoshi (星) means star. This is probably a referrence to her dream to become an Idol. Miya(宮) means shrine. As a result, her teacher Johnny Bepp calls her "Star-miya".

Ichigo (いちご) means strawberry; it has been noted many times in the anime. This name may comes after her mother's name, Ringo, which means apple.

Plot

Becoming an Idol

Ichigo is first introduced in Episode 1 working with her mother and brother at their family bento shop. After the shop closes, Ichigo insists on helping her mother clean the counter. Her mother tells her that she needs to find something she wants to do for herself but Ichigo replies that her dream may be to run the bento shop too. She then goes upstairs to find her brother secretly looking at something. In an attempt to see, she spills juice on Raichi's pictures that were revealed to be pictures of Mizuki Kanzaki. Clearly frustrated, Raichi starts telling Ichigo how amazing she is and that he was not able to get tickets for her concert. So Ichigo asks Aoi and the three of them are able to go to the concert. The next day, after seeing Mizuki, Ichigo becomes amazed wtih her. Aoi comes over and explains to her about Starlight Academy and how they are going to take the entrance exams together. At first Ichigo is hesistant, but her mother tells her its okay to do what she wants. Ichigo and Aoi start their special training to get into Starlight Academy. On the day of the entrance exams, Ichigo chooses the Pink Stage cards to perform the entrance exam. She uses a special appeal during her audition for the first time which amazes Mizuki and Orihime. She successfully passes the entrance exams with Aoi, marking their start on the path to become an idol.

As an Idol

Ichigo completes many auditions with Ran and Aoi, and also is in the movie Stylish Thief Swallowtail with Otome. In Episode 35, she auditions for Tristar with Ran and Aoi, but Ran wins the audition; although Ran leaves Tristar 2 episodes later. Later in Episode 37, she forms a unit with Aoi and Ran, and their unit is called Soleil. However, in Episode 39, Tristar and Soleil then merged into a single unit named STAR☆ANIS, with Otome and Sakura, although Shion Kamiya refuses to join in order to focus on her acting career.

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Trivia

• Her zodiac sign is Pisces.
• Her favourite foods are nori bento (seaweed bento) and strawberry parfaits.
• She has no food that she doesn't like.
• Her speciality is preparing and cooking food.
• Ichigo, along with Mizuki, Yurika, and Akari, have shown themselves to be the most consistently popular main characters, having made it into all election-determined incarnations of Aikatsu8 and Photokatsu8 since their debut.
• She is the third idol to have a major change in her aura, preceded by Aoi and Ran. As of Episode 64, blue and silver ribbons with a striking resemblance to scales (a possible allusion to Ichigo's first Premium Rare Constellation dress, the Mermaid Pisces Coord), as well as crystal hearts decorated with flowers are added to her aura which spirals around her instead of flowing from her.
• Ichigo's lucky charm is a rice scoop.
• In Episode 74 her rice scoop was revealed to be used as a lucky charm by the students of Starlight School after she left for America due to it seemingly possessing powers of luck that have appeared a few times in the series.
• She can tell what type of rice she's eating and how it was cooked with just one bite.
• This ability appears to not be limited to just rice as shown in Episode 75 where she accurately determined the flavor of a macaroon with just one bite.
• She is capable of telling time with her stomach.
• In the novel, Ichigo has brown eyes.
• She shares her birthday with Umi Sonoda from Love Live!.
• In Episode 11, she has been shown to be a bad liar.
• Whenever Ichigo has something she can't say, she stuffs her face to keep quiet.
• In Episode 93, Makina, Swing Rock's top designer, revealed that Ichigo was famous in the rock industry, where she's considered to be an "idol with a spine."
• In Season 3, Ichigo replaces Mizuki's position as the top idol of Japan.
• She is one of the three main characters who doesn't share her singing voice with other characters, next to Mizuki, and Yume Nijino from Aikatsu Stars!.
• As of Season 3, she has her own radio talk show called “Ichi-Ichi-Ichigo in the PM”.
• She is the third idol to use an object (the Crystal Mic in Aikatsu! The Movie) in a performance, followed by Miyabi Fujiwara who used fans in hers and preceded by Yurika and Seira, who both used a microphone.
• She is the second idol to change her Premium Rare pose after going through the fitting room.
• This makes her the third person overall to change one of her ending poses.
• Ichigo is 157cm tall as of Season 2.
• Her bow is similar to Chitoge Kirisaki from the Nisekoi series.
• Her full name resembles Ichigo Momomiya, a character in another shoujo series Tokyo Mew Mew.
• Coincidentally, Ichigo shares her birthday with Ichigo Momomiya.
• She shares her voice actress with Tsubasa Kisaragi from the Aikatsu Stars! series and Coco from the Aikatsu Friends! series.