Ooto Melody

Melody Ooto ( メロディー) was a member of AKB0048's Team A. She was one of AKB0048's successors, holding the name of Erika Ikuta the 11th (１１ ).
She was also known as Ikuchan (いくちゃん) and Iku (いく). A young woman with a great passion for music and art, Ikuchan is known for her exeptional piano skills. She has won a few prizes through them and intends to become a professional piano player in the future. At the moment, she is studying music at the Mozart Institute. 
== Bio ==
=== Appearance ===
Melody's eyes are purple with a slight gradient to lavender, depending on the light. Her hair is purple as well and falls over her shoulders. By nature, it's slightly wavy, and she doesn't have a fringe; she commonly braids the hair that otherwise would cover her face. She wears a bit of her hair in a bun while leaving the other parts down. In the past, she used to have much longer hair but she cut it for the sake of being able to practise better. She used to wear her hair in a simple, central parting instead of the braided front hair, but changed her mind in SC0125. Similar to other memebrs of AKB0048, she has heart-shaped linings in her eyes and on her hair.
She prefers feminine and elegant clothes without too flashy pattern or accessoires. She prefers to maintain a rather adult image to be respected by older people which, despite her young age, works rather well. While her favourite colour is light pink, she rarely wears the colour but rather white and creme colours. She owns a bit of jewelry which she inherited from her grandparents and sometimes can be seen wearing it. She is uncomfortable with wearing exposing clothes or swim wear and therefore doesn't do gravure shots.
=== Personality ===
Melody is a polite and friendly girl with good manners. She's holding herself back and waits for others. However, she often is also arrogant if she's private. Melody has grown up, knowing to be talented and great and due to this, she acts like this. As well, she's selfish as she wishes to be the best. She does anything for this. She has the tendency to be friendly towards people, she believes to be "useful" for herself. Thus, she ignores people who aren't useful.
Melody doesn't believe in magical things. Thus, she doesn't believe that being similar to an original member helps to succed but being in the management's favor. She believes in the coldness of the show buisness which resulted in the fact that she believes that popular relationship-pairrings (e.g. MiyaMiya) are planned and made up, exactly like most of the images and personalities of the members. Only on-stage personalities (e.g. Kashita Miyagi being a innocent girl who cannot harm anyone or Kimura Mei's princess character) are the images, Melody has started to believe to be real.
Eriko loves music and playing the piano a lot. She's often seen playing piano and knows many songs by heart. She can lose herself completly in playing and forgets the world around her. Sometimes, she spends the whole day with this and forgets stuff, she had to do. She enjoys to read and make up conspiracy theories even though she doesn't believe them very often.
Melody doesn't really have a Oshimen but whenever asked, she stated it's Acchan the 19th. Other members, she admires are Katomina the 8th, Sakura the 10th, Takamina the 7th, Miori the 9th and Rena the 9th.
Due to having stricter education, Melody has less solo work than other AKB0048 members. She sometimes is a guest to radio and TV shows but mainly focuses on stage performances and musicals.
===Skills===
Her main asset is playing the piano; something in which she excels. She knows many songs by heart and even composes her own pieces from time to time. She is also rather good in school due to her upbringing, but recently felt back.
Comparing singing and dancing, she prefers and is better in singing. She had a little bit training before 0048 as well. She practises dancing but not as often as singing. Being a soprano, she is much better in singing high notes and her vocal range doesn't even allow her to hit lower keys.
== Chronology ==
===Early Life===
Melody grew up on Kazakhstar, living a peaceful life and grew up in the 'upper' society of her homeplanet's capital. As the daughter of a professional pianist and a film director, she always had a connection to the world of entertainment and music, and the world of rich people. Melody had been studing music in general since being a little children. She learned piano since she was very young and loves it. She also learned a few other instruments but didn't continue playing those. 
===SC0124===
Melody had the wish to "do something bigger" with her music since she was eight years old. However, she didn't know what exactly until she actually became interessted in 0048 due to some classmates. She eventually decided to audition but didn't know how her parents, espacilly her mother, would react. After all, she decided to audition and wait for the result before telling her parents. She planned not to tell them if she wouldn't pass. Even though her mother wasn't happy about it, she left for 0048. The reason why she didn't told her parents before the 1st round results was that she didn't want to admit that she might had failed in the first round.
===SC0125===
She went on a hiatus for about three months in SC0125 to solve several family problems; her mother wanted Melody to return home as she considered being an idol as unfittable for her daughter. After three months, in which the problem didn't solve itself, Melody decided to simply return to 00, even if it meant cutting ties to her family. She knew that her brother would support her, and when 0048 hold a concert on her home planet, she joined them to return. She succeeded shortly after this. The name of her succession concert was Kimi wa Melody (君はメロディー, You are Melody), a reference to her catchphrase. She became Ikuta Erika the 11th. After this arc, she started attending another school on Akibastar which focuses on music work and is stricter than Infinity Academy as a deal with her mother.
===SC0126===
Early in SC0126, she told the other members that she intended to graduate to focus on playing the piano and studying music. She would, however, continued with Magi and 0048 activities.
===Team History===
153rd Generation → Team A
::Joined the 153rd Generation of Trainees (0124.04.23)
::Promoted from the 153rd Generation to Team A (SC0125.03.15)
::Graduated from AKB0048 (SC0127.01.03)
==Relationships==
== Career ==
== Etymology ==
Ooto is written as . 
 can be translated as big or large and as sound. 大音 can also be translated as loud.
Melody is written in Katakana as メロディー. 
She inherited the nickname Ikuchan (いくちゃん) from the original Ikuta Erika. Iku (いく) is a shorter version of Ikuchan. She used to be called Melo (めろ) which was a shorter version of her original given name. Honoka calls her Melon-pan (めろんぱん) and Ikuspiracy (イカスピレーシー). Her com name is Piano.
==Quotes==
*"Who are you? Who am I? You're melody~! I'm AKB0048's Ooto Melody" - Melody's Introduction Catchphrase
*"Good evening, I am Team A's Ikuta Erika the 11th. Please listen to my song." - Melody's Introduction Catchphrase
==Gallery==
===Official Artworks===
PromoOfSorts.png
IkuRQ.png
melody-senbatsu.png
Iku-rnh.png|Rose no Hibi
SSK0125-iku11.png|Senbatsu Sousenkyo Poster (SC0125)
Melo-ssk126.png|Senbatsu Sousenkyo Poster SC0126
===Ooto Melody===
Melody KKS.png|Senbatsu Uniform (Understudy Version)
Melody153rd.png|153rd Generation Uniform
Reality Melody.png|Reality
MelodySSKPosterSC0124.png|Senbatsu Sousenkyo Poster (SC0124)
== Trivia ==
* Favourite Song in the New Era: Orchestra
* Audition Song: Anata no Tame ni Hikitai
* Favorite Food: Salat
* Favorite Animal: Orca
* Favorite Colour: Light pink
* Hobbies: Piano, Music, Picknicks
* Penlight Colour: Purple
* Blood Type: A
* Her voice actress was choosen because she voiced Harune Aira in Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream.
* Her social media username is @Shirimasen. She originally didn't know what to use as her username. Because Honoka distracted her, she wrote "I don't know" (知りません) and continued creating an account without noticing.
* Melody's kenkyuusei catchphrase refers her favourite song Kimi wa Melody and her name.
* She wants to become a singer or a pianist in the future. There is also proof that she is aspiring to become a singer in her eyes, where there are music note linings alongside the heart linings.
* Melody's originally planned birth name was Melodia which became her character song's name. The reason why it was changed is unknown.
* She has the habit of spinning around with her hair, whenever she can do this.
* Melody is vegetarian.
* Melody is the youngest member of her generation.
* Following her succession, she was the second character to have the given name 'Erika', althrough written with different kanji.
* She likes to play games of the Persona series despite being to young to play them.
** Her election poster in SC0125 refers the sixth installment's protagonist.
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