Misa Aoi

**Misa Aoi** (蒼井 ミサ *Aoi Misa*) is the second main character in Kandagawa Jet Girls. She is the younger sister of Risa Aoi whose initial indifferent disposition is challenged when she comes into contact with Rin Namiki.

## Appearance

Misa has waist-length purple hair that has violet streaks with a fringe trimmed unevenly across her forehead and icy light-blue eyes.

### Casual

She wears casual clothing including shorts and a pale blue hoodie.

### School

Her school uniform consists of a white short sleeved shirt, a dark mini skirt, lavender colored undergarments and brown laceless shoes.

### Racing

Her racing attire is a wetsuit of shades of blue, with light blue and purple design with short shoes.

## Personality

Misa is not particularly talkative at first, she has no problem with entering a room with a do not enter sign and taking part in a Kandagawa simulation by herself. She expresses frustration when the simulated environment begins to flicker and kicks the machine in frustration.

## Background

Misa is from the Asakusa Girls High School, which she attends together with Rin Namiki.

## Kandagawa Jet Girls Plot

### Episode 1: The Kandagawa is Calling

Lying in bed, Misa receives a call and heads out of her room, progressing into jogging to her destination.

At school Misa glances out the window. She heads into a do not enter area and takes part in a virtual reality practice of Kandagawa. The simulation begins to flicker between two separate environments and she cancels it angry that it is all wrong.

Tending to her injured foot she sees a thief running with Rin's stolen bag. Misa intervenes by tripping the thief and she is livid with him since she used her injured leg to do so.

## Video Game

Her videogame story arc starts with her meeting new roommate Rin Namiki, as the pair share a love of jet racing. She reluctantly agrees to team with Namiki and challenge to win the Kandagawa Cup despite her own worries. Later, as the duo bond and open up, she admits that her sister was once a top jet racer before injury forced her sister to retire. She worries that she would not be able to match the level of skill her sister showed. She, with the help of Namiki, overcomes those worries and wins the Cup, defeating the Sea Serpants in the finals. Before winning a showcase race against Dress afterwards.

She and Namiki play roles in the other teams' stories, ranging from challenging to being challenged to races with varying influence. In her and Namiki's story they defeat Dress in the opening river ownership bet race, but in Dress' story they lose that race. In Grindcore's story they become a rival team, and eventually in the final story become the second team to defeat Grindcore.

## Teams

* Team: Kandagawa Jet Girls
* Jet: Orcano
* Teammate: Rin Namiki

## Relationships

### Rin Namiki

After seeing they were to attend the same dorm and school together, Misa made attempts to avoid her. Seeing Rin stand up for them both and taking part in a Kandagawa event together challenged her views.

## Etymology

* The name **Misa** is written in katakana (ミサ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (美沙, 海沙, 三幸 or 三桜), it could possibly mean:
	+ 美沙 - "beautiful" (美) (**mi**) and "sand" (沙) (**sa**).
	+ 海沙 - "sea, ocean" (海) (**mi**) and "sand" (沙) (**sa**).
	+ 三幸 - "three" (三) (**mi**) and "happiness, good luck" (幸) (**sa**).
	+ 三桜 - "three" (三) (**mi**) and "cherry blossom" (桜) (**sa**).
* Misa's surname **Aoi** means "blue, pale" (蒼) (**ao**) and "well, mine shaft, pit" (井) (**i**).