Asa Asakura

Asa Asakura is a member of the I MY ME group Sunrise Girls! She acts as the group's center.

## Background

    Asa was born on April 3rd to Sayoko Asakura and an unknown father. Forced to care for a child on her own, Sayoko worked hard as a cleaner in the local office buildings only for them to barely scrape by in a tiny apartment, eventually coming to resent the daughter she blamed for their circumstances. Asa would grow up largely alone as her mother worked long hours and frequently stayed out very late. Though this would sound tragic for many children, Asa never really minded, as solitude was better than her mother's cruel gaze and unkind words. Instead she would spend long hours watching anime and television dramas, imagining herself to be one of the damsels in distress waiting for a hero to come rescue her from her lonely existence.

    It wasn't until Asa was nearly in middle school that she started making any real friends, but due to her brash and uncultured personality these friendships were often short lived, causing her to stop going out of her way to be kind to any of the other girls at school. Having never been taught much in the way of proper manners and having difficulties studying which she didn't know how to address, Asa eventually learned that the only route she had to get attention from the other girls at school was to tease them mercilessly, a tactic which saw her expelled after helping cut off the braid of a younger schoolmate. It was shortly after she entered middle school that Asa discovered a second method of getting the attention she craved, though this time it was from the boys in her class. Blossoming quickly into an attractive, well-endowed teen, Asa learned easily that she could use her cuteness to wrap boys around her little finger. For the first time Asa started to thrive socially, soaking in the attention of the boys in her school and reaping a great many gifts as she doled out her own attention back to them liberally, going on many dates to the local malls, festivals, and restaurants.

    It was on one such date that Asa attended her first idol concert - a showstopping performance by a new idol named Eimi Inagawa. Seeing how not just a few boys, but in fact an entire concert venue was fawning over her, Asa's eyes were opened to levels of adoration which she never knew were even possible. Asa saw Eimi as not just an idol but as a modern day princess, and she was in awe. From that day on she modeled herself after her new idol, bleaching her black hair blonde and wearing it in twintails, and over the next few years Asa saw her popularity at school expand tremendously - even among the girls who previously seemed to hate her. She knew that they weren't really her friends and only liked her because she was popular with boys, but she didn't mind. Even fake friends were better than sitting at home alone again. One of Asa's favorite activities was frequenting karaoke parlors with these 'friends', and as luck would have it she possessed a measure of natural talent at both singing and dancing. It was on one such outing that she was overheard by a talent scout for I MY ME. Offering her a spot in their next training class, Asa felt that her dreams could finally come true. Not to become an idol specifically, but to get away from a home life that had only gotten worse over the years. The chance to learn how to bring even more boys under her sway was merely the cherry on top of the sundae.

    Asa passed her training easily, even drawing the attention of a producer who staked his claim before she had officially passed her exams, calling her "the next Eimi Inagawa" - praise which she ate up and believed wholeheartedly. Despite already being signed, when she received an invitation to audition to become one of Interlunium's new members she jumped at the chance - the opportunity to meet her idol and audition to be in the same group as Eimi was too good to ignore - but was turned away by Eimi Inagawa and Dam-Bi Han before she could even perform because of her similarity to Eimi, an action which made Asa bitterly oppose the group and loathe her former hero. Shortly after this occurred Asa met two of the other rejected applicants - Aoi Yoshioka and Minori Takagi - and convinced her producer Kouji Kumasawa to let them form their own group.

## Appearance

    Asa is an attractive, amply developed girl with dark brown eyes and long, dyed blonde hair. She tends to wear outfits which showcase her physique and most often styles her hair into long twintails like her former idol Eimi Inagawa. Her image color is tangerine.

## Personality

    Asa has a brash and crude personality, prone to using harsh language and behaviors unbefitting an idol. She is very proud of her appearance and tends to hold a grudge against any slights, and is known to her friends as being a bit boy crazy. At times she can be grating, and her friends often have to steer her tactfully onto productive topics as she tries to take control of the group through sheer force of personality. Still, Asa is determined to do whatever it takes to be a successful idol, much to the frequent embarrassment of her group mates.

## Other Data

Her blood type is B-.

Asa was created based on the concept "what if you ordered Eimi Inagawa from a knockoff website?"