Kokomi Sakurai

* Heroine
* Anime

> "*My heart is fluttering!*"
> ― Kokomi
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**Kokomi Sakurai** (桜衣ココミ) from Secret x Heroine Phantomirage! is a bright and energetic first year middle schooler who loves to see people smile. She transforms into the pink secret heroine, "Phantomi Heart".

## Biography

### Appearance

Kokomi is a short girl and wears her long black hair in twin-tails, tied with pink hairbands almost all the time, and has see-through bangs.

Her casual outfits consist of cute and girly outfits, mostly with the color pink. Reflecting on her cheerful and girly personality, she wears skirts, shorts, and such. She is always wearing her golden key necklace like the others and is always with her pink Phantomi Ring.

When in her school uniform, she wears a white short-sleeved polo shirt underneath a knee-length navy dress. Like the others, she has a red bow on her collar.

As a Phantomi, Kokomi wears her hair in the signature high twin tails on either side of her head. She has pink streaks that go down her hair. On her head, she wears a top hat tilted to the side. She wears boots accented with the colors black and light pink. On her knee-high socks, there are four trump suit patterns, in the order ♥♦♣♠, under the Phantomirage pattern at each of the sides. Kokomi wears a pink bow across her neck with a short cape covering her shoulders. In the middle of her chest, she has a pink heart for body armor and her waist is has black girdle armor with two triangular-shaped materials below that extend forward. Her skirt has 3 layers each with a different tint of pink. On her left arm, she wears her transformation item and on both hands, she wears a glove that only covers her pointer finger. She has white nail polish on her pinky, white and pink nail polish on her ring finger, and pink nail polish on her middle finger.

In her Kizuna Form, her hair is still the same, but now has a different black hat with a gold bow sitting on her head instead, and her hair accessories changed from pink to gold. She also wears a white-based outfit, with a golden heart in the middle with the Phantomirage symbol at the center. Her sleeves are white with alternating colors of all four Phantomirage. The suits of the others can also be seen under the golden heart. Her skirt has two layers, a pink and white outer armor, and a bottom layer that has alternating purple, pink, blue, and red colors each with golden seams that are decorated with the Phantomirage suits of that particular color. She wears black and pink gloves that cover two of her fingers. On her back, she gains a white-winged cape with a pink ribbon between the wings. Her eye side masks also change from pink to gold. Her legs and feet are seldom seen, but the patterns in her knee-length socks also change color from pink to their respective Phantomi colors, with the Phantomirage emblem becoming gold, and her shoes become elevated.

In the style of anime and manga, Kokomi has very dark pink hair with light pink streaks, and pink eyes with hearts in the manga. Everything else remains the same. She has eye makeup in the manga and no eye makeup in the anime.

### Personality

Positive and energetic, Kokomi is one who never gets down or upset. She likes to smile and see people smile too. Having a desire to bring smiles to everyone, she keeps being positive, which leads to the Phantomi Wristy choosing her to become Phantomi Heart. Due to her optimistic and energetic personality, she makes friends very easily. She does not give up on things easily, sort of stubborn, and always stays hopeful. This is shown when she kept trying to befriend Seira and Sarai, both taking a while before they ended up being friends.

Kind and having the mindset that everybody could be her friend, this was shown when Kokomi was trying to reach out to Sarai, and realizing that her kindness towards Sarai was her treasure, and one of her greatest qualities.

A scatterbrain and a bit clumsy, Kokomi is prone to be a bit of an airhead, and this was proven when she had accidentally eaten too many cherry tomatoes and had a stomachache. She has also nearly revealed her identity a few times, having her teammates cover her mouth or remind her instantly. Goofy and silly, Kokomi also likes making jokes in order to see people smile and laugh.

A lover of cute things, Kokomi constantly calls things cute - such as squishies and cute babies, and has a girly heart.

### Relationships

Saki Asumi - Kokomi's best friend. The two are really close and have known each other for a long time. Saki was a fan of Phantomirage prior to becoming one since she didn't know that Kokomi was the Phantomi herself. After transforming into Phantomi Spade, the two became a duo for a little while.

Shinichi Sakurai - Kokomi's dad, and the reason as to why she became a Phantomi. Her father was the first known victim to the Reverse Police and because of this, she transformed into Phantomi Heart in order to take back his cool heart. When he went to the Amazon, he ended his letter with "I will always be with you", showing the two have a close father-daughter relationship. Their close relationship is often seen whenever he is turned into an Ikenaier, where Kokomi immediately becomes defensive, wanting to protect him.

Megumi Sakurai - Kokomi's mom. The two have a close bond and was proven when Kokomi traveled back in time, seeing her mom who made Kokomi's favorite hat and seeing Kokomi happy, which inspired her to go become a hat designer, in which she did, and even became famous because of it. The two have a close relationship despite not always together.

Yotsuba Shizuki - First encountering Yotsuba at school, she was shocked when she heard she wanted to be a Phantomi. However, she admired how Yotsuba had a strong will to protect those she loved. Yotsuba joins the group eventually, making the duo a trio.

Seira Kureha - After hearing that there was a possibility of a fourth Phantomirage due to their card suits, she made it her goal to become friends with her.[*citation needed*] Even when Seira shunned her and refused to work as a team, she was adamant and persistent. In the end, Seira realized how important it was to work in a team and joined the group, to Kokomi's joy.

Sarai - With Sarai's first appearance, Kokomi refused to befriend her and made her job to defeat her. However, when Sarai stole Kokomi's hat, she wanted to become friends with her. After learning her mother became best friends with someone who didn't like her, Kokomi thought she could become friends with Sarai too. With the doll ikenaiers taking over, Sarai told her that she would stop doing bad things and become her friend, but instead turned into Dark Sarai after learning her origin from SakaSama. Yet, Kokomi doesn't give up. Even when Sarai becomes a Lovepatrina, Kokomi remains to be a close friend to her.

### Etymology

Kokomi (ココミ) has no particular meaning but it could mean "beautiful heart" when the kanji "心美" is used, fitting her motif.

Sakurai (桜衣) means Cherry Blossom Garments. With Sakura (桜) meaning Cherry Blossom and Koromo (衣) meaning garments.

## History

Kokomi was born to a family of 3, to a quite well-known family, having her dad owning a famous café, and her mom is a famous hat designer. It was later revealed that she was the reason in which her mom decided to be a hat designer. Despite her parents being busy all the time, they share a very close and loving relationship as a family.

As stated by herself, Kokomi is a very normal first-year middle schooler at Twinkle Middle School. She is also a striving 'Metuber" along with her best friend, Saki Asumi.

## Synopsis

### Becoming a Phantomi

While outside one day as a normal student, Kokomi spots Kumachi falling from a large keyhole in the sky. Curious, she runs into a toy store, she follows the strange creature and catches him pretending to be one of the toys. Looking and then looking away repeatedly, she eventually spots Kumachi moving. The Reverse Police then try to target her, and they end up in a big chase, but luckily she and Kumachi escaped just in time. She then spots her dad who was giving out treats at the side of the road, but he was turned into an 'Ikenaier' by the Reverse Police. Instead of delicious treats, they were replaced with chili-flavoured cakes, making everyone upset. Wanting to protect everybody's smiles and her father, she was then chosen by the Phantomi Wristy to become a Phantomirage member. She transforms into Phantomi Heart for the first time, surprised for a while, before purifying her father immediately.

Despite being excited to tell everyone her identity, she is unable to due to the orders from Phandy, who says something awful will occur if their identities were to be revealed. Kumachi then proceeds to tell her she'll turn into popcorn if she does. This is later spread to the other Phantomirage members. She had to keep it a secret from her best friend and huge Phantomi fan, Saki Asumi, who later joins her as a Phantomirage, making her overjoyed that she wouldn't have to keep the secret anymore and get to fight evil along with her best friend.

Soon, they met Yotsuba who wanted to become a Phantomi to protect her loved ones. This surprises Kokomi and Saki when they meet her for the first time. Eventually, Yotsuba gains her Phantomi Wristy and transforms into Phantomi Clover for the first time, making the duo a trio.

### Teaming up with Phantomi Diamond

Kokomi is then told by Yotsuba and Saki that they think there's a 4th member because they all resemble card suits. Noticing that the Diamond is missing, they plan to find her but Phandy tells them the Phantomi Dial has gone missing.[*citation needed*] A mysterious girl in red appears, giving them test after test, disguising herself as people.

Revealing herself to be Seira, Kokomi asks if she would like to join them but she refuses. Kokomi, however, refuses to back down and continues to befriend her and make her their teammate. After Seira goes on a mission on her own, she returns to the cafe to ask why they respectively became a Phantomi. Kokomi explains that she wanted to protect people's smiles. Realizing that everybody joined because of their own reasons, Seira agrees to join, to Kokomi's delight.

### Kizuna Style & Her Treasure

After informed by Phanguri, Phandy's brother tells them about the Kizuna Key that makes them invincible, Kokomi tells Phandy that the key has lost its power, and in order to do revive the key, they need to find their own treasure, with the Phantomi Time helping them.

After Saki, Yotsuba and Seira had found their treasure, it was only Kokomi who needed to find her treasure next. She sees her mom on TV, and sees a treasure box, and suspects that her treasure is inside. She pays a visit to her mom, Megu Sakurai, who is a famous hat designer. Kokomi brings the chest back to the café and uses the Akechau key to open it. In it, she finds her hat which she loved wearing as a child that her mom made. She suddenly gets transported back in time where she sees her past mom put the hat on her past self. The hat makes them both very happy. Other people notice the hat so her mom finally gets the courage to become a professional hat designer.

Sarai, however, steals the hat. She promises to give it back if they play together, so they have a dance battle. She still wants to play so she attacks with Ikenai Power but is blocked by the Mamoru key. Kokomi says that Sarai is the only one having fun. It's better to play games where they both have fun. She asks for the hat back but Sarai breaks her promise since breaking promises is a bad thing, something her papa would like. Kokomi ends up having her treasure being stolen.

Kokomi tries to befriend Sarai, but couldn't since Sarai was only made to do bad things for her papa. As Sarai throws her hat on the ground, Kokomi states that she still wants to be Sarai's friend. Her kindness towards Sarai was her treasure, and they ended up using Kizuna Style to purify the ikenaier. Kokomi then finds out that she can use Kizuna Style even alone, because of the bond the girls share.

## Quotes

> "*My heart is fluttering!*"
> ― Kokomi's catchphrase
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> "*So quit being the Reverse Police, and become an actor.*"
> ― Kokomi finishing Yotsuba and Seira's encouragement, to Officer Magyakku
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> "*I am already your friend!*"
> ― Kokomi tells Sarai after she asks if she’ll be her friend though she may be a doll
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## Phantomirage

### Style Changes

* Phantomi Heart
* Kizuna Style

> "*Secret Showtime! 3 2 1 OK! Phantomi Heart, Kokomi!*"
> ― Transformation Phrase
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**Phantomi Heart** (ファントミハート) is Kokomi's base Phantomirage style accessed through her Phantomi Wristy and her Heart Phantomi Ring.

#### Transformation

When transforming, Kokomi holds up her wrist to reveal the Phantomi Wristy as she also says it's name. It begins to spin and light up revealing Kokomi in white attire saying "Secret showtime!". Activating the transformation with the Phantomi Ring, she spins it and poses. A black mask covers her eyes and disappears revealing her eye make up. She looks at the camera and smiles. As she counts the numbers, she taps the Phantomi Wristy. When saying three, her hat appears, as she says two her skirt appears and as she says one she appears in full attire. The heart suit on her chest is enlarged on the screen as she pops out landing in a cute pose saying, "Okay! One, two!". She continues the transformation with a dance in a large room with a rainbow background with cherry blossoms. Behind that are the 4 club suits. Diamond, spade, heart, and clover with the colors of blue, red, pink and purple. She completes the transformation by saying "Phantomi Heart, Kokomi!" and "My Heart is Fluttering!". Outside of the transformation, she says her catchphrase "Secret x Heroine! Phantomirage! Will take that uncool heart!", fully finishing her transformation.

> "*Phantomi Time! Phantomi Heart! My heart is f-f-fluttering!*"
> ― Transformation Phrase
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**Kizuna Style** (キズナスタイル) is a Style Change that the Phantomirage can access using the Phantomi Time.

#### Transformation

Phantomi Heart inserts the Kizuna Key in the Phantomi Time and shares her powers with Phantomi Spade, Phantomi Clover, and Phantomi Diamond. In rare occasions, the Phantomi Time, through the Kizuna Key, summons duplicates of the three other Phantomis manifests to assist her when they are not physically available. The Phantomis (or their duplicates) then gives their powers to Phantomi Heart and absorbed by the Phantomi Time, creating a heart shaped film that envelops Kokomi. She then jumps out of the heart already equipped in her Kizuna Style uniform, saying her catchphrase and announcing the completion of the Kizuna Style transformation.

#### Special Abilities

In this form, Phantomi Heart can use the Phantomi Time to manifest her "ideal weapon" that suits her wishes.

### Items

* **Phantomi Wristy (ファントミリスティ):** A transformation brace which she uses with Phantomi Rings and the Himitsu Keys.
* **Phantomi Ring (ファントミリング):** A Ring-shaped Transformation Trinket.
* **Phantomi Trick (ファントミトリック):** A weapon that is shaped like a key which is used to purify evil hearts.
* **Phantomi Final (ファントミフィナール):** A gun-like weapon that which is used to purify evil hearts.
* **Phantomi Time (ファントミタイム):** A clock-like item that is inserted in the Phantomi Final.
* **Kizuna Key (キズナキー):** A key that allows her to transform in Kizuna Style.
* **Lovepat Yell (ラブパトエール):** A megaphone device used to give cheers to the Lovepatrinas. Mirage Mirage received theirs in Lovepatrina ep10.

## References

1. ↑ 『プリ☆チャン』『ファントミラージュ!』がコラボ 7・28放送 (June 13, 2019)
2. ↑ *Phantomirage* Episode 5
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *Phantomirage* Episode 15
4. ↑ *Phantomirage* Episode 32
5. ↑ *Phantomirage* Episode 35
6. ↑ *Phantomirage* Episode 1
7. ↑ *Phantomirage* Episode 2