Sugar✧Rush

**Sugar×Rush**, stylized as **Sugar✧Rush**, is an all-girl band within the Summery universe. The band consists of four members: Toshiko Higashiki on vocals and keyboard, Michi Hamura on sub-vocals and bass, Suzume Asakawa on guitar, and Haru Kuriyama on drums.

## Background

Sugar×Rush was formed by four students from Hanasakigawa Girls' High School. Storywise, their role is a counterpart to CHiSPA in Season 1 of the BanG Dream! anime. Although they formed Sugar×Rush, the four girls rarely partake in band activities.

Their song genre is reminiscent of J-pop and idol music, and they tend to have a cutesy style. As the members of Sugar×Rush don't work on their music regularly, they are relatively inexperienced.

In AMBiTiON's Band Story, the members of Sugar×Rush are minor characters who had been friends with Aki Hoshinomiya since their first year of middle school.  Unfortunately, they also had difficulty relating to Aki due to unclear reasons - Toshiko (Vo. & Key.) believed that it was because of Aki's perfection, and how she seemed out of the leagues of her peers. Upon joining AMBiTiON, Aki momentarily stopped spending time with Sugar×Rush, leading them to reflect on their relationship and temporarily cutting ties with her.

## Members

### Toshiko Higashiki

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  **Japanese name:** 東木 敏子

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Toshiko is a girl with shoulder-length raspberry-red hair and bangs. Her eyes are a cold silver, and there are two white bobby pins clipping one side of her bangs.

Toshiko is a playful person that is notably bad at dealing with serious situations.  According to Michi, she is good with her words. Suzume calls her "To-chan".

### Michi Hamura

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  **Japanese name:** 羽村 美智

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Michi has long, silky, dark blue-gray hair tied into a loose braid that reaches down her back. Her bangs are at eyebrow level. She wears rectangular-framed glasses, and her eyes are deep indigo.

Michi comes across as a level-headed and tranquil person. She is, according to Toshiko, close to Aki. Toshiko calls her "Micchan".

### Suzume Asakawa

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  **Japanese name:** 浅川 雀

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Suzume has brown eyes and a head of fluffy, choppy brown hair at ear level. She also has freckles.

### Haru Kuriyama

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  **Japanese name:** 栗山 ハル

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Haru's hair is sandy blonde and short. Her fringe is choppy. She wears a lime green headband, and her eyebrows are thick. Noticeably, her half-lidded pistachio green eyes are always unfocused.

Chihiro describes her as "usually bumbling around in her own world". According to Toshiko, Haru is soft-spoken and has difficulty wording her thoughts.

## Art

* *For a list of artwork in the Summery Project, see here.*

## Songs

* *For a list of songs in the Summery Project, see here.*

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 2, as said by Aki: "But considering I've known them since middle school, honestly, I'm surprised I only got curious now!"
2. ↑ Chapter 16, as told by narration: "Aki had always felt out of place, ever since she befriended them in the first year of middle school."
3. ↑ AMBiTiON/Story/Ch. 16
4. ↑  Chapter 15, as said by Toshiko: "And you know I suck at being serious!"
5. ↑ Chapter 16, as told by narration: "But if this really was a serious conversation as she'd feared, perhaps they had simply slipped away knowing this would take a while. After all, Toshiko was never good at dealing with this kind of thing."