Sakuya Shirayuri

**Sakuya Shirayuri** (白百合さくや, *****Sakuya Shirayuri*****) is a main character of the Aikatsu Friends! series.She is a student at Moonlit Night Academy. Sakuya is a cool-type idol whose preferred brand is Luna Witch.

## Bio

### Appearance

Sakuya's hair color is bluish grey (very light blue in DCD) with a dark blue gradient; her hair reach to elbows. Sakuya's bangs are symmetrical and straight, while the rest is wavy. [To be expanded]

### Personality

By her nature, Sakuya easily gets embarassed or lonely.　While she's fairly shy and airheaded, she has excellent acting skills, with which she gathers people around her dignified persona. Sakuya has a skill of being able to fall asleep anywhere.

### Background

Sakuya has earned herself a nickname of 'The Idol Who Came From The Moon'. She runs a popular fortune telling site, titled 'The Other Side of the Moon'.Sakuya is a typical 'chunnibyou' idol around people, and claims to be born on the moon itself.

## Relationships

* Pure Palette - Sakuya is a very shy person, and was helped out by Aine and Mio on her fist visit to Penguin Cafe. She then became fast friends with the lively Aine and even gave Pure Palette a fortune reading. Aine and Mio thoroughly supported her throughout their group audition which seemed to boost Sakuya's confidence as well.
* Kaguya Shirayuri - Sakuya and Kaguya are twins, with Sakuya being the older one.

## Etymology

* **Shirayuri** (白百合)
	+ Literally 'white lily'
* **Sakuya** (さくや)
	+ Due to the hiragana writing, there is no confirmed meaning of the name. One of the most widely known rendition is 咲夜 ('flowering night') Moreover, 昨夜 (usually read as 'yuube', but also read as 'Sakuya') can be used as 'last night'.

## Trivia

* Sakuya shares her birth date with Nozomi Toujou from the Love Live! franchise.
	+ Coincidentially, both Nozomi and Sakuya tell fortunes.
* Sakuya shares similarities with her sister Kaguya
	+ They are identical twins (This is proven from Episode 19 where Mio cannot distinguish Kaguya from Sakuya.
	+ They share the same hair colors with Sakuya's gradients being inversed for Kaguya
	+ They are both fortune tellers, however Sakuya uses dice and Kaguya uses a seer's glass sphere.\*Kaguya shares similarities with her sister Sakuya
	+ They are identical twins (This is proven from Episode 19 where Mio cannot distinguish Kaguya from Sakuya.
	+ They share the same hair colors with Sakuya's gradients being inversed for Kaguya
	+ They are both fortune tellers, however Sakuya uses dice and Kaguya uses a seer's glass sphere.
* She likes singing, plays, and acting/theatregoing.
* Sakuya professionally specializes in fortune telling.
* Sakuya also does balle
* She is able to fall asleep anywhere.
* Sakuya shares her hair color and first name with Sakuya Izayoi from Touhou Project.
* She shares her hair color, as well as the so called 'chuunibyou' personality with Michiru Kouda from Idol Time Pripara.
* Sakuya also shares her first name with Sakuya Shirase from iDOLM@STER Shiny Colors, the latter's name is in kanji.
* Sakuya is the only idol in Aikatsu Friends to not be in a Friends unit as of now.
* Sakuya is the twelfth character in the entire franchise to have dual-colored hair, following Sora Kazesawa, Mikuru Natsuki, Rin Kurosawa and Nina Dōjima from the original Aikatsu! series, as well Tsubasa Kisaragi, Yozora Kasumi, Lily Shirogane, Elza Forte and Kirara Hanazono from Aikatsu Stars!, as well as Aine Yūki and Mio Minato.
	+ Following Sora, Nina, Yume, Yozora, Lily, Aine and Mio, she's the eighth character in the franchise with gradient hair.
* Sakuya is the fourth goth-themed idol in the Aikatsu! franchise.
* Sakuya has multiple similiarities with Yurika Tōdō, Sumire Hikami and Lily Shirogane
	+ All four of them are goth-typed idols
	+ All four of them are cool typed idols, and have theme colors in the shade of blue or green
	+ Both Sakuya and Sumire are experts at fortune-telling, although Sumire only does it for a hobby
	+ Sakuya shares appearance wise-similarities with Lily
	+ All four of them have bangs cut to the top of their forehead.
	+ Sakuya and Yurika are both classified as 'chunnibyou'-typed.
	+ Sakuya and Lily both start as second years in their respective idol schools
	+ All four of them are muses of gothic brands, however Yurika and Sumire are the muses of a common brand
	+ The first Premium Rare coords of all four of them are themed dark blue

## Gallery

*Main article: Sakuya Shirayuri/Image gallery*