Ichigo Hoshimiya

### Affiliation

Starlight SchoolSoleil (S1, S2, S3, S4) STAR☆ANIS (S1) Aikatsu8 (S2, S3)2wingS (S2) Dream Star (S2) Cosmos (S4)

## Idol Info

### Singer

Waka from STAR☆ANIS

"*My passionate Idol Activities, 'Aikatsu!' is starting!*"
– Ichigo's anime opening prologue.
**Ichigo Hoshimiya** (星宮 いちご *Hoshimiya Ichigo*) is the main protagonist of the first and second season of the Aikatsu!series and is a student of Starlight School. Ichigo is a cute-type idol whose primary brand is Angely Sugar. Along with Aoi Kiriya and Ran Shibuki, the three are a part of the unit **Soleil**(ソレイユ *Soreiyu*). Later in Episode 93, she and Seira Otoshiro also forned the duo unit 2wingS. As of Aikatsu! The Movie, Ichigo is now the top ranked idol, replacing Mizuki Kanzaki and breaking her three-year streak.

## Bio

Ichigo was a middle school freshman and a coworker of her family's bento shop. She spent most of her time helping out her mother, Ringo Hoshimiya - serving customers with the family's tasteful bento meals. Because of this, she developed an interest in judging food. Her best friend was Aoi Kiriya, an intelligent girl with a knowledge for idols. Ichigo often acknowledged her as an "Idol expert" or "Idol professor," due to her dedication within the random of idols.

Ichigo was generally carefree, and all she did was help out her mother in her bento shop. She wasn't really into being an idol, but after seeing Mizuki's performance with Aoi and her little brother Raichi, who was also a fan of idols, she was inspired by it. Encouraged by Aoi, Raichi, and her mother, Ichigo joined Starlight School to begin her career as an idol.

She is optimistic and works hard to become a top idol. She doesn't have much knowledge about the entertainment world, so she always has Aoi teach her. As she accomplished many activities at Starlight School, Ichigo learns what it means to be a true idol.

When performing her entrance exams, Ichigo was able to perform a Special Appeal as stated by her headmistress, while Aoi was able to answer all questions correctly in the written exam. Her entrance number was 367.

## Appearance

Ichigo has long, wavy blonde hair that reaches her waist. She's almost always seen wearing her trademark red headband with a large, red bow. Her eyes are strawberry red. As a student of Starlight School, she wears a standardized uniform for each season. While exercising, her hair is tied up in pigtails, and she wears a white tracksuit with pink sleeves and accents. When wearing casual clothing, her clothes are usually pink and cute.

As an idol, Ichigo is a cute type who uses Angely Sugar. Despite that, she has worn many coords from other brands; eg. Futuring Girl in Episode 17, Spicy Ageha in Episode 21 and Episode 23, and Swing ROCK in Episode 52 and Episode 53.

## Personality

Ichigo is the typical female anime protagonist. She's a cheerful, gung-ho girl, who's always willing to help out friends and strangers alike. A stubborn airhead, but definitely shares certain characteristics with her mother, Ringo. Her Achilles' heel is that she can push herself too much, which can make her lose sight of her original goal at times. She's very straightforward, and sometimes has difficulty understanding certain situations, but her determination and hard work allow her to overcome any and all obstacles that hinder her. One of Ichigo's most defining personality quirks is her love for food. This is a running gag throughout the series, since there isn't a single dish she dislikes, and she has a humongous appetite, which is a trait she inherited from her father.

Ichigo's personality is known to be most as the moe type, meaning that she is, above all, cute. She displays the some of the most common traits like air-headed-ness, determination, cheerfulness, and in some cases genius-level abilities.

## Relationships

* **Aoi Kiriya**

Aoi has been Ichigo's best friend since 5th grade when they met during a festival after Aoi watched Ichigo dancing to Guppy (an idol) and noticed that she was dancing incorrectly. However, when she saw how much fun Ichigo was having, she soon joined in. Despite the fact that Ichigo relies heavily on her best friend, she always lends a shoulder for Aoi in times of emotional support. Both Ichigo and Aoi, along with Ran; love to have fun in Aikatsu, and Aoi was also Ichigo's group mate in Soleil when the unit was first made.
* **Ran Shibuki**

Ran is Ichigo's other closest friend, as well as the third and last group mate of Soleil. Even after learning about Ran's title (Beautiful Blade) and finding out how cold and cool she was, Ichigo was very persistent with her in hopes of getting to know the model better. Eventually, Ran's ice-queen persona began to melt and slowly, over time, began to warm up to and befriend them. Ran is very tsundere-like with Ichigo and is often the one to called her out on her silly ideas or thoughts.
* **Mizuki Kanzaki**

Mizuki is the one Ichigo admires, and Mizuki herself finds Ichigo very interesting. She sees the potential in Ichigo and because of this, they are rivals but in a friendly manner. In season 2, when Mizuki leaves Starlight School and takes a break as an idol, Ichigo said that she hopes that one day, she can stand on the stage with her again.
* **Raichi Hoshimiya**

Raichi is Ichigo's little brother, who is a huge fan of Mizuki, influencing Ichigo to become a fan herself. He adores the world of idols and has a huge crush on Aoi, but sometimes admits not to have very much confidence in Ichigo as an idol. As the series goes on, he starts to develop more confidence in Ichigo not just as an idol, but as an older sister too.
* **Ringo Hoshimiya**

Ringo is Ichigo's mother. She used to be worried that her own dream influenced Ichigo and because of that wanted her daughter to go and find her own passionate dream to follow. When Raichi informed her that Ichigo wanted to be an idol, Ringo knew that Ichigo thought she was in the way of Ichigo's dream and encouraged her to do what she wanted to do. It is later revealed that she was once part of the legendary idol unit, Masquerade, under the stage name Miya. Her aura is composed of primrose flowers, similar to Ichigo's.
* **Taichi Hoshimiya**

Taichi is Ichigo's father, who is often travelling due to business. He often gives seemingly wild tales about what goes on during his travels. But because he never lies, his stories, however unbelievable they seem, are apparently true. It is said that Ichigo's love of food came from him, and it's also possible that some of her her features were inherited from her father also.
* **Asuka Amahane**

Asuka is the top designer of Angely Sugar, Ichigo's preferred brand, and is a very close friend of both Ichigo and her mother. Ichigo helps out Asuka with many Angely Sugar-related promotions and offers inspiration for her designs.
* **Seira Otoshiro**

Seira is Ichigo's new rival and partner that debuted in Season Two. They continued a friendly rivalry but also built a new friendship. Together, they become a duo unit, named 2wingS and finally defeated Mizuki and Mikuru's unit WM during the Twinkle Star Cup.
* **Akari Ozora**

Akari is one of Ichigo's biggest fans (along with Aoi) and her kōhai. Ichigo saw a light in Akari in her audition performance and continues to see that light. She admits that she often learns something from Akari despite being her mentor, but continues to guide her in her path to idol-dom just as Mizuki did for her.
* **Naoto Suzukawa**

Ichigo and Naoto are shown to have a steady friendship throughout the series. He would often offer her advice and would commonly help her with her ideas no matter how ridiculous they were.
## Etymology

**Hoshimiya** (星宮) **Hoshi**(星) means star. This is probably a reference to her dream to become an Idol. **Miya** (宮)means shrine. As a result, her teacher Johnny Bepp calls her "Star-miya".

**Ichigo** (いちご) means strawberry; it has been noted many times in the anime. This name comes from her mother's name, Ringo, which means apple and is also related to the fact Raichi (Lychee) is also a fruit related name.

## Quotes

* "*Back then, I would have never imagined that I, someone like me, could become an idol!*"– Ichigo Hoshimiya, Episode 1.
* "*This is so much fun! I want to be here forever!*"– Ichigo's first impression as she performed on a stage for the first time.
* "*Love is power!*"– Ichigo, Aoi, Ran, and Otome after passed a Special Audition.
* "*Now I can overcome two meters!*"– Ichigo getting pumped up.
* "*I believe that there's no such thing as a fan you can't see!*"– Ichigo to King in Episode 44
* "*I may be frustrated that I lost, but I'm still unbelievably happy right now. I've been supported by so many people that I'm overflowing with motivation.*"– Ichigo's last words as the Starlight Queen Cup was concluding after Mizuki was declared the winner for the third straight year.
* "*Then I better work hard and pull more ahead so you won't be able to catch up.*"– Episode 52

## Trivia

* Ichigo Hoshimiya Autograph
* Her zodiac sign is Pisces.
* Her favourite foods are nori bento (seaweed bento) and strawberry parfaits.
* She has no food that she doesn't like.
* Her speciality is preparing and cooking food.
* Ichigo, along with Mizuki, Yurika, and Akari, have shown themselves to be the most consistently popular main characters, having made it into all election-determined incarnations of Aikatsu8 and Photokatsu8 since their debut.
* She is the third idol to have a major change in her aura, preceded by Aoi and Ran. As of Episode 64, blue and silver ribbons with a striking resemblance to scales (a possible allusion to Ichigo's first Premium Rare Constellation dress, the Mermaid Pisces Coord), as well as crystal hearts decorated with flowers are added to her aura which spirals around her instead of flowing from her.
* Ichigo's lucky charm is a rice scoop.
	+ In Episode 74 her rice scoop was revealed to be used as a lucky charm by the students of Starlight School after she left for America due to it seemingly possessing powers of luck that have appeared a few times in the series.
* She can tell what type of rice she's eating and how it was cooked with just one bite.
	+ This ability appears to not be limited to just rice as shown in Episode 75 where she accurately determined the flavor of a macaroon with just one bite.
* She is capable of telling time with her stomach.
* In the novel, Ichigo has brown eyes.
* She shares her birthday with Umi Sonoda from Love Live!.
* In Episode 11, she has been shown to be a bad liar.
* Whenever Ichigo has something she can't say, she stuffs her face to keep quiet.
* In Episode 93, Makina, Swing Rock's top designer, revealed that Ichigo was famous in the rock industry, where she's considered to be an "idol with a spine."
* In Season 3, Ichigo replaces Mizuki's position as the top idol of Japan.
* She is one of the three main characters who doesn't share her singing voice with other characters, next to Mizuki, and Yume Nijino from Aikatsu Stars!.
* As of Season 3, she has her own radio talk show called “Ichi-Ichi-Ichigo in the PM”.
* She is the third idol to use an object (the Crystal Mic in Aikatsu! The Movie) in a performance, followed by Miyabi Fujiwara who used fans in hers and preceded by Yurika and Seira, who both used a microphone.
* She is the second idol to change her Premium Rare pose after going through the fitting room.
	+ This makes her the third person overall to change one of her ending poses.
* Ichigo is 157cm tall as of Season 2.
* Her bow is similar to Chitoge Kirisaki from the Nisekoi series.
* Her full name resembles Ichigo Momomiya, a character in another shoujo series Tokyo Mew Mew.
	+ Coincidentally, Ichigo shares her birthday with Ichigo Momomiya.
* She shares her voice actress with Tsubasa Kisaragi from the Aikatsu Stars! series and Coco from the Aikatsu Friends! series.

## Gallery

* **Pink Torte Coord**

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* **Baby Pink Frill Coord**

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* **Twinkle Angel Coord**

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* **Ribbon House Coord**

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* **Ice Blue Frill Coord**

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