Kanata Ichigoya

**Kanata Ichigoya (苺谷星空)** is a secondary character in *Confession Executive Committee*, and a second year high school student. Together with partner Asuka Kaido, he aims to debut as an idol, eventually doing so as a member of the idol duo ASCANA. In reality, Kanata is a virtual personality affiliated with Virtual Johnny's Project, and was retired as a character and virtual personality in late 2021.

## Appearance

He is a boy with dark blue hair and dark brown eyes.

## Personality and Actions

Kanata is described as a cheerful and innocent boy with a sweet smile and strong character. He is very playful, joking around whenever possible, and is not afraid to show enthusiasm. There are times when his enthusiasm reaches its limits, such as when he ends his livestreams a few minutes later than scheduled. Asuka often scolds him because of this.

While he is a loyal and supportive friend, academically he is not one to write home about.

## Relationships

#### Asuka Kaido

Kanata's schoolmate and junior by one year, as well as longtime friend. It is still unknown how Asuka and Kanata met each other, but they are curently living together and are each other's partner in idol activities.
Kanata thinks that the gap between Asuka's cool prince image and his *tsundere* personality alongside his lacking drawing ability is really adorable, which is why Kanata is very fond of him despite Asuka rebuffing him. Once he tried to find which bookstore Asuka currently works part-time at because Asuka wouldn't tell him so he checked every single bookstores in the neighborhood. Although fans said that such behavior is creepy, he justified himself by saying that he did that so he could know whether Asuka's doing well at work or not.
He also likes to tease Asuka. Since he knows that Asuka's drawing skill isn't really that good, he likes to show Asuka's art off in his Showroom livestreams, most of the times without Asuka's consent. He was even willing to find the key to Asuka's bedroom to "borrow" one of his newest arts and show it off to the Showroom viewers. Kanata claims that he has no ill-intention whenever he does it because he does think Asuka's art is interesting and he wants to show the world how cute the gaps between his cool persona are.
On Asuka's part, he is outwardly annoyed by Kanata's antics and chastises him for not behaving like a proper upperclassman. However, there are times when Kanata properly supports his partner, such as being there to comfort Asuka when his loved one died or doing household chores. He admits that they do have small fights sometimes, but they usually move on quickly.
#### Riku Maeda

The manager of ASCANA. Kanata and Maeda go to different schools, but they are in the same grade and occasionally hang out. Maeda is also the person who convinced Asuka and him to participate in the idol audition.
Unlike Asuka, who refers to Maeda somewhat respectfully, Kanata gives him the casual nickname "Maecchi".
#### LIP×LIP

Yujiro and Aizo are fellow idols, and both consider Asuka and Kanata their rivals. Kanata finds the two of them to be "cute".
## Etymology

* The name **Kanata** means "starry sky" (星空).
* Kanata's surname **Ichigoya** means "strawberry" (苺) (**ichigo**) and "valley" (谷) (**ya**).

## Trivia

* He likes boba tea.
* Since he lives together with Asuka, he cooks for both of them.
* He is a morning person.
* He once incorrectly said Yamako's name more than once during his early Showroom livestreams, calling the illustrator "Hanako". He covered this mistake by saying that "Hanako" is the name of a classmate at school.
* He is also known for constantly saying the wrong word for "Hashtag", saying "Flashtag" instead. Though many fans have pointed this out and Kanata himself has acknowledged this mistake, Kanata has never bothered to correct it.
* Fans deem that Kanata is better at drawing than Asuka, to which Asuka agreed.
* He is currently working part time at a cake shop. Sometimes he talks about his senior at his part time job, whose name is Yuya, in his Showroom livestreams.