Akiko Hoshi

**Akiko Hoshi** (星明子) is a character from the Kyojin no Hoshi series. She is the daughter of Ittetsu Hoshi and is the older sister of Hyūma Hoshi.

## Akiko Hoshi

* M-Portrait
* M-Full

## Relationships

### Relatives

* Hyūma Hoshi - Younger brother
* Ittetsu Hoshi - Father
* Harue Hoshi - Mother

## Misc.

### Voice actor

Fuyumi Shiraishi (白石冬美)

**SPOILERS***WARNING! This article contains spoilers!*(*Yuke! Yuke! Hyūma!*)

## Profile

### Appearance

Akiko's physical appearance resembles her mother who passed away.

### Background

Akiko Hoshi is the daughter of Ittetsu and Harue, and is the older sister of Hyūma. She works as a housewife in the motherless Hoshi family and supports Ittetsu and Hyūma, who both devoted themselves to baseball. For Hyūma, she is a substitute for his mother. Her life is often swayed by both her father and younger brother. Once Hyūma becomes independent, Akiko leaves Ittetsu. At one point in time, she lived with Hyūma in an apartment, but once Akiko believes that she is hindering Hyūma's independence, she decides to leave him. After that, when Chūta Ban's trade story surfaced, and after Mitsuru Hanagata captured Dai League Ball No. 2, she appeared and encouraged them. Because of Akiko's modesty and strength, Hanagata, her brother's rival, and Ban, Hyūma's best friend, both fell in love with her. In the anime version, her childhood is also depicted, and it turned out that she was born while Ittetsu went to war, and since it was the first time she met Ittetsu who had returned home, she did not know who he was at first.

#### Relationship with Mitsuru Hanagata

She meets Mitsuru Hanagata at a gas station where she works part-time and they become attracted to each other. They meet again at the All-Star Game, and Hanagata tells her about his past. After Hyūma left the baseball world and disappeared, she finally accepted a proposal from Hanagata, who had retired from the baseball world and became an executive of the Hanagata Motors company, and she then married into the Hanagata family. In the sequel, "Shin Kyojin no Hoshi," Akiko was saddened to see her husband Hanagata return to the baseball world while following after Hyūma, and she was also sad that even the aging Ittetsu returned to the path of baseball as well. In the anime version, Hanagata and Hyūma have known each other since Hyūma was a student, and in the gas station scene above, the conversation is slightly changed because it was not their first time meeting, and the scene where they meet again is not depicted in the All-Star game scene either.

#### Different Development of the Manga and Anime

In the original "Shin" story, her appearance ends with a scene in which she grieves over the fact that her family members have returned to the path of baseball.

On the other hand, in the anime "Shin II," she gave birth to Hanagata's child and became a mother at the same time as Ittetsu's death. In the final scene, she and Hanagata see Hyūma off to America.

## Gallery

#### Anime:

Kyojin no Hoshi anime opening. Ittetsu Hoshi & Hyūma Hoshi both do rabbit jump training as Akiko peers from behind a tree and cries.
## Quotes

> 「前略―今の飛雄馬にせめて姉としてこの言葉を贈ります。幸福は肉体の健康によろしい。だが精神力を発達させるのは心の悲しみである―（プルースト「見出されし時」より）」 ("*Omitted - I would at least give these words to the present Hyūma as an older sister. "Happiness is good for your physical health. But it is the sorrow of the heart that develops the strength of the mind." - (from Proust's "The Time Found")*
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>  「わかったわどこが似てるかっ。ど…どちらもただ野球をやるための人形みたいなの。投げるそして打つようにゼンマイを巻かれた野球人形のムードなんだわ」("*Okay, so what's the resemblance? But...they're both just like dolls for playing baseball. It's the mood of a baseball doll wound with a spring to throw and hit.*")
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>  「青春って、子どもから大人になるって…つらいことなのね。厳しいことなのね。純粋に生きようとすればするほど…あなたに道を踏み違えてほしくない一心からですから許して…伴さん！」 ("*Youth is going from being a child to becoming an adult… it’s a tough thing, isn’t it? The more purely I try to live, the more I want to forgive you... Ban-san!*")
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## Trivia

* She serves as a mother figure for Hyūma Hoshi.
* She plays an apologetic role when her father causes trouble in the neighborhood and she often takes everything upon herself. She is humble and quietly endures everything, but she's tough, stubborn and proud as well. As for her story later, she shows an unexpected intelligent side by strongly admonishing and reprimanding Hyūma Hoshi and her companion with her literary maxims.
* Throughout the series, she watches Hyūma from the sidelines with concern and is often known for peering behind a tree while crying (which has been parodied countless times in other medias.)
* In 2010, Akiko Hoshi and other characters appearing in "Kyojin no Hoshi" were used as promotional characters for i-townpages operated by NTT TownPage Corporation.
* From late January 2012 onward, the KDDI/Okinawa Cellular Telephone Association, which operates the au brand, has been using Akiko Hoshi and other characters from the Kyojin no Hoshi series as promotional characters. Akiko also appears as an au store clerk and cheerleader.

#### Appears in:

* Kyojin no Hoshi (Manga)
* Shin Kyojin no Hoshi (Manga)
* Kyojin no Hoshi
* Shin Kyojin no Hoshi
* Shin Kyojin no Hoshi Ⅱ

## References

1. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20050226142153/http://www.whv.jp/title/kyojin/chara/003.html

## External Links

* JPN Warner Bros. Kyojin no Hoshi DVD release 2002 (Archive)
* https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/星明子