Aiko Hanazuki

**Aiko Hanazuki** (花月 愛子, *Hanazuki Aiko*) is the main character and protagonist in *Pretty Country: Magical Life of Three Towns*. She is a Lovely idol using pink as her theme colour.

Her alter ego is **Angel France**, an angel with the elements of desserts and pink hearts. She speaks in a beautiful voice and uses Lovely pink magical wand as her weapon.

## Characteristics

### Appearance

Aiko has fair skin with long pink hair in twin buns with two pink hair bows. She wears pale pink ribbon earrings with pompoms. Aiko is always depicted with her eyes closed, but reveals her pink eyes in several episodes.

In spring and summer, Aiko wears a pale pink blouse beneath pink dress with a white rabbit attached on the bow, a print of five white rabbits on the bottom, and white petticoat. They are paired with white frilly socks and pink Mary Jane shoes. For autumn and winter, Aiko switches to wearing a pink dress with fur collar and darker-coloured ribbon attached in the middle. She also wears pink lace-up boots.

### Personality

Aiko is a childish and somewhat stubborn girl who sometimes has difficulty understanding certain situations. However, she determination and hard work allow her to overcome all quests that prevent her. Aiko also can be oblivious, causing her to learn what is happening.

## History

### Early Life

Aiko lives with her triplet older brothers at the Rose Fleur Patisserie, where she is in charge of delivering pastries on bicycle to the residents. Her parents died when she was young and Aiko has since been taken care of her older brothers. She has a pet cat named Yani.

Instead of speaking, she communicates with giggling, growling, gasping, and short words like "Hello!", "Ta-da!", and "Yoo-hoo!" Despite this, Natsuki states that Aiko has a lovely singing voice in MLoTT91. In MLoTT97, Aiko is singing like a soprano in the karaoke. Both she and Pierre sing in MLoTT110, but their voices are completely different than the usual noises they make.

### Becoming a magical idol

Initially, Aiko did not understand what made Universe Shows amazing when her triplet older brothers asked her to buy fruits from the supermarket. Whilst shopping, Aiko met another idol named Mio Nanairogaoka, with whom she tried to avoid running until they were scouted by Léopold Coudet.

Before leaving, Aiko was quickly forced to perform on stage with Mio, where she froze until she began to watch her debut. Aiko reminded herself to have courage, and discovered that she felt something she had never experienced off-stage, making her debut date earned her a spot as a member of Universtars. Later, Aiko was shocked when Ren saw her victory and became the third member to be revealed. She admires Ren and was eager to see her, leading Ren to become closer the two girls as she got to know them.

### Forming a Girl Group

After the announcement of the Universe Queen Cup, Aiko and Ren were surprised after Coudet agreed with their plans to form I.C. Latina alongside Yuzu, Iori. Since then, they went on to perform together in various programmes and do new activities. In MLoTT-S4, Rui, Kanon, and Futaba were introduced as new members of IC Latina with the group being renamed to LA7IN, making it a group of seven members.

## Etymology

**Hanazuki** (花月): *Hana* (花) means "flower" and *Zuki* (月, *tsuki*) means "moon".

**Aiko** (愛子): *Ai* (愛) means "love", referring to her love of pastries, while *Ko* (子) means "child".

## Relationships

* Hanazuki Triplets: Aiko is close to her triplet older brothers, always helping them what she can. In return, they will sometimes help her with love and idol career.
* Pierre Choux: Aiko is known for being very clingy to Pierre and constantly chasing him whenever she sees him much to his annoyance. She will do anything to be with Pierre and protect him when he is in danger.
	+ Besides Pierre, several other boys are also interested on her in the anime, including his Wild West incarnation in MLoTT44, famous child actor named Gerard Heeney in MLoTT90, a talking Pierre in MLoTT125, and Mexican boy named José in MLoTT159. However, none of them won her heart because Aiko admits that she loves Pierre more than anyone else.
* Ren Harumiya: The two maintain good relationships as Aiko goes to Ren for advice and she usually goes to her for tips in cooking.
* Yuriko Fujimiya: Aiko and Yuriko are shown to maintain good relationships throughout the series. No matter how ridiculous they are, will often offer her advice and commonly help her with her ideas.
* Lucy Haywood: Aiko made Lucy upset at first, but befriended her after inviting Aiko to hang out. In return, Lucy enjoys playfully teasing Aiko.
* Natsuki Aizawa is supportive of Aiko and Pierre's romantic relationship.
* Iori Kurosawa and Aiko get along well as teammates.
* Yuzu Miyama: Being teammates, Yuzu supports Aiko whatever she can. The two are seen hanging out at one point when Natsuki and Ren cannot accompany Aiko.
* Kanon Shijimi supports Aiko's relationship with Pierre, believing the two may marry when they become adults.
* Rui Murakami: Aiko has known Rui since the latter joined LA7IN.

Someone else

* Rinne Hoshizora: Aiko has known Rinne through Natsuki.
* Yaroslav Repin: Aiko admires Yaroslav for not being the only male in group, but his amazing art skills, trying to convince him to stop using forbidden pitch. She sometimes shows a soft side towards Yaroslav.
* Karin Shiraishi: Aiko thinks Karin believes in her teammates than her.
* Yuko Himejima: Aiko finds her attitude "polite" and Yuko often makes chocolate cookies for her.
* Hiroko Kiriya claims that Aiko is the only idol she acts good towards her friends.

## Trivia

* **Zodiac sign**: Taurus
* **Specialties**: Being proud of having a beautiful singing voice and making different anime character parodies
* **Hobbies**: Chasing Pierre, eating, enjoying her idol activities, and food delivery
* It is revealed in MLoTT81 that Aiko believes in zombies.
* These are the following episodes where Aiko's hair is not tied:
	+ In MLoTT83, she was blasted out of Rose Fleur Patisserie once her hair ties lost.
	+ In MLoTT136, her hair was flowing from an unusual power.
* Aiko is the only protagonist in the *Story of World* franchise to be an orphan.
	+ She, Yumemi, and Bo-young are also the only characters to keep their name in the English dub.
* She is heavily inspired by Pucca from the TV series of same name, mainly due to having similar physical appearance and behaviour.