Airi Totoki

**Airi Totoki** (十時 愛梨, ***Airi Totoki***?) is one of the characters available in *THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls* and *THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage*. Her theme color is red and her idol type is passion.

## Bio

### Personality

Airi is an easygoing girl who has a bit of an airheaded side to her. She gets confused and forgets things easily, like what she's supposed to do or where she even is. She often relies on others unintentionally throughout her day. There are times when she's talking to others where she dozes off and others have to snap her back to reality. There are others where her responses are delayed or about something they talked about ages ago. It's not that she isn't engaged in the conversation, but Airi spends a lot of time planning out what she'll say next well past the time where it is appropriate to respond. Airi has a habit of doing the wrong thing before realizing it's too late to reverse it. With this in mind, it's no surprise that others percieve her as a genuine and sociable person. She is very friendly, always greeting her friends as well as strangers. While some idols can dote on Airi, they also know how capable Airi is as an idol and do not underestimate her ability to perform and connect with the audience.

Airi loves baking, especially shortcakes and cheesecakes. She often brings some of her baked goods to the office for her coworkers to enjoy. She also always bakes cakes for her parents' anniversary every year. Airi is a university student while also being an idol, and is a member of her college's tennis club. She has a lot of female friends in her private life, and is always seen with at least one on her campus.

A common gag is that Airi gets hot easily. Even in room-temperature, Airi's face can start turning red and she starts to sweat, so she tries to take her outer-most layer off, even when there are people in the room. It seems to be a force of habit. When someone tells her to stop, she gets embarassed and apologizes. She also has a habit of showing too much cleavage for the same reason.

The biggest worry Airi has is that she doesn't have any worries at all. She feels sorry that she appears to need to rely on others when people bring her down to earth or when she is unwittingly aided by others. As a result, she wants to be seen as more mature and independent. She starts to take jobs seriously even if she veers off course since she feels that she won't be treated like an adult otherwise. Airi initially had no desire to be an idol, but as she completes more lessons, tasks, and lives, she begins to take pleasure in her work. She wants to rise to the top of the idol world so that Producer can become a "top producer." Her biggest goal is to become more independent and mature in order to take care of the people around her, especially the Producer.

### Relationships

* Kanako Mimura: Close friends. They like baking together. They are both part of the unit Sweetches.
* Nono Morikubo, Noriko Shiina, & Shizuku Oikawa: Friends and unitmates in Sweetches.
* Aiko Takamori: They are friends who both have a lax nature, and form the unit Ai's. They are also part of Zekkenzu together.
* Akane Hino, Syoko Hoshi, & Yuko Hori: Friends and unitmates in Zekkenzu.
* Shiho Makihara & Satomi Sakakibara: Friends. They like baking together.

### Etymology

**Totoki** (十時, ***Totoki***?) means "10 o'clock". Both of her image songs reference this, with "Apple Pie Princess" mentioning "10 o'clock" twice, and "Hi**totoki** Tokimeki" being a direct play-on-words of her name.

**Airi** (愛梨, ***Airi***?): **Ai** (愛) means "love", while **Ri** (梨) means "pear".

## History

Airi joined the agency through an audition, but not on purpose. She didn't know that she was going to audition to be an idol. Her friend applied her to be one without telling her what it was for. Despite this, she introduces herself as Airi, and that her hobby is making cakes, particularly cheesecakes and shortcakes. She explains the process through onomatopoeia like "guruguruguru~n" and "gashigashigashi!" and doing rapid motions alongside them. It causes her to start sweating, so she asks to take off her shirt. However, she doesn't wait for a response before she starts doing it. The Producer yells at her to stop and screams that she passed the audition. Airi is confused, especially since she thinks she hasn't done anything wrong, but thinks nothing of it and accepts her role as an idol.

## Trivia

* Airi is one of five idols in *iDOLM@STER* to be from Akita, along with Hinako Kita, Yukino Aihara, Setsuna Imura, and Saori Okuyama. Shion Kagaya from *Idol Incidents* is also from Akita.
* Airi is the only Cinderella Girl to not have an election-based unit or a song for being Cinderella Girl. While she won in 2012, making her the first ever Cinderella Girl, she didn't get a voice until January 2013 with her master single.
* She is rumored to have a low tolerance to spicy food.
* Airi's Valentine's Day card on the *Cinderella Girls* social game was in very low quantity. It was so hard to obtain during its event that it gained the name "Bloody Valentine's".