Iori Munakata

Iori (Hayato, Hajime, Kenta)
Iori-kun (Minato)
Iorin (Kai)

Level-headed Pillar of Strength (Epithet)

## Signature

**Iori Munakata** (宗方伊織) is a character in the Idol Show Time franchise, and a member of Lùcifer.

## Appearance

Iori has dark blue hair and eyes. His hair is combed neatly with a lock of hair between his eyes and the right side of his face while his left side is tucked behind his ear.He also wears glasses.

In his idol clothes, Iori wears a black *gakuran* uniform with dark blue accents and silver triangle buttons down the front and on the sleeves. On top, he wears a grey collared cloak held together with a dark blue *pan chang* knot with sky blue accents. His pants are black and he wears a grey garter harness on his left leg with black loafers. He wears a black military cap with a gold Lùcifer emblem on the front and a silver plait pattern above the visor. His gloves are short and black with dark blue accents and a grey armband with the Lùcifer logo with his image colour can be found on his left arm.

## Character Description

Iori is quick-witted, eloquent and always rational as the brains of Lùcifer. Likes when things go his way and is constantly looking for ways to live life more efficiently.

Iori is also a grandma’s boy, he loves his grandmother and believes that her wisdom is absolute.

## Background

For his entire life, Iori has been considered a "spare" to his older brother. From the moment he was born, his parents had always given his brother more attention while he was pushed to the sidelines. This is evident even in their choice of name for him, "Iori", where he was told it had no particular meaning while his brother's name, "Mikoto", meant "preciousness". No matter what grades or accomplishments he earned, his parents would only ever reward his brother. The only person in his family who seemed to truly care for him was his grandmother who always knew what to say so he grew to be much closer to her than his own parents.

Although Iori had no interest in idols initialy, he got the idea of becoming one from his grandmother who loved idols when she was younger. She also cleared Iori's doubt of his father barring him from being an idol; his father wouldn't care as long as his grades didn't slip, which was true. When Iori announced his intent of becoming an idol, he finds himself feeling a tiny bit of rebellion where he would find new a new hope.

## Etymology

**Iori**(伊織)’s first name can be split into (伊) which doesn’t have a particular meaning and is just used in people’s names and such while (織) means “weave”.

His last name, **Munakata**(宗方) means “important figure”.

## Trivia

* The Lùcifer members are said to be based on the seven deadly sins. Iori is most likely “Pride”.
* Iori is the ghost writer for their manager, Minato Haruno on the Stellarium\*Chouchou Twitter account.
	+ Aside from being Minato’s ghost writer, Iori also writes on behalf of Lùcifer as a group instead of Hayato.
		- This is unlike étailes where their leader, Setsuna, usually does it.
* On the official website, Iori's quote is a shortened version of his full recorded voice line. The full line is "My name is Iori Munakata. I wish to take the idol world by storm...with efficiency. I'll be in your care."