Aira Ichinose

**Aira Ichinose** (一ノ瀬 姶良 *Ichinose Aira*) is one of the main protagonists of *Sailor Moon: Blooming Miracle*. She transforms into **Sailor Buttercup**
(セーラーバターカップ *Sērā Batākappu*), the Sailor Guardian of Kindness.

## ❀Personality❀

Aira has fair skin, and licorice black hair that reaches her chest, to which she often wears in a ponytail with a pair o green beads. She has green eyes, which shows as spring green in sunlight. Her casual clothes include a yellow blouse with a pair of white shorts, white socks and a pair of white sneakers.

## ❀Appearance❀

### Civilian

Aira has fair skin, and licorice black hair that reaches her chest, to which she often wears in a ponytail with a pair of green beeds. She has green eyes. Her casual clothes include a yellow blouse with a pair of white shorts, white socks and a pair of white sneakers.

### Sailor Guardian

As a Sailor Guardian, she has a white armored leotard with a twinkle yellow skirt, choker, and collar with two stripes on it. She also has white shoulder pads, a pair of gloves reaching her elbows with three yellow armored rings, and a pair of yellow boots. She has a long green ribbon around her waist, another one on her chest with a gold circle in the middle, and a gold tiara with a citrine gemstone. Her hair accessory changes into a small green crown.

## ❀Sailor Hibiscus❀

*"Daffodil Power, Makeup!"* (ダフォディルパワー、メイクアップ！ *Batākappu Pawā, Meikuappu!*)

**Sailor Buttercup** is Aira's sailor form, to which she earns in episode 7 of the series, granted by Flora the rabbit from the Starlight Palace. Her flower is a buttercup, and her gemstone is a citrine. She uses her Citrine Flower Ring to transform into Buttercup. One of her main attacks includes the Daffodil Decoration (バターカップデコレーション *Batākappu Dekorēshon*).

## ❀Songs❀

Aira's dream voice actress, Yuka Iguchi, has covered several songs along with other voice actors from the anime.

### Solo

* **New Moon ni Koshite**
* **Radiant Path**

### Duets

* **Awakened Stars** (with Haruka Tomatsu, Shino Shimoji, Yumiri Hanamori, and Asami Shimoda)
* **Moonlight Densetsu** (with Haruka Tomatsu, Shino Shimoji, Yumiri Hanamori, and Asami Shimoda)
* **Moonlit Stars** (with Haruka Tomatsu, Shino Shimoji, Yumiri Hanamori, and Asami Shimoda)
* **Tsukiiro Chainon** (with Haruka Tomatsu, Shino Shimoji, Yumiri Hanamori, and Asami Shimoda)

## ❀Trivia❀

* Aira is the oldest member of the team.
* She struggles with ADHD and autism. She also has mild anxiety and can be paranoid sometimes.
* Due to her having black hair and green eyes, her character is similar to Buttercup from Powerpuff Girls. The main difference is that Aira is more patient and feminine than Buttercup (PPG) is.
* She is the only Sailor Guardian to have a longer ribbon length than the others.
* She is the tallest member of the main quintet.
* Daffodil's design was based on Makoto Kino / Sailor Jupiter.
* Her official hex code color is **#FAE593**

## ❀International Voice Actors❀

* **Japanese (original):** Yuka Iguchi (井口 裕香)
* **Albanian:** Eneida Rabdishta
* **Cantonese:** Winnie Chow Man Ying (周文瑛)
* **English (United States):** Laura Bailey
* **French (France):** Emmylou Homs
* **German (Germany):** Julia Meynen
* **Indonesian:** Jessy Millianty (speaking); Marin Ifa Hasmarina (singing)
* **Italian:** Emanuela Pacotto (speaking); Susanna Balbarani (singing)
* **Korean:** Park Sun-young (박선영)
* **Mandarin (Taiwan):** Gingle Wang (王淨)
* **Portuguese (Portugal):** Soraia Tavares
* **Spanish (Latin America):** Carla Castañeda
* **Thai:** Boonrasri Chayawan (บุญราศรี ฉายะวรรณ)
* **Vietnamese:** Ngô Thuỵ Mỹ Lợi