Minori Takagi

Minori Takagi is a member of the I MY ME group Sunrise Girls! She acts as the group's featured dancer.

## Background

    Minori was born on March 13th to Minoru Takagi and his second wife Inori. Despite being much younger than her older siblings, Minori was treated very well, though her relationship with them was more like that with a younger aunt or uncle than with true siblings. They were joined several years later by a younger sister, Noriko, and again two years after that by a baby brother, Noriaki, and together they formed their own family unit in her father's palatial estate. Growing up, Minori was also very close with her half-niece Hanamurasaki - her oldest half-brother's daughter who was only a few months older than her in age - and the two would explore the old building they lived in together for hours, making no shortage of trouble for the servants whose job it was to watch over their young charges.

    By the time she turned twelve Minori was already a huge fan of idols, and had spent a significant amount of her sizable allowance on albums, concerts, and whatever merchandise she could get her hands on. An avid fan of cosplay as well, Minori's chief hobby became recreating her favorite idols' signature looks, whether this meant buying the same clothing, learning to make it herself, or even bidding on the actual pieces worn in iconic photos and performances. Minori also took to using these skills to create traditional Japanese clothing, sometimes for herself or her family but sometimes as a means of funding her expensive idol habits. Despite spending countless hours learning to replicate her favorite idols' dance routines, Minori was naturally very shy and had trouble dancing in front of others unless she was at conventions or fan get-togethers where she could dress and pretend she was someone else altogether.

    One day years later, feeling especially brave, Minori recorded herself dancing in full costume, complete with a bright pink wig and sunglasses to hide her identity, and uploaded it to see how others felt about her hobby. What started as a small leap of confidence became a minor viral sensation and Minori was soon contacted by a talent scout at I MY ME and offered a place in their latest class of trainees. Minori was one of the idols who had not yet passed their exams at the formation of Interlunium and whose company folder Rinko kept to invite later, which she did after Interlunium debuted. She was turned away from the audition by Eimi Inagawa for being too tall and out of Eimi's newfound caution of 'pink people,' as Minori had chosen to audition in the same pink wig her viral video had been made in. Despite having drawn significant interest due to her performance in training - even being earmarked by producer Lina Fujimura for consideration in her idol group - Minori found herself without a producer until she encountered Asa Asakura who introduced her and her friend Aoi Yoshioka to her own producer, Kouji Kumasawa. Convincing him of the need to have an idol group under his direction, Minori was placed into Sunrise Girls! along with her two new friends, acting as the group's featured dancer.

## Appearance

    Minori is a tall, well developed girl with yellow eyes and long brown hair who tends to dress modestly when she isn't in cosplay, wearing her hair in a simple loose ponytail. As a student at Kikyo she is forbidden from dying her hair and wears a large collection of cosplay wigs instead, often changing them from day to day and performance to performance to suit her mood. Her image color is spinel pink.

## Personality

    Minori is polite and well spoken, if overly shy for an idol. She carries herself well, often dressing to downplay her natural beauty when not on stage. Disliking confrontation, Minori can be a bit of a pushover, preferring to go along with some of Asa's crazier schemes to minimize their disruption instead of trying to talk her out of them. Despite being the youngest in her group, Minori tends to be protective of her senior Aoi, who's timidness their group mate Asa can sometimes take advantage of.

## Other Data

Her blood type is A-.

Minori's concept was created alongside the other founding members of Interlunium before being replaced by another idol. Some aspects of her design, such as her image color, were later used when creating Erika Horie of Pastel Project.

Minori shares several idol classes with Dam-Bi at Kikyo, despite being a year younger.