Kazuki Yoshino

**Kazuki Yoshino** (吉野 カズキ, *Yoshino Kazuki*) is a main character in Phantom of the Idol series. He is member of ZINGS. He has a kind and gentle personality and always follows Niyodo's lead. He is not confident in himself and has a negative side.

## Appearance

Yoshino has blue eyes and short scruffy blonde hair .

His eyes are a bright blue,like the sky. For his idol costume ,he has a lavender jacket with yellow cuffs, a pink shirt under the jacket, a light pink neck pillow, brown athletic pants and black sneakers with bright green accents.

## Personality

As Asahi describes in Episode 3, Yoshino is a “little brother” character.

He normally he is very laid-back and calm but when something crazy happens like Niyodo about to get fired, Yoshino freaks out and tries to solve the problem. Kazuki gives his all in every performance- Even though Niyodo never does the same.

He often calls Niyodo “Yu-Kun” and is amazed by how Niyodo can easily memorize dances very quickly(even though Niyodo just wants to get over it). Yoshino often feels like he isn’t special and doesn’t have talent and often compares himself to Niyodo.

Most of the time, he does the emceeing for the live concerts and gets a lot more fans than Niyodo.When Niyodo slacks off, Yoshino covers for Niyodo.

Yoshino often goes on late-night jogs to exercise.

When Yoshino got scouted, he was so overwhelmed. He was so anxious, it was all new, he was all alone but,Yoshino wanted to become more outgoing. Yoshino often feels like he’s not an idol because he thinks that only special people can be idols. He feels like he has to be a good idol when interacting with fans. When people talking to him in public places such as cafes, Yoshino feels quite nervous. In episode 3, when two fans came put to Yoshino and asked for his email address,he didn’t know what to do until Niyodo came back from his bathroom-break, Yoshino was able to say that he couldn’t share his email address.

Yoshino wants to improve so he can be a good unit member of ZINGS but Niyodo says that Yoshino already is a good unit member.

He likes to eat at cafes but is afraid to go alone. Yoshino often takes pictures of foods at cafes and posts them on social media. He is kind, soft-spoken, and polite. He has stage fright and because of that, Yoshino is too scared to go solo.

Niyodo has stated that Yoshino’s soft voice shows gentleness- although that’s what a staff member said during a recording -.

When Niyodo screws up during work, Yoshino has to get Niyodo to “work harder for the fans”.Because of that Yoshino is super surprised when Niyodo actually acts like an actual idol during “Koi no BANG” (Episode 1)

## Etymology

* The name **Kazuki** is written in katakana (カズキ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (一輝, 一樹, 和希 or 和樹), it could possibly mean:
	+ 一輝 - "one" (一) (**kazu**) and "brightness, radiance, shine, sparkle, gleam, twinkle" (輝) (**ki**).
	+ 一樹 - "one" (一) (**kazu**) and "tree" (樹) (**ki**).
	+ 和希 - "harmony, peace" (和) (**kazu**) and "hope" (希) (**ki**).
	+ 和樹 - "harmony, peace" (和) (**kazu**) and "tree" (樹) (**ki**).
	+ 月- zuki means “moon”.
* Kazuki's surname **Yoshino** means "lucky, good" (吉) (**yoshi**) and "field, wilderness" (野) (**no**).

## Trivia

* Kazuki’s image color is purple.
* Kazuki often calls Yuya “Yu” as a nickname.