Asahi Mogami

**Asahi Mogami** (最上 アサヒ, *Mogami Asahi*) is a main character in Phantom of the Idol series. She is a national idol with legendary popularity who was involved in a car accident a year ago and became a ghost because of her unfulfilled love for her idol.

## Appearance

Asahi has shoulder-length pink hair that has bangs hanging on the left side and emerald-green eyes. Her voice is bright and positive.

Her idol costume is a white top with a bright pink bow on the front with an orange ribbon on the back, the skirt has an orange fabric with a pink tutu on top of the orange skirt. Her shoes are pink high heels with straps. The gloves on her hands are bright pink with orange ribbons on the wrist of said gloves.

## Personality

She’s a typical female anime protagonist. She's a cheerful, gung-ho girl, she's full of vim and vigor willing to do her best as an idol-even though she’s a ghost. Asahi is an energetic former idol who is now haunting Yuya Niyodo as a ghost, and is very friendly towards him.

When it comes to idols and anything related, as she is very enthusiastic about them. Asahi wants to be an idol but she also wants Niyodo to do his best as an idol, she wants to see what the idol Niyodo Yuya can be, in episode 2, she refuses to go inside Niyodo’s body so, Niyodo had to sing as himself-Asahi stated that “Today’s performance was very Niyodo-like. I want you to dance all on your own” and almost ascended but Niyodo stopped her saying “You went into my body just to sing and dance again, No?” So, Asahi and Niyodo would aim to be the be best idol ever.

When she first met Niyodo, she asked if he could see her- Niyodo thought she was bullied by other people thinking she was invisible- Niyodo saw Asahi. It was quite awkward for Asahi to explain that she was a ghost.

When Asahi learned that Niyodo didn’t like being an idol, she went inside Niyodo’s body-which confused Niyodo.

While Asahi does identify as female, she also identifies with being the male idol Niyodo Yuya due to Sharing a Body, and acts as a man whenever she has control of the body. This discrepancy in gender and gender presentation doesn’t bother her, as she only wants to be an idol regardless of gender. The female idol Asahi inhabits Niyodo's male body via possession, the gender difference doesn't seem to bother her, in fact she's ecstatic to use his larger form to perform as she sees it as a challenge.

She really wanted to perform but but no one could see her .When she heard Niyodo did not want to be an idol she asked to take his place in rage. Successfully she ended up in Niyodo’s body, making Niyodo do choreography-which annoyed him-because she wanted to dance again. that gave Niyodo the idea of having Asahi go onstage in Niyodo’s body . After the first performance, she said after such a long time she was glad to go on stage-although it was in Niyodo’s body- seeing the fans made Asahi feel so alive.

Asahi loves to eat cream parfaits and once made Niyodo buy one even though it was expensive. She just can’t say no to sweet things.

## Etymology

* The name **Asahi** is written in katakana (アサヒ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (旭, 朝, 朝日, 朝陽, 朝飛, 朝妃, 朝姫, 朝緋, 旭日, 旭陽, 旭飛, 旭妃, 旭姫, 旭緋, 麻日, 麻陽, 麻飛, 麻妃, 麻姫 or 麻緋), it could possibly mean:
	+ 旭 - "rising sun, morning sun".
	+ 朝 - "morning".
	+ 朝日 - "morning sun".
	+ 朝陽 - "morning" (朝) (**asa**) and "light, sun, male" (陽) (**hi**).
	+ 朝飛 - "morning" (朝) (**asa**) and "to fly" (飛) (**hi**).
	+ 朝妃 - "morning" (朝) (**asa**) and "queen, princess" (妃) (**hi**).
	+ 朝姫 - "morning" (朝) (**asa**) and "princess, young lady of noble birth" (姫) (**hi**).
	+ 朝緋 - "morning" (朝) (**asa**) and "scarlet, dark red" (緋) (**hi**).
	+ 旭日 - "rising sun".
	+ 旭陽 - "rising sun, morning sun" (旭) (**asa**) and "light, sun, male" (陽) (**hi**).
	+ 旭飛 - "rising sun, morning sun" (旭) (**asa**) and "to fly" (飛) (**hi**).
	+ 旭妃 - "rising sun, morning sun" (旭) (**asa**) and "queen, princess" (妃) (**hi**).
	+ 旭姫 - "rising sun, morning sun" (旭) (**asa**) and "princess, young lady of noble birth" (姫) (**hi**).
	+ 旭緋 - "rising sun, morning sun" (旭) (**asa**) and "scarlet, dark red" (緋) (**hi**).
	+ 麻日 - "hemp, flax" (麻) (**asa**) and "sun, day" (日) (**hi**).
	+ 麻陽 - "hemp, flax" (麻) (**asa**) and "light, sun, male" (陽) (**hi**).
	+ 麻飛 - "hemp, flax" (麻) (**asa**) and "to fly" (飛) (**hi**).
	+ 麻妃 - "hemp, flax" (麻) (**asa**) and "queen, princess" (妃) (**hi**).
	+ 麻姫 - "hemp, flax" (麻) (**asa**) and "princess, young lady of noble birth" (姫) (**hi**).
	+ 麻緋 - "hemp, flax" (麻) (**asa**) and "scarlet, dark red" (緋) (**hi**).
* Asahi's surname **Mogami** means "most/utmost, extreme" (最) (**mo**) tand "above, top, upper" (上) (**kami**/**gami**).

## Trivia

* According to Episode 5, Asahi’s idol image color is pink.
* While Asahi’s age is stated in story as 17 at death. Niyodo, Yoshino, and Setouchi’s ages are never stated, but are heavily implied to be around the same age as Asahi if she were alive: 18. The latter three were all scouted to become idols while in high school but it's unclear if any of them still attend.