Nozomi Aoki

**Aoki Nozomi** (*Aoki Nozomi*) is one of the main protagonists in Eternal Dusk Academy and also a first-year student at the idol school of the same name. She is a Cute/Pop-type idol who's preferred brand is Devil Moonrise, self made with her best friend, Shiori. She is one of the main protagonists of **Aikatsu! Idol Days** and her appearance in Eternal Dusk Academy can be seen as a crossover from *Idol Days*.

## Bio

### Personality

Nozomi is a cheerful girl, with boundless energy. She also likes pulling pranks on everyone except her childhood and current best friend, Shiori. She gives everyone she meets cute nicknames and is actually quite the good singer. She's always admired idols but strayed away from agencies, as she wants to be an idol together with Shiori.

Shiori's childhood and current best friend, they've always lived close to each other and now live together. Both girls have always admired idols, so they joined EDA so they could chase their dreams, together, unlike agencies who only accepted one or the other. Later on, they create a brand, and a unit together.

### Appearance

Nozomi has reddish-magenta eyes, and has black hair that's fluffy and reaches towards her shoulders, with straight bangs and short, small twintails at the top. She wears the Little Devil Headband from her Idol costume even in her casual clothing, which is a white devil-horned headband with matching ribbons at each side of the headband's ends, with a colorful zigzag and circle pattern. Her main idol coord is the **Sparkle Devil Coord**.

## History

Having known Shiori since they were kids, she's always been close to her. They've always admired idols, and set out to become idols themselves when they got older. Now being 15 and 14 years old, they decided on now to become idols, and enrolled in Eternal Dusk Academy, so they could be idols together as opposed to being in an agency where it's one or the other.

As the day for the Entrance Exam started, they weren't where Taiyo, Miyu and Mirai were and haven't gotten to know them yet. However, they aren't able to perform together on the Entrance Exam, which made Nozomi quite upset. Even if she said she'll do her best performing solo, she still wants to sing with Shiori, so she's trying to make changes to their numbers so they're the same, to no success.

During her performance, she performed an appeal no one has ever seen before: a Scenario Appeal. Not much is known about this kind of appeal, but because of it, there has been raising suspicions about Shiori and Nozomi.

Despite Nozomi and Shiori being in different dorms, Nozomi often sneaks into her friend's dorm to hang out with her. This is how she learned that Shiori found out that Aurora Academy, the school Yukiko supposedly runs, never existed in the first place and was a complete fraud. This upsets Nozomi greatly, having her think that by doing something like this, it's a disgrace to idols. She hides this feeling of anger and great uncertainty though, even from Shiori.

## Relationships

* **Shiori Fujiwara** - Childhood and current best friends, they're always together. They've both admired idols from a young age, so they decided to be idols together. She seems to be oblivious to Shiori's feelings for her.