Teru Makino

**Teru Makino** (真木野輝 *Makino Teru*) is a 3rd Year Middle School student attending Shine Royal Academy's male division. He is a Cool-type idol who uses the brand Serene Jazz. He is the leader and vocalist of the band Plazania.

## Overall Description

*Teru is the shy and soft-spoken "lead vocalist" of Plazania who became an idol in hopes to overcome his shyness. Coming from "The Great White North", Teru's motif is ice and snow, which is depicted in his brand, Serene Jazz. He hopes the break the unnecessary barriers set upon him by his family and garner as many opportunities as he can in the idol industry.*

## History

### Childhood

Teru was born and raised in Toronto, Canada. He is one-eighth Canadian from his father's side. He spent half of his elementary school years in Toronto and thus became fluent in English as a result. Ever since he was young, his father has high expectations from him and is pressured to do every activity he gets involved in perfectly. As a result of this pressure, activities Teru used to deem as fun and exciting gradually changed into the opposite. When he reached his fourth year at elementary, he and his family moved back to Japan and permanently reside there. Upon his arrival, Teru always admired musicians–idols and bands.

### Formation of Plazania

Teru was a new student at a local elementary school in Tokyo. He is well-admired by the other students for his high-class status. He was not able to make friends easily because of his shy personality and grew distant from his classmates. This was the case until Kumiko befriended him. Kumiko was the first one to treat him as 'Teru' and not as 'The Makino's sole son'. The two bonded and found out their similar interests in music, the idol industry, and bands. They performed together as a duo at the school's festival (Teru singing in public for the first time and Kumiko playing the guitar as he sings).

After the performance, they were approached by Minato, who was recruiting for people to join his band. Kumiko immediately agreed to join but it took a while for Teru to accept the offer for he believes he still lacks confidence in his singing voice. Throughout this period, Kumiko encouraged him. Later, the trio was joined by Minato's classmate, Yumuto, and Seiji, the son of the owner of the live house where they practice as a band. They named their band "Plazania" for their formation is in a "plaza's heart.

### Conflict with Father

After his parents discovered about Teru's singing abilities and him joining the band, his father volunteered to become the Plazania's coach, promising to raise the band perfectly. However, as expected by Teru, the training became harsher and harsher as time flies and this almost lead to the band's disbandment. Teru was able to muster enough courage to talk to his father about his intensive and strict training and requests to either leave the band alone or tone down the training. His father refused to do the latter but agreed on leaving the band on its own, hoping to teach Teru a lesson that he still needs his father's help.

### Transferring to Shine Royal

Plazania, after hearing about Shine Royal's instrument classes, planned to transfer to Shine Royal in order to enhance their abilities. This also helped them expand their music career into the world of idols. For Teru, he hopes that becoming an idol would help lessen his shyness and improve his confidence.

## Character Biography

### Physical Appearance

Teru is a teenage boy of average height. He has ice blue hair and bright yellow eyes. He often wears a viridian bean cap and glasses, but upon reaching his third year in middle school, he discards his cap and glasses, replacing the latter with contact lenses. His fashion tastes include snow and ice-themed outfits with a tint of glass and classical motifs. This is reflected in his brand, Serene Jazz.

### Personality

Teru is noted to be introverted, shy, and soft-spoken which makes his position as Plazania's leader questionable. He dislikes taking charge most of the time and depends mostly on Kumiko or Minato for the final decision-making. In spite of his near-three years of experience as an idol, Teru is still having a difficult job with handling exposure but is not as shy as he was before.

### Etymology

**Makino** (真木野): *Ma* or *makoto* (真) means true, *ki* (木) means tree and *no* (輝) means plain or field.

**Teru** (輝): *Teru* means radiance or twinkle.

## Statistics

### Songs

* Original Songs
* Cover Songs

* **MAPLE GLASS** (self-written)

- **Flowing Freedom**

## Quotes

*"From sea to sea, let my performance resonate"*
–Teru before performance and singing
## Trivia

* Teru's "dream voice actor" is Shioya Fumiyoshi.
* Teru is the only member of the band whose name is not based on a cardinal direction but from the word *center* (**真**ん中 *mannaka*).
* His star sign is Sagittarius.
* His favorite food are Toronto-styled pizzas and peameal bacon sandwich.
* His specialties are singing and ice skating. He also plays hockey.
* Because Teru is used to winter after living in Canada for some time, he doesn't feel cold easily.