Ayane Otonashi

**Ayane Otonashi** (音無 あやね, *Otonashi Ayane*) is a character in *Pretty Country: Magical Life of Three Towns*. She is a Lovely idol using light pink as her theme color. Her alter ego is **Angel Canada**, an angel with the elements of musical notes.

## Characteristics

### Appearance

Ayane is has light skin and peach hair in a single bun, tied by a pink ribbon with black musical note attached in the middle. In spring and summer, she wears a light pink T-shirt beneath pink pinafore, white socks, and pink shoes. For autumn and winter, Ayane switches to wearing a pink dress with white detail on the cuff and collar adorned by a black belt, white stockings, and dark pink winter boots.

### Personality

Easy-going and sweet, Ayane has a habit of saying certain words twice or even three times before ending a sentence. This is inherited from her mother who would do the same. She states that her mother is "mentor".

## History

### Early Life

Ayane was born in Canada to a family of musicians. She has a huge, burning passion for playing the violin, studying it seriously. Due to her parents' initial hatred of the instrument, Ayane was forced to forget about it until Aiko and Honoka Shiotani could avoid wasting her talent.

### The Optimistic Violinist

Aiko meets Ayane Otonashi, a violinist in Class 4-3, asking on how she is not exactly that obvious. They come across the janitor alongside Shiotani in the middle of a violin competition. Ayane points out the moves that Shiotani can make to beat the high school student and is thought for being diligent.

After school, Universtars are talking to Ayane about how well she plays the violin. Ayane claims not to be perfect at it, and Aiko points out that the former could to compete against the high school student they met yesterday, so that must mean she is talented. Instead of performing usual audition, Ayane reaches the auditorium where the Violin Competition happens. At the end, Universtars congratulate Ayane as her mother appears. Ayane is asked to keep playing with her mother offering to teach her more tips and tricks before she promised.

### Forming an Idol Unit

After the announcement of the Paniverse School Carnival in MLoTT-S3 second half, Léopold Coudet asked Yuriko and Lucy to form a group named ALIEN.

## Etymology

**Otonashi** (音無) means "no sound". The kanji *Oto* (音) describes Ayane's amazing music ability.

**Ayane** (あやね) has no actual meaning due to it being written in hiragana. However, the most common one is "colorful sound".

## Relationships

Lucy Haywood and Yuriko Fujimiya are Ayane's good friends. They maintain simple relationships, with Yuriko trusting Ayane to look after Lucy when she continues to focus on their idol activities.

## Trivia

* Her English dub name was used for a bachelorette in *Story of World II: Flowers Bloom with You* video game called Sandra, who is called Sarah in *Story of World II: Life is Like Flowers*.
* Ayane has habit of adding musical notes into her sentences.
* In her debut, Ayane reveals she was a cover model in "Canada's No. 1 Idol", a fashion magazine based in Canada.
* She can tell what kind of person someone is by just touching their hand.
* Ayane is the first idol who did not perform an audition in her debut episode.
* Mia Jørgensen from *Story of World II: Melodious Memory for Love* is said to be a reincarnation of Ayane Otonashi.