Sakuragi Chiharu

**Sakuragi Chiharu** (桜木千春), also known as **Kojima Haruna the 8th** (8代目 小嶋陽菜) or **Kojiharu** (こじはる) or **Nyan-Nyan** (にゃんにゃん), is one of the main characters in AKB0048 Pretty Cure. She is a member of the intergalactic idol group AKB0048 and originates from AKB0048.

Her alter ego is **Cure Venus** (キュアビーナス).

## Bio

### Appearance

Kojiharu has long curly peach-pink hair that has ringlets at the bottom with bangs swept to the right side and light pink-purple eyes. Like all members of AKB0048, she has a heart-shaped lining on her hair and eyes.

### Personality

Kojiharu has a habit of saying "Nyan-Nyan". Haruna also appears to be very flirty, as she blew kisses to the audience and stunned three men with heart shaped kisses during her first appearance.

### Etymology

**Sakuragi** means "cherry blossom" (桜) (**sakura**) and "tree, wood" (木) (**ki**/**gi**)

**Chiharu** means "thousand" (千) (**chi**) and "spring" (春) (**haru**)

**Kojima** means "small" (小) (**ko**) and "island" (嶋) (**shima**/**jima**)

**Haruna** means "light, sun, male" (陽) (**haru**) and "vegetables, greens" (菜) (**na**)

**Venus** is the second planet from the Sun in the Solar System. It is named after the Roman goddess of love.

### Canon Member

Kojima Haruna (Kojiharu) was born April 19. 1988 in Saitama prefecture, Japan. Before she joined AKB48, she dropped out of high school at 16 to pursue entertainment full time. She officially joined AKB48 in the initial audition in 2005, at the age of 17. Prior to this, she belonged to a Japanese pop group called "Angel Eyes", which later disbanded in 2001. Its interesting to note that originally, Haruna was not keen on being a member of the group, and skipped the first dance practice to go to her part time job. After some convincing from the then manager, she started attending regularly, and has since stayed a member of Team A, making her one of the group's most prominent members. She is also working at establishing an acting career, having appeared in several films, including "Densen Uta", a horror film alongside several other AKB48 members. Currently she held the record 40 A-Sides in AKB48 (43 A-Sides since their debut) until Eien Pressure. She is known for her good relationship with Oshima Yuko (KojiYuu).

She graduated from AKB48 on April 19, 2017. Since her graduation, she opened a YouTube channel called "HARUNA KOJIMA's cat nap" which consists of vlogs mainly about fashion and posts regularly.

## Cure Venus

**“The core of outer space is beating loudly! Cure Venus!”**
宇宙の核が高鳴る！キュアビーナス!
 *Uchū no kaku ga takanaru! Kyua Bīnasu!*

**Cure Venus** (キュアビーナス) is the Pretty Cure alter-ego of Kojiharu. In order to transform, she needs her Star Colour Pendant and her Star Colour Pen.

## Trivia

* Relating to AKB0048 Precure's space motif, she shares the same birthday as Nicolaus Reimers, who devised a heliocentric model different from that from Copernicus'.
* She is the only one of the members of AKB0048 to wield an element similar to a magical girl, that being her heart staff. Comparisons can be drawn between her heart staff and the staff used by Sailor Moon for her Prism Heart Attack. In AKB0048 Precure, it is named the "Venus Wand".
* She is skilled at the piano.