Sakura/Trivia

* She is from Kagoshima, Japan.
* In 2022, she revealed that her birth parents divorced when she was an infant. She only saw her birth father once in her life in a handshake event in Kagoshima. Her mother has remarried.
* She has a younger stepbrother who is 12 years younger than her.
* When she was born, her parents were young (father was 20 and mother was 23 years old).
* She went to a musical school when she was in 3rd grade.
* She wanted to become a singer after listening to opera with her mother. The musical was Phantom of The Opera.
* In 2010, she received Broadway musical lessons in New York.
* She passed her audition as 1st generation of HKT48 on July 10, 2011, and made her stage debut on November 26, 2011. Her official debut came 8 months later on March 4, 2012 and a Major debut in March, 2013.
* She trained for the longest amount of time out of all of IZ\*ONE, at 6 years and 11 months. Yet: She never formally trained in dancing or vocals until participating in Produce 48.
* She opened her Gaming Channel in 2018.
* Her highest 48group Senbatsu ranking is 3rd.
* She joined HKT48 as a Kenkyuusei (trainee) in July 2011 and was promoted to Team H in March 2012. She was transferred to Team KIV in 2014.
* Her special skills are drawing and being able to sleep anywhere.
* Her favorite food is sushi and her favorite drink is green tea latte.
* Despite not showing the ability when not performing, she is very quick at spotting cameras when on stage due to her experience as a J-Pop idol.
* She dislikes being called "serious", "stoic", "unapproachable" or "mistake-free".
* She was one of the rare members in HKT 48 that is very eloquent.
* She clips her phone onto the back of her skirt, using the ring holder to secure it, and making it seem like a second mic receiver.
* According to Chaeyeon, she has zero airport fashion sense, to the point that her wardrobe had a makeover by Hyewon.
* Sakura loves gaming and has a gaming channel on YouTube. WIZ\*ONE gave her a PS4 and a Nintendo Switch as gifts during fansigns.
* She tends to talk about herself in third person when talking alone towards the camera.
* In HKT48, she is close with her fellow first generation mate Murashige Anna.
* She had a concurrent position in AKB48’s Team A from 2014 to 2017.
* She can guess people's blood types, but can never be sure about Nako because she doesn't know herself.
* She is a talented writer and is known for expressing her ideas well.
* However, after she wrote an article about the March 11 earthquake in 2011, she became very fatalistic and catastrophic in her thoughts.
	+ While she isn't scared of flying per se, she still keeps a last words message to her mother every time she flies.
* She is a fan of Red Velvet and her bias is Irene, but the first member she met was Wendy.
	+ In Eat-ing Trip 3, she managed to match Irene's highest note on Really Bad Boy while screaming during her zip line trip. It was a D7, which is also the highest note ever recorded in KPop. In the MV, however, it was Wendy that did the lipsync.
	+ Both Sakura and Irene are scared of heights.
* She first became a fan of KPop after following Girl's Generation. She met Taeyeon in 2022 on Amazing Saturday, where Taeyeon was one of the hosts.
* Despite this, the first Korean songs she heard were View and Sherlock, both by SHINee as well as Power Up by Red Velvet.
* Her favorite cake is ice cream cake, possibly relating to Red Velvet song of the same name.
* Her charm point is her ears.
* The other HKT48 members say she has a weird way of running.
* She also can't use the hula hoop properly.
* She was the center for Produce 48’s theme song, Pick Me.
* Like Yena, she dislikes red bean paste.
* She is scared of the cold more than heights.
* She has a cat.
* Sakura was a child actress and wants to continue acting. She acted in the Japanese horror miniseries Crow’s Blood and in AKB48’s drama series Majisuka Gakuen 4.
* Her catchphrase (greeting) in HKT48 is: "Either you or him, in everyone’s heart, Sakura bloom!"
* Has centered some AKB48 songs, with her first center being Kibouteki Refrain as a WCenter and Kimi wa Melody being her first solo AKB center. The most recent song she centered is the last release before she, Nako, and Hitomi departed for IZ\*ONE, which was NO WAY MAN.
* Her favorite winter snacks is Fish Cake.
* She could hyperventilate if she cries very hard, which is why Nako and Hitomi has to be around her in case if she faints.
* She is good friends with Mone Kamishiraishi, who is known for being the voice actress of Mitsuha from the blockbuster hit film *Your Name*. They attended the same musical school in the second year of elementary.
* Sakura sleeps with her eyes open.
* According to Fantastic IZ, she is the one that is best at cooking without looking at recipes due to a long period of living alone as a Japanese idol. She can make the following without recipes
	+ Strawberry mochi
	+ Spaghetti with salmon roes
	+ Parent-and-child Donburi
	+ Takoyaki (Octopus balls), she find it the easiest, so much so that she taught Eunbi on VLive.
	+ Kimchi soup
	+ Tteokbokki (Spicy Rice Cakes)
	+ Army Stew Hot Pot
	+ Mille-feuille Nabe (Thousand Leaves Hot Pot), which is the most technical in terms of knife skills on the list.
	+ Korean-style Kimbap
	+ Sushi of any kind
	+ Korean-style curry
	+ Sandwiches of any kind
* She does not know how to make the following without recipes:
	+ Modified Sweet And Sour Pork (Korean version is less dense and rich)
	+ Spicy braised chicken soup
	+ Kimchi pancakes
	+ Japchae (Korean Glass Noodle Stir Fry)
	+ Modified Sweet and Sour Pork (Korean style is not as rich and heavy)
	+ Kong-guksu (Noodles in Cold Soybean Soup)
	+ Malatang (Numbingly Spicy Soup Base)
	+ Hot Pot with intestines
	+ Braised Beef Ribs
	+ Gambas (Spanish Shrimp dishes)
	+ Chicken Feet dishes
	+ Rice Cake Dumpling Soup
	+ Cold Jelly Fish Salad
	+ Spicy stir-fried Pork
* As of 2021, she was ranked Silver in League of Legends, her most-commonly-used character is Maokai.
* Her favorite flower is Blue Rose
* She was the first member to be revealed for Le Serrafim. She was seen riding an arcade-style motorcycle, despite not having, and never intending to get, a driver's license to actually ride a real one.
* Le Sserafim was already formed when Sakura celebrated her birthday with members in 2022.
* She became good at saying quotes that are really obvious, but has deeper hidden meanings.
	+ Darkness comes when you close your eyes.
	+ Sun will set after it rises (After dawn, dusk will be).
	+ You'll fall asleep when you close your eyes.