Aoyagi Tsubaki/Relationships

###  Tsukimiyama Nagisa

Fellow unit member. Their personalities clash, but they are able to work together for the sake of RONDO.

###  Yano Hiiro

Hiiro is Tsubaki's fellow unit member and close friend. Due to her maturity, Hiiro seems well aware of Tsubaki's potential romantic feelings for Aoi, so she often friendly teases her while helping her overcome her shyness. For example, Hiiro agreed to teach her how to cook when Tsubaki found out that Aoi loved homemade food.

###  Miyake Aoi

Aoi personally invited Tsubaki to form RONDO and she notes that Aoi was a big factor in her decision to join the group. The two subsequently become very close, with the two of them often being "in their own world", according to Nagisa. It is heavily implied that she has strong romantic feelings for Aoi, but Aoi is often oblivious to her behavior.

Although due to her shyness, she seems to be trying to hide it, Tsubaki is often very conspicuously embarrassed by Aoi's caring attitude towards her, and her "Freudian slips" even have become a frequent running gag in the game. Their relationship is separately studied in the Valentine's Day Rondo's event, where Aoi and Tsubaki also are the only ones who mention each other in character's limited in-game Valentine's dialogues.

###  Aimoto Rinku

It is shown that Tsubaki finds Rinku's optimism and cheerful nature admirable, just like in Rika's case. The two briefly interacted for the first time in Rinku's event card story where Tsubaki ran into the dehydrated Rinku, got surprised because Rinku referred to her with the "-chan" honorific, and after trying to leave, ended up buying her a drink and telling her to cool down when she gets back into her hotel room. She then became flustered when Rinku called her a nice person.

###  Ohnaruto Muni

The two pair up during the Quintessential Thoughts event for the cosplay event, and Tsubaki is the first person Muni reaches out to, while searching for a partner as she thinks Tsubaki fits Nino down to a T. After she manages to convince Tsubaki, who accepts Muni's request while blushing, the two start hanging out regularly. However, due to their harsh temperaments, they also tend to bicker as shown in Tsubaki's card episode for the event.

###  Togetsu Rei

Tsubaki seems to understand Rei's family troubles and the way she was forced to live a sheltered life due to her own problems with her parents. Afterwards they became good friends.

###  Yamate Kyoko

Both Tsubaki and Kyoko took vocal lessons together under Airi. According to Tsubaki herself, she is interested in Kyoko, saying that she feels they might be quite similar. In Tsubaki's D4 FES. card story, she explains that they are similar in the way that they both desire to improve their singing for someone else's sake. In one of Kyoko's card stories, after Tsubaki reassures Kyoko's worries for charming an older audience, she allows Kyoko to practice on her, but eventually becomes flustered by her overwhelming charisma.

###  Seto Rika

Rika and Tsubaki were classmates and friends in elementary and middle school. She becomes embarrassed when her friendship with Rika is brought up, but is also surprised about the fact that Rika's personality has barely changed from said times. Though she initially tried acting cold and avoiding Rika during Merm4id and Rondo's joint hot spring trip, the two reconciled at the end of the event. She also tends to get embarrassed when Rika teases her (eg. by calling her Tsu-chan) or surprises Tsubaki by hugging her. In one of her card stories, Tsubaki tells Rika that she is grateful for everything Rika has done for her, and that she will return the favor someday.

###  Sakurada Miyu

Miyu and Tsubaki have known each other since they were young due to singing in the choir together. Although Tsubaki was a bit embarrassed about being called "Tsubaki-onee-sama," she was also happy that Miyu relied on her. In the present, Tsubaki is shown to be very kind towards Miyu but sometimes quite protective of her as well, especially during the ♯Party ♯Resort ♯Survival event.

###  Kasuga Haruna

Tsubaki and Haruna both share a similar admiration for Aoi.

###  Neo

Tsubaki thinks Neo is a very arrogant person due to her declaration of beating the other groups. At the same time, she acknowledges Neo's talent and proficiency as a singer. Tsubaki coincidentally encounters Neo in one of her card stories while at karaoke and although she was initially in denial about it being her, she heard Neo's singing from the booth next door. Seeing the crowd gathered outside the room, Tsubaki became determined to not lose agaist Neo, to the point of singing so much she had a sore throat afterwards.

## References

1. ↑ "Happy Birthday ー Tsubaki Aoyagi" - D4DJ Project EN
2. ↑ Translated 2021 Valentine's Dialogues
3. ↑ Moonlight Diva/Episode
4. ↑ Birthday -Garden- (Miyu)/Episode
5. ↑ DIVA's Pride/Episode