The Idolmaster (anime)/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Lethal Chef]]

* [[Nice Girl]]

* [[Plucky Girl]]: Her defining trait. Her optimism is the glue that holds the group up.

* [[Ridiculously Average Guy]] -- Even the President [[Lampshade Hanging|thinks she is]]. What sets her apart is her [[Plucky Girl|infectious optimism]].

* [[Fairy Tale Motifs]] -- Chihaya's character is built around symbols of the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluebird_of_happiness bluebird of happiness] (two of her image songs, ''Aoi Tori'' and ''Nemuri Hime'', contain direct references), which ties into her desire to handle her life herself and find meaning her own way. The anime abandons this part of her character arc completely.

* [[Famed in Story]] -- By the time of the 2nd Vision games.

** She's also [[Steins Gate|Makise "Christina" Kurisu]].

* [[Hopeless With Tech]] - Wich is kind of weird since she's the one assigned to do the Audio Tech's job during their first stage performance on episode 3 of the anime.

A painfully shy 16-year-old from a traditional household who's prone to frequently bursting out in tears. She became an idol hoping to shed her fragile persona.

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* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: In ''Xenoglossia'', her hair is of a darker tone.

* [[Brown Eyes]] -- Of the soft, coffee-colored variety. Also serves as [[Curtains Match the Window]].

* [[Sparkling Stream of Tears]] -- Tends to cry a lot.

* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: The Girly Girl to her Tomboy best friend, Makoto.

* [[Yamato Nadeshiko]]

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* [[Genki Girl]]

* [[Girlish Pigtails]]

* [[Image Song]] -- "[[Big Eater|Ohayou!! Asagohan]]", "Kiramekirari", "Genki Tripper", and "Smile Taisou"

* [[Kawaiiko]] -- So cute Hibiki even once said she wanted to [[I'm Taking Her Home With Me|take her home]].

* [[Curtains Match the Window]]

* [[The Comically Serious]]

* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: In ''iM@S2'', she switches her hairstyle to a high ponytail.

* [[Girlish Pigtails]] -- Her original hairstyle were braids a la Wendy's mascot.

* [[Hair Antennae]]

* [[The Ditz]]

* [[Hello Nurse]] -- Mostly in the anime, there's nearly NO men who'd pass up on asking her out for a date (even if she's clueless and probably refusing). Which leads to...

* [[Idiot Hair]] -- Which becomes weaponized in her 'counterpart' in ''Mujin Gattai Kisaragi'', the Azu[[Sinister Scythe|Scythe]].

* [[Image Song]] -- "9:02 pm", "Tonari ni...", "Mythmaker", "Lovely"

* [[Forehead of Doom]]

* [[Girls Love Stuffed Animals]] -- She carries around a stuffed rabbit named "Usa-chan/Charles Donatello The 18th" with her at all times.

* [[Kawaiiko]]

* [[Lonely Rich Kid]] -- The reason Usa-chan is so precious to Iori is that it was her only friend since childhood, as the only people who ever had much contact with her were maids and butlers. You can catch her talking to Usa-chan from time to time.

* [[The Ojou]]: Daughter of a big time CEO

* [[Omniglot]] -- Like Takane, she's fluent in a number of languages.

* [[Security Blanket]] -- Usa-chan.

* [[Shana Clone]]: See her Hey It's That Voice listings above. Yup.

* [[Spoiled Sweet]]: Iori has ego in spades, but she's short in arrogance. Her best friend among the other idols is always-short-on-cash Yayoi, and she is not above doing her part on chores and eating commoner's food.

* [[Tsundere]] -- An unusual A/B hybrid for [[Rie Kugimiya|her seiyuu]], a [[Pigeonholed Voice Actor|Type A specialist]]: Type B around people she wants to manipulate, type A around everyone else, especially the Producer.

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* [[Action Girl]] -- While modeling for a swimsuit edition of an idol magazine, she proposes a shot of her leaping from the roof into the pool.

* [[Bifauxnen]]/[[Bokukko]]

* [[Cat Smile]]

* [[Gender Blender Name]]

* [[Hair Antennae]]

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal|I Just Want To Be Feminine]]

* [[Image Song]] -- "[[Intercourse With You|Agent Yoru wo Yuku]]", "Meisou Mind", "[[Cannot Spit It Out|Jitensha]]", and "[[Break Up Song|tear]]"

* [[Jack of All Stats]] In the game, although she is proud of her dancing skills, her skills are perfectly average. For those unable to play you can check out this video [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxmntLtdrjA here]. You can see her skills at 1:53.

* [[One of the Boys]]

* [[Ship Tease]] -- {{spoiler|With Hokuto in ''iM@S2''.}}

* [[Shorttank]] -- Her swimsuit and training outfits.

* [[Tomboy]]

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* [[Bratty Half Pint|Bratty Half Pints]]

* [[Dirty Kid|Dirty Kids]]-- They have shades of this.

* [[Divergent Character Evolution]] -- If one pays attention in the arcade and first Xbox360 games, Mami turns out to be a little more mature than Ami. In the SP games, Takane figured out that they were two different people when she made eye-contact with Mami and saw that she was more mature. Come ''iM@S2'', the twins get separate careers, Mami changes her hairstyle and Ami leaves, so it's likely that this will continue.

* [[Fashionable Asymmetry]] -- Their cute&girly outfit in ''iM@S2''. They have two different pairs of boots between them, having traded the left ones.

* [[The Hero|The Heroes]] -- How they are cast in ''Mujin Gattai Kisaragi''.

* [[Huge Schoolgirl|Huge Schoolgirls]]-- Between the first game and the second, the twins shot up from the smallest idols to towering over girls several years their senior.

* [[Image Song]] -- "Positive!", "Start Star", "Reimei Starline", "Jemmy" (Mami only), and "YOUou MYshin" (Ami only)

* [[The Nicknamer|The Nicknamers]] -- They have cutesy nicknames for all the other idols (Iorin for Iori, Miki-Miki for Miki, Yuki-pyon for Yukiho, etc.) and they address the Producer as "nii-chan" instead of "Producer".

* [[One of Us]] -- Devoted gamers who carry their handhelds with them everywhere, although the Xbox port of the first game had to edit out their [[Game Boy Advance|Gameboy Advances]] [[You Wanna Get Sued|due to the]] [[Console Wars]].

* [[Tag Team Twins]]

* [[Theme Twin Naming]]

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* [[Idiot Hair]]

* [[Image Song]] -- "relations", "Furufuru Future", "Shocking na Kare", and "Day of the future"

* [[Important Haircut]] -- In her alternate story.

* [[Dumb Blonde|Lazy Blonde]]

* [[The Nicknamer]] -- Not as much as Mami and Ami, but she does have nicknames for a few people; [[Bokukko|"Makoto-kun"]] for Makoto, [[Forehead of Doom|"Forehead"]] for Iori, {{spoiler|and from episode 14 of the anime onwards, she calls the Producer "honey"}}. For some odd reason she addresses Ritsuko as "Ritsuko...san", always pausing before the honorific.

* {{spoiler|[[Relationship Sabotage]]}} -- [[Played for Laughs]] at the ending of ''SP Missing Moon''. {{spoiler|She said she rejoined 765 because she couldn't stand either Chihaya, Azusa, or Ritsuko<ref>(this version's playable characters)</ref> being in a relationship with Producer, and wanted to get in their way.}}

* [[Sleepyhead]]

* [[Conspicuous Trenchcoat]] -- Disguises herself like Haruka and Makoto above, to the point where Kotori doesn't even recognize her.

* [[Cute Little Fangs]]: In the anime.

* [[Eyes Always Shut]] -- Not during regular conversation, but in the PSP game she spends large portions of her songs with her eyes closed when no other girl does that.

* [[Friend to All Living Things]] -- She has dozens of pets, ranging from the mundane (cat, hamster, dog) to the exotic and outright bizarre (a crocodile!).

* [[Japanese Pronouns]] -- "Watakushi." Indicates that she is excessively formal, just like [[Keigo|the rest of her speech]].

* [[Lonely Rich Kid]]

* [[Missing Mom]] -- Her mom passed away when she was little.

* [[The Ojou]]

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]] -- Ramen.

* [[The Rival]] -- During her time at Project Fairy.

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* [[Inelegant Blubbering]] -- Part of her friendship with Yukiho stems from both being prone to cry a lot. The difference is where Yukiho mostly whimpers, Ai sounds the foghorn.

* [[No Indoor Voice]]

* [[Stage Mom]] -- A subtle case, but the tales of Ai's mother made her desperate for a moment in the spotlight.

* [[Stuck in Their Shadow]] -- [[In Universe]], Ai fears this when her manager says she could become a big success just by namedropping her famous mother, saying she wants to become an idol based on her own ability. A fear which turns out to be entirely justified.

* [[Otaku]] -- Eri frequently references video games and internet memes, in some cases outright quoting lines.

* [[Shrinking Violet]]

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* [[Even the Girls Want Her]] -- Yumeko ''thinks'' Ryo has this effect on her, before finding out his little secret, to much relief on her part.

* [[Image Song]] -- "Dazzling World" and "Himitsu no Sangoshou"

* [[Wholesome Crossdresser]]

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* [[Image Song]] -- "[[You Are Better Than You Think You Are|BANGxBANG]]"

* [[Insufferable Genius]] -- He has the skill to back up his arrogance.

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Real Men Wear Pink]] -- Loves to cook.

The rookie producer of ''765'' controlled by the player.

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* [[Expy]] -- His anime version is one of [[Zettai Karen Children|Koichi Minamoto]], but now caring for 13 girls instead of three!

* [[He Who Must Not Be Heard]] -- In the game.

* [[Pet the Dog]] -- A dishonest manipulator he may be, but one SP radio drama reveals a (somehow) nicer side, when he takes a "family-like" photo of Azusa, Iori and Producer, and gives it to them to keep as a memorial/gift.

* [[Pitiful Worms]] -- One of his ways to insult the people of 765 Productions.

* [[Took a Level In Jerkass]] -- Kuroi ''is'' already a big [[Jerkass]] in the games, but in the anime, we see him doing much more dangerous slanders than just spreading rumors, culminating in [[Moral Event Horizon|the slandering of Chihaya's past]], which [[Heroic BSOD|traumatizes the poor girl]], [[Even Evil Has Standards|disgusted the Jupiter boys]] and goes up into [[Complete Monster]] territory in that particular continuity.

* [[We Used to Be Friends]] -- {{spoiler|With Junijiro.}}

* [[A Day in The Limelight]] -- Although not an idol, she sometimes gets a song in the larger album collections. {{spoiler|This turns out to be a [[Foreshadowing]] of her past as an idol.}}

* [[Exposition Fairy]]

* {{spoiler|[[Idol Singer]] -- So she used to be.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Little Black Dress]] -- When she sings in Episode 21, she wears this, and looks great in it.}}