The Idolmaster (anime)/Characters: Difference between revisions

* [[Cry Cute]] -- {{spoiler|The end of Episode 20, after finishing her song at the end of 765's autumn concert, even as she sees a younger specter of herself and Yuu apparently watching her sing.}}

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]] -- {{spoiler|Her parents started fighting all the time ever since [[Dead Little Sister|her little brother Yuu died when he got ran over in a parking lot]].}}

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

* [[First-Name Basis]] -- In the games, upon the first meeting, she demands Producer to call her "Chihaya". In fact, she doesn't like being called by her family name.

** 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.

* [[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]].

* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]] -- In ''iM@S2'', and a few episodes into the 2011 anime, she has cut her hair to a short bob.

* [[The Ditz]]

** [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]] -- The entire cityscape (and even the zoo animals) end up entranced by her beauty when she runs through the streets in a wedding dress. Eventually it starts a stampede.

* [[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.

* [[Image Song]] -- "Here we go!!", "[[Rescue Romance|Futari]] [[Star-Crossed Lovers|no Kioku]]", "Rizora", and "DIAMOND"

* [[Kawaiiko]]

* [[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.

* [[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]]"

In ''iM@S2'', Ami is a member of Ryuuguu Komachi while Mami is produced separately.

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* [[Buffy-Speak]] -- "If we become a super-cool-awesome idol, then everyday will be relaxing right?"

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

* [[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)

* [[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]].

* [[Single-Minded Twins]]

* [[Theme Twin Naming]]

* [[Third Person Person]]

Laid-back 14-year-old Miki thinks she can breeze through the idol ladder, given that she already gets good grades without much effort, gets 20 love confessions a day, [[Rule of Three|and]] manages to stay in shape in spite of sleeping a lot. She debuted in the first game's [[Xbox 360]] version, and is the only character to have an alternate story route.

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* [[Born Lucky]]

* [[Brilliant but Lazy]]

* [[Disproportionate Retribution]] -- The real reason she joined 961 in ''SP'' games is because {{spoiler|''President Takagi ate her onigiri''.}}

* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: In ''iM@S2'', her hair is curly.

* [[Friendly Enemy]] -- During ''SP'' games, despite being in 961, she showed almost zero hostility towards 765 Pro idols.

* [[Green Eyes]]

* [[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.

* [[The Slacker]]

* [[Ship Tease]] - {{spoiler|With Yayoi in Idolmaster 2!}}

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* [[Exposition Fairy]]

* [[First-Name Basis]] -- Subverted in ''iM@S2''. Upon her self-introduction, she suggests the Producer to call her either "Kotori-san", "Kotori-neesan", or "Kotori-chan". However, he decides to use [[Last-Name Basis|"Otonashi-san"]] instead.

* {{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.}}