List of Aikatsu! characters

Orihime Mitsuishi (光石 織姫, Mitsuishi Orihime)

Voiced by: Kaya Matsutani

The headmistress of Starlight Academy. Years ago, she was a national-level idol as a member of the legendary idol unit, Masquerade, under the stage name Hime, but she suddenly disbanded in order to succeed her father's career as a zaibatsu president and principal. As an idol veteran, Orihime is full of knowledge about the world of idols, and wants nothing more than to see her students do their best. She is often annoyed by Johnny's dynamic mannerisms. Her aura is composed of blue and purple roses.

Johnny Bepp (ジョニー別府, Jonī Beppu),

Voiced by: Makoto Yasumura

Starlight Academy's dance teacher and choreographer and Ichigo's homeroom teacher. He is quite lively, often believing life to be a 'showtime', and constantly uses English phrases. He is later revealed to be Mizuki's special coach. He is named after an actor Johnny Depp.

Naoto Suzukawa (涼川 直人, Suzukawa Naoto)

Voiced by: Toshiyuki Toyonaga

Starlight Academy's janitor, who often gives words of advice to Ichigo and the others. Outside of the school, he is secretly the vocalist of an up and coming rock band More Than True. It is later revealed that he's Tiara's younger brother. Starting from episode 127, he is now the homeroom teacher of the 1st year middle school students.

Shion Kamiya (神谷 しおん, Kamiya Shion)

Voiced by: Asami Seto (speaking voice), Yuna from STAR☆ANIS (singing voice)

Debuted on Episode 14 of the anime and participated on the arcade game's third wave campaign. She is a popular drama actress titled "The Seven-Faced Actress (七つの顔を持つ女優, Nanatsu no kao wo motsu joyū)" for her cool normal side that extremely changes during acting. Together with Aoi, she becomes the new member for the top serial "Bad Detectives Season 3 (イケナイ刑事（でか）パート3, Ikenai Deka Pāto 3)". She ends up being dragged into Otome's PowaPowa Puririn group, but chooses not to join STAR☆ANIS in order to focus on her acting career. She's the Cool type idol whose theme color is green and her preferred brand is Futuring Girl.

Honoka Tsukikage (月影 ほのか, Tsukikage Honoka)

Voiced by: Yū Asakawa

Mizuki's manager, who knows all of Mizuki's secrets, as Mizuki trusts her completely. Even if she seems dark, quiet and strict, Honoka cares for Mizuki and does her job very carefully.

Hiro (ヒロ, Hiro)

Voiced by: Daisuke Kishio

Hiro is the lead-guitarist in More Than True. He is also a good friend of Naoto.

Shurato (シュラト, Shurato)

Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima

The bassist of More Than True. He seems quiet, dark and strict, but overall he's kind and friendly and he even has a teasing side.

King (キング, Kingu)

Voiced by: Satoshi Hino

The drummer of More Than True, who rarely plays with other members on street. With his mohawk hairstyle and black clothing, he seems like a punk trouble maker, but he is actually kind and friendly, soft and cries when he is emotional.

Hikari Minowa (三ノ輪 ヒカリ, Minowa Hikari)

Voiced by: Satomi Moriya (speaking voice), Yuniko from STAR☆ANIS (singing voice)

Ran's rival who appears to skip classes for her Net Live in the school's underground, which makes her titled as "The Underground Sun (地下の太陽, Chika no Taiyō)". She debuts on Episode 8 and had also participated on the arcade game's third wave campaign. On Episode 9 afterwards, she appears in minor to support Ran, Ichigo and Aoi. By October 2013, she is the official supporter for the shop of the series "Aikatsu! Official Shop". Her preferred brand is Spicy Ageha, and she is a Sexy type idol.

Tiara Yumesaki (夢咲 ティアラ, Yumesaki Tiara)

Voiced by: Aya Endō

Tiara is a character that appears in season two of the Aikatsu! anime adaption. She is the headmistress of Dream Academy and is friends with Mizuki Kanzaki. She is the older sister of Naoto Suzukawa. Back when Tiara was in college, she worked as a member of Masquerade's staff and was known by her actual name Tiara Suzukawa, while Tiara Yumesaki is her stage name. She was amazed by the idol duo like many others, but often overheard girls saying they'd like to become idols but wouldn't do it. This struck a chord in Tiara and made her wonder why the girls would give up before they'd even try. Sometime after Masquerade disbanded and Orihime was settling in as Starlight's new headmistress, Tiara visited her. She noted all of the applicants and Orihime stated while there are so many, only a few would get in. Tiara, feeling bad that the girls who wouldn't make it would have to give up on their dreams, decided she'd create her own idol school that would offer alternative pathways. It took her less than 10 years to create Dream Academy. Her policy says that "If you have the passion, anyone can be an idol", making Dream Academy more open to receive students than most idol academies.

Yuu Hattori (服部 ユウ, Hattori Yū)

Voiced by: Haruka Terui (speaking voice)

Akari's classmate and previous roommate in the first semester. Due to water leak issues, she changes her roommate to Hasegawa Matsuri. She was exchanged to Himezakura Academy from Episode 118 to 121 and to Étoile Academy from Episode 135 to 141 (except for the Unit Cup). It's noted that Yuu's favorite food are pancakes and citrus fruit. Her specialty is jazz dance. Her favored brand is Swing ROCK, which confirms that she is a cool type idol. As of the 2015 series, she and Miyabi Fujiwara are now mascot characters for Aikatsu's official shop.

Kanon (花音, Kanon)

Voiced by: Ayumi Fujimura (speaking voice), Saori Codama (singing voice)

Kanon appears in the movie, as a bright, cheerful and king girl who writes songs and does street performances. She wrote the song Etude of Radiance for Ichigo for her Great StarMiya Ichigo Festival in the first Movie.

Yotsuba Shun (四ツ葉 春, Yotsuba Shun)

Voiced by: Daisuke Hirakawa

Shun is the new pastry chef at the cafeteria of the Starlight School & has introduced a bunch of brand new sugary snacks, including various homemade donuts. He used to be an idol in his youth under the stage name Yosshun. Kokone and her mother are big fans of him.

Nagaoka (長岡, Nagaoka)

Voiced by: Sōichirō Hoshi

Miyabi's teacher in Himezakura Private Girls' Academy. He was the one that scouted Miyabi.

Asuka Amahane (天羽 あすか, Amahane Asuka)

Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue

Ichigo and Madoka's favorite brand, Angely Sugar's top designer. She is a mild-mannered middle-aged woman with glasses and Principal Orihime and Ringo's friend. She is Madoka's grandmother.

Shōichi Fujisaki (藤崎 正一, Fujisaki Shōichi)

Voiced by: Hiroshi Yanaka

He is the gardener who lives with Asuka on Angely Mountain.

Rei Kamishiro (神代 レイ, Kamishiro Rei)

Voiced by: Kenji Nojima

Futuring Girl's top designer, who has been admired by Aoi since she discovered Futuring Girl. He was mentioned by Aoi that he always watched her performances. He also seems to have a connection with Naoto and Tiara Suzukawa. In Episode 7, Naoto has the rare cards of the brand he gave to Aoi. In Episode 9, he showed with a female silhouette.

Anna Tachibana (橘 杏奈, Tachibana Anna)

Voiced by: Yōko Sōmi

Ran's favorite brand, Spicy Ageha's top designer. She gave Ran premium rare cards in Episode 23 as Ran lost Spicy Ageha's representative audition.

Makoto Nijigahara (虹ヶ原 マコト, Makoto)

Voiced by: Shin-ichiro Miki

Otome's favorite brand, Happy Rainbow's top designer. He is strict on time and known to be Green Grass' friend. In Episode 15, he won't give Otome his premium cards as she was late, but as he found a pair of his father's ring on Otome, he gives the premium card.

Maya Yumekōji (夢小路 魔夜, Yumekōji Maya)

Voiced by: Tōru Ōkawa

Yurika and Sumire's favorite brand, LoLi GoThiC's top designer. He lives in a spooky mansion and pretends that he was possessing the mansion for 300 years, he only wants his designs to be used only by strong person, who also can face the scandal like Yurika Tōdō. He also hires many staff to make courage temptation to their visitors, like Johnny Bepp.

Green Grass (グリーン・グラス, Gurīn Gurasu)

Voiced by: Ayumi Tsunematsu (Lisa), Yūka Nakatsukasa (Elena)

Hīragi (柊) twins, top designers of Aurora Fantasy, Sakura and Maria's favorite brand who are in the past known for writing Sakura's favorite picture book "Gift of The Fairy (妖精のおくりもの, Yōsei no Okurimono)". Instead of replying Sakura's letters, they give her Aurora Fantasy's premium rare cards and hug her as she tries to visit them.

Marcel (マルセル, Maruseru)

The top designer of Magical Toy, Kaede and Kii's favored brand. He is also a street clown who entertains people on the streets of New York.

Makina (マキナ, Makina)

Voiced by: Satsuki Yukino

Top designer of Swing ROCK, Seira's favored brand, and also a touring bassist. She admires Angely Sugar's top designer, Asuka Amahane.

KAYOKO

Voiced by: Akeno Watanabe

The top designer of ViVid Kiss, Mikuru & Hinaki's favored brand. She lives in LA.

Tsubasa Sena (瀬名 翼, Sena Tsubasa)

Voiced by: Atsushi Tamaru

Top designer of Dreamy Crown, Akari's favored brand. He was Asuka Amahane's helper at first. His dresses are often inspired by Akari's bright and cheerful personality. He has designed most of Akari's premium dresses. He is the youngest known designer, at the age of 16-17.

Atsuji Ancielo (エンジェロ˙辻)

Voiced by: Yasunori Matsumoto

Top designer of Sangria Rosa, Juri's favored brand.

Sunny (サニー, Sanī)

Voiced by: Kōsuke Toriumi

Sunny is the top designer of Dance Fusion, Rin's favored brand. He was a member of the dance unit Sunny & Johnny along with Johnny Bepp.

Lucy Kisaragi (如月ルーシー, Kisaragi Rūshī)

Voiced by: Ryoko Shiraishi

Top designer of Dolly Devil, Nono and Risa's favourite brand. She is characterized as a free spirit, going at her paca which makes trouble to her subordinates. A friendly, bright woman, who has a tendency to go for "Happening Hunts" - she wanders off in a middle of her work to search for situations that will spark her creativity.

Ringo Hoshimiya (星宮 りんご, Hoshimiya Ringo)

Voiced by: Mamiko Noto

Ichigo's mother, who runs a takeaway bento restaurant Nantemo Bento. She used to be worried that her own dream was influenced onto Ichigo and wanted her to do something else she wanted to do. When Raichi told her that Ichigo wanted to be an idol, Ringo knew that Ichigo thought she was in the way of Ichigo's dream and told Ichigo to do what she wanted to do. It is later revealed that she was once part of the legendary idol unit, Masquerade, under the stage name Miya. She disbanded in order to fulfill her second dream of making bento. Her aura is composed of cherry blossom flowers, similar to Ichigo's.

Raichi Hoshimiya (星宮 らいち, Hoshimiya Raichi)

Voiced by: Asami Seto

Ichigo's younger brother who is a huge fan of Mizuki, influencing Ichigo to become a fan herself. He adores the world of idols and has a huge crush on Aoi. In season three, he begins to attend the junior high school where Ichigo and Aoi attended three years ago.

Taichi Hoshimiya (星宮 太一, Hoshimiya Taichi)

Voiced by: Takehito Koyasu

Ichigo and Raichi's father, who is often traveling due to his business. He often gives seemingly wild tales about what goes on during his travels, but he has never once said a lie.

Sakon Kitaoji (北大路 左近, Kitaōji Sakon)

Voiced by: Mutsumi Tamura

Sakura's older twin brother, who cares a lot for his sister, and at first does not approve her enrolling the Starlight Academy, but when sees how much Sakura had grown up, he supports her. He has a genetic habit of breaking into theatrical performance when experiencing strong emotions known as the "Kitaōji Theater". Like all the other males in the Kitaoji family, Sakon is also a Kabuki actor.

Takako Otoshiro (音城　貴子, Otoshiro Takako)

Voiced by: Eimi Okada

Seira and Noeru's mother, who runs Cafe Vivo.

Sōta Otoshiro (音城　颯太, Otoshiro Sōta)

Voiced by: Masamichi Kitada

Seira and Noeru's father, as well as Takako's husband who runs Cafe Vivo. He is very kind and caring to his family and friends.

Noeru Otoshiro (音城　ノエル, Otoshiro Noeru)

Voiced by: Ai Kakuma

Seira's younger sister and later became main protagonist of Aikatsu On Parade!, who's in the same age with Raichi. She works at Vivo's cafe run by her parents. In elementary schoolhood, she belongs to a different class with Raichi, and both begin to share interests and news about their favorite idols. In season three, as a junior high student, she's enrolled in the same class with Raichi and another idol-fan classmate, Azuma Asahi. She's also a student of Dream Academy, like her sister.

Sanae Saegusa (冴草 さなえ)

Voiced by: Yayoi Sugaya

Ki's mother. Sanae is a very kind woman and cares a lot for her daughter. She taught Ki her current catchphrase 'Ok-Ok-Okay!'. She is a doctor.

Koharu Ōzora (大空 小陽, Ōzora Koharu)

Voiced by: Kyoko Hikami

Akari's mother, she is very energetic, with a supportive personality, also a very caring mother.

Manabu Ōzora (大空 学, Ōzora Manabu)

Voiced by: Seirō Ogino

Akari's father who is a geologist, very passionate about his job. He likes teasing Akari and is very cheerful.

Azusa Hikami (氷上 あずさ)

Voiced by: Miki Hase

Sumire's older sister. She is very kind and protective towards her sister. She showed the Starlight Academy to Sumire and encouraged her to enroll. Her keen interest in LoLi GoThiC also deeply influences Sumire.

Karen Kurebayashi (紅林 可憐)

Voiced by: Michiko Neya

The mother of Juri Kurebayashi. She is a famous actress. People taught that Juri was a success because of her mother, so Juri started a career on her own. Still, Karen is a very supportive and kind mother and cares a lot for her daughter.

Serio Kamino (カミーノ・セリオ, Kamino Serio)

Voiced by: Yūya Uchida

Karen Kurebayashi's husband and Juri's father. He is a well known Spanish chef. He cares a lot for his wife and daughter.

Yutaka Daichi (大地 豊)

Voiced by: Akihiro Nemoto

First appeared in Episode 154. Father of Nono. In farmers potato field, close to the Shirakaba family. A little taciturn quiet.

Minoru Daichi (大地 穣)

Voiced by: Minami Takahashi

First appeared in Episode 154. Brother of Nono. Game lovers.

Shizuo Shirakaba (白樺 静生)

Voiced by: Kazuyoshi Hayashi

First appeared in Episode 154. Lisa's father. Close to the Daichi house. Lisa was promoted to undergo willingly accepted audition to become an idol.

Reiko Shirakaba (白樺 玲子)

Voiced by: Kazuyoshi Hayashi (Episode 15) → :Voiced by: Mitsuki Nakae (Episode 175)

It emerged from the first 154 episodes. Lisa's mother. Lisa was willingly accepted to be an idol.

The Rin's elder sister (チリ寝るで留守りすつ)

The traduction is "hot" (あつい).

Asuka Amahane (アマハネアスカ, Amahane Asuka)

Voiced by: Kikuko Inoue

Madoka's grandmother.

• (Official website character bios) (in Japanese)
• (Character bios, TV Tokyo) (in Japanese)
• (Character bios from the movie) (in Japanese)