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Welcome back. Last time I did a pear-shaped ninja girl. Now it’s time to check out an idol concert! *enters*
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: Hello, everyone! Are you ready? I’ll start soon, and I am…
Wait, Ichigo? Boo! I don’t want to see you! Give us Ran instead!
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: Hey, don't boo me! Unless you’re saying Ichi-boo…
I’m not! You’re nothing but a pink blight of hypercompetence! Get out!
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: That’s rude! I did plenty of idol activities to get here! Should I smack you with my shamoji?
No, I left my Medatch at home. But I shall blog you instead!
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: Blogs… Is that what Topaz did a long time ago?
Yes, but I won’t be so gentle. Get ready!
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: What for?
Body
Hair
Ichigo has blonde hair. Not a good start as it’s my least favorite hair color, but otherwise Ichigo has nice hair as it’s long, she wears a cute red hairband but has bangs, and Aikatsu girls have good hair animation. However, this is forever tainted due to Ichigo causing (indirectly) Akari’s haircut! See, Akari at first imitated Ichigo’s hairstyle, but Ichigo told her to not do that and Akari cut her hair. Luckily the orange hair beauty ends growing up her hair in later seasons, but man, Ichigo could keep her mouth shut…
Score: 5
Eyes
Ichigo has red eyes. Unfortunately, that still is my favorite eye color, so Ichigo does well automatically. She also wears glasses as disguises sometimes, which is nice. Also she resembles her Koyasu dad more, while her otouto looks like their Noto mom. Not bad.
Score: 10
Build
Ichigo does well “by default” again. We only have height data, starting at 151cm and growing 6cm in two years. Still, Ichigo is like most little girl anime heroines, looking slender and nice with no chest woes or other issues that hurt her. I’ll also say the Aikatsu girls are borderline superhuman, climbing mountains for training and cutting trees just like that. That’s pretty cool. Oh, and Ichigo and other early Aikatsu girls suffer from the first episodes for some reason using crappy 3D models. Endure, they’ll get better. Also, her blood type is 0.
Score: 9
Butt
Ichigo never shows ass. If only she learned from Yume and did a shorts ass shake. She did kinda sit on a cake once! But not in a sexy way…
Score: 1
Clothes
Ichigo is good but not great. Her default costume is the Starlight academy uniform which is kinda cute, and her brand is Angely Sugar which is a Cute style brand with lots of pinks and stuff. Not bad, but I prefer the Cool and Sexy idols more. Still, thanks to her long series she has worn many costumes, and that helps! Too bad there were no sexy outfits, not even a swimsuit (That was the Akari generation). Ah well.
Score: 7
Mind
Personality
Ichigo crashes and burns now. Let’s begin with the elephant in the room: Ichigo is a Mary Sue. Not the worst one out there (not even the worst in little girl anime, as Mana and Haruka exist), but she is one. To be exact, she is the Mary Sue kind that seems harmless until she explodes into hypercompetence. To wit, here are some of Ichigo’s ridiculous achievements:
-Robbing Ran and Yurika from passing an audition in an episode about Ran and Yurika learning to collaborate, simply by doing alongside Otome something dumb and unexpected.
-Her apprentice is a main character (Sakura), but Aoi and Ran’s apprentices are ignored entirely.
-Having an entire episode about how much work she has and how busy she is while Ran had achieved nothing yet (the writers hate Ran).
-Becomes the second top idol in six months, despite not having any interest for idols beforehand.
-Living in the US a full year despite not speaking English and somehow managing just fine.
-Having her own fangirl that worships her (Akari, but she gets better thankfully).
-Doing a variation of the early episode where Ichigo was Mizuki’s manager with Akari as Ichigo’s manager, only Ichigo is the awesomest and doesn’t need a manager so Akari twiddles her thumbs.
-Despite the original series ending with Akari surpassing Ichigo, in On Parade Akari says she can’t beat Ichigo (sure, Akari meant she has lots to learn still as she’s humble, but the wording is clearly meant to butter up Ichigo).
And probably others I forgot right not. So yeah, Ichigo is extremely competent (despite, as said, not caring about idols until episode 1 began) and comes off as way too good. It’s insulting, especially compared to Ran who works hard but gets like 1/10 what Ichigo does (though Ichigo also works just as hard).
That aside… Ichigo isn’t too bad. She began as the daughter of a bento shop owner lady and a dad never at home, but her best friend Aoi took her to see Mizuki the top idol and Ichigo became Mizuki’s fangirl instantly. The two then enrolled into Starlight Academy, a school for idols, and started working into their idol activities (geddit)! Soon another girl named Ran joined them, and the three worked hard for the top idol position. Ichigo eventually did beat Mizuki after a hundred episodes, so she became a secondary character and Akari the new lead.
Now for personality. Ichigo is a typical main character, a bit silly and ditzy but cute and hard-working. The problem is, as said above, she only spends like 13-15 episodes as a rookie before becoming insanely good, and then she never looks back. All in all, Ichigo is a likable girl, but she clearly has the writer’s favoritism buffing her into the stratosphere…
Score: 5
Reception
Ichigo bombs this. The problem is twofold! First all of the above section, as Ichigo is clearly the author’s pet and it shows. The second is the fanbase, as despite her issues Ichigo is BY FAR the most popular Aikatsu girl and most fans worship her. Meanwhile I’m just here sitting like, “Why? The other girls are more interesting” and befuddled. Hell, they worship her so much I’m convinced people hate the DreAca section because Ichigo shows some minor signs of being mortal and not an idol deity. They worship her so much the Akari generation is far less popular (despite being an overall better cast), though being fair Aikatsu in general constantly lost popularity with each new entry. Which means the Ichigo parts are the most popular ones… Yeah. So basically we get a bland, hypercompetent character overfavored by both fanbase and staff. Fun! Not.
Score: 0
Libido
Ichigo lacks this, but not in a bad way. She just has no love interest. She gets some shipping with Aoi (best friend), Akari (admirer), and Seira (rival), and those help a little.
Score: 6
Age
Ichigo is all over the place here. She is 12 in the first two cours, then 13 in the next two, then 15 in the following two, then 16 for the next two, then 17 for the rest of the series. Then 18 in On Parade and 22 in the final movies. On average she gets a good score but not perfect. Her birthday is the 15th of March, which matters for two reasons. First, she’s Pisces and that means she got a Pisces-themed dress. Second, Ichigo from Tokyo Mew Mew also has the same birthday and blood type, and much like Ichigo she’s a favored pink Shoujo lead. What a cursed name/birthday combination.
Score: 9
Voice
Sumire Moroboshi is cute and does well as Ichigo. I prefer her as Tsubasa though. Also, another girl does the singing. Ichigo also invented the term “Aikatsu” in-universe as well.
Score: 7
Total: 59 - Passable
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: Hey, what gives? Topaz gave me 14 more points!
Oh, believe me, I would give you less points if I could. But I’m fair, and you have some good things like your eyes, body, and age. It’s just your hypercompetence and bias that ruins your parade. Heh, like Raki.
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: Leave the Poochie out of this! Zettai, you have offended me and I don’t like that! Prepare yourself!
What, are you going to use the Getsuga Tenshou on me?
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: No, and it’s not the Bloody Rose either. I’m pulling out THIS! *suddenly brings out an axe in the Brave pose*
Hey, that looks dangerous…
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: It IS dangerous! Do like a tree and fall! *swings her axe at Zettai, but somehow misses*
Ack! Help! Anyone got a sword to get the weapon triangle advantage on her?
Voice: I shall help you! *jumps in*
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: Juri Kurebayashi, ready to help a fellow Spaniard in the very Day of Hispanicity itself! *brandishes a Toledan sword at Ichigo*
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: Juri, get out! He offended me!
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: Hoshimiya-senpai, what he said was all the truth! You ARE overly favored!
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: You girls don’t think like that, do you…? *she turns around to look at the rest of Aikatsu8, who just look to the side or whistle. Except Ran, who flips Ichigo the bird* I’ve been betrayed! BETRAYED!
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: Now, now, they haven’t locked you in the Room of Spirit and Time. Yet.
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: I shall get my revenge! Vengeance! REVENGEANCE! *starts wrecking the stage with her axe*
This is bad! Juri, do something!
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: Why me? Oh, well! Take THIS! *suddenly the screen goes black, but then we see Juri sheathing her sword and Ichigo stunned, her axe flying off* Once again my sword has cut something biased…
That’s her Japanese half, I guess. Still, good work!
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: ¡Gracias!
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: Ugh… I deserve all the love… Because I am…THE MAIN CHARACTER! *faints*
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: But your name isn’t in the title.
Yeah, unlike most Pink Cures nowadays…
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: I’ll take Hoshimiya-senpai back with me. Zettai, what are you doing next?
I dunno, this blog was a spur of the moment thing… Hopefully I’ll do the one I want next!
: Hello, everyone! Are you ready? I’ll start soon, and I am…
Wait, Ichigo? Boo! I don’t want to see you! Give us Ran instead!
: Hey, don't boo me! Unless you’re saying Ichi-boo…
I’m not! You’re nothing but a pink blight of hypercompetence! Get out!
: That’s rude! I did plenty of idol activities to get here! Should I smack you with my shamoji?
No, I left my Medatch at home. But I shall blog you instead!
: Blogs… Is that what Topaz did a long time ago?
Yes, but I won’t be so gentle. Get ready!
: What for?
Body
Hair
Ichigo has blonde hair. Not a good start as it’s my least favorite hair color, but otherwise Ichigo has nice hair as it’s long, she wears a cute red hairband but has bangs, and Aikatsu girls have good hair animation. However, this is forever tainted due to Ichigo causing (indirectly) Akari’s haircut! See, Akari at first imitated Ichigo’s hairstyle, but Ichigo told her to not do that and Akari cut her hair. Luckily the orange hair beauty ends growing up her hair in later seasons, but man, Ichigo could keep her mouth shut…
Score: 5
Eyes
Ichigo has red eyes. Unfortunately, that still is my favorite eye color, so Ichigo does well automatically. She also wears glasses as disguises sometimes, which is nice. Also she resembles her Koyasu dad more, while her otouto looks like their Noto mom. Not bad.
Score: 10
Build
Ichigo does well “by default” again. We only have height data, starting at 151cm and growing 6cm in two years. Still, Ichigo is like most little girl anime heroines, looking slender and nice with no chest woes or other issues that hurt her. I’ll also say the Aikatsu girls are borderline superhuman, climbing mountains for training and cutting trees just like that. That’s pretty cool. Oh, and Ichigo and other early Aikatsu girls suffer from the first episodes for some reason using crappy 3D models. Endure, they’ll get better. Also, her blood type is 0.
Score: 9
Butt
Ichigo never shows ass. If only she learned from Yume and did a shorts ass shake. She did kinda sit on a cake once! But not in a sexy way…
Score: 1
Clothes
Ichigo is good but not great. Her default costume is the Starlight academy uniform which is kinda cute, and her brand is Angely Sugar which is a Cute style brand with lots of pinks and stuff. Not bad, but I prefer the Cool and Sexy idols more. Still, thanks to her long series she has worn many costumes, and that helps! Too bad there were no sexy outfits, not even a swimsuit (That was the Akari generation). Ah well.
Score: 7
Mind
Personality
Ichigo crashes and burns now. Let’s begin with the elephant in the room: Ichigo is a Mary Sue. Not the worst one out there (not even the worst in little girl anime, as Mana and Haruka exist), but she is one. To be exact, she is the Mary Sue kind that seems harmless until she explodes into hypercompetence. To wit, here are some of Ichigo’s ridiculous achievements:
-Robbing Ran and Yurika from passing an audition in an episode about Ran and Yurika learning to collaborate, simply by doing alongside Otome something dumb and unexpected.
-Her apprentice is a main character (Sakura), but Aoi and Ran’s apprentices are ignored entirely.
-Having an entire episode about how much work she has and how busy she is while Ran had achieved nothing yet (the writers hate Ran).
-Becomes the second top idol in six months, despite not having any interest for idols beforehand.
-Living in the US a full year despite not speaking English and somehow managing just fine.
-Having her own fangirl that worships her (Akari, but she gets better thankfully).
-Doing a variation of the early episode where Ichigo was Mizuki’s manager with Akari as Ichigo’s manager, only Ichigo is the awesomest and doesn’t need a manager so Akari twiddles her thumbs.
-Despite the original series ending with Akari surpassing Ichigo, in On Parade Akari says she can’t beat Ichigo (sure, Akari meant she has lots to learn still as she’s humble, but the wording is clearly meant to butter up Ichigo).
And probably others I forgot right not. So yeah, Ichigo is extremely competent (despite, as said, not caring about idols until episode 1 began) and comes off as way too good. It’s insulting, especially compared to Ran who works hard but gets like 1/10 what Ichigo does (though Ichigo also works just as hard).
That aside… Ichigo isn’t too bad. She began as the daughter of a bento shop owner lady and a dad never at home, but her best friend Aoi took her to see Mizuki the top idol and Ichigo became Mizuki’s fangirl instantly. The two then enrolled into Starlight Academy, a school for idols, and started working into their idol activities (geddit)! Soon another girl named Ran joined them, and the three worked hard for the top idol position. Ichigo eventually did beat Mizuki after a hundred episodes, so she became a secondary character and Akari the new lead.
Now for personality. Ichigo is a typical main character, a bit silly and ditzy but cute and hard-working. The problem is, as said above, she only spends like 13-15 episodes as a rookie before becoming insanely good, and then she never looks back. All in all, Ichigo is a likable girl, but she clearly has the writer’s favoritism buffing her into the stratosphere…
Score: 5
Reception
Ichigo bombs this. The problem is twofold! First all of the above section, as Ichigo is clearly the author’s pet and it shows. The second is the fanbase, as despite her issues Ichigo is BY FAR the most popular Aikatsu girl and most fans worship her. Meanwhile I’m just here sitting like, “Why? The other girls are more interesting” and befuddled. Hell, they worship her so much I’m convinced people hate the DreAca section because Ichigo shows some minor signs of being mortal and not an idol deity. They worship her so much the Akari generation is far less popular (despite being an overall better cast), though being fair Aikatsu in general constantly lost popularity with each new entry. Which means the Ichigo parts are the most popular ones… Yeah. So basically we get a bland, hypercompetent character overfavored by both fanbase and staff. Fun! Not.
Score: 0
Libido
Ichigo lacks this, but not in a bad way. She just has no love interest. She gets some shipping with Aoi (best friend), Akari (admirer), and Seira (rival), and those help a little.
Score: 6
Age
Ichigo is all over the place here. She is 12 in the first two cours, then 13 in the next two, then 15 in the following two, then 16 for the next two, then 17 for the rest of the series. Then 18 in On Parade and 22 in the final movies. On average she gets a good score but not perfect. Her birthday is the 15th of March, which matters for two reasons. First, she’s Pisces and that means she got a Pisces-themed dress. Second, Ichigo from Tokyo Mew Mew also has the same birthday and blood type, and much like Ichigo she’s a favored pink Shoujo lead. What a cursed name/birthday combination.
Score: 9
Voice
Sumire Moroboshi is cute and does well as Ichigo. I prefer her as Tsubasa though. Also, another girl does the singing. Ichigo also invented the term “Aikatsu” in-universe as well.
Score: 7
Total: 59 - Passable
: Hey, what gives? Topaz gave me 14 more points!
Oh, believe me, I would give you less points if I could. But I’m fair, and you have some good things like your eyes, body, and age. It’s just your hypercompetence and bias that ruins your parade. Heh, like Raki.
: Leave the Poochie out of this! Zettai, you have offended me and I don’t like that! Prepare yourself!
What, are you going to use the Getsuga Tenshou on me?
: No, and it’s not the Bloody Rose either. I’m pulling out THIS! *suddenly brings out an axe in the Brave pose*
Hey, that looks dangerous…
: It IS dangerous! Do like a tree and fall! *swings her axe at Zettai, but somehow misses*
Ack! Help! Anyone got a sword to get the weapon triangle advantage on her?
Voice: I shall help you! *jumps in*
: Juri Kurebayashi, ready to help a fellow Spaniard in the very Day of Hispanicity itself! *brandishes a Toledan sword at Ichigo*
: Juri, get out! He offended me!
: Hoshimiya-senpai, what he said was all the truth! You ARE overly favored!
: You girls don’t think like that, do you…? *she turns around to look at the rest of Aikatsu8, who just look to the side or whistle. Except Ran, who flips Ichigo the bird* I’ve been betrayed! BETRAYED!
: Now, now, they haven’t locked you in the Room of Spirit and Time. Yet.
: I shall get my revenge! Vengeance! REVENGEANCE! *starts wrecking the stage with her axe*
This is bad! Juri, do something!
: Why me? Oh, well! Take THIS! *suddenly the screen goes black, but then we see Juri sheathing her sword and Ichigo stunned, her axe flying off* Once again my sword has cut something biased…
That’s her Japanese half, I guess. Still, good work!
: ¡Gracias!
: Ugh… I deserve all the love… Because I am…THE MAIN CHARACTER! *faints*
: But your name isn’t in the title.
Yeah, unlike most Pink Cures nowadays…
: I’ll take Hoshimiya-senpai back with me. Zettai, what are you doing next?
I dunno, this blog was a spur of the moment thing… Hopefully I’ll do the one I want next!