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Otome Arisugawa is a student of Starlight Academy and one of the main characters of the first two seasons of Aikatsu!, later appearing as a graduate in the later series Aikatsu on Parade!. She is a Pop-type idol whose favorite brand is Happy Rainbow. Her birthday is on May 5, her blood type is B, and she stands about 148 centimeters tall.
Otome grew up in a family that ran a kindergarten, and from elementary school she spent time playing with the children there and helping with household chores. Her natural talent as an idol was already apparent when she was young. At Starlight Academy she becomes a student idol and serves as the advertising idol for the popcorn company Pop'n Popcorn. She debuts in the tenth episode of the anime and soon becomes one of the central figures of the cast.
Her personality is bubbly, energetic, and deeply fond of anything cute, from rainbows to kittens. She often sprinkles her speech with catchphrases such as "Love you" and "Peko-Pekorin", speaks in the first person, and affectionately adds the suffix "-tan" to the names of her friends, like Ran-tan and Sakura-tan. She is also something of an airhead and a clumsy person, much like her friend Ichigo. Beneath that carefree surface, however, she is extremely hardworking. Because she fears making mistakes during a real performance, she practices for jobs well in advance, sometimes preparing a full year ahead of time, and she puts her whole heart into every show.
Otome's love of cuteness and her desire to perform joyfully drive her career, but her defining trait is her determination to improve. Among the student idols of her generation, she is noted as one who pushed herself the hardest, standing alongside Ichigo Hoshimiya and Mizuki Kanzaki. Her efforts lead her to create her own idol unit, Powapowa-Puririn, around the thirty-eighth episode, and she produces two versions of the unit's debut song. Eventually, when Mizuki steps down from the role, Otome succeeds her as Starlight Queen, the highest-ranking student idol at the school.
Her key relationships are with the idols around her. She and Ichigo share a similar clumsiness and enthusiasm, with her love of cute things paralleling Ichigo's love of food. She deeply respects Mizuki Kanzaki, whose position she ultimately inherits. An early misunderstanding made people think she had a crush on a boy named Suzukawa, but it turned out that she had actually fallen in love with his necklace. Later, as the leader of Powapowa-Puririn, she takes on a more established role among the academy's idols before graduating from Starlight School.
As a performer, Otome excels at presenting the sweet and energetic style of the Happy Rainbow brand, and her signature aura includes elements such as candy, fruit, and gingerbread men. Her representative character songs include Angel Snow and After School Ponytail. Her most notable ability as an idol is not flashy talent alone, but her remarkable discipline and preparation, which allow her to deliver dependable and heartfelt performances even though she is naturally clumsy. Over the course of the story, she grows from a cheerful but scatterbrained beginner into a confident leader and Starlight Queen, becoming one of the most accomplished idols of her generation.
Otome grew up in a family that ran a kindergarten, and from elementary school she spent time playing with the children there and helping with household chores. Her natural talent as an idol was already apparent when she was young. At Starlight Academy she becomes a student idol and serves as the advertising idol for the popcorn company Pop'n Popcorn. She debuts in the tenth episode of the anime and soon becomes one of the central figures of the cast.
Her personality is bubbly, energetic, and deeply fond of anything cute, from rainbows to kittens. She often sprinkles her speech with catchphrases such as "Love you" and "Peko-Pekorin", speaks in the first person, and affectionately adds the suffix "-tan" to the names of her friends, like Ran-tan and Sakura-tan. She is also something of an airhead and a clumsy person, much like her friend Ichigo. Beneath that carefree surface, however, she is extremely hardworking. Because she fears making mistakes during a real performance, she practices for jobs well in advance, sometimes preparing a full year ahead of time, and she puts her whole heart into every show.
Otome's love of cuteness and her desire to perform joyfully drive her career, but her defining trait is her determination to improve. Among the student idols of her generation, she is noted as one who pushed herself the hardest, standing alongside Ichigo Hoshimiya and Mizuki Kanzaki. Her efforts lead her to create her own idol unit, Powapowa-Puririn, around the thirty-eighth episode, and she produces two versions of the unit's debut song. Eventually, when Mizuki steps down from the role, Otome succeeds her as Starlight Queen, the highest-ranking student idol at the school.
Her key relationships are with the idols around her. She and Ichigo share a similar clumsiness and enthusiasm, with her love of cute things paralleling Ichigo's love of food. She deeply respects Mizuki Kanzaki, whose position she ultimately inherits. An early misunderstanding made people think she had a crush on a boy named Suzukawa, but it turned out that she had actually fallen in love with his necklace. Later, as the leader of Powapowa-Puririn, she takes on a more established role among the academy's idols before graduating from Starlight School.
As a performer, Otome excels at presenting the sweet and energetic style of the Happy Rainbow brand, and her signature aura includes elements such as candy, fruit, and gingerbread men. Her representative character songs include Angel Snow and After School Ponytail. Her most notable ability as an idol is not flashy talent alone, but her remarkable discipline and preparation, which allow her to deliver dependable and heartfelt performances even though she is naturally clumsy. Over the course of the story, she grows from a cheerful but scatterbrained beginner into a confident leader and Starlight Queen, becoming one of the most accomplished idols of her generation.