The Cool Type is best known for being the preferred type for divas, songstresses, older women and level headed, mature idols. Their category color is blue and theme emblem is a diamond. From the original iM@S cast: Chihaya Kisaragi, Ritsuko Akizuki, Azusa Miura, and Takane Shijou are Cool Type idols.
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Ai Togo
An attractive and mature saxophone player.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl
- Femme Fatale: Never makes actual flirtations, but she makes clear she's very interested in Producer.
- Sexy Sax Woman
Aki Yamato
Akira Sunazuka
Anastasia
Arisu Tachibana
Asuka Ninomiya
Aya Kirino
A tomboyish girl from Fukuoka.
- Cool Big Sis: Seems to have become sort of one to Kozue Yusa: she's seen playing with her in her S Rare.
- Hidden Buxom: Due to her almost always wearing baggy clothes.
- Tomboy
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: The tomboy to Kozue's girly girl.
- Tsundere: A bit aggressive in some areas, but surprisingly excited when doing idol work and caring with others.
Ayaka Kishibe
A former model who becomes an idol but keeps styling as a hobby.
- Animal Motifs: Butterflies.
- Daddy's Girl: Her father looks to be a powerful man. He can buy her as many dresses as she wants, and it's possible he was the one to find her her former modeling job.
- The Fashionista
- Pimped-Out Dress: Usual casual outfit, and also a mini dress trimmed with black fur.
- The Rival: Starts out an enemy to 346 Pro until Defeat Means Friendship and Heel–Face Turn.
- Third-Person Person
Chiaki Kurokawa
A very serious and mature young woman.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl
- Brainy Brunette
- Character Development: In her first cards she's very aloof and serious, but starts being a bit more cheerful after meeting Misato Manaka in the Pajama Party event. She comments her cheerfulness managed to move her.
- Hime Cut
- Opposites Attract: With Misato Manaka, after they were paired as a duet for the Pajama Party event. While Chiaki is very aloof, Misato is more playful. However, both are the same age, and ended up being friends.
- Pimped-Out Dress: Most of her idol outfits are gorgeous dresses.
Chie Sasaki
Chinami Komuro
The boss of the Yokoyama area. A refined and diva-like young woman who aims for the top of idol business.
- Bedlah Babe: In her second S Rare+.
- Evil Diva: May come across as this when she's first encountered.
- Lovable Alpha Bitch
- The Rival: Starts out an enemy to 346 Pro until Defeat Means Friendship and Heel–Face Turn.
Chinatsu Aikawa
The quintessential hipster girl.
- Affectionate Nickname: In-universe, Yui dubbed her Chinattan.
- Brainy Brunette
- Cute Bookworm
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: With Yui. Or more accurately, cold hipster artist and bubbly popstar.
- Opposites Attract: With Yui Ohtsuki, after they were paired as a duet for a New Year's concert they took a liking to each other.
Chizuru Matsuo
A laid-back young girl who also tries to become a cute idol.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows: Her most notable physical feature. And unlike Saori Okuyama, she keeps them that way.
- Brainy Brunette
- Cute Bookworm
- Proper Tights with a Skirt: Usual casual outfit combination.
Fumika Sagisawa
Hajime Fujiwara
Haru Yuuki
Haruna Kamijo
Helen
A woman from across the seas... though mysteriously secretive of which nation she's a native from.
- Only One Name: Has a last name, but won't reveal it.
- The Rival: Starts out an enemy to 346 Pro until Defeat Means Friendship and Heel–Face Turn.
- Stock Foreign Name: Helen is generic enough to make her nationality harder to pinpoint.
- Where the Hell Is Springfield?: The mystery of her birth country.
Hijiri Mochizuki
Hina Araki
Honami Nishikawa
An enthusiast of opera and musicals.
- Closer to Earth: Tends to be the voice of reason and acts motherlike around younguer idols.
- Everything's Sparkly with Jewelry: Always wears long earrings. Even in casual clothes.
- Ojou: She's very refined and her tastes aren't cheap in the slightlest.
- Pimped-Out Dress: An essential for opera singers.
- Younger Than They Look: Can be mistaken for a young woman instead of a teenager.
Honoka Ayase
A Prima Ballerina who takes her craft very seriously. She starts off fairly disdainful of what she considers the less cultured world of idols, but can't help but have fun when she gets into it.
- Ballet
- Cat Girl: In her Halloween S Rare+.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: She defrosts fairly quickly compared to most.
- Freaky Is Cool: She's especially fond of a particular Ugly Cute cat doll that was her first successful grab in a crane game.
- Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She's amassed a huge collection of them due to her perfectionist nature making her practice playing crane games until she can bag a prize every time she plays.
- Serious Business
- Technician Versus Performer: She's a technician who learns to be a performer.
- Those Two Girls: Initially with Shinobu Kudo. In later Cinderella Theaters Yuzu Kitami has started to work her way in as the third girl in the circle.
- Workaholic
Izumi Ohishi
Juney
One of the three Korean-only idols. Up until the Korean release, no idols featured in Cinderella Girls were Korean. Quite puzzling given how many idols were from Europe, the Americas, and various parts of the Asian continent.
- Always Someone Better: Becomes an idol to try to be like her sister, an actress.
- But Not Too Foreign: Averted. Like Yujin and Haena, she was literally created by a Korean business venture for the Korean game market.
- Korean Pop Music: Presumably this will be her music specialty.
- Only One Name: Probably hides her surname to avoid being compared to her sister.
Kaede Takagaki
Kako Takafuji
Kanade Hayami
Karen Hojo
Kate
A Briton whose visit to Japan led to becoming an idol.
- Big Ol' Eyebrows
- Britain Is Only London: Her hometown is listed as England... and by that they mean London.
- British Pubs: Lampshades it with the bottles on her alternate Rare card.
- Messy Hair: Wears no hairstyles other than her loose hair. She tried to tie it into pigtails, but failed, claiming they wouldn't come together.
- Only One Name
- Stock Foreign Name
- Youthful Freckles
Koume Shirasaka
Layla
Makino Yagami
Manami Kiba
A fitness trainer from Nagasaki who became an idol to judge first hand, how physically demanding the career is claimed to be.
- Boyish Short Hair: Has her hair short. Which is fitting considering her active lifestyle.
- Face of a Thug: She's been nicknamed the Oni by her fans, for the fearsome look she can give.
- Statuesque Stunner: She ranks among the tallest idols, standing at 172 cm.
Megumi Ijiuin
A young woman from Tokyo who gives off an aloof and distant vibe.
- Closer to Earth: Around younger and more air-headed idols.
- Demoted to Extra: Cinderella Girls' artist got accused of plagiarizing a clothes' shop catalog on her first card◊, so her non-idolized form got changed after that and she spent almost 2 years with no new cards.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Absolutely loves beer.
- Informed Loner: She enjoys loneliness, but is friendly towards other idols and has no trouble making friends.
Midori Mizuno
A national archery champion from Hiroshima.
- Improbable Aiming Skills: Can shatter target boards with her shots.
- The Ingenue: Seems to have lived a sheltered life, as she didn't know the dangers of alcoholic drinks.
- Samurai Ponytail: Archery was studied by samurai as much as using a katana.
- Serious Business: When it comes to games of skill that involve aiming at a target or hitting a bullseye.
Minami Nitta
Miyu Mifune
Mizuki Kawashima
Mutsumi Ujie
A soft-spoken girl who wants to live a true adventure.
- Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: She appears to be this at first, but she lets herself be a bit wilder after she obtains her first Plus form.
- Brainy Brunette
- Cute Bookworm: Loves books and is knowledgeable about Japanese history.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: When in idol form, she switches her side braid for loose hair with curls.
- Pirate Girl: The theme of her second card.
- Regal Ringlets: Has a couple of them when in idol form.
- Shrinking Violet: At first.
Nanami Asari
Nao Kamiya
Noa Takamine
A mysterious silver haired beauty with a flair for technology and seemingly endless list of natural skills. Likes having a futuristic style when on stage.
- The Aesthetics of Technology
- Crystal Spires and Kimono: S Rare+ card shows a futuristic kimono using the Heian era style.
- Defrosting Ice Queen: For the Producer.
- Future Spandex: For various stage outfits.
- High-Tech Hexagons: Common on the costumes.
- Human Aliens: Depends if Takane Shijou is one. Shares a lot of things in common with her: odd quirks, silver hair, unusually tall, staring into the night sky.
- Meido: Possibly her previous profession. Even has a Cat Girl version for stage performances.
- Mystical Silver Hair
- Playboy Bunny: Wears it on her alternate S Rare card.
- Robot Girl: Or perhaps her obsession with looking futuristic is because she's one of these.
- Time Travel for Fun and Profit: Another popular Fanon theory is she's a time traveller from the future.
- Tron Lines: Uses the glowing lines frequently.
- Transhuman: Her idol costumes invoke it in their style.
Nono Morikubo
Otoha Umeki
The daughter of classical musicians, and considers music to be her foundation and purpose in life.
- The Ace: She might be equal to or better than Chihaya Kisaragi at singing.
- Expy: She is Chihaya Kisaragi with her music obsession taken up to eleven in a Ms. Fanservice body like Miki Hoshii.
- Family Business: Both her parents are classical music performers.
- In Harmony with Nature
- The Muse: What the Producer is for her.
- Nature Lover
- The Perfectionist: Talks about pitch, harmony, and tone.
- The Piano Player: One of her hobbies.
- Serious Business: Her singing and music in general.
- Statuesque Stunner: Stands at 172 cm
- The Stoic: Quite serious about music.
- Undying Loyalty: Dislikes a lot of things about being an idol. Only one because it makes the Producer happy and is the bond that connects them.
Ranko Kanzaki
Rei Shinohara
An exceptionally confident and voluptuous dance instructor.
- Big-Breast Pride: Puts strong emphasis on her impressive cleavage.
- Dances and Balls: Her professional specialization.
- Demoted to Extra: She was first released on November 2011 (when the game launched), but didn't get a new card until the Halloween Party gacha in October 2013. She's the idol who has spent the longest time having only one card.
- Fear of Thunder: She's deathly afraid of lightning, and her apartment is filled with charms that Japanese children believe ward away rainstorms.
- Statuesque Stunner: Stands at 171 cm.
- Stripperiffic
- The Tease: Loves to show off those boobs.
Reiko Takahashi
An alluring woman who wants to capitalize on her natural sex appeal.
- Does This Remind You of Anything?: S Rare+ card. She's on her knees in a catsuit, unzipping the top, licking her lips with her tongue, and might be wearing bondage belts underneath.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: It's her hobby.
- Ms. Fanservice
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: Strongly believed to be based on actress and model Chiaki Takahashi, who just happens to be the voice for Azusa Miura. They have the same family name, birthdate, blood type, and hometown... oh... and they look alike too and pretty much acts like what Chiaking does on-camera.
- The Tease: Knows she sexy and wants to market it.
Riina Tada
Rin Shibuya
Rumi Wakui
A woman who sacrificed her personal life to put an office career before everything else.
- Boyish Short Hair: Didn't want being feminine to be a career issue.
- Clint Squint: Her eye shape breaks from the normal anime style.
- Kindhearted Cat Lover: Really loves cats and can't avoid hugging them when she sees one. The problem? She's allergic to cats.
- Married to the Job: She avoided having a social life to dedicate herself to work advancement.
- Office Lady: Was actually a manager, instead of a "get the coffee" secretary.
- Weddings in Japan: Rare+ and S Rare+ cards.
- Workaholic: More or less her life story, before and after becoming an idol.
Ryo Matsunaga
Saki Yoshioka
An enterprising street artist who wants to bring more color to idol entertainment.
- Anime Hair: When performing on stage as an idol, her hair is always in a spiky style.
- Boyish Short Hair: Normal hair style off stage.
- Generic Graffiti: What she likes to do.
- Starving Artist: Hopes to avoid it by becoming an idol.
Sarina Matsumoto
Tokyo city girl who isn't afraid to flaunt and flirt her body.
- Big-Breast Pride: Considers her bustline to be the best asset she has an idol.
- Genre Savvy: Aware the Producer is a Clueless Chick-Magnet.
- Male Gaze: Playfully accuses the Producer of looking at her chest.
- The Tease: To the Producer.
Seira Mizuki
A lover of dogs who joins the fight for Producer's attention.
- Canine Companion: Averted. She loves dogs, but doesn't have one, unlike Yuu or Rin.
- Cleavage Window: In most of her idol costumes, although she isn't one of the bustiest idols.
- Curtains Match the Window
- Heroes Love Dogs
- Single-Target Sexuality: To the point she asks Producer to go out with her in her introduction line.
Shino Hiiragi
A beautiful alcoholic who stays calm and composed when drunk.
- Alcohol-Induced Idiocy / Intoxication Ensues: Mostly averted. When drunk she's laidback but still alert.
- Drunken Master: She's been drunk while performing on stage and is at her best when doing so.
- Forehead of Doom: Or rather a Forehead of Sexy. Her hair naturally parts to leave it seductively exposed.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: Her favorite color, possibly because of wine grapes.
- Hard-Drinking Party Girl: Only sober when sleeping.
- Sexy Backless Outfit: She considers her back her best feature, and most of her idol costumes feature a backless dress and back-facing pose.
- Wine Is Classy: More often seen with a bottle or glass than without.
Shiori Sena
An idol fond of seashores and the scent of ocean brine.
Syuko Shiomi
Tamami Wakiyama
Toko Hattori
A woman who is trying for the second time to become an idol, after she failed in the past.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: She's extremely grateful Producer gave her another chance.
- Broken Bird: A bit at first. Wears plain and dark clothes, and feels nostalgic of her first idol attempt. She gets better after work.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Already debuted as an idol in the past, and it didn't go well. Whether she quit or was unsuccesful is unknown.
- Determinator: She's absolutely driven to make her career work this time.
Tomo Fujii
Obsessed with fortune-telling, Tomo becomes an idol as part of her journey to improve her luck.
- Because Destiny Says So: Accepts becoming an idol because her fortune said her life would reach a turning point.
- Born Unlucky: Not as bad as a case as Hotaru Shiragiku, but her lack of natural luck makes her rely so much on fortunes.
- The Fashionista: Always makes sure her outfit and accesories match the ones her fortune says.
- Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Either she's just another Japanese girl obsessed with useless fortunes, or a very sharp fortune-teller.
- Pstandard Psychic Pstance: Invoked: in many cards she's shown either reading her hand lines, putting her finger to her temple or using Healing Hands, as shown in her profile picture.
Tsukasa Kiryu
Yasuha Okazaki
A former child actress who had a lonely childhood.
- Former Child Star: Although she's not as broken as most examples. Has a lot of experience in the entertainment business (even being called senpai by older idols, and considered one of the most experienced in 346 Pro), but she doesn't have memories of a normal childhood, leading to her unusual childlike behaviour.
- Not Allowed to Grow Up
- Older Than They Look: Already a teenager, but has the physhics and the hobbies of a young girl. Justified, because her years as a child actress prevented her from having a normal childhood.
- Shrinking Violet
- Those Two Girls: With Yuuhi, another child prodigy.
Yoriko Furusawa
An intelligent young woman who underestimates the potential of her physical beauty.
- The Glasses Come Off: Her character concept. She removes her glasses to perform on stage.
- Nerd Glasses: The glasses she wears tend to be large and bulky, as opposed to sleek and fashionable.
- The Quiet One: Rather nerdish as idols go.
- She Cleans Up Nicely: She just takes off the glasses.
- The Smart Gal: Mentioned as the special skill of her S Rare+ card.
Yume Narumiya
A very shy girl who became an idol because her mother signed her up.
- Kimono Is Traditional: She wears a kimono in many of her cards.
- Mommy's Girl: She became an idol because her mother signed her up.
- Shrinking Violet: She is very shy, especially if someone tries to look at her paintings.
- Shout-Out: Bought an ocarina after reading a story because she wanted to call forth fairies.