ST☆RISH in general
- Character Development: Each boy gets an episode dedicated to their character development and their relationship with Nanami, complete with them singing their Image Song.
- Color-Coded for Your Convenience
- Otoya - Red
- Natsuki - Yellow
- Masato - Blue
- Tokiya - Purple
- Ren - Orange
- Syo - Pink
- Cecil - Lime Green
- Curtains Match the Window Tokiya, Otoya, and Masato all fall under this trope.
- Demoted to Extra: In All Star. They only have small roles in the senpai and teachers' routes, and have one single route for all 6 of them and Cecil, the Rainbow Route. In Revolutions, they get grouped in two/three people units, instead of getting an episode for each of them like in earlier seasons.
- Dragged into Drag: On the drama CD "Music Princess Magical Ichiko", with Tokiya taking the brunt of the embarrassment as the lead character.
- Fun with Acronyms: Their name is an acronym for the first letters of their names (first names from the S class members, last names from the A class members), except, obviously, for the star. Later, the star is used as a placeholder for Aijima Cecil's name.
- Image Song: Each of the boys has an image song that appears in their anime focus episode. For all of ST☆RISH, they are "Mirai Chizu", "Maji Love 1000%", "Maji Love 2000%", and "Maji Love Revolutions". Season 3 gave "Cross Units," the boys getting in groups of two, and one group of three and that served as their image song in the episode and then their solo image song was released with the full version of the Cross Unit song.
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- Moe Couplet: Natsuki and Syo fulfill this role. Where Syo is a masculine boy who takes care of and worries over the gentle-hearted Natsuki, Natsuki himself brings out Syo's natural cuteness by flustering him.
- True Companions: They are firmly this by the second season of the anime.
- Western Zodiac: While it isn’t the main focus, their characterization is quite similar to the star sign they’re assigned to.
- Otoya’s Genki Boy and Fiery Redhead traits all fit to an Aries’ attributes: playful, enthusiastic, dynamic and sometimes impulsive. Bonus point for the image color, since Aries is commonly associated with red as well.
- Masato being the hardworking and reliable, yet somewhat rigid and distant, Team Mom of the group brings to mind an archetypical Capricorn.
- Natsuki and Syo are Birthday Buddies and appropriately Gemini. They’re the blond Moe Couplet whose many characteristics and height contrast each other’s (a Gentle Giant with Cuteness Proximity and a Pint-Sized Powerhouse who remains manly despite his seemingly feminine interests) yet still get along very well compared to other roommate pairs. The duality motif also applies to themselves personally: Syo has a twin, while Natsuki has his Split Personality.
- Leo is usually portrayed as the natural leader thanks to its association with lion, the sun and Zeus, so of course Tokiya is The Ace. He also has the first impression of being arrogant and strict yet full of charisma, and then is revealed to be very passionate about his craft as an idol; many traits related to a Leo.
- Ren is incredibly free-spirited, clever and self-reliant to the point of unpredictable like an Aquarius. His apathy towards becoming idol due to being forced into it ties with how Aquarius will resist the lack of freedom and individuality.
- Cecil has it less rough when it comes to zodiac archetypes: despite being a Scorpio, he’s sweet, loyal and princely. That said, he still possesses the mysteriousness and otherworldly nature compared to other love interests.
- Worthy Opponent: Season 3 focuses on them becoming this for Quartet Night. They become their rivals by the end of the season and we may never know who would have been initially chosen for the Triple S, thus being better, since Heavens returned and has put themselves into the mix.
- Episode 1 of Season 4 reveals Quartet Night won, however, they resign the win; stating that Quartet Night, ST☆RISH, and HEAVENS were all equal in terms of votes, but HEAVENS was not judged due to not having formally signed up for the competition. A final competition between the three will decide the winner, they hope to surpass them this time.
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Ittoki Otoya
The athlete who is tolerant with innocence. The bright and genial youth.
Haruka's classmate in A Class, he's a friendly and positive person who enjoys singing. He shares a room with Tokiya from Class S. In the anime, he stands up for Haruka when she was barred from taking the entrance exam due to being late. He plays the guitar.
Image Color: Red
Age (game): 15 (UN☆PS♪/R), 16 (AA), 17 (D/AS), 18 (ASAS)
Age (anime): 15~16 (Season 1), 17~18 (Season 2), 20+ (Season 3)
Birthday: April 11
Star Sign: Aries
Blood Type: O
Height: 175cm
Weight: 60kg
Instrument: Guitar
Hobby: Soccer, all sports in general
Hometown: Tokyo
Class: A Class
Roommate: Tokiya, Reiji
Voiced by: Takuma Terashima (Japanese), Ivan Bastidas (Latin American Spanish)
Tropes applying to all works
- Affectionate Nickname: Reiji calls him "Otoyan" and Ren calls him "Ikki".
- Book Dumb: Appears to be this, judging from his reaction to Tokiya's long and technical explanation of how he writes lyrics - all he heard was fast-forward sound-effect static.
- Boy Next Door: He’s just like a younger boy who lives next door: cheerful, friendly, a little Book Dumb but nonetheless still so wholesomely innocent that you want to give him a pat on the head.
- Character Blog: His Twitter account is @Otoya_I_SH
. - Dark and Troubled Past: In both the games and anime, he is an orphan.
- In the games, his mother is mentioned to have died in a plane crash and his father's whereabouts are unknown to him.
- In the anime, he was raised by his aunt, who got sick and eventually died. He moved to the orphanage after that.
- Disappeared Dad: His dad is never mentionednote but...
- Missing Mom: His mom died in a plane crash when he was just a baby. His adoptive mother died of illness when he was a small boy. So he's lived in an orphanage up until he was accepted into Saotome Academy.
- Fiery Redhead: A Genki Boy with red hair, who is very passionate about music and also likes sports.
- Friend to All Children: The kids at the orphanage love their "big brother Otoya" and even come to cheer for him at his concerts.
- First Guy Wins: Of all the main boys, Otoya is the first to talk to Haruka before she got into Saotome Academy, being the person who helped get to her entrance exams with a late start.
- Generation Xerox: His father, Shining Saotome, was also a popular idol.
- Image Song:
- In the games, "TRUST☆MY DREAM", "Nijiiro☆OVER DRIVE!", and "HORIZON".
- In the anime, "BRAND NEW MELODY" and "SMILE MAGIC".
- Seasons 3 and 4 have the duet songs "EMOTIONAL LIFE" and "Next Door", sung with Natsuki and Eiichi, respectively.
- Long-Lost Relative: He's Cecil's half-brother, although neither of them find out. He's also Shining Saotome's son.
- Lovable Jock: He enjoys soccer and is one of the more acrobatic members of the group alongside Syo.
- Love at First Sight
- Meaningful Name: His name has the character for "sound" ("oto").
- Nice Guy: He is nice to everyone no matter who they are and helped Haruka shoo off the pervert (game)/take the entrance exams (anime) without prompts.
- No Sense of Personal Space
- Parental Abandonment: See Disappeared Dad and Missing Mom above.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Red Oni to Tokiya's Blue.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Tokiya, with the twist that Otoya is actually aware of this, and tries not to let Tokiya's cold behavior get to him. And he has his share of vitriol toward Tokiya, too, although the jury is still out on whether he's doing it on purpose or not.
Tropes applying to the game and drama CDs
- Characterization Marches On: In the games he's still cute and sweet, but a lot less innocent, and a lot more direct and assertive when it comes to his feelings for Haruka. Even his voice is deeper.
- Chivalrous Pervert
- Cuddle Bug
- Determinator: In Repeat most of his route consists on his determination to find out why Saotome established the love ban rule and convicing him to revoke it.
- Japanese Christian: Subverted. He isn't a believer, but wears the rosary as a way to remember his mother.
- Why Did It Have To Be Heights: In the games he has acrophobia. In the anime this has been transferred to Syo.
Tropes applying to the anime
- Break the Cutie: In season 4, thanks to Eiichi bringing up his emotional scars from losing people he loved. He gets better.
- Cannot Spit It Out: In the anime. Every time he tries to confess to Haruka, he ends up saying he loves her... songs.
- In the second season he tries to confess to her again but he has such difficulty getting it out that in the end he gets interrupted by Cecil's prank.
- In the 4th season at first it seems that he does manage to say "I love you" but in still ends up morphing it into "your songs". At this point it's starting to feel like a running gag...
- Dogged Nice Guy: To Haruka in the anime. He's very much in love with her, helps her and stands up for her, and comes very close to confessing to her... but she regards him as only a friend, and feels that she's obligated to choose him as her partner only to repay his kindness for her. He seems to take it in stride, though.
- It's All My Fault: In the anime, he believes that his aunt's death was due to him.
- The Leader: In the anime he eventually evolves into a central figure in ST☆RISH: he tends to stand in the middle of group shots, he tends to be the first to make a move in a given situation, and in season 4 he speaks for his group to the other bands' leader figures (Reiji of Quartet Night and Eiichi of HEAVENS).
- Security Cling: Does this to Syo in episode 3 of season 1 while they watch Natsuki bake.
- Stepford Smiler: Otoya became convinced that he had been deceiving everyone by using his smiles to hide his emotional scars after Eiichi pulled his Misery Trigger, and that ST☆RISH and Haruka would leave him should they learn the truth.
Hijirikawa Masato
The son of the noble family of Hijirikawa. He plays the piano with lots of tenderness.
Student of A Class, he's the scion to the Hijirikawa family. He seems to have some form of rivalry going on with Ren, whom he shares a room with. He plays the piano.Image Color: Blue
Age (game): 16 (UN☆PS♪/R), 17 (AA), 18 (D/AS), 19 (ASAS)
Age (anime): 16~17 (Season 1), 18 (Season 2), 21+ (Season 3)
Birthday: December 29
Star Sign: Capricorn
Blood Type: A
Height: 181cm
Weight: 64kg
Instrument: Piano
Hobby: Sewing
Hometown: Kyoto
Class: A Class
Roommate: Ren, Ranmaru
Voiced by: Kenichi Suzumura (Japanese), Carlos Dominguez (Latin American Spanish)
Tropes applying to all works
- Affectionate Nickname: Gets called "Masa" on occasion. Tomochika calls him "Masayan."
- Blue Means Cold: The Stoic and an Ice King destined to be defrosted who is blue all the way. He is also associated with snow and ice, one example being his first encounter with Haruka which notably occurred when he was walking during a snowy day.
- Character Blog: His Twitter account is @Masato_H_SH.
- Childhood Friends: With Ren. It becomes Vitriolic Best Buds over times.
- Curtains Match the Window
- Defrosting Ice King: He is usually serious and calm, and only shows his softer side to Haruka after they become closer.
- Elegant Classical Musician: Plays the piano, and is as elegant as the heir of a traditional Japanese household can be.
- Hands-On Approach: When trying to help Haruka get over her performance anxiety.
- House Husband: Comes off as one. He's really good at sewing as well as being a Supreme Chef. He even cleans Haruka's room in episode 1 of season 2. All of his housekeeping skills are a result of his efforts to help his frail mother.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Punches Ren when he tries to get himself expelled and then lies about not caring about music.
- Image Song:
- In the games, "Kishi no Kiss wa Yuki Yori Yasashiku", "BLUE×PRISM HEART", and "Sanctuary".
- In the anime, "Knocking on the mind" and "Koi Sakura".
- Seasons 3 and 4 have the duet songs "ORIGINAL RESONANCE" and "Lasting Oneness", sung with Tokiya and Kira, respectively.
- In Touch with His Feminine Side: His hobby is sewing.
- Nice to the Waiter: He is well liked by his family's servants, a show that while he’s cold and keeps his distance, he’s by no means a jerk.
- Princely Young Man: He's a nice Ice King type, who is distant and rigid but ultimately is a gentleman.
- Tall, Dark, and Handsome: Tall, dark-haired (dark blue, to be exact), and exceedingly aloof.
- The Quiet One: He doesn't talk much.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Type 2, with Ren.
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He is terrified of bugs but refuses to admit it. Even butterfly makes him uncomfortable.
- Yamato Nadeshiko: A male example. He comes from a traditional Japanese household, is polite, and a House Husband. He does most of the cooking during trips such as the camping trip in Maji Love 2000% and cleaned Haruka's room before she moved into her new dorm. He also likes sewing and making handmade gifts.
Tropes applying to the game and drama CDs
- Aloof Big Brother: Despite his apperance and stoic personality, this is averted: he adores his little sister so much that he would sew handkerchiefs and play piano and sing songs for her, which always made her smile when she was sad.
- Born Unlucky: He considers himself this in the games, where once at a school play, the roles were distributed through a lottery, and he got the role of "Grass 1".
- Covert Pervert
- Does Not Like Spam: He does not like drinking milk.
- One-Gender School: Came from one before attending Saotome Academy.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Melon bread, something a little unexpected for a guy as high-class as him.
- With This Ring: In his Repeat route, he gives Haruka a ring which happens to be his dead grandmother's memento and is meant to be given to the person who is going to be his wife.
Tropes applying to the anime
- The Comically Serious: His usual calm and overly polite demeanor tends to make him the butt of jokes towards the group’s cloudcuckoolander moments.
- I Have No Son!: In season 4, he is disowned by his father due to his wish to continue his idol activities. However, his father is shown to accept his job as an idol and even watches the SSS decisive concert on television.
- Neat Freak: The first thing he does on the day of Haruka's arrival at the new dormitory? Clean her room for her.
Shinomiya Natsuki
A gentle, tender, good young man. Music loves the youth with different faces in his mind.
Another of Haruka's classmates, he plays the viola, though he used to play the violin. He has an extreme fondness for cute things, leading him to take a liking to Haruka. In the anime, upon his first encounter with Haruka he calls her Elizabeth, saying that she reminds him of his dog. He shares a room with Syo, whom he claims to be as cute as Haruka and is very affectionate towards him.
Image Color: Yellow
Age (game): 17 (UN☆PS♪/R), 18 (AA), 19 (D/AS), 20 (ASAS)
Age (anime): around 17 (Season 1), around 19 (Season 2), 22+ (Season 3)
Birthday: June 9
Star Sign: Gemini
Blood Type: AB
Height: 186cm
Weight: 70kg
Instrument: Viola
Hobby: Cooking
Hometown: Hokkaido
Class: A Class
Roommate: Syo, Ai
Voiced by: Kishow Taniyama (Japanese), Rafael Escalante (Latin American Spanish)
Tropes applying to all works
- The Ace: He’s considered a virtuoso when it comes to singing and playing stringed instruments, having participated in many violin competitions with Syo in their youth. He was also a Child Prodigy composer.
- Affectionate Nickname: Gets called "Nacchan" by Ringo-sensei and "Nattsun" by Reiji. Ren calls him "Shinomii".
- Alternate Identity Amnesia: Natsuki has no memory of being Satsuki, or what he did while Satsuki was in control.
- The Big Guy: He's the tallest main character. He uses this to his advantage by picking up Syo and carting him around like he's his personal toy.
- Birthday Buddies: June 9, with Syo.
- Break the Cutie: In his backstory, resulting in his alter, Satsuki.
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's a ditz from Cloud Cuckoo Land, but talented, and can pull it together when he performs.
- But Not Too Foreign: Born in Hokkaido, but spent a portion of his childhood in France. An event in Shining Live has him use his familiarity with French culture for a magazine article, and he even teaches Cecil some French.
- Character Blog: His Twitter account is @Natsuki_S_SH.
- Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Seems to live in his own little world most of the time. Where everything's cuddly and wuddly.
- Curtains Match the Window: In the games. In the anime and Shining Live however, his eye colour is changed to green.
- Cute and Psycho: See Split Personality.
- Cuteness Proximity: May be triggered by small animals, plushies... and basically anyone shorter than him.
- Dark and Troubled Past: When he was younger, he fell in love with his music teacher and wrote a special song just for her. However, she used him by taking his song and claiming it as her own as she made a profit out of it. As a result of feeling used and alone, Satsuki was developed to protect Natsuki from ever feeling like that again. Satsuki was even named after that particular song the music teacher stole from him.
- The Ditz: He's naïve and extremely prone to Cuteness Proximity effects. He's also superb at ignoring all the hissy fits that "hint" that Syo really hates being called little or picked up like a toy.Character Twitter post on 31 January, 2014: "[super blurry photo of cat] Lookie what I found!"
- Friend to All Living Things: He adores animals in general and has great affinity with them. Apparently, he can even understand what they’re saying, which comes to his advantage in nature-focused jobs he’s taking.
- Gentle Giant: A total sweetheart for a guy his size, at least when his Split Personality isn't in effect.
- The Glasses Come Off: He's got a Split Personality, and no points for guessing what the cue is! And all it takes is putting his glasses back on him to switch him back to his regular self.
- In Repeat, Haruka finds it isn't that easy to appease Satsuki. The rest of the cast also gets hit with this in the fourth season of the anime.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Has blond hair and is a Nice Guy, as long as Satsuki isn't in charge.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Syo.
- Image Song: Natsuki's image songs tend to have titles and lyrics relating to stars and constellations.
- In the games, "Southern Cross Waltz", "Andromeda de Kuchizuke wo", and "☆YELL☆".
- In the anime, "ORION de SHOUT OUT" and "Sirius e no Chikai".
- Seasons 3 and 4 have the duet songs "EMOTIONAL LIFE" and "Grown Empathy", sung with Otoya and Nagi, respectively.
- Lethal Chef: After he adds the ingredients, he adds the container those ingredients came in as well. After that he proceeds to add Tabasco sauce, soy beans, fermented squid and chili sauce... and then blowtorches the mix. He was supposed to be making cupcakes, mind you.
- In Repeat, he makes lunch for a picnic with Haruka... and she passes out the moment she tastes the food.
- Manchild: Naive, air-headed, and has a strong case of Cuteness Proximity, much to Syo's dismay.
- No Sense of Personal Space: His main victims are Haruka and Syo.
- Split Personality: He has a split personality named Satsuki, who is Natsuki's complete opposite: A Hot-Blooded Jerkass. In the games, he's extremely talented for composing music, but refuses to do so; in the anime, rumours say he's put 50,000 people in the hospital for pissing him off.
- Stellar Name: The name "Natsuki" is written 那月, incorporating the kanji for "moon." Accordingly, he draws a tiny moon◊ in his autograph.
- Sweet Tooth: He considers desserts and sweets cute, so he frequently makes and consumes them.
Tropes applying to the game and drama CDs
- Cordon Bleugh Chef: In Shining Live, Natsuki’s disastrous dishes are suggested to be the result of his tendency to use strange and often unfit-for-normal-consumption kinds of ingredients, and not because he’s entirely a Lethal Chef like in other medias. Indeed, when he works with normal ingredients, he creates good (and even pretty) food.
- Stepford Smiler: In his Repeat route, he masks his depression over his emotional weakness and inability to improve on his viola playing with his ditzy behavior.
- Unknown Rival: Was this to Syo. Not that Natsuki remembers, though.
Tropes applying to the anime
- Childhood Friends: With Syo.
- Flanderization: The anime exaggerates his ditzy and cute-obsessed side. His game counterpart shares this trait, but doesn't show them in such an aggressive manner, and he's pretty calm most of the time.
- Real Men Wear Pink: That excessively frilly apron he wears in Season 1 Episode 3.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: In the anime, he's obsessed with a cute chick mascot called "Piyo-chan". He even stars in a commercial featuring it in the second season.
Ichinose Tokiya
An always calm theorist. The hard worker with keeping passion in his heart.
A student in S Class, he bears a strong resemblance to Haruka's idol, Hayato. However, he's said to be Hayato's identical twin brother instead, and seems to bear a complex from being in his brother's shadow. He appears to be cold and aloof, as well as being a perfectionist. Also the roommate of Otoya from A Class.
Image Color: Violet
Age (game): 16 (UN☆PS♪/R), 17 (SS), 18 (D/AS), 19 (ASAS)
Age (anime): around 17 (Season 1), around 19 (Season 2), 22+ (Season 3)
Birthday: August 6
Star Sign: Leo
Blood Type: A
Height: 179cm
Weight: 59kg
Instrument: Vocals (but he can play anything)
Hobby: Reading
Hometown: Fukuoka
Class: S Class, demoted to A Class in the anime
Roommate: Otoya, Reiji
Voiced by: Mamoru Miyano (Japanese)
Tropes applying to all works
- The Ace: He actually can play any instrument, but still considers his best asset is his voice. He's also extremely smart, fit and handsome.
- Actually, I Am Him: When he reveals he is actually Hayato.
- Affectionate Nickname: Reiji calls him "Tokki" and Ren calls him "Icchi".
- Always Identical Twins: Him and Hayato, with their sole differences being their facial expressions. Except not at all.
- Characterization Marches On: In the games, he's a lot more romantic than his anime counterpart. We also see this reflected on his character songs: compare the more romantic "Nanairo no Compass" and "CRYSTAL TIME" to the much more sexier "Independence" and "SECRET LOVER".
- Child Prodigy: Started being a variety artist at a very young age, which made him become independent and live by himself at the age of thirteen, while also getting top marks in school.
- Curtains Match the Window: Blue eyes and hair, though a darker shade than Masato’s.
- Defrosting Ice King: At the start, he’s cold and keeps a distance from everyone else, Haruka included, but after she shows him how she loves him for what he truly is instead of his Stepford Smiler Hayato persona, he gradually mellows out.
- Fake Twin Gambit: The Ichinose family never had any kid named Hayato - that is Tokiya’s stage persona. His reason is that he wants to separate his normal life from whatever money-printing machine he has become under the name Hayato.
- First Love: Before meeting Haruka, he never had any crushes or relationships.
- Image Song:
- In the games, "BELIEVE☆MY VOICE", "星屑☆Shall we dance?", and "Independence".
- In the anime, "Nanairo no Compass" and "CRYSTAL TIME".
- Seasons 3 and 4 have the duet songs "ORIGINAL RESONANCE" and "Mighty Aura", sung with Masato and Eiji, respectively.
- Ineffectual Loner
- Last-Name Basis: He calls everyone by their last names, except Otoya, Ren, and Syo.
- Loner-Turned-Friend: In all versions of the story. In the anime he's standoffish and aloof for most of season 1 but by season 4 he's an integral part of the team who enjoys being with the others. In the game he starts off being similarly aloof, but eventually he warms up to Otoya and acknowledges him as his best friend and rival.
- The Perfectionist: Most of what he has achieved in his career is the result of very hard work. For example, according to the games he was pitch deaf when he started singing: look at him now.
- Picky Eater: Mentioned in the SHINING magazine; he carb counts to watch his figure.
- Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Otoya's Red.
- Stepford Smiler: As Hayato, who has to constantly smile for the audience despite his passion being robbed away by the agency he’s in.
- The Stoic: Described as a cool-headed, serious theorist who prioritizes his logical sense first and foremost.
- Successful Sibling Syndrome: Having been overshadowed by his more famous twin, Tokiya hates it when people mistake him for or compare him to Hayato, even refusing to do any request regarding the latter. It’s actually more about him living under the shadow of his own stage persona, since he never has any twin.
- Technician Versus Performer: He’s the Technician to Otoya, as his singing is considered perfect in technique but lacking the "heart".
- Terrible Artist: Tokiya is very earnest about his artwork, even though his drawings look like something made by a small child.
- The Cast Show Off: His voice actor Mamoru Miyano is also responsible for singing the theme songs of the games and the anime:
- Games: "Ao no Tsubasa" and "innocence".
- Anime: "Orpheus", "Canon", "Shine", and "Tempest".
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Otoya, Tokiya being the jerk. When asked to describe what they like in each other, Otoya rattles off many of Tokiya's good points while Tokiya barely manages to squeeze out two; and then he claims he didn't mean them. Even so he acknowledges Otoya as his best friend and rival, and wants to sing together with him.
Tropes applying to the game and drama CDs
- Determinator: When he was a child, he was tone-deaf. He becomes The Ace as he is now thanks to extreme training.
- Hidden Depths: He's extremely romantic compared to what it seems at first glance. The reason is his parents getting a divorce shortly after he made his idol debut, making him think it was his fault. He considers anyone who devotes themselves to a romantic relationship should keep in mind marriage, even if it seems too risky.
- It's All My Fault: Believes that his dream to become an idol was what pushed his parents to go through divorce, because of his father's dislike for it.
- Interrupted Declaration of Love: In the first game, he apologizes to Haruka for leaving her alone in the school festival and hugs her. When he starts to talk about his feelings, Ryuuya apppears and tells them to go home.
- Trademark Favorite Food: When he was a child, he loved chocolate cake.
- Whip of Dominance: His main weapon as Music Princess Magical Ichiko is a whip. The others note that he looks surprisingly good with it, as he gets a little too much into whipping Otoya (who plays the villain).
- Wholesome Cross Dresser: In the first game, when the Class S loses a match he dresses up with an uniform. He even asks Haruka for tips to become more feminine!
Tropes applying to the anime
- Cannot Spit It Out: The "I love you....r songs." scene comes to mind...
- Continuity Nod: "CRYSTAL TIME", his character song in the second season, includes "Nanairo no Compass" (his Image Song in the first season) and "Maigo no Kokoro" (Haruka's song) in its lyrics.
- Demoted to Extra: In a sense. He is still part of the main cast in the second season, however, the first season gives him a bigger role and more screen time than other members of ST☆RISH, in the second season, the counterpart of his importance from the first season is given to Cecil.
- Flanderization: The anime seems to have made him an expy of Masato, with similar The Comically Serious reactions but slightly less ridiculous.
- Gray Rain of Depression: Literally almost every scene he's in outdoors in the first season of the anime is this. That's three, count them, three times. Episodes 1, 6 and 7.
- Hidden Depths: In episode 7 he fondly has a memory of children happily asking him to sing, calling him Onii-chan, and it allows him to 'sing with heart'.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In the anime Tokiya is initially insufferable and rude towards his classmates, but not forever.
- Wholesome Cross Dresser: In the fourth episode of season 2, he's seen willingly dressing up in a woman's kimono with a flower in his hair to help Masato get over his inability to hug a person that he doesn't know or love for an audition, even going to the point of using a feminine voice. Needless to say, he did a convincing job of being a woman (but wasn't able to get Masato to hug him).
Jinguji Ren
Freeman that is freewheelingness brightly. A youth with brilliant talent and brightness.
Student in S Class, he is a son of the Jinguji family, making him rivals with Masato, who is also the roommate. He is very flirtatious, and plays the saxophone. In the anime, he, along with Otoya, helps defend Haruka when the officials refused to let her take the entrance exam.
Image Color: Orange
Age (game): 17 (UN☆PS♪/R), 18 (SS), 19 (D/AS), 20 (ASAS)
Age (anime): 17~18 (Season 1), 19 (Season 2), 22+ (Season 3)
Birthday: February 14
Star Sign: Aquarius
Blood Type: B
Height: 183cm
Weight: 63kg
Instrument: Saxophone
Hobby: Darts
Hometown: Kanagawa
Class: S Class
Roommate: Masato, Ranmaru
Voiced by: Jun'ichi Suwabe
Tropes applying to all works
- The Casanova: Only Ren could get away with the kinds of pick up lines he does. This is lampshaded by Otoya.
- Chick Magnet
- Childhood Friends: With Masato.
- Financial Abuse: He has little to no interest of becoming an idol. He only attends Saotome Academy because his family wants him to, after he graduates he'll be a idol for the Jinguuji's Group commericals.
- Image Song:
- In the games, "Akuma no Kiss wa Honoo Yori Hageshiku", "RED HOT×LOVE MINDS", and "FREEDOM".
- In the anime, "Sekai no Hate Made Believe Heart" and "Orange Rhapsody".
- Season 3 has the group songs "CODE T.V.U" sung with Cecil and Syo, and Season 4 has the duet song "Lovely Eyes", sung with Van.
- Meaningful Name: His name "Ren" is a homonym for the Japanese word for "love". Makes sense that he's the most flirtatious and romantic of the guys.
- Latin Lover: Even if fully Japanese, he has all the stereotypes usually associated with them, including the occasional Gratuitous Spanish in his songs.
- Long Haired Prettyboy: He has the longest hair of any of the bishounen, granted it's not too much past shoulder length.
- Missing Mom: She died, which really messed up his dad. She was an Idol Singer.
- The Nicknamer: Coins nicknames for just about everyone, such as "Icchi" for Tokiya and "Ceci" for Cecil. He calls Haruka "Little lamb" or "my lady." The notable exception is Masato whom he calls "Hijirikawa".
- Princely Young Man: The Prince Charming type. Despite his status, he’s overall friendly and down to the earth, though his tense relationship with his family does contribute.
- Real Men Hate Sugar: Dislikes chocolate. Ironically, his birthday lands on February 14th.
- Red String of Fate: He claims he and Haruka are tied together by it. Mostly he's just screwing around.
- The Rival: To Masato, primarily because of their rivaling families, but their clashing personalities also do their part.
- Sexy Sax Man: When he plays the sax, all the girls squeal. A whole bench full of them.
- Something about a Rose: To go with his Latin Lover motif, he’s associated with red rose.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Type 2, with Masato.
Tropes applying to the game and drama CDs
- Lady Killer In Love: After falling for Haruka.
Tropes applying to the anime
- Gratuitous Spanish: In "Dear... Burning my Lady!" he says "te amo mucho" (lit. "I love you very much").
- Mr. Fanservice: His shower scene in episode 8. His episode in the second season and his delusion as a flamenco singer in Revolutions also count.
Kurusu Syo
An egocentric, stylish person. He is little, though braver than anyone else.
Another student of S Class, he is nicknamed "ochibi-chan" due to his short stature, much to his chagrin. He's very cheerful and energetic, and plays the violin. Roommates with Natsuki.
Image Color: Pink ->Age (game): 15(UN☆PS♪/R), 16 (SS), 17 (D/AS), 18 (ASAS)
Age (anime): 15~16 (Season 1), 17~18 (Season 2), 20+ (Season 3)
Birthday: June 9
Star Sign: Gemini
Blood Type: O
Height: 161cm
Weight: 52kg
Instrument: Violin
Hobby: Shopping
Hometown: Aichi
Class: S Class
Roommate: Natsuki, Ai
Voiced by: Hiro Shimono (Japanese), Héctor Ireta de Alba (Latin American Spanish)
Tropes applying to all works
- Affectionate Nickname: Is called "Syo-chan" by Natsuki and Kaoru, and "Ochibi-chan" (which can roughly mean "Munchkin"/"Lil' Cutie") by Ren.
- Always Identical Twins: Has an identical younger twin brother named Kaoru.
- Berserk Button: DON'T comment on his height, DON'T make him crossplay or take picture of him in crossplay, DON'T flirt with Nanami, and DON'T call him cute.
- Birthday Buddies: June 9 with Natsuki.
- Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Being Natsuki's roommate is a full time job.
- Cute Bruiser: The games inform us that he's been doing karate since he was a child and rivals his idol Hyuga (a full grown man) in strength and fighting abilities.
- Dragged into Drag: A few times and he hates the fact that he makes a convincing girl.
- Image Song:
- In the games, "Oresama Rondo", "Cosmic Runner", and "CHALLENGE!".
- In the anime, "Otokogi Zenkai Go! Fight!!" and "TRUE WING".
- Season 3 has the group songs "CODE T.V.U" sung with Cecil and Ren, and Season 4 has the duet song "Justice Impulse", sung with Yamato.
- Inconsistent Spelling: His name can be spelled as "Syo", "Sho", "Shou", "Syou", or "Shō", but they are all pronounced the same way.
- Little Big Brother: His younger twin brother Kaoru is about two inches taller than Syo.
- Meaningful Name: "Syo" is a homonym for the Japanese word for "small" (same pronunciation, different kanji).
- The Napoleon: He's only 161 cm (5'3'') tall at the age of 16-17 and he's not pleased about his height.
- Older Than They Look: He looks 14-15, despite being about 17.
- Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Goes with his karate skills: despite his appearance, Syo is quite strong for his size and age, capable of defeating fully grown adults in terms of strength and fighting ability. In Shining Live, he also does plenty of hardcore action scenes by himself.
- Real Men Wear Pink: It's his designated color when ST☆RISH performs and he can be seen wearing pink when not performing. He is also quite vocal about his love for fashion and shopping.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Natsuki.
Tropes applying to the game and drama CDs
- Attractive Bent-Gender: In the first game, he is forced to work as a "female" model for a while, with huge success.
- Heart Trauma: In the first game, he has a weak heart. His route is about trying to live with this condition but after he becomes an idol it becomes to much for him and collapses. In the end, he goes to America to have surgery.
- Tsundere: Sometimes is this, especially around Natsuki and Haruka in the games. Type A.
- Wholesome Crossdresser: Gets forced into cross-dressing in the game and anime by Natsuki; he's not pleased with it, or the fact that he makes a convincing girl.
Tropes applying to the anime
- Adaptation Dye-Job: Is fully blonde in the games, but has pink streaks (or at least, the coloring makes it look like such) in the anime.
- Adapted Out: His heart condition and the fact he has an identical twin brother. Though his brother is mentioned in both the Christmas Special and episode 5 of season 3.
- Attractive Bent-Gender: In the first season of the anime Natsuki stuffs him in a dress in episode 5 to make him try out for a part as his hero's little sister in a movie. It works too.
- Childhood Friends: With Natsuki.
- Determinator: When he faces Yamato in the final course of Muscle Fight which is a boxing match, despite getting brutally beaten many times by Yamato, he continues to get back up.
- First-Name Basis / Friendly Address Privileges: In episode 5, Syo tells Nanami that she can call him "Syo", as she's been referring to him as "Kurusu-kun", she immediately starts calling him "Syo-kun", he himself refers to everyone by their first name.
- Muscles Are Meaningless: In the first three seasons, Syo's arms are thin and undefined, however, he's deceivingly strong, come episode 4 of season 4, his biceps have become much more defined -as evident as Yamato's- and he's able to bench press a lot of weight.
- Non-Uniform Uniform: In Season 1, Syo had the most unique style of dress when it came to the Saotome uniform; instead of dress shoes, he wore black combat boots, rolled up his pants to around his knees to rest above his boots, wore a cream-colored sweatshirt instead of a blazer, and wore a fedora at all times in school.
- Security Cling: Does this to Otoya in episode 3 of season 1 while they watch Natsuki bake.
- Why Did It Have To Be Heights: In the anime, he has been deathly afraid of heights since a traumatizing event in his childhood. He gets over it by the end of the episode.
Aijima Cecil
He keeps singing to be the real king.
The prince of Agnapolis who was cursed and turned into a black cat. In the games, he joins Class A, while in the anime, he joins the master course.
Image Color: Lime green
Age (game): Unknown
Age (anime): Unknown
Birthday: October 31
Star Sign: Scorpio
Blood Type: Unknown
Height: 177cm
Weight: 58kg
Instrument: Flute
Hobby: Magic
Hometown: Agnapolis
Class: A Class (game only)
Roommate: Camus
Voiced by: Kosuke Toriumi
Tropes applying to all works
- Affectionate Nickname: Ren calls him "Ceci".
- Ambiguously Brown: Justified, as he is from an Arabian country.
- Anime Accent Absence: Unlike Camus (the other foreigner), Cecil speaks Japanese with an accent, and occasionally he stumbles over words and makes mistakes such as reading kanji wrong (he read "tanabata" as "nanayuu"). However, the accent and dodgy Japanese are absent in his songs, which is why Camus first thinks Cecil is just affecting the accent to make himself popular.
- The Baby of the Bunch: Is the youngest member of ST☆RISH.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Likes Haruka a lot because she showed him a lot of love while he was stuck in cat form.
- But Not Too Foreign: Is half-Japanese, half-Arabian.
- Cats Are Magic: Subverted. He got cursed and takes the form of a cat.
- Image Song:
- In the games, "DESTINY SONG", "Jounetsu no Déjà Vu Kiss", and "Happiness".
- In the anime, "Eternity Love", "Hoshi no Fantasia", and "Ai no REINCARNATION."
- Season 3 has the group songs "CODE T.V.U" sung with Syo and Ren, and Season 4 has the duet song "Visible Elf", sung with Shion.
- Meaningful Name: His last name "Aijima" contains the kanji for "love".
- New Transfer Student: Joins Saotome Academy in his route in the original game. He also joins the Master Course with the rest of the main characters in Debut and the anime's second season.
- No Sense of Personal Space: When it comes to Haruka, much to everyone else's dismay.
- Nom de Mom: He uses his mother's last name.
- Princely Young Man
- The Power of Love: Needs this to break his curse.
Tropes applying to the game and drama CDs
- Abusive Parents: Because Cecil was half-Japanese, they (technically his uncle) cursed him to be trapped in the form of a cat and sent him to Japan.
- Arranged Marriage: In All Star, Cecil is set up for an arranged marriage to Camus' Queen which is later stopped, but not before rebellion and a coup d'état start from the Silk Palace/Permafrost residents.
- Long-Lost Relative: He's Otoya's half-brother (by mother Aijima Kotomi), although neither of them find out.
- Parental Abandonment: His uncle didn't approve of him being half-Japanese so he banished him from the country and sent him to Japan. Not before cursing him, of course.
Tropes applying to the anime
- I Kiss Your Hand: To Haruka in the anime.
- No Sense of Personal Space: In regards to Shion, which is seen as a Deconstructed example as it causes Shion to get highly anxious.
- Put on a Bus: He suddenly receives a letter from his home country in episode 8 of the second season that makes him go back to Agnapolis... only to come back in the next episode.
- Psychic Link: In the first game he makes a pact with Haruka so she can understand him in when he's in cat form.
