Rainy Reprise is a roleplay group based on Discord and Twitter. It centers around Tenkyuu Academy, rain-plagued Top Idol School located on the coast of Japan. It was once revered as a powerhouse idol school, however over time, the school's reputation began to become overshadowed by other idol schools’ prosperity; this leads us to present day, where the school is considered to be on the chopping block due to its insatiable society's need for budget cuts.
It is the goal of the idols to save Tenkyuu from being shut down, but of course, there will be many shenanigans along the way.
Rainy Reprise provides examples of:
- Animal Motif:
- Itsuki Yamato's animal is White Tiger.
- Suzumebachi (SZMBCH) as the group's motif is a Japanese Hornet, though each member has their own distinct insect assigned to them. (Akane's is the hornet, due to being the leader; Asahi's is a bee; Itsuki's is a wasp; and Naoki's is a scarab beetle.)
- Character Development: Due to the fact that the group's plot takes place over the course of the characters' high school years, the students go through various forms of character development as they are put through their unit and personal arcs.
- Childhood Friends: Kazuya and Myun were close friends when they were little, though they wouldn't consider themselves friends in present day.
- Chromosome Casting: All of the idols are boys, due to the fact that the Idol Course is male only at Tenkyuu.
- Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: All of the students at Tenkyuu Academy have ties with stripes of color that denote what year they're in. Blue for first years, red for second years, and pure white for third years. This could also apply to the Units themselves, with Roulette being red, Lyra being blue, Suzumebachi being yellow, and Fenrir being purple.
- Dark Secret: Naoki Ishikawa. The fact that he was part of Fenrir, though as of the Halloween OCT that’s been exposed. He’s still trying to keep the secret of Fenrir’s repeated sabotage from the rest of SZMBCH currently, however.
- Debut Queue: The way in which the units were introduced, with their own introductory RP sessions that brought the characters together to join or form their units.
- Disappeared Dad: Itsuki Yamato. According to Itsuki's pageant speech in Okinawa, his dad laundered money and is on the run.
- Dude Looks Like a Lady: Kaede and Naoki, which actually becomes a plot point when they're mistakenly dragged into a beauty pageant.
- Fanservice: Shows up occasionally during events or lives, due to the nature of being an idol and having to please fans.
- Gentle Giant: Masamune Sato. He's very tall and muscular, but also very gentle. Loves all of his students and refers to them as his "precious students."
- Graduate from the Story: What happens when the third years have to graduate and move on.
- Idol Singer: The premise of the group. All of the characters are high school students part of the Idol Course of Tenkyuu Academy, with the goal of eventually becoming idols signed onto agencies once they graduate.
- Mr. Fanservice: Shigeru Kazama. Generally just Does It For The Fans with sexy. Ended up doing this after Myun “accidentally” spilled shaved ice on him and Shigeru took off his shirt. Also sent Kiyo a poster of himself at a pool.
- One-Gender School: Not the school itself, but the Idol Course that all of the characters are part of. The Idol Course is a male only course with the focus being on training its students to become proper idols, while there is a General Course for regular students that is co-ed.
- Original Character Tournament: The group functions as this. Team Units are put against each other bi-monthly for the chance to win various prizes or advantages in roleplays or plot development.
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Promoted Fanboy: Momiji "Momo" Terajima is a major fan of idols, and becomes an idol himself. - Teen Genius: Asahi Oshiro is a teenager and a musical genius. He's considered a master of the drums, trumpet, saxophone, piano, guitar, bass, and ukulele.
- This Is Unforgivable!: Shigeru Kazama towards Fenrir. After past Fenrir sabotaged and spread rumors about other units. Can also be considered a cautious version of Mama Bear when Lyra is in any contact with Fenrir.
- The Slacker: Asahi Oshiro skips class, skips practice, does his own thing.
- World of Technicolor Hair: Any color goes.
- Blue: Shigeru, Kaede
- Pink: Kiyo, Katsurou
- Purple: Shouhei, Jemi, Naoki
- Green: Fujio, Asahi
- White/grey: Akane, Silver
- Yakuza: Has a Yakuza background that he keeps a secret. Only Senri and Fujio are known to have met Shigeru once when he was still in contact with his family.
