AKB0048/Characters

AKB0048

Trainees

Tropes shared:

• The Apprentice

Nagisa Motomiya

• The Hero
• Plucky Girl
• Naive Everygirl
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Pink.

Chieri Sono

• The Ojou
• Social Darwinist
• Defector From Decadence: Her family's corporation is one of the major military suppliers for the deathsquads oppressing the galaxy. Chieri ran away without telling anyone, to join the very idol group that those squads try to hunt down and kill.
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Literally.

Orine Aida

• Break the Cutie: After receiving some extremely threatening fanmail, poor Orine is very nearly broken. And then gets better within the same episode when she learns the boy is a fan of another member of AKB0048 if anything else
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Pink.
• Wrench Wench

Yuka Ichijo

• Girlish Pigtails
• Hair of Gold

Suzuko Kanzaki

• The Comically Serious
• Deadpan Snarker
• Only Known by Their Nickname: She insists on being called Linda.
• Meganekko
• Nice Hat
• Otaku: For AKB.
• The Quiet One

Sonata Shinonome

• Alliterative Name
• Determinator
• Little Stowaway
• The Nicknamer
• Token Mini-Moe
• Third Person Person

Makoto Yokomizo

• The Eeyore
• You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Purple

Mimori Kishida

• Expy: Of Sheryl Nome.
• Miss Fanservice: Her selling point is she has rather huge proportions and introducing herself to the girls with a Wardrobe Malfunction.

Kanata Shimonome

• Cool Big Sis: Sonata's
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: She joins the AKB0048 to get revenge on the DES for killing her father.

Veterans

Sayaka Akimoto/Sayaka

Tomomi Itano/Tomochin

• Generation Xerox/Inexplicably Identical Individuals: Every woman in her family purposely marries men who resemble the original Tomochin, resulting in every daughter looking practically identical. Every idol in the family has also taken on Tomochin's name.

Yuko Oshima/Yuuko

Yuki Kashiwagi/Yukirin

Haruna Kojuma/KojiHaru

Minami Takhashi/TakaMina

Atsuko Maeda/Acchan

• Killed Off for Real: Possibly. In episode five it's revealed that Acchan, along with all the previous centers, had mysteriously disappeared at the height of her career. She may have simply retired, or been kidnapped instead.

Sae Miyazawa/Sae

Mayu Watanabe/Mayuyu

Producers

Tsubasa

• Reasonable Authority Figure

DES

Other

Parents and Family

Mr. Motomiya

• Fantasy-Forbidding Father

Mrs. Motomiya

• Hot Mom