Amano Airi

“

I can probably sing for someone I care about.

”

Amano Airi (天野愛莉, Amano Airi^?) is a secondary character in the D4DJ franchise. She is a member of both Scarlet Canary and Call of Artemis. She also serves as the in-game navigation character for D4DJ Groovy Mix.

Profile

She is the kind older sister of Café Vinyl who has given Rinku and others numerous pieces of advice. She once perfected Call of Artemis with her overwhelming singing ability. However, she lost her motivation to sing and retired. Although she was about to leave from music, she decided to respond to the call of her friends and take the stage again.^[1]

Appearance

Airi has mahogany hair that reaches down to her back and reddish-pink eyes. She is typically depicted wearing lipstick, and is one of the shorter adults among the cast.

Background

When Airi was young, she lived in the United States for a year due to her parents' work. There she met Neo's mother, Aria, while the latter was singing at the local church's choir and was captivated by her singing voice. Airi then decided to join the choir in order to get to know Aria better. Despite their age gap (as Aria was 18-years-old at the time), they ended up becoming very close, with Aria treating Airi as if she were her little sister. After Airi had to move back to Japan, the two would send each other letters frequently until Aria got married, gave birth to Neo and debuted as a professional singer. Finding out about Aria's debut got Airi very motivated, leading to her enrolling at Yoba Academy, and started training seriously in order to get to Aria's level.^[2]

Airi met her groupmates Mana, Shano, and Toka while they were all in high school. They decided to team up after she was approached by Toka and Mana.

Eventually they formed Call of Artemis and managed to become incredibly popular; however, creative differences arose among them which resulted in the unit's disbandment. Afterwards Airi started working as a waitress at Cafe Vinyl alongside its owner Kofune Ryujin.

Some time later, fate would bring Airi and Shano together once more when they performed together at D4 FES.^[3] After Call of Artemis successfully reclaimed the victory on D4 FES., she decides to pursue a career in music again with the other members of Call of Artemis and leaves her job at cafe behind.

Personality

Airi is a warm-hearted and mature character who looks out for the younger DJs of the cast.

Etymology

Amano (天野) can be split into two parts. Ama (天), meaning heaven or imperial, and No (瀬) meaning rapids or shallows.

Airi (愛莉) can be split into two parts. Ai (愛), meaning love, and Ri (莉) meaning jasmine.

Trivia

• In the D4DJ First Mix anime, Airi is named as "Café Staff"^[4] meanwhile in the spanish dub is named as "Empleada del Café".^[5]
• Due to her status as a cafe worker where various characters often meet, Airi is the most frequently seen character outside of the main cast.
• According to one of her card episodes, she mentions that she enjoys drawing, but has never shown or mentioned this fact to to anyone else.^[6]
  • Her bad drawing skills may be a reference to her voice actress Mizuki Nana, who is also known for her bad drawing skills.
• Airi is one of the characters to receive the change of in-game character code number.^[7][8]

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