Iori Minase (水瀬伊織 Minase Iori?) is an idol at 765 Production. She initially appeared in the arcade game and her latest appearance was in THE IDOLM@STER STELLA STAGE.
She is voiced by Rie Kugimiya.
Personality
Iori is very polite and sweet towards people she doesn't know or doesn't really care about, especially towards her fans, but to other idols and especially towards the Producer, quick to judge people, and she has a very sharp tongue and a short temper. Because of this, Iori is known as "The little-devil idol". Despite this, Iori has a very soft side of her which she does not like to show because of embarrassment, though in some cases she will break down and act obedient, which makes her a tsundere type character.
Background
Iori Minase comes from a rich family and is the daughter of a corporate CEO who is also acquainted with 765 Production President, Junichirou Takagi.
Iori's family consists of both her parents and two older brothers, no information about her mother is ever mentioned anywhere in the game except for the fact that she has one. Though Producer never met Iori's father, she says that her father is a very scary person, even calling him a demon sometimes. Both of Iori's brothers are overseas, her second youngest brother in America as an exchange student, and her older brother is somewhere in Europe doing business.
Iori has long brown hair that extends past her shoulders all the down her back, and is kept off of her forehead by a pink headband bundled with a bow. She rarely lets her bangs down and chooses to expose her forehead, except on special occasions. She wears is a pink sleeveless shirt with ribbons tied to it on both sides. Iori also wears a white skirt with pink vertical lines that each have strawberries with a white fluffy decor on the bottom of her skirt and brown cowgirl-like shoes. She almost always has her stuffed bunny toy, affectionately named Usa-chan on her arm.
Hobbies
Iori likes travelling and going to restaurants as her hobbies.
Intro Quotes
"Nihihi! A show at a luxury resort - the perfect setting for me! Work hard, and make sure you don't mess up and embarrass me, alright!?"
"You're extremely fortunate to have been a part of Super Idol Iori Minase's success. Nihihi♪"
Etymology
- The name Iori means "that one" (伊) (i) and "weave, weaving" (織) (ori).
- Iori's surname Minase means "water" (水) (mina) and "swift current, rapids" (瀬) (se).
Trivia
- Iori and Miki Hoshii often address each other in a rude way. Miki calls Iori でこちゃんでこちゃん ("Deko-chan", "odeko" being Japanese for "forehead") due to her prominent forehead, and Iori calls Miki アンタでこちゃん ("anta", a very rude way of addressing someone).
- Iori is multilingual, speaking Chinese, French, German, Spanish, and fluent English in addition to Japanese.
- Iori's bunny doll that she carries with her all the time is affectionately named "Usa-chan," who Iori named while she was a child, though at one point she tries to trick the Producer into thinking its name is actually Sebastian. In THE iDOLM@STER (anime), she states her bunny is named "Charles Donatello the 18th," however most consider Usa-chan the real name. As of THE iDOLM@STER 2, appearances of Usa-chan seem to have been significantly reduced.
- When casual clothes are chosen as Iori's stage clothes, Usa-chan will be stuck to Iori's arm as though it were part of the costume.
- Iori is handy with a couple of firearms. (Noted only in iDOLM@STER Drama CD series Stage 05.)
- In the First Vision games, Iori always exposed her forehead. She never let her bangs down until the release of THE iDOLM@STER SP DLC Catalog 8 idol-drama, where she removes her headband in order to avoid being recognized by President Kuroi.
- Iori will almost listen to anything Ritsuko Akizuki says. This is because of a memory from when they first met in 765 Productions where Ritsuko scolded, yelled, and punished Iori to the point of her crying.
- Iori and Yayoi Takatsuki are actually best friends, although it isn't explained how they became friends, or how they first met.
- Iori's favorite beverage is 100% pure orange juice. In fact, her very first appearance in THE iDOLM@STER 2 has her ordering the Producer to fetch her some from a vending machine.
- Iori is the favorite idol of Tekken series director Katsuhiro Harada. This was acknowledged in a Million Live! card where she is dressed as Lili from the same series, with Harada cheering in the background.
- According to one of her lines in Million Live!, Iori owns a dog named Jean Valjean.
- She shares the same birthday with Ryu Kimura, which is also the Children's Day in Japan.
- Her father is friends with Junichirou Takagi, which is how she ended up as an idol with 765 Production.
- She has two older brothers. One, named Kaoru, works as the president of a consulting company, while the other studies abroad in America.