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- "Let's do our very, very, veeeery best!"
- ―Hanasato Minori (Original)
- "More and more! Even moooore! In order to deliver hope to everyone!"
- ―Hanasato Minori (Brand New World)
Hanasato Minori (花里 みのり) is a second-year student at Miyamasuzaka Girls Academy. She's part of the idol group MORE MORE JUMP!
Character Bio[edit | edit source]
"Minori is hard-working and driven, traits that can be seen in her single-minded pursuit of a career as an idol. Becoming an idol has been her dream ever since she saw Haruka performing in the idol group ASRUN. Minori has been to a lot of auditions, but so far with no success."
Background[edit | edit source]
Minori's someone who was constantly brought terrible luck. After missing a baton pass that costed her class the entire event, Minori stayed at home the next day out of fear her classmates would come to hate her. During which, Minori sees Kiritani Haruka onscreen and is instantly enamored with her. Haruka's words "Tomorrow will be a better day." inspired Minori, thus prompting her dream to become an idol. Minori's dream stems from her wanting to spread hope to others just as Haruka did for her.
Minori has tried her hand at multiple auditions, but has failed every time. Despite this, she never gave up and continued to try in order achieve her dream.
Appearance[edit | edit source]
Minori has gray eyes and shoulder-length light brown hair, worn loose. Her hair has a braid to her right side clipped back with an orange and white flower pin.
Original[edit | edit source]
Minori shared a similar outfit to that of the rest of her group members: a white sleeveless blouse with a black ribbon underneath a vest, a black and white ruffled skirt with multiple layers, a loose black belt adorned with the group's three-leaf clover motif, and white heeled shoes. The design of Minori's vest was the same as Haruka's. Minori's outfit differed with the color orange accenting her outfit and a white ruffled arm band on her upper right arm.
Her casual outfit consisted of a white shirt with lace and a flower pattern on the collar, and a tied red ribbon. Over it she wore a warm pink sweater. She also had a medium long cream skirt with a white under layer.
Her school outfit was the standard Miyamasuzaka Girls Academy uniform, a long sleeve light gray tailor uniform with a red neckerchief.
Brand New World[edit | edit source]
Minori has three outfits as of Brand New World.
Her unit outfit is a typical Japanese idol uniform. It consists of a white sleeveless coat over a white and light blue pleated skirt, with white cuffs, a black belt, and short white boots, and it is identical to the other members of MORE MORE JUMP!. Minori's uniform has accents of peachy orange, and she wears a clover hair clip with an orange leaf and orange ribbons.
Her casual outfit consists of a cream yellow blouse and a beige checkered skirt, layered under a pink cardigan.
Her school outfit remained unchanged, and is the standard Miyamasuzaka Girls Academy uniform.
Personality[edit | edit source]
Minori is an optimistic and determined person. She's always focused on her goals even to the point of constantly spacing out and being fixed entirely on them including during school. She has a tendency to daydream as can be seen in the event Dear My Past Self.
Despite her hard working and cheerful self, Minori will sometimes question her abilities. As seen in Let's Deliver! HOPEFUL STAGE ♪ when the viewers' comments towards Minori turn negative, Minori begins to doubt herself and invalidates all the work she's done up until then.
Relationships[edit | edit source]
- Kiritani Haruka: Life-long idol and fellow group member. Haruka inspired Minori to become an idol when Minori saw her perform on TV. In one of their area conversations, Haruka remarks that Minori is 'someone to be grateful for,' but does not say this aloud.
- Momoi Airi: Fellow group member. Airi is teaching Minori how to be an idol. Despite Airi's harsh criticisms, she has shown to really care for Minori. In the Let's Deliver! HOPEFUL STAGE♪ event when Minori wishes to keep practicing even when the day has long ended, Airi tells her that she is 'a hard-working person who needs rest.'
- Hinomori Shizuku: Fellow group member. Minori is fascinated her beauty and helps her with her technology problems.
- Azusawa Kohane: Classmates and friends. Both on the animal care committee. It is shown in Kohane's part one 1* card that Kohane was the first high school friend Minori made, and vice versa.
- Shiraishi An: Part of a friend group with Kohane and Haruka. During Buddy・Funny・Spend Time ♪, Minori felt jealous towards An, who knew Haruka when she was a child.
- Hoshino Ichika: Friend and schoolmate. They are both fans of Miku.
- Tenma Saki: Friend and schoolmate. They first met on the rooftop in part one of Saki's 1* card. They also work part time jobs at the same cafe.
- Mochizuki Honami: Friend and schoolmate. They walk their dogs together sometimes.
- Hinomori Shiho: Classmates and friends. She was part of the 1-A trio with Minori and Kohane.
- Tenma Tsukasa: Acquaintance. They first met at the Fan Festa in Scramble Fan FESTA!, where Tsukasa encouraged Minori.
- Otori Emu: Friend and schoolmate. Emu likes Minori's cheerful personality and smile.
- Yoisaki Kanade: Friend. They first met when Kanade was on her way to visit her father, where Minori helped her with her bags. Minori's bright personality made Kanade compare her to the sun.
- Shinonome Ena: Friend. They first met through Kanade and went to SpoyJoy Park together with Kanade and Ichika during the event Let's Enjoy Together! Spojoy Park.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- Minori is one of the five group leaders in the game.
- She was classmates with Hinomori Shiho and Azusawa Kohane (class 1-A).
- Minori has a pet samoyed whom she refers to lovingly as "Samo-chan." He first debuted in Shinonome Akito's side story, Bigger-Than-Big Shot as well as a physical appearance in episode 8 of Petit SEKAI, "Let's Go Viral! MORE MORE JUMP!" (バズれ!モモジャン!)
- Minori failed fifty auditions to become an idol before MORE MORE JUMP! formed. At the end of the MORE MORE JUMP! main story, she fails one more audition, making her total amount of failed auditions to be fifty one.
- In a conversation area, Minori mentioned that she has a little brother in elementary, with his first dialogue appearing within the event Dear My Past Self.
- She has a habit of saying "more, more!", which influenced the naming of MORE MORE JUMP!.
- She sometimes stumbles saying her words.