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Aira Harune | |
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Kanji | 春音あいら |
Rōmaji | Harune Aira |
Physical and Vital Information | |
Species | Human |
Gender | Female |
Age | 14-15 (Aurora Dream) 17-18 (Dear my Future) |
Height | 165 cm (Aurora Dream) 170 cm (Dear my Future) |
Birthday | September 3, 1997 |
Astrological Sign | Virgo |
Eye Color | Auburn |
Hair Color | Auburn |
Blood Type | O |
Professional Statistics | |
Hometown | Yokohama, Japan |
Current Residence | New York, USA (as of the end of DMF) |
Occupation | Idol Student |
Affiliation | Pretty Top MARs |
Personal Status | |
Relatives | Hiroshi Harune (Father) Omi Harune (Mother) Itsuki Harune (Younger Brother) Eru & Uru Harune (Younger Sisters) |
Romantic Interest | Shou |
Animal Coach | Rabichi |
Debut | |
Anime | PRAD Episode 01 - A Star is Born! |
Voice Actors | |
Japanese | Kana Asumi |
Arabic | Raghda Khatib (Venus Centre version) |
"Happy Lucky!"
― Aira's catchphrase
Aira Harune (春音 あいら Harune Aira) is the main protagonist of the anime Pretty Rhythm Aurora Dream. She is a friendly girl who loves fashion and is known for being clumsy. Aira was roped into performing alongside Rizumu Amamiya after Jun witnessed her jump to avoid running into her. She later officially debuts with Rizumu and Mion Takamine as the trio MARs.
Bio[]
Appearance[]
Aira is a teenager with light skin and shoulder-length red hair having a thick, curly section on each side that hangs out from the bottom over her shoulder. Her bangs are spiked, with a few straight locks mixed through them. While performing, her hair is tied in ponytail with few loose strands. She has gentle auburn eyes with many lashes.
In Dear My Future, Aira's hair grows a few inches and is a lot smoother, with her shoulder segments cut much shorter to frame her face. Her bangs are split off-center and tucked beneath her shoulder-length forelocks. Aira keeps the same hair during performance, but it has a segment left loose.
Off-stage, Aira wears girly outfits ranging from cute and flirty to mature and sexy. Due to her love of fashion, she enjoys trying out a variety of styles.
Personality[]
Aira is kind and caring, often shown to worry over others and wants to help them. However, she is also quite shy and struggles to stand up for herself or be honest about her feelings, which often causes her to stress out or get distracted. Aira is also sensitive and impatient sometimes, but despite being fragile, she is shown to be very strong. She is determined to keep trying and overcomes many obstacles for the sake of others and herself. Aira deeply cares about her friends and family, wanting to make everyone happy and inspire them to follow their dreams.
In contrast to Rizumu and Mion, Aira is a girly girl obsessed with fashion and shopping. She is also shown to understand the "voice of clothing" and likes to modify them to look better or to help others find what makes them shine. Although Aira initially desired to become a model someday, she didn't entirely know what she wanted to do with her life until she encountered Prism Shows.
Over the series, Aira is shown to grow and mature into a wise Prism Star who inspires others. She gains more confidence and begins to become more honest with herself.
Plot Role[]
From Klutz to Grace[]
Initially, Aira failed to see what made Prism Shows so amazing when her father asked her to buy fruits from the market. Afterwards, Aira decided to do some window shopping when she nearly ran into another girl, Rizumu. Both girls made an amazing jump to avoid running into each other, which was noticed by Jun Takigawa, who saw potential in her and quickly grabbed her hand to bring her back to Pretty Top. Because of Mion Takamine going missing so suddenly, they need someone to take her place, but Aira refused because of being a poor dancer.
Before Aira could leave, she was quickly thrust upon the stage alongside Rizumu, where she froze until she began to watch her skate. She reminded herself to have courage, and she discovered that once out on the ice she felt a deep happiness and fun she had never experienced. Her ability to perform a Prism Jump despite no former training quickly earned her a spot as a new, up-and-coming Prism Star.
Soon, Aira befriended Rizumu and personally met Shou, a member of the popular boy band Callings. Both of whom quickly took to Aira but often lost their patience with her lack of serious dedication to Prism Shows. On top of this her just-starting career was nearly ended on a few occasions; such as her dad discovering she was a Prism Star, and when she got into disputes with others and temporarily quit.
Although she doubts herself and struggled, she remained the strong shoulder of support for others and pushed herself to keep going, overcoming one hurdle at a time.
Meeting Mion and MARs' Birth[]
After winning the tournament, Aira was amazed and shocked when Mion overshadowed her victory and made her official re-debut as a Prism Star. Unlike Rizumu, she admires Mion and was very excited to see her join their agency. Eventually, Mion began growing closer to the girls as she got to know them and their performance capabilities, and they began to bond after the Summer Queen Cup.
As Aira and Rizumu celebrated their birthday, the girls were surprised after Kyoko informed them of their plans to form a trio. Since then, they went on to perform together in various programs, attempt new activities, and gained a rivalry with Serenon With K.
Becoming Queen[]
In order to focus on the final tournament, MARs went on hiatus and each girl went solo to begin training. Aira was one of the competitors who made it to the finals, and with the help of Shou and the rest of the crowd, she went on to perform the Aurora Rising Dream. This sealed her the win and she became the current Prism Queen.
At the end of the series, Aira is shown going out on a date with Shou. Their relationship has become more serious over the season and they reminisce over the past year. During their date, Shou embraces her lovingly as a few girls pass by to observe them.
Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future[]
The Queen's Trials[]
After becoming Prism Queen, Aira was left with no real goals or plans. However, she still wished to perform with Rizumu and Mion and brought up reforming their old unit. The girls agreed and their fame quickly returned.
It is also revealed that Aira and Shou aren't dating due to their status as performers, but they are often shown to flirt with each other. She also meets Mia, who witnessed her beautiful Aurora Rising and wholly supports her dream to become a Prism Star. She begins to help Mia and her friends with training and giving them tips.
Eventually, Aira realized she had become stuck between two men. Besides Shou, who she adored entirely, she met Yun-su and fell in love with his designs as he had her. But because of Shou's hesitation to officially become a couple her feelings began to waver and she finds herself conflicted when both he and Yun-su begin to push her to choose one of them and their designs.
Dark Aira[]
During this time of extreme unease, a mysterious figure known as Don Bonby approaches her with a Symphonia Series stone and offers it to her. Torn between choosing either Shou or Yun-su's designs, Aira quickly falls under his influence and is brainwashed by the Stone. Much to Mion and Rizumu's shock, in her trance, Aira announces that MARs will be joining the Road to Symphonia during a press conference prior to the Crystal High Heel Cup.
During the tournament, Aira wears a Symphonia dress and triggers the Prism Act, Road to Symphonia. She enters the door, and the amazing Act gives MARs the win. Aira announces that MARs will be quitting Pretty Top and joining the Symphonia Company and backstage, convincing Rizumu and Mion of this last-minute decision. This causes them to extremely worry and try to determine what is going on as Kei uses her tarot cards to realize that Aira's soul has already been swallowed by death.
As MARs take off, Shou and Yun-su yell out for her to come back. Hearing Shou's voice, Aira flinches and she drops their stones to the ground. Eventually, she returns to her former self due to PURETTY's efforts and Shou's love.
The Queen's Future[]
During the Symphonia Selection for the center position, Aira was delightfully surprised when Mia won against her. She congratulated her for achieving her dream and was soon given a ticket to New York by Shou while attending Rizumu's wedding, silently hinting that he wanted her to come with him to continue designing and live with him.
Although Shou waits on the bench at the airport and Aira does not come on time, she arrives, and they run to each other. However, she initially falls over herself. He laughs and kisses her forehead like when they first met, then make conversation while preparing to board the plane.
The two were last seen in New York City together, walking along the streets and smiling. In the vision of the future, they have become an official couple and design together.
Relationships[]
Rizumu Amamiya[]
Aira first met Rizumu after the latter ran into her at the mall outside of Prism Stone. Much to Aira's surprise, after being recruited by Jun in order to debut as a Prism Star, she met Rizumu again and wowed her when she performed a Prism Jump during her first performance. Initially, they had a rough start with Rizumu angry that someone so clumsy and not trained was capable of such a feat, but after Aira began to help her with her style and got to know her, they quickly hit it off.
They share the same birthday and later discovered that Aira's mother, Omi, used to be a Prism Stylist for Rizumu's mother, Sonata. Aira is very supportive towards Rizumu, but sometimes she is forced to help her stay grounded.
Mion Takamine[]
Aira idolized Mion prior to the series as a beautiful and talented model and followed her blog. They first met in person when the latter overshadowed her victory at a Prism Cup tournament, but Aira remained spellbound as she joined her and Rizumu at the agency. Respectively Aira addresses her as "Mion-sama" until they became friends.
Shou[]
Shou and Aira fell for each other at first sight, but Aira assumed he had no interest in her despite him only flirting with her because of his playboy personality. Aira initially began to think she had feelings for him, until discovering the reason why she felt the way she did was because of him being her favorite shops designer, with these feelings beginning to grow stronger between them.
Just when it seemed that the duo would get closer, Shou would say or do something to push her away, such as nearly kissing her during the summer festival and reminding her that they needed to be professional and could not encourage dating. There was also Nana Ichijou, a selfish girl who loves Shou and eagerly got to work alongside him and caused Aira much stress, along with Yun-su, who met Aira and fell in love with her in Dear My Future.
As obvious as their romance was to everyone else, Shou could not bear to bring himself closer to her as a lover having been scarred by his parents divorce, and he believed that "love is the most beautiful when there is distance" under the assumption that their feelings would fade if they got closer to each other. However, he erased this philosophy after jumping in to save her as she fell into an inferno during the Road to Symphonia. Shou told her that even if they fought sometimes, he would always embrace and love her when she turned away from him. Both admit their feelings for each other at this point and kiss passionately.
When Shou invites Aira to move with him to New York and take up fashion design, Aira chooses to go and spend her life with him. The two can be seen walking through New York together in Dear My Future's ending, and it is shown that true to his word, she has now become his design partner and they are still in love.
In the Pretty Rhythm Movie, Penguin-sensei makes a remark that Aira is currently very happy with Shou.
Mia Ageha[]
Aira is Mia's mentor and senpai. Three years prior to Dear My Future, during the finale of the Prism Queen Cup, Mia was entranced and inspired by Aira managing to complete the "Aurora Rising Dream", which led her to her desire to one day beat Aira. Three years later, much to everyone's shock, Mia interrupted MARs' Prism Show at Venus Odaiba and swore to defeat her on stage.
Although Mia can be quite rude and stubborn when interacting with Aira, she also respects her and her abilities. In return, Aira respects her potential as a Prism Star, often giving her words of advice and encouragement, but she still gets flustered whenever Mia's tantrums get out of hand.
Family[]
Aira is shown to get along very well with her mother and younger twin sisters. She has a typical sibling relationship with Itsuki Harune, and he often criticized her as well as made fun of her during the first season, but he remained supportive. In Dear My Future, they are shown to be on closer terms.
However, Aira has a rough relationship with her dad. Not only because of his dream for her to manage the Sweet Shop someday, but because he failed to see her as the young woman she was growing up to be and wanted to preserve the image of the sweet child he remembered. He also dislikes the idea of her dating or having a crush on someone. After realizing how hard she was trying and difficult he was being, he eventually gave in and began to give her some space while remaining stern.
Aira's Outfits[]
Prism Show Outfits[]
Fresh Pink Bare Top, Fresh Pink Pannier, Fresh Pink Boots
MARs Outfits[]
Shiny Ribbon Vest, Shiny Ribbon Skirt, Line Ribbon Suede Long Boots
Prism Queen Cup Tournaments[]
Dancing Girl Bare Top, Dancing Girl Miniskirt, Monotone Ribbon Boots
Yukata Outfits[]
Yukata Corsage Hair, Softly Milky Yukata, Yukata Asian Sandals
Pure Wedding Outfits[]
Pure Premium Tiara, Wedding Teardrop, Pure Premium Wedding Dress, Pure Premium High Heels
Dear My Future[]
MARs Shining Ribbon Tops, MARs Shiny Pink Pannier, MARs Shiny Long Boots
Casual Attire (Aurora Dream)[]
Pretty Ribbon Necklace, Mannish Vest, Frilly Gingham Check Skirt, Monochrome Tights & Pom-Pom Boots
Casual Attire (Aurora Dream): Winter[]
Pretty Ribbon Necklace, Sexy Heart Cardigan, Piping Miniskirt, Pretty Logo Leggings
Casual Attire (Dear My Future): Summer[]
Lovely Ribbon Necklace, Suite Lace High-Necked, Pinky Ribbon Skirt,Crystal Heart Mule
Casual Attire (Dear My Future): Winter[]
Warm Mouton Duffle Coat, White Tights & Flower Pumps
Image Songs[]
Etymology[]
Aira: The name is written in hiragana, but there is a certain meaning behind her name. Like how Rizumu's name makes the "Rhythm" in Pretty Rhythm, Aira's name comes from the Japanese words "Ai rashī", meaning "lovely" or "pretty". Her name is also a pun of the Japanese rendition for "I love you" (Ai rabu yū).
Harune: Haru (春) means "spring" and Ne (音) means "sound", which literally means "sound of spring" when said together.
Trivia[]
- In many promotional pieces for the series and official merchandise, Aira is shown with her hair down while wearing her Prism Star outfit. But in the anime, she puts her hair up when performing and training.
- She is the only main character who changes her hairstyle casually.
- According to director Masakazu Hishida in the final Pretty Rhythm guidebook, ten years after Dear My Future, Aira will be a slightly pudgy mother with lots of kids.
- In the spin-off PriPara, Aira is shown to have become a legendary trio unit with Mia and Naru Ayase. They were shown performing together in cameo appearances throughout the series, and appear in person in the movie.
- In the second spin-off series, Kiratto Pri☆Chan, Aira has a parallel version of herself: Aira Nanahoshi where she is the designer of the brand Sweet Honey, and she is in a duo unit with an idol she mentored. She is still voiced by Kana Asumi.
- She is the second main character of Pretty Rhythm to have a parallel version of herself in a spin-off Pretty series, following Mia Ageha who appeared in PriPara as Mia Hanazono.
- Aira is the only protagonist with siblings.
- Aira is the only protagonist in the first season to have the same hair and eye color.
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