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Kozuki, minoe, mari, sayu, akino, and kazuna made with https://picrew.me/image_maker/83217

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minoe, kozuki, kazuna, sayu, akino, and marin made with https://picrew.me/image_maker/4211

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kozuki, sayu, marin, akino, minoe, and kazuna made with https://picrew.me/image_maker/27700

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Idol Profile: Minoe

Age: 22

Image color: Green

Height: 165 cm

Skills: Martial arts, voice projection

Hobbies and interests: Rock shows, barhopping, horror novels, driving, napping, gambling

Fear/weakness/dislike: Punctuality, politesse

Favorite food: Wasabi peas

Disliked food: Sugary foods

Favorite sport: MMA

Favorite music: Rock, metal, KMFDM, Rammstein

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Asking The Idols!  What were your best and worst subjects in school?

Akino:  Unsurprisingly, i liked music and phys ed the best.  Math i was probably the worst at.  There's only one right answer there (laughs)!

Mari:  I've always found literature and art the easiest academic pursuits to enjoy, though truly the accrual of all sorts of knowledge is most rewarding.  Perhaps phys ed was the most challenging for me?

Sayu:  In high school i had a cooking class i really liked.  In middle school it was probably music, and reading in elementary school.  As for my least favorite...aagh, i really don't want to say math, but...it would probably have to be math.

Kazuna:  I liked learning about geography and culture!  I don't know that i really had a worst subject?  Though like anyone i liked some teachers more than others.  Oh, i signed up for a philosophy class in college and dropped it after three classes, does that count?

Minoe:  Japanese was my least favorite.  Occasionally science was interesting i guess.  Actually high school history was probably the most fun 'cause i got to argue a lot.  And i'd win.

Kozuki:  Certainly math, for both.  One need simply determine the answer to a problem using an established formula.  It's simultaneously simple and satisfying and dull and limiting.

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Asking The Idols!  What would you do for a living if you hadn't made it as idols?

Akino: If i could stop trying to break into the music industry...(laughs) I don't know!  I could never be a music critic, because i love almost every song i hear, whether it's 'good' or not.  I might've gotten a teaching certificate?  I love being around kids, entertaining them and helping them.  If not a schoolteacher, maybe something like a dance teacher?  Actually, if i ever have to retire from being an idol someday in the future, training up-and-coming idols would probably be my next step.  But honestly, right now i can't imagine doing anything but what i am.

Marin: Perhaps i would have sought to become a historian, specializing most likely in literature.  Japanese poetry throughout the ages is a subject of which i have yet to tire.  I have considered embarking upon the path to working as a translator, perhaps Japanese to English or Chinese to Japanese; regrettably i do not find i possess the necessary eloquence to accurately convey the nuance of an inspired writer.  At any rate, i would, at this point in my life, be focused on my courseload at university.

Sayu: I like to think i'd still be doing something creative?  My hobbies are painting, cooking, and fashion, but could i really make a living in any of those fields?  Sometimes I think maybe i could've made it as a fashion designer with a lucky break or two.  Sometimes i still think i'd like to try my hand at it, or at putting out my own cookbook.  Is that something the fans would be interested in, i wonder?

Kazuna: I left college after one semester to become a roadie and starvingartist and honestly the hand-to-mouth lifestyle was pretty fun for me.  I'd like to travel the whole country, and then the whole world, working as a freeter, to be honest.  A travel photographer would be a fun job, wouldn't it?  Or maybe a stunt double?  But being a musician is really my greatest dream, and i wouldn't trade where i am now for anything.

Minoe: I guess i'd still be an office worker, wouldn't i?  I've looked into becoming a blackjack dealer and a bartender in the past, but i never seemed to get along with people well enough for that.  Maybe i'd be better as a bouncer?  

Kozuki: If i hadn't become an idol, i would have stuck with modeling.  I believe it's a good fit for me.  Had i never been scouted as a model i honestly don't know where i'd be now.  In middle school i assumed i'd finish high school and college and go on to get many degrees, eventually becoming a professor of linguistics or sociology, but i suppose you could say i flamed out at fifteen.  Maybe i would have returned to the path of academia had the world of entertainment not come calling when it did.  We'll never know, and that's fine with me.

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Asking The Idols!  Besides the hearts of fans, what do you collect?

Akino:  Music!  CDs, playlists, downloads.  I love discovering new music.  Also, since our debut i've been collecting all the Ai Candy goods, so, memories i guess you could say.  Cheesy, right?

Mari:  Knowledge, i suppose?  i quite enjoy books of all sorts, but i needn't keep them to derive enjoyment; i find libraries lovely.  I don't suppose i'm the sort to hold on to physical possessions.  Is that cold of me?  Ah, but i will keep an omamori i'm given.  Indeed, there are a handful of family heirlooms for which i do spare a care; i simply do not regard them as my collection per se.

Sayu:  Art, mostly paintings.  Recipes and cookbooks.  Accessories of all sorts.  Clothes in general, really.  I can't throw out shoes i don't wear anymore, even if they have holes in the soles (laughs).

Kazuna:  Is "collectibles" too general?  I collect everything.  Random little souvenirs.  Regional yuru chara goods.  Photos, definitely; i'm a hopeless scrapbooker.  Also ticket stubs and flyers for local rock shows.

Minoe:  Scars.  [REDACTED], no, that's so chuuni (laughs).  I'm not much of a collector.  I give everything to Kazuna.  It's better than throwing it out, right?  If she hadn't gotten into Ai Candy she'd probably be living in a storage unit surrounded by old magazines right now.  Ah, actually there was a time when i was a kid when i hoarded any random piece of plastic, metal, or wood i found lying around.  I didn't know what any of it was for.  Maybe i thought if i found enough junk i could eventually build a robot or something?  My parents thought it was pretty nasty even though i washed it all.  I think they threw it out eventually.

Kozuki:  Perfume and rare books.  When i first started modeling i collected ads i was in and various pictures of myself, but once the novelty wore off i realized how narcissistic i was becoming, and i leave that to my grandparents these days (smiles).