Character

Hikari Sakurada

櫻田 光

Hikari is a naive, air-headed and cheerful girl with lively personality. She is often seen with a big smile with her spirits on top. She loves being on TV and being filmed and camera, as she always uses the opportunity to appeal the citizens when passing cameras. As a young girl, Hikari is always trying to come up with a way to increase her popularity, especially in regards to the royal campaign, going great lengths to make herself popular. She claims that a king is showy, gorgeous and "super popular". She is also straightforward, slightly spoiled and childish, and rarely afraid to speak her mind, but when she says something offending she will apologize for it. She is very determined in becoming a king as she can envision her as one, but her rankings in the election sometimes disappoints her. However, Hikari has good self-confidence, but this doesn't make her arrogant as she cares for her family and friends, being very kind and caring as she even picked up a stray cat (Borscht), but even though she mostly did it for attention, she names her as his owner and adores him. She also seems to like taking the easy ways, as she claims that she would grab an easy win using her ability; using a grown-up charms, so they all'll will be "smitten" according to herself. To increase her popularity, Hikari decides to become an Idol, adapting the stage name "Light Sakuraba". Even after realizing that she won't attract popularity since nobody knows what her real identity is (except people close to her), Hikari continues with it wholeheartedly, prioritizing her career over the royal campaign later on. She became very successful and talented in her career as an idol, as well as more hardworking and serious, especially after meeting Sachiko, someone Hikari looks up to. Hikari is also quite mature for her age, but also childish at times. Though she sometimes can get bad grades in school, she can actually be quite smart when she tries hard. She also seems to have negligence for honorifics, but nonetheless she is very friendly and grateful for her friends supporting her. She has a close relationship with Akane and a close attachment to her parents, referring to them as "papa" and "mama".