Sora Hoshino

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Sora Hoshino星野そら Hoshino Sora
General information
Homeplace	Ōizumigakuenchō, Nerimaku
Birthdate	July 23rd
Gender	Female
Species	Human
Eye Color	Lilac
Hair Color	Yellow with pink and blue streaks
Hobby	Playing all day in Pop'n Land, and loving all of my fans!
Relative(s)	Hikari Nijino and Mirai Yumeno (friends)
Likes	Merchandise of Pop'n Land's bear characters
Dislikes	Our new manager (I'm getting angry soon...)
Appearances
First Appearance	pop'n music 17 THE MOVIE
Other Appearances	pop'n music ラピストリア
CS Appearances	pop'n music (i-αppli) DLC pop'n music Lively
Song(s)	We Can Change ポリリズム kaleidoscopic
Designer(s)	eimy

"Singing and dancing is quite tough, but she works hard to support Hikari and Mirai as the leader of the Rainbow Trio!
Even though she'll occasionally complain, she's almost always smiling and full of energy."

―Character Introduction

Sora Hoshino is one of the characters from pop'n music 17 THE MOVIE, and the last character from the idol trio, Nijikko, to debut with her own song. She is first introduced as a cameo character in Hikari Nijino's Win animation in pop'n music 13 カーニバル. The name "Sora Hoshino", and her main debut was given 4 more games later.

Profile

Sora Hoshino is the leader of the Rainbow Trio.

Character Information

"In this sparkling kaleidoscopic world,
we want to fill our music and dances here.☆"

―Lapistoria Character Introduction

Finally, the position for each and every Nijikko member became brighter. Here's the leader Sora Hoshino!
Even though she's the most down-to-earth among the three, it looks like she often gets infuriated by their manager, all because they're still kids.

Right now, she mustered up her strength to dance for a PV-like tune. The GOOD and GREAT animations show her Change, but should she get some guidance? Afterwards, I'm satisfied that I wanted to try doing a full-on turnaround for the three girls!
Animating the girls dancing is difficult, but I felt really replenished completing the animation. It was tough, but I had fun!

eimy

Appearance

CUTIE TECHNO POP

In her debut in Pop'n Music 17 THE MOVIE, Sora has large upper ponytails with pink and aquamarine streaks (her streaks are also pink and blue in her early cameos). Her main attire is a white scarf and a blue and white dress. She has blue stockings with white-aquamarine boots. Her original color palette is confirmed again in ポリリズム, from the same game and kaleidoscopic in pop'n music ラピストリア.

Sora's 2P color palette gives her lightly pale violet hair with pink and honeydew streaks and orange eyes. the top of her dress is jade green, her bottom gradient is yellow, and her shoe highlights and wristbands share the manners of her streaks.

Other Appearances

Sora Hoshino gains a new costume, including a white hat with a black layer, a white, large shirt with a yellow sleeve on her right arm, a black layer underneath it with a matching choker, a light yellow wristband on her right, a skirt consisting of two more layers: one is the matching color of her sleeve and the other black with gray, thin stripes; and tacky legwarmers and shoes (the right leg has a yellow legwarmer with a white shoe and black sole, while the other is opposite, being a white warmer and a black shoe and white sole).

Quotes

Pop'n Music 19 TUNE STREET Town Mode

Battle (Rainbow Trio)

わーっ遅刻遅刻！！みらいに
 怒られるよぉ～！…って、
 私とポップンしたいの？う～ん…
 遅刻のいいわけにしていい？

Waa, I'm late, I'm late!! Mirai'll be
 so angry at me~!...Do you want
 to play Pop'n with me? At least then...
 I'll have an excuse for being late.

NET Self

Attack	Ei! (えい！, Ei!?)
Damage	Ow! (いったー！, Ittaa!?)
GOOD Play	Uhee... (うへー・・・, Uhee...?)
BAD Play	Wah! (んわぁ！, Nwaa!?)
WIN	Okay♪ (よっし♪, Yoshi♪?)
LOSE	It's no use~ (ダメかぁ～, Dame kaa~?)

Trivia

General

• On Judy's gallery section from the pop'n music 16 PARTY♪ website, it seems that Sora's hair streaks are orange and chartreuse instead of pink and blue, like the Trio. She was going to be the core charcater for Run to You, but was replaced by Judy.
  • Sora makes her appearance in the next game to continue the pattern for each of the Nijikko member appearing two games later.
  • Speaking of the appearance pattern, it was shattered when Sora gets a new song in pop'n music ラピストリア.
• Sora's birthdate is identical to Sigma's, Lithos', and Beartank's.
• Despite of being the leader, Sora Hoshino is the last character to have her own debut song.
• The three Nijikko members all have their surnames end with "no".
  • They also have mauve-colored eyes.

References

• In Mirai Yumeno's Win animation, Sora's costume bores a reference to the popular Japanese magical girl character, Sailor Moon, especially her pose.

Cameos

• Sora makes cameos in two of her bandmates' animations:
• She and Mirai Yumeno appear in Hiakri Nijino's DANCE and WIN animations. Her outfit matches Hikari's, but with a pink top and shoe soles. The hearts on her skirt matches her base hair color, and she wears red hairbands.
• Sora and Hikari make cameos in Mirai Yumeno's OJAMA, LOSE, and WIN animations. Unlike Mirai's signature outfit, Sora is shown wearing a sky blue dress with three, white hearts on the center and matching fur sections on her neck and edge of her dress. She also have matching gloves, furry legwarmers, scrunchies, red, heart-shaped headset with microphone, and pink shoes with yellow soles.
• Sora and the rest of the Nijikko members appear in Keigo★'s LOSE and WIN animations, along with Keigo★ himself, Erika, and Justice★. Mimi appears in his LOSE animation, while Nyami makes a cameo in his WIN animation.

Etymology

• Sora's name is is normally written as "そら". If converted to kanji (空), the name translates to sky
• From the surname, "Hoshino" (星野, "Hoshino"^?): "Hoshi" (星, "Hoshi"^?) translates to "star", while "no" (野, "no"^?) is roughly translated into "field". The two merge into "a field of stars".
• If combining her name, Sora Hoshino literally means "a field of stars from the sky".

Gallery

Animations

Neutral (1P)

Good

Great

FEVER!/Ojama

Miss

Win/FEVER! Win

Sora Hoshino 1P Lose.gif

Lose

Screenshots

Lose

Merchandise

Sora Hoshino's Change Card

Concept Art

A sketch of Sora Hoshino in Judy's gallery section in pop'n music 16 PARTY♪

References