"Be careful not to disappear together." |
Ran Shibuki (紫吹 蘭 Shibuki Ran), also known as "The Beautiful Blade" (美しき刃 Utsukushiki Yaiba) is a Starlight Academy student and one of Ichigo and Aoi's classmates. She was later put into a unit called Soleil (ソレイユ Soreiyu)with Aoi and Ichigo.
Background...
Ran has worked in entertainment since she was young, so she considers herself a professional and acts mature. She can be a bit of a lone wolf, but she's also very candid with a good, caring personality. Like many others, she believed Ichigo and Aoi could not rise as top idols together and kept a close eye on their relationship at first.
She had been a bit of a loner after her friend and former roommate, Mako, dropped out of Starlight Academy due to losing her confidence, which left Ran with feelings of loss and loneliness. But soon warms up to Ichigo and Aoi. She hides her feelings around other people since she's called the 'Beautiful Blade' who never smiles. She steps with her left foot on the runway since Mako stepped with her left foot first. Her favorite brand is Spicy Ageha.
Unlike Ichigo and Aoi, Ran is a professional idol and has an aura like Mizuki. In fact, she has even been elected as Tristar's third member after Ichinose Kaede was elected as the second. Ran was elected in Episode 35 of the anime but soon after left in order to be with Ichigo and Aoi.
Ran was seen in a contest at Starlight Academy for the most attention in the school, but has a rival.
Appearance...
Ran has auburn hair and magenta eyes. Her hair varies in length from her hips to her knees. She is slightly slimmer and taller than Ichigo and Aoi, in order to appear more like a model. She is usually seen in the Starlight Academy uniform. Her original basic idol uniform consistes of a pale lilac top, made to show off her curves, along with a dark purple skirt that has dark purple, white-purple, and pink stripes all over it. She also wore purple heels with pale colored stockings.
In Season 2, Ran gains a brand new idol uniform consisting of a Purple tank top with lilac frilled off the shoulder sleeves, plain white gloves with purple cuffs, a purple plaid skirt, and tall purple boots with white knee socks.
Personality...
Ran can sometimes be cool and easily gets angry, for instance, she is very cool towards Ichigo and Aoi in the beginning of her title, but she soon warmed up and befriended them, and this is best shown when the girls reunited after Ran leaves Tristar. Because of her behavior, many fans call her as a tsundere. On some last-minute situations such as in Episode 9, where she is seen to be somewhat insane and calls herself a "Demon Coach", even though this is something she hated being called by others.
She pronounces herself with "Atashi" (あたし), and dislikes being address as "Ran-chan" (蘭ちゃん). She also has an initial disliking of cute things. While Ran is very popular and well-known, she seems to be very modest and also believes in doing everything fairly.
Etymology...
Shibuki (紫吹): Shi (紫) means purple color, as a reference to her as purple idol and Buki (吹) means blow, spray.
Ran (蘭) means orchid. Perhaps "Ran" is also a reference to "runway", as "run" in runway, and "Ran" are pronounced the same in Japanese.
Trivia...
Background...
Ran has worked in entertainment since she was young, so she considers herself a professional and acts mature. She can be a bit of a lone wolf, but she's also very candid with a good, caring personality. Like many others, she believed Ichigo and Aoi could not rise as top idols together and kept a close eye on their relationship at first.
She had been a bit of a loner after her friend and former roommate, Mako, dropped out of Starlight Academy due to losing her confidence, which left Ran with feelings of loss and loneliness. But soon warms up to Ichigo and Aoi. She hides her feelings around other people since she's called the 'Beautiful Blade' who never smiles. She steps with her left foot on the runway since Mako stepped with her left foot first. Her favorite brand is Spicy Ageha.
Unlike Ichigo and Aoi, Ran is a professional idol and has an aura like Mizuki. In fact, she has even been elected as Tristar's third member after Ichinose Kaede was elected as the second. Ran was elected in Episode 35 of the anime but soon after left in order to be with Ichigo and Aoi.
Ran was seen in a contest at Starlight Academy for the most attention in the school, but has a rival.
Appearance...
Ran has auburn hair and magenta eyes. Her hair varies in length from her hips to her knees. She is slightly slimmer and taller than Ichigo and Aoi, in order to appear more like a model. She is usually seen in the Starlight Academy uniform. Her original basic idol uniform consistes of a pale lilac top, made to show off her curves, along with a dark purple skirt that has dark purple, white-purple, and pink stripes all over it. She also wore purple heels with pale colored stockings.
In Season 2, Ran gains a brand new idol uniform consisting of a Purple tank top with lilac frilled off the shoulder sleeves, plain white gloves with purple cuffs, a purple plaid skirt, and tall purple boots with white knee socks.
Personality...
Ran can sometimes be cool and easily gets angry, for instance, she is very cool towards Ichigo and Aoi in the beginning of her title, but she soon warmed up and befriended them, and this is best shown when the girls reunited after Ran leaves Tristar. Because of her behavior, many fans call her as a tsundere. On some last-minute situations such as in Episode 9, where she is seen to be somewhat insane and calls herself a "Demon Coach", even though this is something she hated being called by others.
She pronounces herself with "Atashi" (あたし), and dislikes being address as "Ran-chan" (蘭ちゃん). She also has an initial disliking of cute things. While Ran is very popular and well-known, she seems to be very modest and also believes in doing everything fairly.
Etymology...
Shibuki (紫吹): Shi (紫) means purple color, as a reference to her as purple idol and Buki (吹) means blow, spray.
Ran (蘭) means orchid. Perhaps "Ran" is also a reference to "runway", as "run" in runway, and "Ran" are pronounced the same in Japanese.
Trivia...
- Star Sign: Leo
- Favorite Food: Vegetable sticks and Yogurt
- Disliked Food: Fried fish, because she doesn't like removing the bones
- Special Skill(s): Walking, posing
- Even though she debuted in Episode 1 she has not been seen again until Episode 4. She appeared in Episode 5, which was her major debut.
- Ran becomes the Spicy Ageha Muse in Season 2.
- Her aura is composed of butterflies.
- Ran is the first idol to have three Premium coords.
- It's considered that her surname Shibuki takes from Jun Shibuki (紫吹淳 Shibuki Jun?) a top star of Takarazuka Revue.
- Ran shares the same seiyū with Lance from Dokidoki! Precure, a card-themed magical girl anime series.
- She also shares the same seiyū with Uzume Uno from Fantasista Doll, a card-themed magical girl-like anime series.
- Ran's name is very similar to the name of the protagonist in Super GALS, Ran Kotobuki.
- She is the second idol to have a major change in her aura, preceded by Aoi. In Episode 57, the pattern and color of the butterflies change from yellow and purple to yellow, purple, and blue. The butterflies were now positioned vertically rather than horizontally, and flap in place rather than circling around Ran. However, this seems to be the case only when she wears a Premium Dress, as they reverted to flying back around her in Episode 62.
- Ran's student number in the anime is 30024.
- She shares the same birthday with Kousaka Honoka from Love Live!.
- She shares the same singing voice as Sora Kazesawa.
- Ran has been shown to be a skilled at martial arts.