Shuka Hanazono

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Shuka Hanazono
Kanji	華園しゅうか
Rōmaji	Hanazono Shūka
Physical and Vital Information
Species	Human
Gender	Female
Age	11 12 (Episode 169)
Eye Color	Violet
Hair Color	Dark Purple (PriPara)
Professional Statistics
Occupation	Idol Student
Affiliation	EVER GOLD (unit)
Personal Status
Relatives	Mia Hanazono (Older Sister)
Debut
Anime	Episode 162 - Pour de Prance The Great Race!
Voice Actors
Japanese	Madoka Asahina
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Shuka Hanazono (華園しゅうか, Hanazono Shūka) is another antagonist in Idol Time PriPara. She is a celeb-type idol whose preferred brand is Rich Venus. Her catchphrase is "Idol Time is money" and often adds "mya" to her sentences. She considered Yui as her only rival due to the fact that Falala gave her a specialized Idol Time Mic and Idol Time Harp. In episode 39, she received the Dark Mic and the Dark Harp from Garara. The Dark Mic has the power to steal people's dreams and transfer them to Garara's tower.

As of episode 27, she started attending Avocado Academy as a classmate of Yui & Laala.

Appearance

Shuka's normal appearance

Shuka is a young girl about Laala and Yui's age. She has sharp purple eyes with a streak of pale blue. Her hair is vibrant purple and worn in a ponytail that flares outward at her shoulders. Her straight cut bangs are eye length and she has thick forelocks covering her ears. On the corner of her head is a pale pink flower on a ribbon. She wears a matching accessory on her uniform.

When in PriPara, Shuka is shown to grow in height and looks older. Her forelocks and ponytail grow in length and gain more volume.

Personality

She dislikes wasting time and money. She is also a realist who thinks dreaming is the most wasteful thing. Because of this, she intends to replace the word "dream" with the word "goal".

Relationships

• Powan - Powan is Shuka's manager who shares her beliefs and values of money.
• Yui Yumekawa - Shuka dislikes Yui due to the latter's obsession with dreams.
• Hibiki Shikyoin - Shuka deeply respects Hibiki and looks up to her.
• Mia Hanazono - Shuka's deadbeat sister who is irresponsible with money and frequently asks her for more funds.
• Garara・S・Leep - Garara stated she loves Shuka's performance, and Shuka seems to be in cahoots with Garara. As they hung out more, Shuka began seeing Garara as a friend and is shown blushing whenever Garara hugs her or sometimes talks to her. She gave Garara a coord as support for her debut performance. However, after discovering that Garara's Dark Mic was stealing people's dreams, she threw the mic to the ground, crying and feeling betrayed because she truly felt Garara was her friend. After episode 182, Shuka and Garara make up and become real friends. She even convinced Garara to stop taking people's dreams.
• Mimiko Jigoku - Her teammate and friend.

Significant Coords

• Bijou Chiffon Coord - Her casual coord.
• Rich Venus Cyalume Coord - Her first Cyalume Coord.
• Dream Cyalume Shuka Coord - Her Dream Cyalume Coord starting from episode 168.

Etymology

Hanazono (華園) Hana (華) means luxury or flower, and Zono (園) means garden.

Shuka (しゅうか) means collection of cargo. It's also a pun on shūkaku (収穫), which can be translated into "profit."

Trivia

• Before being revealed, she made a cameo appearance in the PriPara Idol Watch toy around the same time as Garara.
• She was found to be similar to the former Divine Idol Mia Hanazono in their looks when she first appears. It was later revealed by Hibiki Shikyoin that the two are actual siblings.
• In her debut episode, she developed her own shop in PriPara named Rich Venus.
• Her family name "Hanazono" is the same as Kirara Hanazono from the Aikatsu Stars series, however with slightly different kanji.
• Her favorite food is Potato.
  • Her along with the other protagonists of Idol Time have staple foods as their favorite food.
• She shares some similarities with Marie Hanazono from Jewepet Happiness.
  • Thay have the same last name.
  • They have a slightly similar hairstyle.
  • They have a similar hair color.
  • They have a similar personality.
  • Both debuted in season 4 of their respective series.
• She received her Dream Cyalume Coord the quickest out of all the characters so far, receiving it one episode after her performance debut.
• She is the first celeb idol to debut & perform in Paparajuku's PriPara.
• Her birthday is October 17th, making her a Libra.
  • Ironically, October 17th is celebrated as International Day for the Eradication of Poverty.
• She shares similarities with Kyoko Asechi  from Pretty Rhythm.
  • Both of them are greedy and like to make profit.
  • Both of them are associated with the song Step! Step! Step!.
• She has a phobia of horns due to her being attacked by a rhino when she was 3.

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