Mio Minato

Mio Minato (みお Minato Mio) is, alongside Aine Yūki, the deuteragonist of Aikatsu Friends!. Mio is a cool type idol whose preferred brand is MATERIAL COLOR. She's a second year student in Star Harmony Academy's idol division.

Appearance
Mio has chest-length, electric blue hair with purple gradient ends, parallel to Aine's pink-orange transition. Her bangs Her eye color is in multiple shades of purple. Mio's hair have two-sided, shoulder-length forelocks.

Personality
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Relationships
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 * Aine Yūki

Etymology

 * Minato (湊)
 * Minato is a fairly uncommon Japanese surname that can be also used as a first name. When in its original kanji, it translates to 'harbour', while it also carries a pun on, which means 'with everyone'.
 * Mio (みお)
 * Due to Mio being written using kana, the name doesn't have one particular meaning. The most common kanji used are 澪 ('waterway'), 愛音 ('sound of love'), and 未央 ('now in the center')

Quotes
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Trivia

 * Mio is the eleventh character in the entire franchise to have dual-colored hair, following Sora Kazesawa, Mikuru Natsuki, Rin Kurosawa and Nina Dōjima from the original Aikatsu! series, as well Tsubasa Kisaragi, Yozora Kasumi, Lily Shirogane, Elza Forte and Kirara Hanazono from Aikatsu Stars!, as well as Aine Yūki.
 * Following Sora, Nina, Yume, Yozora, Lily and Aine, she's the seventh character in the franchise with gradient hair.
 * She shares her name with Mio Honda from iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls. However, while Honda's name is written using kanji 未央, Minato's is written using hiragana みお.
 * Following Mikuru, Yozora, Asahi, Mahiru, Aria and Aine, she's the seventh character in the franchise whose surname can also be used as a first name, followed by Maika, Ema and Mirai.
 * She shares appearance-wise features with PriPara's Cosmo, specifically hair color and eye color.
 * Both Mio's and Aine's names can be alternately written using kanji 愛音.
 * She shares her voice actress with Kana Yabuki from iDOLM@STER Million Live!