Height
157.00 cm
Blood Type
O
Age
19
Birthday
July 7
Origin
Tokyo
Aoba and Nene's friend from high school, who was part of their school's Art Club. She is a skilled artist but has a weak condition. She is currently studying at a fine arts college in order to become a professional illustrator. Hotaru has short, gray-blonde hair, and purple eyes, along with small flowers on the left side of her hair. She also usually wears a yellow colored shirt and a blue cardigan, along with navy jeans. Hotaru is very nice, caring, polite girl and not easily angered. She loves puns and often laughs at her own jokes. She is a hard worker and tends to overexert herself. She is also not good at handling peer pressure and is easily influenced; Aoba and Nene unintentionally pressured her to accept a light novel illustration job, and she managed to easily adapt to French customs. Due to her condition, she is also prone to collapsing easily. She enjoys sports, despite being terrible at it. She is one of Aoba Suzukaze's high school friends, who now studies at an art college. Prior to the start of the series, she studied abroad in France. Her hometown is Tokyo.
New Game!
Since childhood, Aoba Suzukaze has loved the Fairies Story game series, particularly the character designs. So when she graduates from high school, it is no surprise that she applies to work at Eagle Jump, the company responsible for making her favorite video game. On her first day, she is excited to learn that she will be working on a new installment to the series: Fairies Story 3—and even more so under Kou Yagami, the lead character designer. In their department are people who share the same passion for games. There is Yun Iijima, whose specialty is designing monsters; the shy Hifumi Takimoto, who prefers to communicate through instant messaging; Hajime Shinoda, an animation team member with an impressive figurine collection; Rin Tooyama, the orderly art director; Shizuku Hazuki, the game director who brings her cat to work; and Umiko Ahagon, the short-tempered head programmer. New Game! follows Aoba and the others on their adventure through the ups and downs of game making, from making the perfect character design to fixing all the errors that will inevitably accumulate in the process.
