Erika Akanishi

Erika Akanishi
iM@S CG Character Data
Name:	赤西瑛梨華 (Akanishi Erika)
Voice actor:	Unvoiced
Age:	16
Height:	154 cm
Weight:	55 kg
Birthday:	July 7th
Blood type:	O
Three sizes:	92-59-88 cm
Handedness:	Both
Hobbies:	Watching Comedians
Horoscope:	Cancer
Hometown:	Okayama
Card Type:
Autograph

Erika Akanishi (赤西瑛梨華, Akanishi Erika) is one of the idols available in THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls and THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage. She first appeared on November 28, 2011 as one of the first idols in the game. She is currently unvoiced.

1 Statistics
- 1.1 Election Rankings
2 Self-Introduction
3 Character Description
4 Game Discography
- 4.1 THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls
- 4.2 THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage
5 Trivia and Fan Culture
- 5.1 Trivia
6 Character Gallery
7 Cards
- 7.1 THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls Cards
- 7.2 THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage Cards

Statistics

Election Rankings

Event	Prelim Rank	Final Rank
1st Anniversary Election	Unranked	Unranked
2nd Anniversary Election	Unranked	Unranked
3rd Anniversary Election	Unranked	Unranked
Voice Idol Audition	Unranked	Unranked
4th Anniversary Election	Unranked	Unranked
5th Anniversary Election	Unranked	Unranked
6th Anniversary Election	Unranked	Unranked
7th Anniversary Election	Unranked	Unranked
8th Anniversary Election	Unranked	Unranked
9th Anniversary Election	Not applicable	Unranked

Self-Introduction

"Hey, nice to meetcha! Introducing everyone's favorite idol, Erika-chan☆ Because I came to help, you're gonna have the strength of a hundred people☆ I wanna ease your nerves, so LEAVE-IT-TO-ERIKA☆"

Character Description

Erika is a wanna-be comedian who likes to laugh and make others laugh. Usually energetic and peppy, Erika has a strong sense of self-confidence. She is quirky and seems to live in a comedy routine, however she is actually a very responsible idol who takes her work seriously. Erika tends to emphasize the last word she says and her dialogue even has them written in Romaji rather than Hiragana, for example O-MA-KA-SE. She also adds a star “☆” to most of her sentences.

Her notable physical features include her hair (always styled into two braids) and the flower pin that she wears in almost every unawakened card.

In the tie in Cinderella Girls Theater skits, Erika is shown to have her lessons with Nagisa Aino and Sanae Katagiri. She participates in the group’s antics with Makino Yagami and Yuriko Ohnishi. She has gotten particularly close to Cathy Graham, as the two seems to work well in improvisation together. Forming a comedy unit, the duo is considered a rival unit against Suzuho Ueda and Emi Namba. This, however, is more of a healthy, non-serious rivalry (akin to that of Nagisa Aino and Kai Nishijima), since all four share the same hobby of entertaining people with comedy, in addition to Sora Nonomura and Miu Yaguchi. In fact, in the 6th Dream LIVE Festival, Erika participated with Emi as a duo named ERI☆EMI.

Game Discography

To view Erika's Cinderella Girls and Starlight Stage card quotes and data, click here.

Erika appears in the Events listed below:

THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls

Events
Event	Duration	Cards
Idol LIVE Tour in Bali	06/27/2013 - 07/10/2013
Idol Survival: Autumn's Large Athletic Meet	10/18/2013 - 10/29/2013
8th Production Opposition Talk Battle Show	01/23/2015 - 01/30/2015
Hell Performance: Melancholy Queen and Halloween Festival	10/21/2015 - 10/30/2015
Idol Variety: To The Sky Challenge ~Fly me to the Sky~	05/17/2016 - 05/25/2016
17th PuchiDerella Collection	02/23/2018 - 02/27/2018

THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage

Events
Event	Featured Song	Type	Duration	Cards
	N/A	Cinderella Road	09/11/2020 - 09/18/2020

Trivia and Fan Culture

Trivia

Erika shares the same birthday with Azuki Momoi.
Erika is the only initial idol to hail from Okayama, as well as the only unvoiced one. Other Cinderella Girls idols who share the same hometown are |Hajime and Yuuki Otokura.