Biography
Name and Meaning
Yura Minami. Her first name is written with the kanji meaning "To connect" and "star". Her surname is written with the kani meaning "snake wave".
Her stage name is YURA.
Age and Birthday
17, May 14th
Appearance
She has blue eyes, black hair with forelocks over her chest and the rest of her hair is done in ponytails tied with white bows. She has a pale complexion and stands at 5'4.9".
Nationality
Japanese
Ethnicity
Japanese
Personality
Yura is clever and endures challenges with fierceness. She loves getting gifts from her fans and works hard to achieve her goals. On the surface, she seems to be calm but has a lot of passion internally. Yura is charming and often has a smile on her face. She trusts her own intuition and has a lot of self-confidence. Due to her job as an idol, she doesn’t have many friends, but she values her true friendships dearly.
Mottos
“Charming and clever.”
Sexual Preferences
Biromantic / bisexual
Likes
Her favorite food is seaweed ramen.
Dislikes
Immature people
Hobbies
Aside from basketball, her hobbies are singing and dancing. On her free time, she does photography.
Specialties
Aside from being a talented idol ranked at #9 in popularity, she is an amazing singer and dancer. Before being demoted to a bench player, she was the small forward on Kaijō High's girls' basketball team. Her best basketball skill is doing drives.
She can speak Japanese, English, Korean, Mandarin.
Committees
N/A as she is an idol.
Background
Yura’s father, Yutaka is a violinist who is part of an orchestra while her mother, Atsusa, was a homemaker. In 3rd grade, she was enrolled in Mini-Basketball after Yutaka heard from the conductor of his orchestra, Hoshi Umino, that his daughter was in basketball, and he did the same with Yura as he wanted her to be engaged in something instead from being at home often. She liked the sport and befriended Hoshi Umino’s daughter, Aimi Umino. Like her father, she also had a passion for music, and she often imitated idols on TV and wanted to be one. After having a lengthy discussion with her parents, she auditioned to be an idol then successfully debuted at the age of 12 under the entertainment company, Kanagawa Poker. She attended Kanagawa Junior High with Aimi and was the small forward on the girls’ basketball team while juggling her occupation as an idol. 5 years later, she attended Kaijō High while still being active as an idol and her popularity has her ranked in 9th place.
Relationships
Family
her parents — Yutaka and Atsusa Minami
Friends
Aimi Umino aka Sailor Laomedeia
The two of them have been childhood friends since the third grade due to Yura’s father, Yutaka, enrolling her in the same Mini-Basketball program. Their fathers started to get to know one another better since they were also friendly with one another. They attended the same junior high school and high school and were on the schools’ basketball teams with one another. Aimi proudly declares herself to be Yura’s #1 fan. However, it is hard for them to spend time together aside from class and team obligations at times since Yura is usually receptive to her fans and has idol duties but usually invites her basketball team to her concerts and gives them free passes. Aimi was worried about Yura after she lost her place on the team, but she was glad to see her friend had accepted the situation gracefully and continued to support their team.
Umiko Kaisei aka Sailor Thalassa
Yura refers to Umiko as “Umiko-san” since Umiko is a year older. Aimi has introduced Yura to Umiko while holding a playdate for all three of them to hang out. Yura admired Umiko’s maturity and style and Umiko liked Yura’s charming nature. They attended the same junior high and high school and were on the schools’ basketball teams with one another aside from team obligations since Yura usually is receptive to her fans and she has her duties as an idol, but Yura always gives free passes to her concerts. Umiko apologized to her after she had lost her regular position on Kaijō’s girls’ basketball team but was glad to see her friend had accepted the situation gracefully and continued to support the team.
Rivals
Mamiring
Yura thinks Mamiring is a rank higher than her in popularity as an idol simply because she doesn’t attend school and is licensed under a Tokyo entertainment company because she thinks of herself as more beautiful while Mamirin comes off as the immature, cutesy type.
Ciel Kanahisa aka Sailor Cressida
Yura unfortunately lost her spot as a regular and the small forward of Kaijō High’s girls’ basketball team to Ciel. As painful as it was for her to admit it out loud, Ciel is the faster and stronger small forward. Yura was surprised that Ciel apologized to her for usurping her position then her eyes had a determined look for explaining that she had no choice but to do it to fulfill a promise to her former teammates. She appreciated Ciel’s apology and still practiced with the team and cheered them on from the bench when she was able to.
Love Interests
N/A
Player She Has Her Eyes On
N/A
Past Life
N/A
Stats
Stats
Physical ability: 7/10
Technique: 8/10
Stamina: 7/10
Mental strength: 8/10
Special ability: 5/10
Lei Motif
N/A
Miscellaneous
Inspirations
To my regret, I wasn't able to have Sailor Senshi based on the Eastern Zodiac so I want to include 12 civilian characters in Senshi no Basuke that allude to those twelve animals. Yura is based on the snake so she has traits of the snake person and thanks to Hindustan Times which equated Taurus with the snake for helping me describe her personality traits. I never had an idol original character so I decided the occupation would work for her. Thanks to this thread on hallyuplus which helped me with her debut age. A snake person's lucky numbers are 2,8,9. I thought it was too presumptuous to have my original character in second place for popularity and Mamiring is canonically in 8th place. I'm more biased for my original character as I thought Yura is prettier so I had Yura develop some bias against Mamiring being a rank higher than her. Kanagawa Poker is the name of a real entertainment agency. While I was reading Tenshi Nanka Ja Nai by Ai Yazawa, seaweed ramen was mentioned so I decided that would be her favorite food. Her appearance and height is inspired by the Blue-lipped sea krait as they can be up to 4.9 inches in length. Ariiso Miyuu's stage name MIYUU helped me figure out Yura's stage name.