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"I wanted my family and Mamoru to see our concert."
—Yuka in Episode 13.
Yuka Ichijou
Yuka by ChiAri

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Japanese Name 一条友歌 (いちじょう ゆか)
Romanized Name Ichijo Yuka
English Name Yuka Ichijo
Statistics
Age 14
Birthday April 7th
Height 147.5 cm
Homeworld Lancastar
First Appearance
Debut Episode 1 - Uneraseable Dream
Voice Actress/Actor
Japanese Voice Amina Sato
English Voice Monica Rial

Yuka Ichijou is one of the main characters of the AKB0048 series. She is also one of the AKB0048's trainees.

Appearance[]

Yuka has long blonde hair tied into two pigtails and caramel-orange eyes. Like all the AKB0048's trainees, she has a heart-shaped lining in her hair and eyes.

Personality[]

Throughout the series Yuka is shown to be a relatively smart and intelligent girl with a short temper. She gets angry easily, but is loyal to her friends and is friendly and caring when she's in a good mood. She is strongly hinted to be in love with Mamoru. Yuka is strong willed and mature, and despite her temper sometimes, she is still willing to help her teammates.

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Plot[]

Early Life[]

Yuka Ichijou was born on Lancastar, a planet with no entertainment. Her family runs a food stall where Yuuka usually helps out and she had a fulfilling childhood, both her parents were fans of AKB0048 and she has a brother and sister who often she takes care of when her parents weren’t around. At one point she would become friends with Nagisa and Orine.

One summer day when Yuka was around 10 years old when she, Orine, and Nagisa going to buy burgers, they met a girl their age named Chieri who was having trouble buying burgers so they offered to buy it for her. They then sat and ate burgers by the river while introducing themselves to their new friend. With Chieri as their new friend, they do lots of fun things like playing in the river in their summer. Chieri even bring them to watch something called 'entertainment'. Chieri then takes them to an abandoned mine even though they have to struggle first to crawl through the culverts which are the secret access to the mine, Yuka then gave Chieri and Nagisa a drink after they made it through the sewers and arrived at that abandoned mine. A few moments later a sound called 'music' signaling the arrival of 00 was heard and they excitedly came out to see it, and that's the time when Yuka saw her first 00 concert. She also vowed to become member of 00 together with Nagisa, Chieri, and Orine.

First Season[]

Yuka has become a junior high school student and attends the same school as Nagisa four years later. During class, instead of listening to the lesson seriously, she instead played with her cellphone and covered it with a book. And all of a sudden, out of a whim, Yuka gets the 77th generation audition announcement from AKB0048 and shows it to Nagisa which makes her scream in class.

Yuuka then informed Orine who still working at the factory about this news via text message. They then gathered in a quiet place to see the procedures and details regarding the 77th generation audition. The three of them declare that they will audition to join AKB0048 and film their audition tapes in the hills.

Later, whilst walking home with Orine and Nagisa, Yuka spots her boyfriend, Mamoru, walking just ahead of them. She runs up to him and they begin to chat. Later that evening, as Nagisa is taking a walk to clear her thoughts, she spots Yuka and Mamoru arguing in the park. Yuka slaps him before he tells her that he loves her, embarrassing her. He says that he won't be able to love her if she becomes an idol. A furious Yuka says she won't give him an autograph when she becomes an idol and storms away.

The next day, on the road, Yuka tells Nagisa and Orine she has received an answer from AKB0048 in which it said that all three have passed the auditions. Orine and Yuka are happy about the news. Nagisa, however, seems sad. She tells them that she won't join them because of her father, which causes Yuka to yell at her for being such a scaredy cat. Yuka and Orine find Nagisa "asleep" outside near a mining operation. Yuka covers her with her overcoat so Nagisa won't catch a cold.

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Orine and Yuka as AKB0048 member in Nagisa's fantasy.

The next day, Orine and Yuka board an airplane and while the airplane begins its flight, they see Nagisa who follows the airplane, which indicates that she decided to join them after all. Orine and Yuka manage to bring Nagisa on-board right before the airplane leaves Lancastar.

Later, in the selection round of auditions, she is seen carrying an unconscious Sonata on her back and shouting over to Orine (presumably asking her for bandages, as she is holding some and wrapping them around Makoto's leg). After the battle, which was revealed to be a simulation on an Entertainment Protection Sphere (or at least, non Entertainment Ban planet), she is accepted as one of the 77th Generation trainees of AKB0048.

Before the Lancastar understudy concert, she sends messages to both Mamoru and her parents. The former replies with a somewhat harsh-sounding warning not to come back. Initially, this makes Yuka sad, but when she discovers that he is, in fact, a WOTA member, she is relieved and even mildly joyous over the fact that he researched AKB after she left and became a fan. When Nagisa declares her desire to rescue her father, Yuka is one of the first to support her and decides to work with the WOTA members to distract the DGTO guards.

Season 2[]

In the last episode, Yuka falls off her flying stand when an explosion causes her to lose balance. She falls and Mamoru catches her and they share a moment of happiness and rejoicing. Their love reaches a climax here; however, she is unable to embrace or kiss him and resolves to just hold his hand while continuing to sing in a shaky voice as a promise to him. She then soon flies off to rejoin the other members.

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Trivia[]

  • Yuka is one of the 00 members who have their own Kirara.
  • In Episode 1, she stated that she want to succeed Mariko Shinoda.
  • She is the only character in AKB0048 who has a love interest.
  • Yuka is similar to Usagi from Sailor Moon in the sense that they both have long blond hair in two pigtails that thin out in length, and that both of their love interests have the name Mamoru.
  • She has two younger siblings. They are both seen in Episode 12, Episode 13, Episode 17, and Episode 23.
  • Ichijo, her last name, means help.
  • She has a similar appearance to Cure Sunshine from Heartcatch Pretty Cure.
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