Hina Araki

Hina Araki
Cinderella Girls Character Data
Name:	荒木比奈 (Araki Hina)
Voice actor:	田辺留依 (Tanabe Rui)
Age:	20
Height:	157 cm
Weight:	43 kg
Birthday:	April 9th
Blood type:	A
Three sizes:	83-57-82 cm
Handedness:	Right
Hobbies:	Drawing Manga
Horoscope:	Aries
Hometown:	Kanagawa
Card Type:
Image Color:
Autograph

Hina Araki (Japanese: 荒木比奈, Araki Hina) is one of the characters available in THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls and THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage. Her basic card is Normal. She is voiced by Rui Tanabe (Japanese: 田辺留依, Tanabe Rui).

Statistics

Annual Rankings

Event	Prelim Rank	Final Rank
1st Cinderella Girl General Election	Unranked	Unranked
2nd Cinderella Girl General Election	Unranked	Unranked
3rd Cinderella Girl General Election	Unranked	Unranked
4th Anniversary Voice Idol Audition	15	13
4th Cinderella Girl General Election	Unranked	48
5th Cinderella Girl General Election	Unranked	21
6th Cinderella Girl General Election	4	4
7th Cinderella Girl General Election	Unranked	Unranked
8th Cinderella Girl General Election	Unranked	Unranked
9th Cinderella Girl General Election	Not applicable	Unranked
10th Cinderella Girl General Election	Not applicable	Unranked

Self-Introduction

"Me as an idol~? No way, someone like me is just fine not living in that brilliant world, so it's fine... I kinda hate glitzy things too, so it's fine... Really..."

Character Description

A somewhat unkempt and indoorsy otaku type who likes to draw manga, Hina is initially very doubtful that she can become a cute idol. She seems to be the kind of person who hates deadlines, often frantically adjusting her manga schedule at the last second.

In the tie-in Cinderella Girls Theater skits, Hina is first seen preparing for a live event. She planned on taking off her glasses and putting on contacts, a symbol of leaving her otaku self behind, but is forced into wearing another set Haruna Kamijo made specifically for the event. She is a kind person, as she can be seen with other idols leaving present for Yukimi Sajo on Christmas Eve. Due to their laid-back natures, she gets along with Anzu Futaba. Hina seems to enjoy swimming and playing in the water.

Deremail Questions
Originally posted 08/21/2021. Translation source.
Hina: Hi. Araki Hina here. I'm going to answer some DereMails. I'll be taking this session slowly so I hope to enjoy this too.
Question: Was there a time when you thought to yourself “This manga I'm drawing seems boring!?!”? If so, what do you do in times like that?
Hina: ”This went well! I might be a genius!” -> “Now that I take a good look at it, it isn't that good” and goes back again. And I want to make it better. #DereMail
Hina: When that happens, first I pat myself on the back for completing. And that's just fine, right?
Hina: And so I give praise to myself! “You were great drawing this manga! Well done!”
Question: When at a bookstore... if I were to stay there for long, I end up buying some. Which one do you prefer, Araki-san, online or actual?
Hina: I know... I really know how you feel. Trying to assess which book to get could easily go for 30 minutes, right? #DereMail
Hina: Both of them have their merits. You can definitely stumble upon new books at an actual bookstore. And the smell of the paper and ink are just great.
Hina: However, when you're looking for something more specific or more specialized, it's best to go online. Well, each of them has their uses.
Question: How many days before the deadline do you go “Oh no, it's almost time, this is bad”?
Hina: F-Fufufufu... #DereMail
Hina: That time right after the normal; deadline and you're in the extension is when the real battle starts, right?
Question: How's the work doing?
Hina: Ugh, my head... #DereMail
Hina: I-I guess that will be it for today?
Hina: It'd make me happy if you send in questions. With that said, thanks.

Game Discography

THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage

Hina appears in the Events listed below:

Events
Event	Featured Song	Type	Duration	Cards
	N/A	LIVE Party	08/12/2016 - 08/17/2016
	Koi ga Saku Kisetsu	LIVE Parade	11/30/2017 - 12/09/2017	Not a featured card.
	always	LIVE Parade	01/31/2018 - 02/08/2018
	Needle Light	Token	02/19/2019 - 02/25/2019
	Otaku is LOVE!	LIVE Parade	04/30/2020 - 05/07/2020
	Kimi no Stage Ishou, Hontou wa…	Token	01/21/2021 - 01/28/2021

Song Discography

Recorded Solo Songs
Song	Classification	CD
Otaku is LOVE!	Hina Solo Ver.	THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS STARLIGHT MASTER for the NEXT! 09 Otaku is LOVE!
Utakata no Aeon	Image Song	THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS LITTLE STARS EXTRA! Life is HaRMONY

Recorded Group Songs
Song	CD	Sung With
Koi ga Saku Kisetsu	THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA MASTER Koi ga Saku Kisetsu	Kaede Takagaki, Mio Honda, Hajime Fujiwara, Yuzu Kitami, Mayu Sakuma, Tomoe Murakami, Hiromi Seki, and Chieri Ogata
always	THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA MASTER Koi ga Saku Kisetsu	Kaede Takagaki, Mio Honda, Hajime Fujiwara, Yuzu Kitami
Flip Flop ～For SS3A Rearrange Mix～	THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS STARLIGHT MASTER 21 Kawaii make MY day!	Haruna Kamijo
Mirror Ball Love	THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA MASTER 3Chord for the Dance!	Frederica Miyamoto, Shizuku Oikawa, Yuki Himekawa, and Atsumi Munakata
Needle Light	THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS STARLIGHT MASTER 37 Needle Light	Haruna Kamijo
Otaku is LOVE!	THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS STARLIGHT MASTER for the NEXT! 09 Otaku is LOVE!	Nao Kamiya and Nana Abe
Kimi no Stage Ishou, Hontou wa…	THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS LITTLE STARS EXTRA! Kimi no Stage Ishou, Hontou wa…	Kanade Hayami, Yukimi Sajo, Chiyo Shirayuki, and Risa Matoba

Trivia and Fan Culture

Trivia

Hina is voiced as of October 19th, 2017 through [Starting Blue] SR card in the original Mobage game, as a result of placing fourth overall in the 6th Cinderella Girl General Election.
Hina's surname may be a reference to the famous manga-ka Hirohiko Araki, who produced the famous and long running Jojo's Bizarre Adventure series. Fans also like to call her "Araki-sensei", just like he is called by his fans.
She ends her sentences with "~ッス" or "~ssu" in Japanese, which is considered somewhat of a masculine verbal tic.
In Starlight Stage, her image stat specialty is either Dance or Visual, depending on the card.
She is shown to wear a track jacket on her unidolized basic card and over her shoulders in other unidolized cards. This is due to tracksuits being commonly associated with neets (shut-ins) such as Hina herself in Japanese media.
According to her 2017 Idol Introduction, the idols she think could be a protagonist of a manga are Asuka Ninomiya, Akane Hino, Chika Yokoyama, Kana Imai, and Hikaru Nanjo.
According to her 2018 Idol Introduction, the idols she thinks could have a special power are Noa Takamine, Mirei Hayasaka, Hitomi Niwa, Aiko Takamori, Tomo Fujii.