Momoka Sakurai

Momoka Sakurai
Cinderella Girls Character Data
Name: 櫻井桃華 (Sakurai Momoka) Voice actor: 照井春佳 (Terui Haruka) Age: 12 Height: 145 cm Weight: 39 kg Birthday: April 8th Blood type: A Three sizes: 72-53-75 cm Handedness: Right Hobbies: Tea time Horoscope: Aries Hometown: Kobe Card Type: Image Color:
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Momoka Sakurai (Japanese: 櫻井桃華, Sakurai Momoka) is one of the characters available in THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls and THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage. She is voiced by Haruka Terui (Japanese: 照井春佳, Terui Haruka).

Biographies

THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Self Introduction

"I'm Sakurai Momoka. You have been looking at me peculiarly, nobody has looked at me like that before... ufu. What's on your mind? Please tell me. Hmm, so you want me to be an idol... well, that sounds like it could be a lot of fun!"

THE IDOLM@STER ALL IDOL CATALOG 2005-2016

Sorry for waiting! Momoka is here!
A young lady who aspires to become a proper lady. She is a confident and reserved, sometimes using the Producer as a joke. On the other hand, she understands that she is a young girl and tries to grow up one step at a time.

THE iDOLM@STER POPLINKS Profile Quote

I'm Momoka Sakurai. What are you planning to do with these many idols? ...My♪ That sounds interesting, but...

Character Description

Momoka is a young, elegant girl from a wealthy family. Due to her princess-like demeanor, she has a lady-like aura surrounding her. While Momoka tries to act older than she is, she is still a just a young girl and enjoys things others her age enjoy. Despite insisting she be treated like a lady, she uses the childish honorific "-chama" when addressing the Producer. Momoka enjoys tea parties and takes them very seriously, inviting many of the idols to partake in them with her, especially when it comes to similarly elegant ladies such as Otoha and Yukino. Her favorite tea and drink is Rose Hip tea. She even has a flowery, rose motif, wearing many frilly flowery casual and stage outfits.

She enjoys teasing Nao, as she notes Nao chooses her clothes and costumes with the Producer in mind. Momoka also really likes the glasses Haruna gave her and enjoys selecting kimonos with friends. She holds the Producer in very high regard and shows that she will put herself on the line in order to show him that she cares about him.

Momoka is close friends with Arisu, starting from the Near to You event commu in Starlight Stage. Being the twelve-year-old Hyogo idols, both of them view each other as rivals, duking out who's the leader for the song (which belongs to Sanae instead). After a numerous battle lessons, during the festival, Momoka thinks that Arisu is not just as a worthy rival, but also a dear friend with the same vision of becoming a better person. Ever since the Near to You event commu ended, Momoka will occasionally be seen with Arisu, both encouraging Nina face to face in order to come back as an idol after her father's departure, as well as going to the party to meet Fumika in the ending of the Illusionista! event commu.

Deremail Questions
Originally posted 10/13/2021. Translation source.
Momoka: Good evening to all of you. Today, I will be answering the questions you sent to us.
Question: If you were able to turn into your adult self 10 years from now for a day, what would you do, Momoka-chan?
Momoka: I believe that I would have grown 20cm taller. I would like to wear a grown-up dress and be the hostess of a party. #DereMail
Momoka: Then, I would want to have a drink some wine with my parents and enjoy the foods for the grown-up palate such as those spicy and bitter ones.
Momoka: And most of all, staying up late at night. My grown-up self would be able to do it. I would read a book while gazing at the moon.
Momoka: There are so many things that I would like to do that I have ended up talking for so long. I will now proceed to the next question!
Question: Your wink is wonderful, Momoka-chan but did your winking come naturally to you? Or did you practice for it?
Momoka: Thank you so much for always watching me. Yes, winking did not come naturally to me. #DereMail
Momoka: I have been doing my best each day to become even more adorable in order to better suit these lovely dresses.
Question: I don't really drink tea because of its bitter taste. Is there a way to make it easier to drink?
Momoka: How about you first try tea with milk? The tea leaves and the brewing time also affect the tartness, so starting with the mildest kind of tea leaves is also a good option.
Momoka: I believe that once you get used to the taste, you could slowly lessen the amount of sugar and milk, then even be able to drink tea plain in time!
Momoka: I used to add some sweetness to my cup of rose hip tea at first too.
Momoka: That would be all from me today. However, I would love to answer more of your questions again. Until then, have a nice day!

Game Discography

Momoka appears in the Events listed below:

THE iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls

Events
Event	Duration	Cards

THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage

Events
Event	Featured Song	Type	Duration	Cards
	Hi-Fi☆Days	LIVE Groove	03/31/2016 - 04/07/2016	Not a featured card.
	Ashita Mata Aeru yo ne	Token	05/19/2016 - 05/27/2016
	Near to You	Token	08/19/2016 - 08/27/2016	Not a featured card.
	Yes! Party Time!!	Token	06/19/2017 - 06/26/2017
	Kira! Mankai Smile	Token	03/20/2018 - 03/28/2018
	Doremi Factory!	LIVE Parade	09/30/2018 - 10/08/2018
	THE VILLAIN'S NIGHT	Token	10/20/2020 - 10/28/2020
	White again	LIVE Groove	02/27/2021 - 03/08/2021	Not a featured card.
	Ikenai GO AHEAD	Token	04/19/2021 - 04/27/2021	Not a featured card.

Trivia and Fan Culture

Trivia

• Momoka is voiced as of the seventeenth episode of the anime, first aired on August 8th, 2015, as a surprise cameo voice idol.
• Momoka is considered to be the office's official "tsukkomi" character, according to the Hi-Fi☆Days event commu.
• Momoka shares the same birthday with Ranko Kanzaki and Aya Kirino.
• Momoka has two puppies first shown in Cinderella Girls' [Rose-Colored Bride] unawakened SR, and they also appear in Starlight Stage's [Fresh Spring Nostalgia] SSR; their names are Françoise and Catherine.
• Every Momoka's image song has a title that is a homage to works of French singing icon Édith Piaf.
  • La Vie en Rose's song title is a reference to La Vie en rose, written by Piaf in 1945.
  • Ai no Sanka's song title is a reference to Hymne à l'amour, also known in Japan as "Ai no Sanka", written by Piaf in 1950.
• Momoka is the only Hyogo idol that explicitly states a specific city (Kobe, which is the capital city of Hyogo) instead of just the prefecture in her profile's hometown section.
• The kanji "桃" (momo) in Momoka's given name means peach, and Momoka is the "peach" representative of MomoPearBerry, a tricolor unit consisting of fellow 12-year-old idols Risa (pear) and Arisu (strawberry).
  • Momoka is the first idol in which her given name starts with "Momo-", sharing this trait with Momoko Suou and Momohito Hanazono.
• Momoka is the only Little Marching Band Girls member who has yet to receive her proper card set in the original Cinderella Girls, despite of her appearing in Starlight Stage version of the unit. As such, her marching band role is unknown.
• In the U149 manga, instead of addressing the Producer with the honorific "-chama", Momoka either calls him "Producer" without any honorific or uses the "-san" honorific when referring to him.

Fan Culture

• Because Momoka uses the honorific -chama to address the Producer, she is often called "Momoka-chama" or "Chama" by fans.

Character Gallery

Animated LINE Stickers

Animated Loading Characters

Cingeki Promotional Art

Cinderella Post Images
July 15th, 2018 at 5:09 P.M.	November 22nd, 2018 at 2:53 P.M.	June 4th, 2019 at 4:15 P.M.
August 13th, 2020 at 4:45 P.M.	September 26th, 2020 at 3:16 P.M.	July 22nd, 2021 at 1:22 P.M.

Cinderella Girls Stickers

Starlight Stage Models
[Rose Fleur] SSR	[Dear My Lady] SSR	[Innocent White] SSR	[Black Roses Blooming In The Evening] SSR
[Fresh Spring Nostalgia] SSR	[Marching ☆ Melodies] L.M.B.G

Starlight Stage Renders
[Rose Fleur]	[Dear My Lady]	[Innocent White]
[Black Roses Blooming In The Evening]	[Fresh Spring Nostalgia]	[Eternal Love Requiem]

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  Countdown Art for Starlight Stage's 3rd Anniversary.

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  Momoka's profile in POPLINKS (Innocent Rose).

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  Momoka's profile in POPLINKS (Celestella Unison).

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  Momoka in the anime with Kaoru Ryuzaki and Chie Sasaki.

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  Momoka in Dice DE Cinderella.

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  Starlight Stage Sticker

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  Momoka’s Chibi Art drawn by the Starlight Stage staff to celebrate Cinderella Girls’ 10th anniversary.

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  Momoka in the 2016 Lawson Collaboration.

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  Momoka in the Sweets Paradise Collab Cafe.

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  Twitter birthday illustration.

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  Twitter Hyogo Prefecture tourism ambassador campaign illustration.

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  Momoka featured in a visual for the U149 anime.

Cards

THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Cards

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  [Momoka Sakurai]

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  [Momoka Sakurai]+

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  [Fairytale & Gothic]

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  [Fairytale & Gothic]+

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  [New Year's Greeting Kagura Dance]

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  [New Year's Greeting Kagura Dance]+

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  [Rose-colored Princess]

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  [Rose-colored Princess]+

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  [Gorgeous Folliage]

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  [Gorgeous Folliage]+

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  [Rose-Colored Bride]

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  [Rose-Colored Bride]+

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  [Mademoiselle Rose]

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  [Mademoiselle Rose]+

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  [Valentine Sweets]

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  [Valentine Sweets]+

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  [Open Heart]

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  [Open Heart]+

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  [CD Debut]

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  [CD Debut]+

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  [4th Anniversary]

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  [4th Anniversary]+

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  [4th Anniversary･S]

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  [4th Anniversary･S]+

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  [Summer Mademoiselle]

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  [Summer Mademoiselle]+

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  [One Summer Flower]

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  [One Summer Flower]+

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  [Pleasure of Cotton Snow]

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  [Pleasure of Cotton Snow]+

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  [Afternoon Rose]

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  [Afternoon Rose]+

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  [Immortal Blossom]

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  [Immortal Blossom]+

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  [Blooming Shine]

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  [Blooming Shine]+

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  [For You]

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  [For You]+

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  [Lights of the Holy City]

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  [Lights of the Holy City]+

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  [Waterside Flowers]

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  [Waterside Flowers]+

THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage Cards

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  [Rose-colored Princess]

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  [Rose-colored Princess]+

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  [Ashita Mata Aeru Yo Ne]

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  [Ashita Mata Aeru Yo Ne]+

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  [Yes! Party Time!!]

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  [Yes! Party Time!!]+

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  [Kira! Mankai Smile]

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  [Kira! Mankai Smile]+

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  [Doremi Factory!]

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  [Doremi Factory!]+

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  [THE VILLAIN'S NIGHT]

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  [THE VILLAIN'S NIGHT]+

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  [Rose Fleur]

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  [Rose Fleur]+

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  [Dear My Lady]

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  [Dear My Lady]+

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  [Innocent White]

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  [Innocent White]+

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  [Black Roses Blooming In The Evening]

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  [Black Roses Blooming In The Evening]+

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  [Fresh Spring Nostalgia]

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  [Fresh Spring Nostalgia]+

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  [Eternal Love Requiem]

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  [Eternal Love Requiem]+