Natsuki Kimura
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Natsuki Kimura (木村夏樹 Kimura Natsuki) is one of the characters available in THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls and THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage. She is voiced by Kiyono Yasuno (安野希世乃 Yasuno Kiyono).
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 | Unranked | 21 |
| 4th Cinderella Girl General Election | Unranked | Unranked |
| 5th Cinderella Girl General Election | Unranked | Unranked |
| 6th Cinderella Girl General Election | Unranked | Unranked |
| 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 |
| Stage for Cinderella | Unranked | Not a candidate |
Biographies
THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Self-Introduction
"Yo! Are ya' Producer-san? I'm Natsuki. Even though I love rock, I love idols quite a bit as well. Maybe becoming a rock idol with a cute touch would be awesome, right? That's my aim!"
THE iDOLM@STER POPLINKS Profile Quote
"I'm Natsuki Kimura. My favorite music genre is rock. As an idol, I'll sing and do my best. Nice to meet ya, Producer-san!"
Character Description
Intense and passionate about music, Natsuki is a skilled guitarist aiming to become a rock idol. Natsuki intended to audition as a singer, but ended up in the idol division by mistake. Natsuki laughed when Producer tried to scout her as an idol, thinking she didn't have the right image but decided to try it out when she realized he was serious. Natsuki once mentioned that if her old friends heard she had become an idol, they would all be shocked.
While Natsuki is open about the fact that typical idol work and girly outfits aren't her usual style, she doesn't mind them and enjoys the challenge of stepping outside her comfort zone. Natsuki often says that no matter what clothes she's wearing or job she’s doing, her rockin’ soul will always be the same.
When asked to wear a maid outfit for idol work, Natsuki initially was hesitant. She decided to challenge Producer to a game of chess, agreeing to wear the outfit only if Producer was able to beat her. However, when Natsuki realized Producer was clearly going to lose, she secretly let him win, since she decided it was silly to give up work just because it wasn't what she was used to.
Natsuki dislikes showing weakness. During the "Idol Challenge for Two: Aim for A Cool Music Video" event, Natsuki struggled with designing the outfits she would wear for the shoot. While Natsuki initially denied she was having trouble, she eventually she asked for Producer’s help. Later in the event, Natsuki was very grateful to Producer for helping her behind the scenes and letting her keep up her cool facade around the other idols.
In Starlight Stage's Jet to the Future event, Natsuki revealed that she played guitar as a street performer during middle school. However, when the partner Natsuki performed with quit, she almost gave up on guitar for good. Natsuki's dislike of showing weakness was a key plot point in this event as well.
As they are both aiming to be rock idols, Natsuki is close friends and often shown together with Riina Tada. Natsuki's relationship with Riina could initially be described as that of a mentor, stemming from Riina admiring Natsuki and Natsuki helping Riina learn guitar, but over the years and across events in both the original game and Starlight Stage, it has developed into a close friendship built on trust and mutual respect.
Outside of playing guitar, Natsuki's hobby is riding her motorcycle. Her friends she likes to go riding with are Takumi Mukai, Rina Fujimoto, and Miyo Harada. Starlight Stage has also shown Natsuki to be close friends with Ryo Matsunaga.
While generally kind and easygoing, Natsuki has a playful side. Natsuki sometimes gets into silly arguments with Takumi, and they have a history of teasing each other when they have had to wear cute or unusual outfits as part of idol work. She has been known to play light-hearted pranks on Riina, like saying her signature hairstyle is just bedhead or making Riina think incriminating footage had been captured of her while playing hockey.
When she doesn't have her hair styled in her mohawk, it falls low enough to cover her eyes. Natsuki has stated that she doesn't wear her hair in her mohawk style at home, or on her days off. This can be seen in her “Rocking Lover” unawakened SR. Natsuki considers putting her hair up as a sort of “ritual” to help her get fired up. In several SR+ cards, and in her first two SSR models in Starlight Stage, Natsuki adds in red streaks to her hair.
Game Appearances
- To view Natsuki's Cinderella Girls and Starlight Stage card data, click here.
THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls
Natsuki first appeared on November 28th, 2011 as one of the initial idols in the game. Her basic card is Normal.
Natsuki appears in the Events listed below:
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| Idol Session | 4/16/2013 - 4/24/2013 |    
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| Fantasy Performance: Voyage of the Black Rose Princess | 4/8/2014 - 4/17/2014 |  
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| Production Talk Battle Show in SUMMER | 8/12/2014 - 8/19/2014 |  
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| Idol Produce: Kyoto (Rerun) | 7/17/2015 - 7/21/2015 |  
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| Idol Challenge for Two: Aiming for a Cool Music Video | 3/22/2017 - 3/30/2017 |   
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THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage
Natsuki appeared on September 3rd, 2015 as one of the initial idols in the game. Natsuki currently has four Memorial Commus that can be unlocked by raising her fan count. Natsuki stars in Story Commu 23, which unlocks Rockin' Emotion in the game. Natsuki also appears as a guest in the Story Commu for One Life (Story Commu 50).
Natsuki appears in the Events listed below:
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Junjou Midnight Densetsu | LIVE Groove | 5/31/2016 - 6/7/2016 | Not a featured card. |
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Jet to the Future | Token | 10/20/2016 - 10/27/2016 |  
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GIRLS in the FRONTIER | LIVE Groove | 8/31/2018 - 9/7/2018 |  
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Kuusou Tansa Keikaku | Token | 10/21/2019 - 10/28/2019 |  
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Harmonics | Token | 2/18/2021 - 2/25/2021 | Not a featured card. |
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EVERLASTING | LIVE Infinity | 11/18/2021 - 11/26/2021 | Not a featured card. |
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Sayonara Aloha | LIVE Groove | 7/30/2023 - 8/10/2023 | Not a featured card. |
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Mugen L∞P da LOVE♡ | LIVE Carnival | 8/30/2023 - 9/8/2023 | Not a featured card. |
Media Appearances
Song Discography
Recorded Solo Songs
Recorded Group Songs
Units and Costume Sets
Units
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| Unit Name | With (Members) | Origin | Debut | Date |
| Light Green Surf | Yoko Saito, Marina Sawada, Itsuki Manabe | Cinderella Girls | Initial Costume Set Unit | 11/28/2011 |
| Rock the Beat | Riina Tada | Cinderella Girls | Idol Session Event | 4/16/2013 |
| Hard Meteorites | Manami Kiba, Saki Yoshioka | Cinderella Girls | 4th Idol LIVE Royale Rival Unit | 3/19/2014 |
| Massive Riders | Takumi Mukai, Rina Fujimoto | Cinderella Girls | 6th Dream LIVE Festival Rival Unit | 3/31/2014 |
| Delightful Takumin and Friends | Takumi Mukai, Miyo Harada | Cinderella Girls | 9th Idol LIVE Royale Rival Unit | 1/9/2015 |
| L.R.S. (Love-Rock-Songs) | Kanna Ariura | Cinderella Girls | 11th Idol LIVE Royale Rival Unit | 3/24/2015 |
| Hardcore☆Up | Syoko Hoshi | Cinderella Girls | 15th Idol LIVE Royale Rival Unit | 12/10/2015 |
| Enjin | Takumi Mukai, Rina Fujimoto, Ryo Matsunaga, Aki Yamato | Starlight Stage | Junjou Midnight Densetsu Event | 5/31/2016 |
| Easy Noisy Riders | Takumi Mukai, Miyo Harada | Cinderella Girls | 23rd Dream LIVE Festival Rival Unit | 8/4/2016 |
| School Rock Gig | Seika Suzumiya, Layla | Cinderella Girls | 24th Dream LIVE Festival Rival Unit | 10/2/2016 |
| Hardcore☆Heaven's Door | Syoko Hoshi, Ryo Matsunaga | Cinderella Girls | 25th Dream LIVE Festival Rival Unit | 11/2/2016 |
| Extravagant Glory | Rena Hyodo, Sanae Katagiri, Chiaki Kurokawa | Cinderella Girls | 29th Dream LIVE Festival Rival Unit | 5/5/2017 |
| Estival Call | Chinatsu Aikawa, Natsumi Soma | Cinderella Girls | 24th Idol LIVE Royale Rival Unit | 7/11/2017 |
| Howling Desire | Rin Shibuya | Cinderella Girls | 25th Idol LIVE Royale Rival Unit | 8/23/2017 |
| Rockin' Lovely Heart | Riina Tada, Mary Cochran | Cinderella Girls | 33rd Dream LIVE Festival Rival Unit | 11/5/2017 |
| Memories of New Years | Sakura Muramatsu, Aiko Takamori, Tsubaki Egami, Kaoru Ryuzaki | Cinderella Girls | 35th Dream LIVE Festival Rival Unit | 1/5/2018 |
| Full Power! Sport's Day | Meiko Namiki, Yasuha Okazaki, Aya Kirino, Yuriko Ohnishi | Cinderella Girls | 37th Dream LIVE Festival Rival Unit | 5/5/2018 |
| * (Asterisk) with NatsuNana | Riina Tada, Miku Maekawa, Nana Abe | Cinderella Girls Anime | Extension of * (Asterisk) | |
Costume Sets
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Trivia and Fan Culture
Trivia
- In Starlight Stage, her image stat specialty is Vocal.
- It is rumored that Natsuki uses the guitar picks of famous bands as good luck charms.
- It is also rumored that Natsuki sometimes writes guitar arrangements for other idol's songs.
- August 19th, Natsuki's birthday, is Motorcycle Day in Japan, since 8/19 can be pronounced "BA-I-KU", the Japanese word for motorcycle. Considering her hobby, this is probably intentional.
- She also shares the same birthday with Saki Mizushima.
- Natsuki's motorcycle is a Suzuki GSX400S Katana. The fictional motorcycle brand it is given in-game is "YAIBA".
- Natsuki's guitar seems to be based off guitars from the Ibanez RG series. The Ibanez logo on the head is replaced with the word "Cinderella". Since Natsuki is left-handed, her guitar is a left-handed model.
- Despite still being a high school student, Natsuki lives on her own in an apartment.
- Natsuki refers to her guitar as her 相棒 (aibou), a word meaning "partner". She sometimes refers to Producer and Riina with this term as well.
- The lollipop Natsuki has in several of her cards is cola flavored.
- Natsuki is the only voiced Light Green Surf member so far.
- Natsuki shares the same hometown with Seira Mizuki, Yoriko Furusawa, and Ibuki Komatsu. As is the case of Light Green Surf, she is the only voiced Ibaraki idol in Cinderella Girls.
Fan Culture
- Natsuki is often called Natsukichi by fans. This is Riina Tada's nickname for her.
- In the Cinderella Girls 6th Anniversary Survey, which results were posted here, Natsuki came in first place in the "Idol You Think Is Handsome" category.
Character Gallery
| Animated Loading Characters | ||
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 [Rocking Lover] |
 [Gorgeous Night Prominence] |
 [Rocking Maid] |
 [Cinderella Dream] |
 [Neon Night Gig] |
 [Leaves' Vibration] |
| Cinderella Post Images | ||
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 August 12th, 2018at 3:17 P.M. |
 March 14th, 2019at 3:37 P.M. |
 March 22th, 2020at 3:32 P.M. |
 April 26th, 2021at 4:28 P.M. |
 July 6th, 2021at 6:54 P.M. |
 July 13th, 2022at 7:24 P.M. |
| Cinderella Girls Stickers | ||
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 "Be prepared!" |
 "Oh well…" |
 "Thank you!" |
| Starlight Stage Models | ||
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 [Starry Sky Bright] |
 [Across the Stars] |
 [Party Time Gold] |
 [Showtime Illusion] |
 [Deep Sky Blaze] |
 [Next Frontier] |
 [Cinderella Collection (Bright)] |
 [Cinderella Collection (Color)] |
Error creating thumbnail: Unable to save thumbnail to destination [Make My Trend] |
 [Live Dress ~Flame~] Enjin |
 [Zombie Heart] Adabana Necromancy |
 [Ribbon Blouse Date] |
 [Spacy☆Sweatdress] |
 [Emotional Beat] SSR |
 [FEEL SO FREE] SSR |
 [Glorious Ballad] SSR |
 [My Life, My Sounds] SSR |
 [Scarlet Love Song] SSR |
| Starlight Stage Renders | ||
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 [Emotional Beat] |
 [FEEL SO FREE] |
 [Glorious Ballad] |
 [My Life, My Sounds] |
 [Scarlet Love Song] | |
| Starlight Stage Sprites | ||
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Casual Outfit Sprite 01 |
190px Event Outfit Sprite 01 | |
| 190px Event Outfit Sprite 02 |
190px Event Outfit Sprite 03 | |
| Starlight Stage Card Cameos | ||
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| Starlight Stage SSR Cameos | ||
 [Your Devoted Prince] |
 [Precious Holy Night] | |
| Starlight Stage SR Cameos | ||
 [New Year Rocker] |
 [Junjou Midnight Densetsu] |
 [Junjou Midnight Densetsu]+ |
 [Jet to the Future]+ |
 [EVERLASTING]+ |
 [Sayonara Aloha] |
 [Sayonara Aloha]+ |
 [Mugen L∞P da LOVE♡] |
 [Mugen L∞P da LOVE♡] |
| Idol Produce: Kyoto Sprites | |
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 Expressions |
 Basic Outfit (Based off Natsuki's Normal card. Her skirt was changed to jeans.) |
 Live Outfit (Wonder goes on!!)
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 Live Outfit (Rockin' Emotion) |
 Casual Wear (Based off card [Rock With You].) |
 Casual Wear
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Starlight Stage's 3rd anniversary key visual.
Starlight Stage's 8th anniversary key visual.
Transparent from Starlight Stage's 8th anniversary key visual.
Starlight Stage's 3rd anniversary countdown illustration.
Starlight Stage's 7th anniversary countdown illustration.
Twitter Idol Birthday illustration (August).
Twitter Ibaraki Prefecture Tourism Ambassador campaign illustration.
Natsuki drawn by the Starlight Stage staff to celebrate Cinderella Girls 10th anniversary.
Cinderella Girls March 2017 calendar wallpaper.
WILD WIND GIRL clear file illustration.
WILD WIND GIRL clear file illustration.
Natsuki's profile in POPLINKS (Rocking Heartbeat).
Natsuki's profile in POPLINKS (Celestella Unison).
Cinderella Girls Mobile Game shutdown illustration.
Famitsu October 2018 Issue cover.
Cinderella Girls 10th anniversary T-Card illustration.
Animate 2022 collaboration.
Cards
Cinderella Girls Cards
[Natsuki Kimura]
[Natsuki Kimura]+
[School Uniform Collection]
[School Uniform Collection]+
[Rocking Style]
[Rocking Style]+
[New Years Collection]
[New Years Collection]+
[Rocking Session]
[Rocking Session]+
[Voyage Thief]
[Voyage Thief]+
[Rock With You]
[Rock With You]+
[Christmas Night]
[Christmas Night]+
[Summer Wind Sports]
[Summer Wind Sports]+
[Creative I.C.]+
[Wild Friends]
[Wild Friends]+
[Heartbeat Rocker]
[Heartbeat Rocker]+
[Rocking Lover]
[Rocking Lover]+
[Rugged Cheer]
[Rugged Cheer]+
[Gorgeous Night Prominence]
[Gorgeous Night Prominence]+
[Rocking Maid]
[Rocking Maid]+
[Benitoite Longing]
[Benitoite Longing]+
[Benitoite Longing S]
[Benitoite Longing S]+
[Cinderella Dream]
[Cinderella Dream]+
[Neon Night Gig]
[Neon Night Gig]+
[Leaves' Vibration]
[Leaves' Vibration]+
[Rock Mistress]
[Rock Mistress]+
[Emotional Beat]
[Emotional Beat]+
Starlight Stage Cards
SR cards
[Rocking Lover]
[Rocking Lover]+
[Jet to the Future]
[Jet to the Future]+
[Gorgeous Night Prominence]
[Gorgeous Night Prominence]+
[GIRLS in the FRONTIER]
[GIRLS in the FRONTIER]+
[Rocking Maid]
[Rocking Maid]+
[Kuusou Tansa Keikaku]
[Kuusou Tansa Keikaku]+
SSR cards
[Emotional Beat] May Limited
[Emotional Beat]+ May Limited
[FEEL SO FREE] Permanent
[FEEL SO FREE]+ Permanent
[Glorious Ballad] November Limited
[Glorious Ballad]+ November Limited
[My Life, My Sounds] Blanc Fes
[My Life, My Sounds]+ Blanc Fes
[Scarlet Love Song] February Limited
[Scarlet Love Song]+ February Limited
