Akane Kurokawa

"I gotta give it my all. Aqua did his best to make that video for me... And came to look for me in the middle of a storm. I was so happy. I need to show him my appreciation. I wonder if he'll be happy... If I play the part of his perfect girl?""

Akane Kurokawa (有馬かな) is an actress capable of playing personalities to a fault and has connections with the Lalalie Theater Group. A girl once quiet and faded into the background, now after a controversy surrounding her episodes in the reality dating show "LoveNow", acts a personality strikingly similar to Ai Hoshino. She plays the role of Aquamarine Hoshino's girlfriend but is a professional relationship.

Appearance
Akane sports a purplish hair color with blue highlights. Before her controversy, she didn't stand out according to LoveNow's audience; giving the sense that neither her personality nor looks were remarkable. However, after the fact, she began sporting a look akin to Ai Hoshino down to her facial expressions and eyes having her iconic stars.

Personality
Akane's true self is shy and quiet, not making her a good fit in a reality dating show. Even LoveNow's audience called her out on it, and thus, portrayed Ai Hoshino when taking Aqua's advice in playing a character. Being an excellent actress, she's capable of studying her character so intensely that she was able to have Aqua at her mercy by playing as his mother.

Story
Being a quiet and reserved girl, she signs up for the Reality Show "My love with a star begins now" along with other teenagers, including Aquamarine Hoshino, seeing that she does not stand out much in the program, she decides to develop a false enmity with Yuki Sumi, in an impulse of emotions, she ends up scratching her face to the model, who knows that Akane did not do it on purpose, but the viewers and internet users did not take it in a good way, and began to attack the young woman for hateful messages and flaming in the different social networks. It was when she reached a breaking point when she was about to jump off a bridge, fortunately Aqua and her co-workers were looking for her and avoided a terrible accident, after the near-incident, all her colleagues join together to raise a PV to the social networks of the program with different unpublished scenes which show the two involved in the problem being friends in order to avoid more hatred towards Akane and the Show.

Relationships
Aquamarine Hoshino: They develop a false relationship after being involved in the reality show and having shown a kiss scene in the final episode, although they have been seen together in various situations, as well as having helped her on the bridge or having directed the entire PV video that uploaded to the internet with his co-workers.

Yuki Sumi: Akane and Yuki were initially at odds during their early episodes in LoveNow, Yuki being competitive in stealing the show. However, after a misunderstanding and Akane nearly committing suicide, they worked together and became good friends; often joking about Akane's relationship with Aqua.

Kana Arima: Kana sees Akane as a rival, ever since witnessing her first kiss with Aqua. She holds this grudge to the point where she berates Aqua and calls him a "philandering cad." despite the two's relationship being purely professional.

Trivia

 * Akane's story arc seemed to reference the situation of Kana Himura, a Japanese Pro-Wrestler who commited suicide due to media pressure. Only this time, in Akane's case, she had friends who supported her and prevented her suicide attempt.