Ai Hoshino

"I have always been bad at loving"

- Ai Hoshino

Ai Hoshino is the leading idol of B-Komachi, an idol group affiliated with Strawberry Productions.

Appearance
Ai Hoshino is a beautiful girl with a star in each of her eyes. She is shown to have brownish-red hair on first chapter cover but is shown to have more of a blue-purpleish hair color on the volume cover.

Personality
Ai is shown to be quite joyful and always smiling even as she died. She claims that lying is a form of love but she didn't want to lie to her children about her loving them and was happy when she said it without lying. She also has an open minded personality (as stated by Gorou in chapter 1)

Story
Backstory:  Ai Hoshino's mom was arrested for theft when she was at a very tender age. She was the only parent Ai knew so when she was thrown behind bars, Hoshino had to go live in an orphanage for the period she served her jailtime. However, when she was released, she didn't come back to the orphanage to pick her daughter up. That's why she had to stay in the orphanage and grow up within its walls. But when Ai became twelve, the president of Strawberry Productions scouted her out and offered her a job as an idol. At the time, she thought she wasn't fit for the job since she never knew how to love and how to be loved. Nevertheless, the president managed to convince her by explaining to her that she didn't need to know and that lying can work just as well. He gave her hope - that she would be able to turn that lie into truth. What followed was 4 successful years as the face of the popular idol group, B-Komachi.

Main Story:  At the age of 16, Ai gets pregnant with twins. After hearing her manager say that the world would not be for an idol with babies at the age of 16, she decided to keep her kids a secret from the outside world instead of completely getting rid of them, since she wanted to experience what a family is like. She managed to accomplish that feat to a certain extent as besides doing a fantastic job as the lead idol for B-Komachi, she even succeeded as an actor for a short while. She was peaking at the age of 20 without being so clumsy as to let the cat out of the bag. However, she couldn't fool one of her followers who eventually found out about it (speculated by the older twin, Aquamarine Hoshino, to be the result of an information leak (by their biological father) and killed her for "betraying her fans".

Relationships

 * Aquamarine Hoshino: Hoshino Ai's child. Hoshino Aquamarine is the older of the twins she gave birth to.
 * Ruby Hoshino: Hoshino Ai's child. Hoshino Ruby is the younger of the twins she gave birth to.

Trivia

 * She has two stars in her eyes compared to her children who only have one each (Aqua has one in his right eye and Ruby has one in her left)