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 (黒川 あかね, Kurokawa Akane) 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the near-incident, all her colleagues join together to raise a PV to the social networks of the program with different unpublished scenes which show the two involved in the problem being friends in order to avoid more hatred towards Akane and the Show.

Trivia

 * Akane's story arc seemed to reference the situation of Kana Himura, a Japanese Pro-Wrestler who committed suicide due to media pressure. Only this time, in Akane's case, she had friends who supported her and prevented her suicide attempt.
 * Akane is one of the few to know the twins relationship to Ai Hoshino.