Profile
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Birthday | March 4th |
| Voice Actress | Aki Toyosaki |
Overview
Aoi is a founding member of the Outdoor Exploration Club with Chiaki Oogaki. As she appears, she is a calm and gentle older sister who keeps Chiaki and Nadeshiko Kakamigahara in check when they tend to run off at a tangent.
She is friendly and respectful, and is portrayed as a sensible person among the generally active characters. She is the most studious of the three (Nadeshiko is the second and Chiaki is the third).
In both the main and back covers of the comics (the equivalent of “Heyacan△” in the anime version), she plays tricks on Nadeshiko and Chiaki with meaningless lies, and when discussing Christmas camp, she made Chiaki (and Aoi fans nationwide, who had increased in number with the anime version) stiffen up before her eyes with a crude and strong joke about “spending time with her boyfriend. (and Aoi fans all over the country, which has increased in the animated version) in front of her.
She is characterized by her double teeth and thick eyebrows like takuan (her appearance and behavior have often led people to cite the “keyboardist in some light music club,” but coincidentally, the person inside her is also an acquaintance of Aoi's in the anime version), and her eyebrows have such a strong presence that they are drawn on even over her hat without regard to their shape (they were even fully drawn in the figure version). The eyebrows are so strong that they are drawn on the top of her hat without any concern (they were also fully reproduced in the figure version).
Her grandmother Mineko, father Tatsuo, and sister Akari also have the same eyebrows, which seems to be a family trait (her mother is unknown).
She is one of the more studious of the field crew members and studies hard for tests.
She also has a magnificent mountain range.
Her younger sister Akari, who looks like a smaller version of her, calls her “Aoi-chan,” and the two sisters look alike when they say meaningless things with the same face.
She works as a cashier at a local supermarket (Chiaki works part-time at a liquor store adjacent to the supermarket) in order to earn money for her club's activities. In the anime version, they went for part-time job interviews on the same day as Chiaki, and a scene was added in which they were both hired. When Rin Shima and Nadeshiko stop by to prepare for the Shibireko camp, they see her working as a clerk.
The length of her relationship with Chiaki was added to the description in the anime version, and according to the sixth episode of “Heya Can (Can),” the first time they spoke was at a summer festival when they were in junior high school. Chiaki, who vaguely remembered her name, mistook her for “Aoyamainuko,” and for some reason she has been called “Inuko” ever since.
The back cover of the book contains a four-frame manga “Inu Inu Inuko-san” in which she plays the main role. According to the information given there, she is from Gifu Prefecture (joking), and in the fourth volume, she is from Yamanashi Prefecture (the face she makes when telling lies), so the roots of her Kansai dialect are a mystery.
Incidentally, the Kansai dialect intonation (Keihan-style accent) in Gifu Prefecture is found in a very small area around Tarui Town and Sekigahara Town. The surname “Inuyama” is a place in Aichi Prefecture, famous for Inuyama Castle, and is not a part of Gifu's Kakamigahara and Ogaki. In both the anime and drama versions, the actors who play Aoi are from non-Kansai areas (Toyosaki is from Tokushima, although she has lived in Osaka, and Yanai is from Fukushima).
In Yuru Camp △, she is an elementary school teacher, and seems to be the only one who lives at home while the other Nokuru members work far away from their parents' house.
Aside from the above
She is also a teacher at an elementary school.
According to Aoi
She was originally supposed to be named “Aoi Inuyama,” but just before submitting her birth certificate, her grandmother Mineko realized that “the name would be cut off in a strange place and read ‘Inu Wasabi’” and “the name was changed to ‘Aoi Inuyama’ in hiragana,” according to Aoi herself. Aoi herself says that her name was changed to “Inuyama Aoi” with hiragana. (Comics vol. 11, p. 162)
