Aira Harune

Aira Harune (春音 あいら, Harune Aira) is the main protagonist of Pretty Rhythm: Aurora Dream.

Appearance
Aira has long, wavy, bright, red hair and round, sparkling, red eyes. When performing, she usually styles her hair into a high side-ponytail depending on her outfit. She wears pale or light-colored clothing most of the time, especially pink, but shines in many different outfits; although she prefers to wear clothing that are cute.

In Pretty Rhythm: Dear My Future, Aira is much taller. Her hair has grown longer and is more straight, and often ties it into a side ponytail with a beaded hair tie.

Personality
Aira is kind to most anyone she meets, never really disliking anyone, although she may be bad-mouthed. She is quite shy, and many times, cannot stand up for herself or say what she wants. Even though she seems like quite a fragile girl, she is in fact very strong, willing to overcome countless obstacles for her friends and the people around her. The entire reason she wants to continue being a Prism Star by the end of the story is to bring smiles to people's faces and give them dreams.

Shō
Shou and Aira are in love. At first, Shou only flirted with her because of his playboyish personality, but in fact, he had interest in her from the start. However, due to the scar from the divorce of his parents, he could not bear to bring himself closer to her as a lover, as he believed that "love is the most beautiful when there is distance", because feelings would fade if they got closer to each other. However, he erased this philosophy when he jumped headfirst and no lifeline to save her as she fell into an inferno during the Road to Symphonia. He told her that even if they fought sometimes, he would always embrace and love her when she turned away from him. Both admit their feelings for each other at this point.

When Shou invites Aira to move with him to New York to continue fashion design and live with him, Aira chooses to go with him and spend her life with him. The two can be seen walking through New York together in Dear My Future's ending. In the future, the two have been shown to still be together and designing together. In the Pretty Rhythm Movie, Penguin-sensei comments that Aira is currently happy with Shou.

Etymology

 * Harune (春音) May mean spring sound by separating the words to haru(春) and ne(音). Spring doesn't have a specific relation to Aira, however, sound could be a reference to the anime being music-related.

Trivia

 * According to director Masakazu Hishida in the final Pretty Rhythm guidebook, ten years after Dear My Future, Aira will be a slightly pudgy mother with lots of kids.