One of the Friends, "Love Me Tear", who won the Diamond Friends Cup. She is currently a high school second year, and is an alumni of Star Harmony Academy. She was born into a wealthy family and was raised as a true lady. Karen is a Yamato nadeshiko who excels in everything she does, having received special education from a young age. With all of her lessons done at a professional level, Karen also cooks and does housework, in addition to tea ceremony, flower arrangement, naginata and archery. Kind to everyone, she is elegant and reserved, but holds strength inside her. A prodigy with overwhelming brilliance, Karen is an angelic girl overflowing with love. She serves as the muse of her own brand, Classical Ange.

(Source: Wikipedia)

"Let's go, together! Head for the goal, Diamond Friends!!" 

The new anime will have a theme of "Aikatsu with your friends!" and will center on a new protagonist named Aine Yuuki, who is good at making friends, and is enrolled in Star Harmony Academy's general education track. She befriends Mio Minato, the school's top idol, and becomes an idol herself. 

(Source: Anime News Network)

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She was a member in the tennis club at her middle and high schools, and she was also the general manager of the club in high school. When Azusa was in 8th grade, she was inspired to become a voice actress after hearing the Akiko Yajima's performance as Kohaku in Inuyasha. She participated in Horipro's 36th Talent Scout Caravan on October 11, 2011, was awarded as the grand prix winner and made her debut as a voice actress in 2012. In 2014, she made her official debut as a singer with the album "Beyond Myself!".

Azusa's hobbies including karaoke, impersonating, making albums, cooking and sewing. Her special skills include tennis - which she has been playing ever since fifth grade of elementary school - and arm wrestling, and she likes to stay healthy. She also loves both cows and movies, and has said that her ideal date would be either tennis or a movie so that she wouldn’t have to talk a lot. Azusa has four older brothers, and she went to the same high school as [Megumi Nakajima](https://anilist.co/staff/96105/Megumi-Nakajima)

(Source: BanG Dream! Wikia)

Two years after the Diamond Friends competition, Aine Yuuki, now is in high school, have a unexpected encounter with the mysterious idol Hibiki Tenshou who wears the shining Jeweling Dress.

Raki Kiseki is a second-year middle school student who transfers to Star Harmony Academy to become an idol. However, when she uses an Aikatsu Pass she received from her big sister (an Aikatsu engineer), something mysterious happens. Lots of doors appeared before her, and when she opens them, she meets Aikatsu idols she never knew before, such as Yume Nijino. Raki vows to design her own premium dress and perform in it on stage. (Source: Anime News Network)

Karen Kamishiro