**Hometown:** Tokyo, Japan
**Height:** 149 cm

Yuka is a karate champion who seeks to expand her horizons by becoming an idol. She was her karate teams’ team captain and was the ranking National Champion. Karate is a major aspect of her life, but she wants to be a master of dance and song as well. During her interview, she admits to the judges about how her karate master told her that there were multiple paths she could take in life other than Karate. She told the judges about her secret admiration for idols, and how she wanted to see for herself what this path in her life would be like.

Interestingly, unlike other idols' hobbies, Yuka’s is never visually incorporated into her idol costumes. She's shown to wear a karate gi in her first card illustration (taken before she became an idol), but it's never been shown on stage. Instead, her trademark is her two ponytails, and she gets very embarrassed if she's seen with her hair down.

In the tie in Cinderella Girls Theater skits, Yuka is depicted as being abnormally strong. In her first appearance, she breaks a dartboard in half with a single throw. She has some experience with cooking, although she does have trouble keeping up with a pumped-up Takumi Mukai. She participated in a talk battle with Ayame Hamaguchi, Kurumi Ohnuma, and Kanade Hayami. When she landed a role with Aki Yamato and Itsuki Manabe in a Kung Fu movie, she eagerly performed moves that had a focus on animal names. She seems to like Yukari Mizumoto’s sleeping face.


The third season of the web short Kayou Cinderella Theater.

__Non-anime roles:__
- Product 12 - Goddess of Victory: Nikke (VG)
- Product 23 - Goddess of Victory: Nikke (VG)
- Chevreuse - Genshin Impact (VG)

The fourth season of web short Kayou Cinderella Theater.

The fourth season of Cinderella Girls Gekijou.

The iDOLM@STER: Cinderella Girls anthology by various mangaka.

The second season of Cinderella Girls Gekijou.

The third season of Cinderella Girls Gekijou.

The second season of THE iDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls.

Music video for the song Seikan Sekai celebrating the 6th anniversary of The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls: Starlight Stage mobile game. Animated by studio KAI.

A special commemorating the 10th anniversary of the THE IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls franchise. The anime features all 190 idols from the series. 

Note: A 6-minute preview "Celebration Animation" of ETERNITY MEMORIES was released on November 28, 2021, first unveiled during Day 2 of "THE IDOLM@STER CINDERELLA GIRLS 10th ANNIVERSARY M@GICAL WONDERLAND TOUR!!!: Celebration Land" live concert. 

The video was reuploaded on September 7, 2022 onto the IDOLM@STER Channel, correcting spelling, omissions, and credits on the initial upload that was on YouTube.

The anime will stream exclusively in the The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls and The IDOLM@STER Cinderella Girls Starlight Stage smartphone games.

Yuka Nakano