Yamate Kyoko



Yamate Kyoko (山手響子) is a character in the D4DJ franchise, and is the leader of the group Peaky P-key.

Appearance
Kyoko has wavy medium length light brown hair, with parts of it hanging over her shoulder. Her eyes are a peach color.

Description
Kyoko is the charismatic leader of Yoba Academy's most popular DJ unit, Peaky P-key. Born and raised in a musical family, she has a natural talent for music but spares no effort to improve her performance. She finds herself strangely attracted to Happy Around!'s energetic performances.

Inuyose Shinobu
Kyoko has been a fan of Shinobu's work for a long time. As a child, Kyoko would pass Shinobu's house and would see Shinobu looking out from her second floor window. Kyoko refers to her as the "Princess trapped in that house" before knowing her actual name. Kyoko wanted to form a unit with her, but Shinobu didn't accept the offer because she didn't see Kyoko skillful enough. That is until the Christmas Eve of 7th grade when Shinobu finally give Kyoko the 'yes' that she wanted.

Aimoto Rinku
She became interested in Rinku after watching her performances and enjoys hanging out with her. Kyoko gave Rinku platinum rare Christmas party tickets for Happy Around and invited her to come up on stage to perform with her group.

Akashi Maho
Maho and Kyoko are friends and have mutual respect for each other. It is shown that Maho admires Kyoko, and calls her Kyoko-san despite Kyoko telling her to be casual and not use any honorifics for her.

Aoyagi Tsubaki
Both Tsubaki and Kyoko took vocal lessons together under Airi. According to Tsubaki herself, she is interested in Kyoko, saying that she feels they might be quite similar. In Tsubaki's D4 FES. card story, she explains that they are similar in the way that they both desire to improve their singing for someone else's sake.

Etymology
Yamate(山手) can be split into two parts. Yama(山), meaning mountain, and Te (手), meaning hand.

Kyouko(響子) can also be split into two parts. Kyo(響), meaning echo or sound, and Ko(子), meaning child.

Trivia

 * If you use "#D4DJ" on Twitter, a small icon of her head appears after the hashtag. (#D4DJ TwitterHashTagIcon D4DJgm Kyoko.png)
 * Kyoko is fond of and loves to search around for them.
 * She owns a German shepherd named Vevo.