Hidaka Saori



Hidaka Saori (日高さおり) is a character in the D4DJ franchise, and is a member of the group Merm4id.

Appearance
Saori has short light purple colored hair, with her bangs almost reaching her shoulders, and turquoise eyes.

Description
Saori started her DJ career in high school, and due to her hardworking nature, she's built up a certain level of technique. She decided to become a DJ after listening to a remix made by a person who worked at the club FROLIC. Her pessimistic thinking held her back from DJing actively, even as a university student. Rika forced her to join the unit, but has made up her mind to change her mentality and achieve her goals. She is the one who always stops Rika and Marika's antics from getting out of hand (e.g. Saori scolding them for doting Saki too much).

Etymology
Hidaka (日高) can be split into two parts. Hi (日), meaning sun or day, and Daka (高) meaning tall or expensive.

Saori (さおり) is a festival to welcome the gods when the rice planting season begins.

Seto Rika
Prior to Merm4id's formation, Saori and Rika had not interacted at all, and they even referred to each other with their last names and honorifics. They had a few seminars together, but had never talked to each other; however Saori remembered Rika because of her loud and bold personality, and even regarded her as a "troublesome person." Upon finding Saori playing around with DJ equipment in a music store, Rika became intrigued about the former, and then chased her after Saori saw Rika watching her. After reluctantly accepting Rika's invitation to come with her to the next party they were having, the two started getting closer, and this eventually led to the creation of Merm4id. Rika often encourages and pushes Saori to do things out of her comfort zone, usually for the greater good.

Mizushima Marika
Fellow unit member. Marika often compliments Saori's DJ skills as well as Saori herself, trying to increase the latter's self-esteem. However, Marika does also like teasing Saori, and tends to get scolded by her when she and Rika's antics are about to get out of hand.

Matsuyama Dalia
Fellow unit member. Saori, like the other members of Merm4id, admire Dalia's dancing skills. Similarly to Marika, she often compliments Saori's DJ skills and reassures that she's doing really well during performances. Despite this, Dalia has also said that she enjoys seeing Saori when she's caught off guard.

Izumo Saki
Saori seems very protective toward Saki since she is the only first-year student in Photon Maiden.

Niijima Ibuki
Saori later befriends Ibuki during the mountain trip between the two, Yuka and Dalia. Saori wishes she could be more like Ibuki due to the latter's optimistic and hardworking attitude, altough Ibuki thinks Saori is fine the way she is now. Ibuki is also impressed by Saori's DJing skills.

Tsukimiyama Nagisa
Nagisa and Saori were classmates in high school, though they didn't keep in touch after graduation. However after meeting again in the hot springs event, they became closer and started hanging out more.

Miyake Aoi
According to her introduction, Saori has seen a DJ play preformed by Aoi before and has talked with her in the past, however she believes that Aoi wouldn't remember someone like her. In Saori's D4 FES. card's story, she finds Aoi's playstyle very cool and admires her stage presence.

Sakurada Miyu
Saori is Miyu's private tutor and one of her maids as well. Based on an Area Conversation between them, Saori teases Miyu by treating her like a princess (eg. by calling her an ojou-sama), much to the latter's chagrin.

Trivia

 * Saori claims she dislikes cilantro because she is "jealous of how it stands out", revealing the extent of her own inferiority complex.
 * Saori loves pandas.