Fukushima Noa



Fukushima Noa (福島ノア) is a character in the D4DJ franchise, and is a member of the group Photon Maiden.

Appearance
Noa has pale blonde hair with some tied into a braided bun. She has full bangs and waist-length forelocks. She has grayish green eyes.

Description
Noa became interested in theater plays through her love of literature, and decided to become a performer when she was praised at a theater workshop. Very curious and full of knowledge, she becomes talkative when it comes to things she's interested in. She loves cute things and is strongly obsessed with cats.

Noa often acts as the "emotional" side of Photon Maiden, making friends with other units' members before Ibuki or Saki do as unit leaders. For example, she quickly got to know Muni and Shinobu because of her admiration for their cuteness. As well, she is the one who reacts the most heavily to Shano's return to the industry - to the point she voices her frustrations without thinking.

Due to her love for cute things, she is especially obsessed with cute girls and cherishes any time spent with them. For example, she has used various tricks to bring all of Lyrical Lily to her home for a tea party and has gone on a date to the arcade with Shinobu. Whether her intentions are platonic or romantic are left ambiguous, allowing the audience to draw their own conclusions.

Izumo Saki
Because of her love for everything cute, Noa especially admires Saki, who is known for her impressive beauty and idol talents. When, during the New Year's greetings, she learned that the latter might appear in a miko costume, Noa was so overwhelmed with emotion in anticipation of seeing Saki in this uniform that she literally "burned out" from overexcitement. This is also shown in the game's very first event story, where she fainted just from imagining what Saki would look like in her Halloween costume. Unlike with other cute girls, Noa always respects Saki's personal space.

Hanamaki Towa
Noa and Towa knew each other before auditioning for Photon Maiden. Though they get along well, they also tend to argue over their favorite idols. Noa also scolds or teases Towa for her airheaded nature every now and then.

Niijima Ibuki
Fellow unit member. Noa is shown to respect Ibuki and admires her dance moves as well as flexibility, though she also tends to find Ibuki's love for fitness and training abnormal at times.

Ohnaruto Muni
Muni is another person Noa finds extremely cute and likes hugging her, something the former is not fond of. In one of their shared live dialogues, Noa says she'd do anything Muni asked her to do, and in another, screams just how cute the latter is, causing Muni to get embarrassed. It is shown that she likes trying to get Muni's attention in any way possible, such as sending a fan mail under a fake name in order to get to know what kind of pajamas Muni wears while sleeping.

Yamate Kyoko
Noa admires Kyoko's stage presence and thinks she is a very charismatic person.

Inuyose Shinobu
Similarly to Muni, Noa finds Shinobu extremely cute, although, unlike Muni, Noa is not jealous of the latter. Though Shinobu was initially wary of her, the two started getting along and hanging out more after the game's first event story and when they went on a date to the game center in Shinobu's event card story.

Shiratori Kurumi
As Noa finds Kurumi cute, she is willing to be pranked by her, but Kurumi finds that she would rather experience the "cuteness" than the prank itself. According to Kurumi's card story, Noa states that the Shiratori family are long-time regulars at her parent's Japanese sweets store.

Mizushima Marika
So far, Marika is the only character that Noa finds cute while being older than her. Marika explains that her "cuteness" comes from eating vegetables such as okra natto, which happens to be Noa's disliked food.

Etymology
Fukushima (福島) can be split into two parts. Fuku (福), meaning blessing or fortune, and Shima (島) meaning island.

Noa (ノア) has no meaning on its own. However, since it's in katakana, it could be the Japanese equivalent of Noah.

Trivia

 * Noa has an extensive collection of books in her home and will read anything, regardless of genre.
 * Her family owns a Japanese sweets store.
 * In the Monster Hunter collaboration, her armor is based on the Paolumu and her weapon type is the Sword & Shield.
 * Noa's favorite animal seems to be cats, as she is shown to be ecstatic over them and considers them as gods. She also finds hippos cute.
 * Her obsession with cats is excessive to the point that Saki does not allow Noa to see her pet cat.
 * She is able to discern a girl's body measurements just by looking at them.
 * According to Noa's D4Fes. card story, she is skilled at ventriloquism.
 * She can write a script for a short play in one evening if has the motivation to do it.