Ao Manaka

Ao Manaka (真中あお, Manaka Ao) is one of the main characters of Koisuru Asteroid. She aspired to join the Astronomy team from the Earth Sciences Club.

Appearance
Ao is a young girl with long violet hair tied in a twin tail.

Personality
Ao is more silent type of a girl. She used to be quite talkative and open, but as time went her vocabulary was poor and she often made mistakes for which she was ashaming herself and people laughed at her. Because of that she became more composed and held herself from speaking too much. She has a great passion for astronomy.

Background
During a town camp, Ao was looking at the sky when Mira Konohata approached her. Ao showed her Jupiter and told her some facts impressing her. They revealed their names and Ao told Mira that her name meant variable star and showed her a book about a star Mira that changed brightness, making Mira happy. Mira asked Ao if there was a start with her name, but Ao said there is no star with such weird name. Mira then decided they will discover an asteroid and name it Ao.

Years later, they both joined the Hoshizaki High School and same Earth Sciences Club as they were interested in Astronomy. And soon they realized they knew each other from before and made the promise to find an asteroid together.