Kaoruko Hanayagi is a character in the Shōjo☆Kageki Revue Starlight franchise. She is a second-year student from the Actor Training Department at Seisho Music Academy's 99th Graduating Class.

Granddaughter of the head of a traditional Japanese dance school, this Stage Girl has refined skills in traditional song and dance. Raised in privilege, she is all too reliant on Futaba Isurugi. While she is always smiling, she is more calculating than anyone else. Speaks in the elegant Kyoto dialect.

The stage emulates life and compresses it, setting free skills learned over lifetimes in brief but dazzling displays for the amusement and judgment of others. For the performers, it is the ultimate risk, and some will rise while others must fall. Nowhere is this truer than at the Seisho Music Academy, where music, dance and real weapons all come into play in the creation of the next great Star. Karen and Hikari’s destinies have been linked since a childhood promise, but their journeys here have taken very different paths. Now, after Hikari leaves, Karen must discover who she is without her opposite, while Hikari must rediscover her own course. 
 
(Source: Sentai Filmworks)

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A voice actor and the keyboardist of [Poppin'Party](https://anilist.co/staff/153185/PoppinParty). Ayasa used to live in Kyoto, before moving to Tokyo after graduating from high school in 2015. She played the piano ever since she was 3, but dropped it when she was in first grade. In middle school, she was made to try a voice acting part in the NHK Studio Park, and she then aimed to become a seiyuu after being praised for doing a good job at it. In 2010, she tried out for the Milky Holmes Seiyuu Audition Tour, but was knocked out of the at the semi-finals in the Osaka auditions. She later debuted as a voice actress after winning the role of Alice Myoujingawa in Futari wa Milky Holmes during the Milky Holmes Sisters Members Scout Audition on April 27, 2013. Together with Aimi Terakawa, they formed the unit Milky Holmes Feathers.

Before dropping her high school activities in 2013 in order to study acting seriously, Ayasa was also the president of the Theater Club and part of the choir at her school.

Ayasa's hobbies include watching cooking shows and theater plays and playing games. Among her skills are speaking in the Kyoto Dialect and hair arrangement. Ayasa is also an avid lover of the Takarazuka Revue, and fell in love with it after her grandmother took her to see one of their plays when she was in ninth grade.

(Source: BanG Dream! Wikia, edited)

Non-Anime Roles:

- Cipher - Honkai: Star Rail (VG)

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The franchise centers on "Starlight" — the song and dance revue troupe loved throughout the world. Karen and Hikari make a promise with each other when they're young that one day they'll stand on that stage together. Time passes, and now the girls are 16 years old. Karen is very enthusiastic about the lessons she takes every day, holding her promise close to her heart. Hikari has transferred schools and is now away from Karen. But the cogs of fate turn, and the two are destined to meet again. The girls and other "Stage Girls" will compete in a mysterious audition process to gain acceptance into the revue.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

A compilation film recapping the anime series.

The story of the nine stage girls from Seisho Music Academy and their daily lives before the TV Anime!

Unaired episodes included in the BD/DVD releases. 

The unaired episodes are titled "99.419 Saisun", "99.419 Touron", and "99.419 Kaien".
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

A four-panel spin-off story following the adventures of the 99th Graduating Class from the main series of Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight!

New anime in the Revue Starlight franchise featuring chibi versions of the characters and the girls from the other schools from the mobile phone game.

The manga version of the theatrical play "Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight - The LIVE - #2 Transition". 
 
Seiran General Arts Institute versus Seisho Music Academy, a revue where they put Starlight on the line, who will win this Cultural Exchange Program!?

Cover Illustration Ayasugi Tsubaki 
Illustration: Sakuraba Yuuki, Mobile Iwashi, Hamburger, Hara Yuriko 
1. Daiba Nana no Daitai 77-bu Cooking (大場ななのだいたい77分クッキング) [Imai Tetsuya] 
2. Tameiki to Namida de Dekita Basho (ため息と涙でできた場所) [zinbei] 
3. Butai Shoujo to Shoutengai no Kaidan (舞台少女と商店街の怪談) [Kobara Yuuko] 
4. Yumemiru Futaba (ユメみる双葉) [Itagaki Komari] 
5. Kaoruko Maid ni Omakase! (香子メイドにおまかせ！) [Hiba] 
6. Watashi no Hoshi (私の星) [Kusada] 
7. Mahiru no Horegusuri Daisakusen (まひるのほれ薬大作戦) [Hami] 
8. Hoshi to Waltz wo (星とワルツを) [Haruhana Aya] 
9. Point of No Return (ポイント・オブ・ノ―・リタ―ン) [Kabocha]