Minami Iwasaki

Minami Iwasaki
Kanji Name	岩崎みなみ
Romaji Name	Iwasaki Minami
Gender	Female
Age	14-15
Status	Alive
Date of Birth	September 12
Birthplace	Tokyo
Blood Type	A
Height	163cm
Aliases	Mi-chan (once by Miyuki)
Family	Honoka Iwasaki (Mother)
Seiyū	Minori Chihara
Voice Actor	Michelle Ruff
Drama CD Seiyū	Miyu Matsuki
Manga Debut	Manga Episode 35
Anime Debut	Episode 14

Minami Iwasaki is one of the main characters of Lucky Star. She is a schoolmate of Yutaka Kobayakawa and a childhood friend of Miyuki Takara.

Appearance and Personality

"Maybe you'll even be as tall as me someday..."

―Minami Iwasaki

Minami has short, mint-green hair and her eyes are slightly slanted upward, giving them a 'sharp' appearance similar to that of Kagami's eyes. She is very slender and quite tall for her age, yet she is disappointed about her minimal breast size, which Konata frequently comments on. Due to her short hair and lean body structure, Minami has a tendency to look more androgynous than the other Lucky Star characters (a reason that Hiyori Tamura often makes her the "tachi" (male-like role in a yuri couple) of the Minami-Yutaka yuri model).

A very quiet girl (usually speaking in as few words as possible) who does not show much emotion, Minami is often mistaken for being cold, but she is very kind at heart. However, many jokes arise when her seemingly "perfect and sleek" appearance is contradicted, such as when Miyuki's mother notices Minami teaching Cherry how to stand on her hind legs by mimicking the position herself; Minami often blushes heavily and stares at the floor in response to such teasing. With her overall first-impressions, she tends to be mistaken as the "modern-day tsundere" type.

She gets along with Miyuki, since they have similar tastes and lived in the same neighborhood; Minami has often been compared to being Miyuki's "little sister" due to Minami's clingy attraction to her neighbor from when they were younger. In fact, in the Manga Strip Far-sighted Minami ends up calling Miyuki "Onee-chan", an honorary term in Japanese used for when younger siblings are referring to their older sister.

Biography

Minami Iwasaki comes from a wealthy family which includes her mother, Honoka Iwasaki, and her father. She also lives across the street from Miyuki. She owns a dog named Cherry which she plays with most of the time and has a parasol in her yard.

Soundtracks

Character song Vol. 6: Minami Iwasaki contains 2 songs sang by Minami's voice actor, Minori Chihara.

The songs are:

• Damatto Yasumi Jikan (Silent Break Time)
• Tōmei Ribon (Transparent Ribbon)

Gallery

Images featuring Minami:

The Iwasaki family having dinner with their dog Cherry.

Young Minami and Miyuki.

Hiyori picturing Yutaka and Minami in a yuri scene.

Minami at the market.

Minami and Cherry

Trivia

• Minami's Japanese Seiyū and English Voice Actor, Chihara Minori and Michelle Ruff, also voices Yuki Nagato from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (and the subsequent sequels, spin-offs, movies, and in image music pieces). This keeps with the Lucky Star Anime's close relationship with the Melancholy series; which has been shown in the Lucky Star anime through many avenues to this date.
• In episode 18 when Konata and her friends play the animal personality game, Yutaka says that Minami could be a hawk because of her coolness.
• Apparently Minami can play the piano well (proof in Volume 6)
• Minami is right-handed.