Seika Ijichi

About Seika Ijichi

Seika Ijichi is the manager of Starry, the Shimokitazawa live house where Kessoku Band works and plays, and Nijika's older sister. Blunt, professional and secretly soft-hearted, she gives the band its stage, its part-time jobs and its standard for what a real live house expects.

Appearance

Seika has long blonde hair and a sharp, appraising expression that softens exactly rarely enough to be noticed when it does. She dresses like a working live house manager, because she is one, usually found at Starry's counter or sound desk.

Personality

Seika is strict, dry and allergic to sentimentality in public. She judges bands on whether they can actually play. Privately, she built her whole working life around giving young musicians the stage she once wanted herself, and her support for her sister's band is total, just never announced.

Background & Story

Seika once played in a band herself. After her mother's death and with her father often away, she effectively raised Nijika, and her life settled into running Starry, a small live house in Shimokitazawa. When Nijika's band forms, Seika becomes its toughest audience and its safety net at once. The prequel movie Hoshi no Ashiato tells the sisters' story from before Kessoku Band existed.

Powers & Abilities

• A professional's judgement: Seika has heard every kind of band a small live house attracts. Her assessments are blunt and almost always right, which is why Kessoku Band's members care so much about earning her nod.
• Starry itself: Seika controls the band's home: its stage, its shifts and its standards. Without Starry there is no Kessoku Band story at all.

Key Relationships

• Nijika Ijichi: Her younger sister, whom she largely raised. Everything Seika built, including Starry, becomes part of Nijika's dream, a handover the 2027 film explores.
• Hitori Gotoh: An employee she hired despite Hitori being Hitori. Seika's gruff tolerance hides a real eye for what the girl could become.

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