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Mio Akiyama is one of the main characters of the K-On! anime and manga.
Mio is the mature but scaredy-cat bassist, and second vocalist of the band, After School Tea Time.
In the AWA fics, Mio is a student at the AWA Academy and is a part of Class 2.
In the XP4 fics, Mio is part of the Heroes Coalitions as a trainee. She also attends the Vanguard Academy as a student.
Appearance[]
Mio stands at 5'3", being the tallest in the group and has straight, long, black hair and gray-blue eyes. As shown in episode 4 of season 1, she is also quite a bit more busty than the others (except Mugi), much to Yui and Ritsu's dismay, and later Azusa's as well.
Pants over skirts. In summertime, she likes to wear sleeveless clothes, such as tank tops.
Like all Sakuragaoka High School students, Mio wears a school uniform. The Sakuragaoka uniform consists of a navy blue blazer, a solid white buttoned shirt (under the blazer), a colored ribbon (different colors for different student years, Mio's year is light blue), a light steel blue skirt, stockings or socks (Mio's are black), and maroon shoes. The summer uniform replaces the blazer with a beige waistcoat. Additionally, the subject physical education requires a tracksuit (sport jacket with long pants, colored again depending on the year group) with white striped brims, a white shirt with colored endings (again colored regarding the year group) for the summer semester and white sports shoes.
Personality[]
Mio is the bass player of the Light Music Club. Even though she acts mature, calm and collected most of the time, she freaks out from things she's afraid of, are gross, or pertain to gore. She is a tsundere towards Ritsu often, due to Ritsu's immaturity. Because of her extreme shyness, she chose the bass over the more conspicuous guitar. She is so delicate that merely imagining herself being the center of attention almost makes her faint, but she still plays the bass quite well. She is kind and warm with others, caring about her friends and knowing they are important to her.
Although she is not altogether uninterested in joining a band outside school, the time she spends with the Light Music Club members is the time she enjoys the most, so she has completely devoted herself to the club, and during the school festival performance in the fall of her first high school year, she acted as lead vocalist instead of Yui, who had lost her voice. At the time it seemed like Mio might have overcome her stage fright, but after the performance ended, she tripped over a cord and fell, exposing her panties, and was traumatized anew.
DreamTheater Intermix: The World Within[]
Mio is a student in the City Saints Academy.
Biography[]
In Chapter 14, Mio, alongside Ushio Makunouchi, Coco Kiryu, Azusa Nakano, Ritsu Tainaka, Tsumugi Kotobuki and Yui Hirasawa, are seen inside a bus while waiting to stop at their destination while being creeped out at the same time by the Bus Driver. After the Bus Driver drops them off in front of the City Saints Academy's surface appearance, they came across Sunset Shimmer whom proceeds to explain everything. After getting themselves registered, they entered the building and are greeted by the sight of the school's true appearance, much to their awe and shock.
In Chapter 15, Mio, alongside Ushio Makunouchi, Coco Kiryu, Azusa Nakano, Ritsu Tainaka, Tsumugi Kotobuki and Yui Hirasawa, are seen being shown around the City Saint's Academy by Sunset Shimmer while coming across Dan Mandel and Chris Pearson along the way. Later, Mio and the girls then came across Dash Baxter, Chicken, Kwan Phan, Rudolph "Lightning" Jackson, Scott Wallis and Gary Smith and the boys tried to flirt with the new girls, she then witnessed Ushio, Coco and Ritsu attacking the boys.
In Chapter 16, Mio, alongside Azusa Nakano, Sunset Shimmer, Tsumugi Kotobuki and Yui Hirasawa, watches Coco Kiryu, Ritsu Tainaka & Ushio Makunouchi beats up Dash Baxter, Chicken, Kwan Phan, Rudolph "Lightning" Jackson, Scott Wallis & Gary Smith when Edd Gould, Tom Ridgewell, Matt Hargreaves, Tenma Daytona Romeoford, Eddward "Edd & Double D" Marion Vicente, Edwin "Ed" Horace Hall, Rolf Von Olsson, Sally Bollywood, Doowee McAdam, Shizuka Kasagi, Eddy Skipper McGee & Cody Emmett Jameson Anderson arrives and after Dash & his goons ran off when they saw Eddy, everyone made their way towards the Sugarcube Corner while getting to know each other at the same time. Upon arriving at the cafe, they saw Dan Mandel, Chris Pearson & Pinkie Pie having a conversation at the counter and they were later shocked when it was revealed that Dan and Eddy are cousins.
In Chapter 17, Mio is present inside the Sugarcube Corner where she witnessed Eddy Skipper McGee and Dan Mandel beating-up each other alongside the two knocking out Tenma Daytona Romeoford. After Pinkie Pie stopped them with Dan & Chris Pearson leaving the cafe, Mio and the rest got themselves some cupcakes and went separate ways. After their tour concluded, Mio and the rest settled themselves inside the Corona House.
In Chapter 21, Mio, alongside Azusa Nakano, Ritsu Tainaka, Tsumugi Kotobuki and Yui Hirasawa, are seen joining Doowee McAdam, Eddward "Edd & Double D" Marion Vicente, Edwin "Ed" Horace Hall, Rolf Von Olsson and Sally Bollywood at their table inside the cafeteria of the Corona House. Later, they witnessed Yui Yuigahama leaving the place after realizing that she was assigned to guide the new students, much to their concern and confusion.
In Chapter 22, Mio, alongside Azusa Nakano, Ritsu Tainaka, Tsumugi Kotobuki and Yui Hirasawa, were mentioned to have remained in the cafeteria after Doowee McAdam, Eddward "Edd & Double D" Marion Vicente, Edwin "Ed" Horace Hall, Rolf Von Olsson and Sally Bollywood left. Mio and the girls later met up Ushio Makunouchi and Coco Kiryu when they left the cafeteria.
In Chapter 25, Mio, alongside Azusa Nakano, Ritsu Tainaka, Tsumugi Kotobuki and Yui Hirasawa, ran out of the Corona House and made their way towards the location of a live event in hope of getting to the front rows.
In Chapter 26, Mio is referred to by Hidenori Tabata.
Trivia[]
- Mio is the first character from K-on! to be introduced in the AWA fics.
- In the AWA fics, for some unknown reasons, Mio gains a crush on Killua Zaoldyck from Hunter X Hunter.
- Her bass guitar is a left-handed Fender Japan '62 Reissue Jazz Bass in 3-Tone Sunburst, and she usually plays with a pick. It gets named Elizabeth by Yui. In Japanese, since "bass" and "Beth" are both pronounced as "besu", this results in a pun where the name can be interpreted as "Elizabass". Initially Mio dislikes this name, but comes to like and accept over time. She uses D'Addario EXL160 strings on it, though they are incorrectly shown as EXL160M strings, even though her bass is not a medium-scale. There is a medium-scale version of Mio's bass, but it is only made as a right-handed verison. Fender Japan's page for the JB62/LH.
- Mio is left-handed.
- Her surname is taken from former P-Model bassist and keyboardist Katsuhiko Akiyama.
- Mio seems to be a fan of Lomography, as she is often seen with a camera strongly resembling the Lomo LC-A during Ho-kago Tea Time's first summer trip.
- Megumi Sokabe, the former president of the student council and also former president of the Mio Akiyama Fan club, asked her for an autograph signed "Mio-tan" after being amazed by Ho-kago Tea Time's surprise private concert for her.
- Mio tends to pick desserts with strawberries the most often.
- Mio has the largest hands out of all the members of HTT, which is very useful for a bassist.
- Mio is known to write the kanji for person three times on her palm and then pretend to eat it when she gets nervous.
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