

_Action Heroine Cheer Fruits_ is one of those shows where the names of the
lead characters contain names of colors, and those names match up to some
color theme that the character has (in this case, it's the characters' hair
colors).

Except... it only does it for some of the main characters, which is weird.

# Characters that are "color-coded"

[![Akagi
An](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uvpNe.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/uvpNe.png)
[![Midorikawa
Mana](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GdBEq.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/GdBEq.png)
[![Aoyama
Genki](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Wjpt.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9Wjpt.png)
[![Momoi
Hatsuri](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UAbdp.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/UAbdp.png)

Akagi An ( _aka_ = 赤 = "red"); Midorikawa Mana ( _midori_ = 緑 = "green");
Aoyama Genki and her sister Aoyama Yuuki ( _ao_ = 青 = "blue"); Momoi Hatsuri (
_momo_ = 桃 = "pink" / "peach")

# Characters that aren't "color-coded"

[![Shirogane
Misaki](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vTeKf.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vTeKf.png)
[![Kuroki
Roko](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XcULx.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/XcULx.png)
[![Kise
Mikan](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MwqF5.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/MwqF5.png)
[![Shimura
Kanon](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sfne8.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/sfne8.png)

Shirogane Misaki ( _shiro_ , written differently = 白 = "white"); Kuroki Roko (
_kuro_ = 黒 = "black"); Kise Mikan ( _ki_ = 黄 = "yellow"); Shimura Kanon (
_shi_ = 紫 = "purple")

* * *

I guess there might not be a deeper answer to my question than "because that's
how they decided to write it"; I just can't help wondering if I'm missing out
on some next-level punnery or something. (Seeing as we already have
nonrealistic green- and blue-haired characters, as well as yellow- and black-
haired ones who aren't the characters with those colors in their names, it
wouldn't be much of a stretch to add purple- and white-haired characters into
the mix.)


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Why are only some of the characters "color-coded"?


Just for a comment;

The relationship between the letters in their names and the color of their
hair is an interesting view point.

[Super Sentai](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Sentai)'s world view seems
to be included in this work, and as shown in the picture below, the girls wear
Super-Sentai like costumes. I think they were designed to match the color of
the costumes with the color of their hair.

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/D6Itg.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/D6Itg.png)

Also, it seems that when Japanese anime features young and cute voice
actresses, they often incorporate their characteristics into the characters
they portray. For example, Kize Mikan seems to be similar to [Yamazaki
Erii](https://myanimelist.net/people/22421/Erii_Yamazaki). This could be a
sort of the avatar.


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