Kagurazaka Soshi

Kagurazaka Soshi (神楽坂 宗司 Kagurazaka Soushi) is an idol under TSUKINO TALENT PRODUCTION. He is a member of the unit SOARA where he performs the drums.

Appearance
Soshi is a tall young man, with dark brown hair and slightly lighter brown eyes. He also has a small mole just below his bottom lip.

Unlike the other members of SOARA, his overall appearance changed relatively little for the live movie adaptations; though his hair color is slightly more natural looking in the movies compared to his appearance in ALIVESTAGE.

Personality
Soshi is generally one of the quieter members of SOARA, being considered quite cool and stoic by others. Underneath this calm exterior though he's just as hardworking and passionate about his work as his friends and bandmates.

His 'tall, dark, and handsome' image combined with this cool and quiet seeming personality means that he's often quite popular with girls, much to Sora's jealousy. His recent good looks combined with his mature personality have led to an increase in female fans lately, though he appears to be relatively humble about it all and is grateful to his fans. Soshi says it hasn't really affected him and he's just going about things at his own usual pace. When asked how many love letters he's gotten he said "it's a secret", but he always makes sure to thank them.

He's shown to be quite stubborn sometimes though, being the least likely to go along with Sora's antics depending on the situation. Despite this though, after a bit of grumbling and scolding he'll usually end up giving in and playing along with the groups plans anyway.

Despite his relatively cool seeming personality, it's not that difficult to embarrass him. This was evident when he was teased by Okui Tsubasa in the TSUKINO HYAKKIYAKOU universe, he instantly became visibly flustered and reacted quite violently to hide his embarrassment.

According to Sora, he is a terrible liar.

History
Soshi was previously a successful member of the basketball club at school, however his athletic career was cut short by an injury to his right shoulder/arm. He was eventually brought out of his negative thoughts by Ohara Sora, who managed to cheer him up despite crying about the situation himself.

Conversely, when Sora was depressed over being labelled a one hit wonder for his music Soshi was one of the people to bring him out of his negative thoughts.

At some point in time, he also picked up some experience with playing the drums which is what eventually led him to becoming the drummer in Sora's band for the graduation performance.

Plot
2015 =
 * Age: 17/18
 * Height:  180 cm

2016 =
 * Age: 19
 * Height:  181 cm

2017 =
 * Age: 20
 * Height: 183 cm

2018 =
 * Age: 21
 * Height: 183 cm

2019 =
 * Age: 22
 * Height: 183 cm

2020 =
 * Age: 23
 * Height: 183 cm

2021 =
 * Age: 24
 * Height: 183 cm

2022 =
 * Age: 25
 * Height: 183 cm

SOARA
Ohara Sora - Sora and Soshi are childhood friends. It was Soshi who helped Sora get over his depression after being shunned for his music. Soshi, together with Mori, often act as Sora's moderators when the other gets too out of line. Since Soshi, Sora, and Mori are classmates, they're often always found together. It's Soshi who almost always wakes up Sora when the latter sleeps in class, reminding him of whether it's lunch time or if it's dismissal time.

Soshi is a reasonable person and thus he doesn't really go along with Sora's ideas quickly since Sora begged him to audition with the rest of them. He and Sora go to the same university. The both of them like to spoil (and make fun of) their kohai (juniors) a lot.

Since they've known each other since childhood, they were if their was anything different about him and Sora now compared to back then. Sora said that Soshi is still the one he somehow always manages to get along with, but that Soshi has become good-looking (and good looking people irritate him).

He and Sora are on a first-name basis.

Arihara Morihito - Due to being the two most mature members of the band he and Soshi tend to watch over the other three, though Soshi still sometimes gets caught up in their passion too. The two often have tea together.

Growth
Yaegashi Kensuke - Kensuke has talked about wanting to be friends with Soshi. In the anime, it's shown that they are on pretty friendly terms with each other and have even led a live broadcast show together, with him and Soshi being the main hosts of said event.

Etymology

 * The kanji of his surname (神) means "gods, mind, soul", the second kanji (楽) "music, comfort, ease" and the last (坂) "hill".
 * Soshi's name is made up of the kanji (宗) "religion, denomination" and (司) "director, officer".

Trivia

 * His catch phrase for 2021 is "Let's have fun."
 * He and Munakata Ren share a kanji in their names (宗).
 * His family and Ren's family are neighbors.
 * His room is very tidy.
 * He is interested in castles and salts and collects all kinds of salts.
 * He would like to visit castles all around the country in the future.
 * He has a younger sister named Rise.
 * Apparently, she is a fan of Haduki You from Procellarum.
 * Soshi has a manual driver's licence.
 * He has also expressed a desire to get a motorcycle licence at some point in the future.
 * His dislikes include noisy places, cinnamon, and herbal tea.
 * Both Soshi and Sora currently attend the same university and are enrolled in the same course, information and communications technology. However, Soshi is more interested in the economic and management side of things rather than the artistic fields.
 * He is a fan of salted seaweed tea.
 * When asked what hobbies he's taken up after giving up basketball he said he got a part-time job, likes watching movies and even got involved in animation production for a while.
 * Since he's a drummer he was asked if he was also good at rhythm games but he says he's only average, since the mechanics between the two aren't quite the same (and that rhythm games can be kind of tricky).
 * He apparently has a subconscious habit of pressing on Sora and Ren's hair whorls whenever he sees them.
 * When asked if he takes after his parents he says he's been told he both looks and acts like his father.
 * He, Sora & Mori were in the same class in high school, class 2-A.
 * When several of the TSUKINO idols were discussing their favorite songs by other units Soshi said Kujikawa Haruto's INISHIE, AOKI SORA was one of his. He says he's likes the rushing feeling of it, and would like to listen to it while at a castle, play the drums to it, and sing it at karaoke.
 * When he was still part of the basketball club he was good enough to be a starting member, and they even went to nationals while he was on the team.