Ohara Sora

Ohara Sora (大原 空 Ōhara Sora) is an idol under TSUKINO TALENT PRODUCTION. He is a member, and the leader, of the unit SOARA where he performs both vocals and guitar. He is also the lyricist and composer of the band.

Official Character Introduction
"An energetic, bright, and straightforward young man. 

''“Act first before thinking!” Is his motto in life! The type of person who soars with vigor!''

''He grew up with music because of his parents’ music-related occupations and he started writing songs in middle school while learning to be a person who does things one-at-a-time. He and Soshi are childhood friends."''

Appearance
Sora is a rather short young man, with dark orange-red hair and matching eyes. In the anime & live action movie, his hair is shown more brown than red, possibly to distinguish him from Nozomu.

Personality
Sora is a little bit quirky, often speaking in a weird vocal tone most of the time. He's energetic, lively, and passionate and loves making music with his friends.

He loves challenging himself with all sorts of things. He's the type of person who'll take a shot at an opportunity regardless of whether it will be successful or not since he believes that if he doesn't take the chance now, it might slip away. He believes in aiming big when aiming for a goal in life.

He easily gets flustered when he's under time pressure but is generally motivated most of the time. Sora's also the type of person who worries about his image a lot.

Though he's childish and playful most of the time, he's the type of person who thinks ahead and is serious when he needs to be.

He doesn't really like studying a lot and, just like Nozomu, he doesn't study for his exams ahead of time, often waiting until the last minute.

He's the type of person who can quickly recover from being tired to being back to his energetic self. A trait that Morihito complimented.

Though he's not relatively good at academics, he's really talented when it comes to making music. For instance, he managed to be able to think up a song idea simply from watching the other members play around with fireworks in his house, or during the time he managed to be able to think up an idea while watching a baseball game with Morihito and Soshi.

He's the type of person who tends to focus on enjoying things more rather than get nervous about them.

All-in-all, Sora's a pretty positive person who wants to spread smiles and happiness to the people who listen to their music. The reason why he drew a smiley face on their logo was because he wanted people to be able to tell that they're a group that wants to spread happiness using their music.

Sora is noted as being one of the biggest scaredy-cats amongst the TSUKINO idols, especially from the two ALIVE units. He's fairly open about not being able to handle anything to do with horror, as well as being afraid of ghosts; a fact which Soshi and Nozomu take advantage of to tease him.

History
Sora grew up in a household where music was a daily thing since his parent's jobs were related to music. As such, he has a natural talent for making music.

Plot
2015 = While in middle school, he created a song and uploaded it on the internet. It was received greatly by a lot of people, to the point that it was broadcast on the local news. People expected a lot from him but when he uploaded a new song, it wasn't as greatly received as before. People became disappointed and he was called a "one-hit wonder". He then decided to stop making music altogether. Thanks to Soshi and Mori's help, however, he decided to make music again.
 * Age: 17/18
 * Height: 168 cm

When he got to high school, he decided to make a band last minute to perform at the third years' graduation party. The band members were, of course, SOARA's current band members. The school loved their performance and Sora was motivated to make music again.

A senpai (senior) from their school suggested that Sora and the others should audition for something bigger than just school performances and so Sora tried to convince the others to audition with him by showing them a flyer for the TSUKINO TALENT PRODUCTION auditions. Nozomu and Morihito were on board almost immediately while Soshi and Ren were a little skeptical at first.

They passed the first screening and performed a new original song for the second screening.

2016 =
 * Age: 19
 * Height: -

2017 =
 * Age: 20
 * Height: 169 cm

SOARA and the other TSUKIPRO units are aiming to hold a concert at the Budokan in order to showcase their music. The anime shows their struggles and adventures as they continue to achieve their dreams.

2018 =
 * Age: 21
 * Height: 169 cm

2019 =
 * Age: 22
 * Height: 169 cm

2020 =
 * Age: 23
 * Height: 169 cm

2021 =
 * Age: 24
 * Height: 169 cm

2022 =
 * Age: 25
 * Height: 169 cm

SOARA
Arihara Morihito - Sora and Mori met in high-school. Mori, who's always been involved with classical music, fell in love with Sora's music. They have since been great friends. Since they're classmates and are in the same year, they're together a lot. Mori is a self-proclaimed fan of Sora as he openly says that he loves Sora's music a lot. Whenever Sora writes a new song, he often asks for Mori's opinion on it and will blush and feel flustered when Mori says that he likes it. Soshi even says that Mori spoils Sora a lot.

Mori and Sora are so close that whenever Sora's overwhelmed with emotion (either happy, excited, or sad) he'll run to Mori first, often throwing himself at him (in a manner of a hug). Mori often goes along with Sora's ideas without hesitation or much complaint but when it comes to studying, Mori's quite strict with Sora. When Mori gets a little scary, even Sora can't go against him. Sora's a little jealous of Mori's popularity with their peers but he doesn't let it affect their relationship.

Sora and Mori are on a first-name basis, calling each other "Sora" and "Mori" respectively.

Kagurazaka Soshi - 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 asked if their was anything different about him and Soshi 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 as well.

Munakata Ren - Though he's seen to interact with Ren the least, Sora is pretty protective of him and likes spoiling and teasing Ren a lot. He admires Ren's maturity and intelligence while Ren admires Sora's energy and talent with music. Sora doesn't like it when he accidentally hurts Ren's feelings and will try his best to be forgiven immediately.

They are on a first-name basis as well.

Nanase Nozomu - Nozomu's personality is the same as Sora's in most aspects, with Nozomu being a little quirkier, louder, and weirder than Sora. Nevertheless, they get along pretty well and are almost always "partners in crime" when it comes to teasing Ren. Nozomu is almost always the first person to go along with Sora's decisions (like agreeing to go to the audition right away). The both of them are also not really keen on studying for exams ahead of time. Sora likes having contests with Nozomu when it comes to who can cause ruckus better.

Like with the others, they are on a first-name basis, calling each other "Nozomu" and "Sora-senpai" respectively.

Growth
Sora thinks highly of Growth's music and professionalism to the point of admiration. Since Sora's the type of person who doesn't really get embarrassed easily, he quickly ran up to Growth during the auditions to ask for their numbers.

He thinks that Growth's music is cool and that it broadens how a person can view the world. Sora literally used the term "I'll go hit on them" when he told SOARA about his plans on getting Growth's phone numbers. In the anime, the two units are portrayed as really good friends.

Eto Koki - He considers Koki as a worthy rival since they're both leaders, but the two are still shown to be good friends and quite close to each other. After going to leader's meetings he and Koki go out for food & tea and then go shopping together.

Fujimura Mamoru - He also considers Mamoru a rival since they're both composers and lyricists. Although they're not shown to interact much, it is revealed that Mamoru thinks highly of Sora and his ability to make such fun and lively music. Although, as a fellow composer, he doesn't want to lose to Sora. During the auditions, Mamoru was the one who spoke to Sora first after they bumped into each other.

Etymology

 * His surname, Ohara (大原), can be read as large (大) meadow (原).
 * His given name, Sora (空), is usually translated as sky. Alternative meanings include empty, awareness and void.

Trivia

 * His catch phrase for 2021 is "Tomorrow is another day!"
 * According to Soshi, he has too much stuff in his room.
 * He likes their school's popular "flower bread".
 * Sora dreamt that they failed the TSUKIPRO auditions when he fell asleep in class.
 * Prior to moving into the TSUKIPRO dorms, he lived with his parents.
 * His likes include: music, composing, lyrics, guitar, friends, school, playing with everyone, games, manga, the sky, high places, amusement parks, animals, carbonated drinks, and many more others.
 * The song demo he created for their first performance was "Hanasaku Oka de".
 * In LET IT BE -Kimi ga Kimi Rashiku Aru You ni- it was shown that in addition to Hanasaku Oka de the band also performed Douse Nara Ima Kara Kaze ni Natte Miyou & Owaranai Niji.
 * Is currently studying information and communications technology at university. He and Soshi are in the same course.
 * He has a younger sister.
 * His dislikes include scary stories, illness, fighting, injuries, tests, insults, & bitter gourds.
 * Apparently Sora is a little upset about Soshi, Mori & Nozomu being taller than him so he hoped for Ren to stay short and "cute", in his words.
 * However, since saying this Ren has grown taller than him by a centimetre.
 * When asked if there were songs from other units he'd like to arrange he said QUELL since their music is quite different from the style he usually writes.
 * According to the dates shown in LET IT BE -Kimi ga Kimi Rashiku Aru You ni-, Sora released his first songs online in late 2010, his most famous song from that time was LET IT BE.
 * This is also the song that prompted Mori to become a fan of his, and from Mori's mp3 player we can see that the artist is simply listed as "SORA".
 * Despite in-universe being a song created by Sora, the song itself features the vocals of Takizawa Akira.
 * The song later became a full SOARA song as part of TSUKIPRO THE ANIMATION 2.
 * Morihito is listed in his phone as Mori, written out in katakana (モリ) rather than using the kanji from his name.
 * Sora, Mori & Soshi were all in the same class in high school, class 2-A.
 * As mentioned when he was talking about his relationship with Soshi, Sora dislikes people he thinks are too good-looking; he thinks they should all just "explode".
 * This seems to have become an in-joke between some of the other idols under TSUKINO, as it is occasionally brought up during their short stories on Twitter.
 * When several of the TSUKINO idols were discussing their favorite songs by other units Sora said SolidS' KARA DA KARA was one of his. He cited the songs impressive intro, its charm & passion all made it a very exciting and cool song in his opinion, and he wants to make a song like it someday.
 * On the same day this took place, Sora was involved in a similar discussion regarding TOBARI's debut album & songs. Sora said Koyoru no Kyoumei's jazzy & mature feel was something he wanted to try for SOARA.
 * During a segment on the various TSUKINO Twitter accounts where listeners voted on character & song images on a four way axis with MILD & WILD on one scale, and SEXY & CUTE on the other, Sora's image was voted as being overwhelmingly CUTE, with his second trait slightly favoring MILD over WILD.