Aoba Moca



Aoba Moca is a second-year student at Haneoka Girls' High School and the lead guitarist of Afterglow. She has a sleepy demeanor and speaks with a slow, monotone voice, but is surprisingly sly at times.

Although everyone in Afterglow are childhood friends, she is particularly close to Ran. Outside of the band, she's friends with Saaya. She is also friends with Lisa, whom she works part-time with at the same convenience store.

Appearance
Moca has short, croppy ivory blonde hair which is slightly longer at the front than at the back. Her messy bangs are separated into sections. She has big, sleepy-looking, blue-grey eyes.

Her casual attire is tomboyish and simple, normally composed of an oversized hoodie and short-shorts with a top and shoes.

Personality
Moca doesn't really have anything that she's super into, but she's the type who will get really worked up about the people she loves. The only interest she has continued to like over a long period of time is instruments and food (all kinds of bread outside of spicy ones specifically). She is quite passionate about baked goods, and has the talent of recognizing which bakery the specific bun or pastry is from just from its taste, even when she's blindfolded.

Moca is playful and often teases others to the point of having to be told by others to stop. Being fairly confident and sure of herself, she often showcases and comments on her own charms, passing off things like having breadcrumbs on her face as "part of her cuteness". Though while relaxed in most cases, her worries make her transparent. She also has a tendency to say non-sequiturs.

Despite her playful front, Moca is actually afraid of changes and conflict, especially ones related to the other Afterglow members, and has called herself a coward multiple times due to this. This is side of hers is especially shown in Afterglow's Second Band Story and the event Separate Paths Under One Sky where she is afraid of not being able to keep up with Ran anymore after the latter started participating more in flower arranging.

She loves Yamabuki Bakery to the extent of even labeling herself as "Yamabuki Bakery's #1 fan" in one of her area conversations with Tomoe, as well telling herself to buy all the bread so she can fill up her point card.

Game Interactions
A list of characters Moca interacts with in the game (during Lives and in the dialogues at the end of every game).

Videos
Introduction (Japanese) = Introduction (English) =

Etymology
Aoba (青葉) means "green leaves".

Moca (モカ) means "mocha".

Trivia

 * Normally Moca refers to herself with the "atashi" pronoun, but at times (or when she feels confident) she calls herself Moca-chan, which is what she also called herself when she was young.
 * Adding to her sleepy demeanor, she can also fall asleep while standing.
 * Moca has a high metabolism; she can eat a lot of food without putting on weight, which she constantly teases Himari about.
 * Moca loves to wear hoodies because she thinks they are "comfy and easy".
 * Moca tends to have a messy bag, often having things scrambled in her bag with no known order.
 * Moca loves reading and collecting manga, especially shounen and action manga.
 * One of Moca's menu voice lines, "When's the next performance~?" is spoken with the exact wording and inflection as one of Tomoe's menu voice lines, making it the only known instance of two characters sharing the exact same menu dialogue.
 * In the Persona collaboration, her character design was based on and.
 * The "Go Home" Club may be a reference to one of the conversations Rei Hatada has with Kokoro Fudoji in Crystar, showing the club similarities.