---
title: "Hop Step Idol☆"
description: "As a producer at a youth entertainment company you have to go out and scout out guys to become a new idol group. You have two years to raise a super idol."
image: "https://t.vndb.org/cv/50/22850.jpg"
---

# Hop Step Idol☆

![Hop Step Idol☆](https://t.vndb.org/cv/50/22850.jpg)

**Alternative Title:** Hop Step あいどる☆

**Developer:** Media Entertainment

**Release date:** Dec 4, 1997

**Platform:** SAT

**Language:** Japanese

## Description
As a producer at a youth entertainment company you have to go out and scout out guys to become a new idol group.
You have two years to raise a super idol.

## Characters
### Takahashi Reiko (高橋 れいこ)
Producer who is scouting new idols.

- **Gender:** Unknown
- **Role:** Nameable, Management, Producer, Gender Choice

### Aihara Makoto (相原 真琴)
Birthplace:Tochigi Prefecture. 
Lives with his parents and three older brothers.
He tries to look tough like he doesn't care for fashion, but really he's a fanboy that adores idols.
He acts like a delinquent to seem cool but he's really the youngest child in his family and he has respect for other people.
On Sundays he likes to go play around in Harajuku.

- **Gender:** Male
- **Measurements:** Height: 168cm, Weight: 49kg
- **Birthday:** 5 June
- **Hair:** Red, Short
- **Eyes:** Brown
- **Body:** Teen
- **Clothes:** School Uniform
- **Role:** Idol, High School Student, Delinquent
- **Voiced by:** Horie Kazuma

### Hamaguchi Heisuke (浜口 平助)
Birthplace: Tokyo
Lives with his parents and his older and younger brothers.
He's smart and has good reflexes, but because he's short and a bit scatterbrained his flirtations always get denied.
He always feels the need to compete with his older brother but he loves his younger brother dearly.

- **Gender:** Male
- **Measurements:** Height: 162cm, Weight: 45kg
- **Birthday:** 3 April
- **Hair:** Brown, Short, Multicolored, Orange
- **Body:** Teen, Slim, Olive
- **Eyes:** Black
- **Clothes:** Hat
- **Personality:** Friendly, Energetic, Womanizer
- **Role:** High School Student
- **Voiced by:** Numata Yuusuke

### Inada Shin'ya (稲田 真也)
Birthplace: Chiba Prefecture
Lives with his parents, older brother, and older sister.
He has a natural sense of rhythm and works as a club DJ even though he's so young.
Despite his parents being teachers he hates putting effort into studying and brushes it off as just his way of doing things.
A bit of a selfish and overconfident guy. He's not very cooperative, but he has the charisma of a leader.

- **Gender:** Male
- **Measurements:** Height: 173cm, Weight: 52kg
- **Birthday:** 31 July
- **Hair:** Brown, Shoulder-length
- **Eyes:** Brown
- **Body:** Teen
- **Clothes:** Glasses
- **Personality:** Tsundere, Idiot, Selfish, Confident, Ore-sama
- **Role:** Idol, High School Student, DJ
- **Voiced by:** Inoue Takayuki

### Iwasaki Jouji (岩崎 譲二)
Birthplace: Tokyo
Lives alone.
A guy with Italian blood who has a foreign looking face.
Because his parents weren't there often he was raised by his young newly married aunt.
He's good at showing his feelings and always acts proactive when it comes to girls he likes. He hates being alone.

- **Gender:** Male
- **Alias:** Iwasaki George
- **Measurements:** Height: 180cm, Weight: 61kg
- **Birthday:** 20 October
- **Hair:** Brown, Short, Slicked Back
- **Eyes:** Brown
- **Body:** Teen
- **Personality:** Tsundere, Womanizer, Confident
- **Role:** Idol, Half-Japanese, Italian, Living Alone
- **Voiced by:** Nojima Kenji

### Kawai Yukihiro (川井 幸広)
Birthplace: Tokyo
Lives with his parents and younger sister.
A high school student who loves his parents. He's putting his all into his part time job in order to help with the finances.
A helpful and nice person who is popular with the girls at his fast food job.
But he can be a bit of a worrywart and act like an old man at times.

- **Gender:** Male
- **Measurements:** Height: 170cm, Weight: 55kg
- **Birthday:** 16 March
- **Hair:** Short, Orange
- **Eyes:** Brown
- **Body:** Teen
- **Role:** Idol, High School Student, Part-time Worker
- **Engages in:** Cleaning
- **Personality:** Kind, Smart
- **Voiced by:** Iijima Mitsuaki

### Kosaka Ryou (小坂 亮)
Birthplace: Yamanashi Prefecture
He quit school and left his house and is living together with his career woman older sister.
He doesn't talk much and often spaces out, but he has great musical talent and seems like a different person whenever he performs.

- **Gender:** Male
- **Measurements:** Height: 178cm, Weight: 56kg
- **Birthday:** 17 January
- **Hair:** Black, Blue, Long, Multicolored
- **Body:** Teen
- **Eyes:** Grey
- **Personality:** Stoic, Taciturn
- **Role:** Musician, Idol
- **Voiced by:** Midorikawa Hikaru

### Saotome Yuuta (早乙女 裕太)
Birthplace: Tokyo
Lives with his parents, grandpa, and dog.
A kid who was born into showbiz, his father is an influential figure and his mother is a former Takarazuka actress.
He lives in a giant mansion and commutes to a private middle school.
However his mother doesn't want him to become a celebrity.
He's usually a serious and honest kid, but he has a selfish side. An only child.

- **Gender:** Male
- **Measurements:** Height: 158cm, Weight: 41kg
- **Birthday:** 14 September
- **Hair:** Black, Short, Short Hime Cut
- **Eyes:** Black
- **Body:** Kid
- **Personality:** Tsundere, Selfish, Refined, Serious
- **Role:** Idol, Middle School Student, Onzoushi
- **Voiced by:** Orikasa Ai

### Satou Tomoya (佐藤 友哉)
A popular number one idol who belongs to the 'V-Kids' group.
His image is flashy and flamboyant but he's actually a tough guy who has faith in himself.
He's a little prideful and arrogant.

- **Gender:** Male
- **Alias:** トモヤ
- **Measurements:** Height: 179cm, Weight: 58kg
- **Birthday:** 8 November
- **Hair:** Brown, Shoulder-length
- **Body:** Teen
- **Eyes:** Black
- **Personality:** Tsundere, Arrogant, Confident
- **Role:** Idol
- **Voiced by:** Nakai Kazuya

### Sawaguchi Tsuyoshi (沢口 剛)
Birthplace: Tokyo
Lives with his parents and younger brother.
The goalkeeper on his high school's soccer team.
He's usually polite and calm, but when he gets on the field he goes wild.
He's the type that can't say no to people's requests and whenever he has an idea he has to pursue it straightforwardly.
His dad is a salaryman and his mom runs an English teaching school in their house.

- **Gender:** Male
- **Measurements:** Height: 178cm, Weight: 65kg
- **Birthday:** 10 December
- **Hair:** Brown, Short
- **Eyes:** Brown
- **Body:** Teen, Olive
- **Engages in:** Soccer
- **Personality:** Refined, Stubborn
- **Role:** High School Student, School Soccer Club Member
- **Voiced by:** Kobayashi Tetsuo

### Tamura Kouhei (田村 浩平)
Birthplace: Tokyo
Lives with his parents and older sister.
His parents own a little grocery store, he doesn't get along with his stubborn father.
He looks nice, but he's still a childish middle schooler who loves toys and super hero TV shows.
A pure kid who is simple but hard working.

- **Gender:** Male
- **Measurements:** Height: 160cm, Weight: 17kg
- **Birthday:** 1 July
- **Hair:** Brown, Short
- **Eyes:** Brown
- **Body:** Kid
- **Role:** Idol, Middle School Student
- **Personality:** Energetic, Immature, Opposite Gender Voiced
- **Voiced by:** Noda Junko

### Unknown
The Producer's secretary.

- **Gender:** Female
- **Hair:** Brown, Shoulder-length
- **Role:** Secretary, No Name
- **Clothes:** Coke-bottle Glasses

## Shops
- [Official Website](http://web.archive.org/web/20040702005435/http://www.media-e.co.jp/hsi/hsi.htm)

## Releases
### Japanese
- **1997-12-04**: Hop Step Idol☆ - [Official website](http://web.archive.org/web/20040702005435/http://www.media-e.co.jp/hsi/hsi.htm)

## Tags
Raising Simulation, Romance, Comedy, Female Protagonist, Nameable Protagonist, Modern Day Japan, No Sexual Content, Mute Protagonist, Otome Game, More Than Seven Heroes, Shota Hero, Adult Hero, Idol Hero, Manager Protagonist, Japanese Idols, May-December Romance, Only Younger Heroes, Protagonist Gender Choice, Boy x Boy Romance

## More Games from Media Entertainment
- [Hop Step Idol☆](https://pinovel.net/v16500)

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