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is a fictional character and the main heroine in Key's adult visual novel ''Kanon'', followed closely by Nayuki Minase who is the only ''Kanon'' heroine to appear with Ayu on three of the official game covers released by Key. Ayu was created by Naoki Hisaya who wrote her scenario for the visual novel, and designed by Itaru Hinoue.〔 Hisaya commented on how he thought Ayu was the one character in ''Kanon'' that he felt he grasped the best, but noted it was very difficult to write her character due to Ayu being primarily energetic.〔 After Hinoue drew wings on Ayu's backpack, Hisaya suggested that they remove them due to spoiler reasons, and while Hinoue went along with it at the time, the wings were later included once again.〔 Yuichi Aizawa, the protagonist of ''Kanon'', meets a lively seventeen-year-old Ayu on the day after he moves to the city depicted in the game.〔 As the story progresses, Yuichi discovers that she is trying to find something she lost, but she cannot remember what it is; Yuichi tries to help her in her search, but with no initial success. One of her most defining characteristics is the repeated utterance of her catch phrase which she mutters as an expression of various negative emotions such as frustration, anger, and fear. Her favorite food is ''taiyaki'', and is seen eating the confection many times throughout ''Kanon''. The main focus of both ''Kanon'' anime is Ayu, who has also appeared in all of ''Kanon''s adaptations, and has been incorporated into numerous dōjin games.〔 Ayu makes a cameo appearance in the second episode of the ''Air'' anime series along with Nayuki, and Makoto Sawatari from ''Kanon''.〔 Her voice actresses are Yui Horie in the Japanese versions of the visual novel and anime, and Brittney Karbowski in the English version of Kyoto Animation's ''Kanon'' anime, who also voiced Ayu during her cameo in ''Air''. A leitmotif named is associated with Ayu〔 which is played in ''Kanon'' numerous times during scenes which involve her, and is also used in a similar fashion throughout Kyoto Animation's ''Kanon'' anime. In a review by Anime News Network, Ayu is described as a character that "persists on a degree of earnest cuteness that will endear her to some viewers."〔 ==Creation and conception== Naoki Hisaya, who wrote Ayu's story, commented in an interview that the night before he was to present the beginning of a ''Kanon'' scenario, he suddenly remembered wanting to write for some time about a ghost girl who waits for the protagonist to come back to her. He said that he wanted to write this no matter what and quickly drew up an outline for the premise of Ayu's scenario.〔 At the time, Ayu's premise was the start of the entire ''Kanon'' story, though it was still very vague. Eventually, Hisaya was able to form her story into the style of a romance visual novel, and in the process the characters in the story started to multiply.〔 Hisaya said that Ayu was the one character in ''Kanon'' that he felt he grasped the best, but noted it was very difficult to write her character due to Ayu being primarily energetic. Hisaya said that he is much better at writing about quiet characters, so Ayu gave him a lot of trouble. Hisaya noted that Ayu's frequent use of "ugū" was not decided from the beginning, and that it merely turned out that way during the natural writing process.〔 Ayu's character designer, Itaru Hinoue, commented in an interview that she put a lot of effort into Ayu's design, and Ayu was her favorite character to create among the ''Kanon'' characters. Hinoue was able to design Ayu any way she wanted, and by all means she wanted Ayu to wear her large tan duffle coat, and be depicted as a strong character.〔 Hinoue said that she was very particular about Ayu's attire, but not about everything. At the time she was formulating the character design, many festivals were going on in Osaka, Japan where Key is located. When Hinoue had a chance to attend, there were many people around wearing angel wings as part of the festival, and because she thought they looked really cute, chose to later draw them onto Ayu as well.〔 Hinoue later read Ayu's finished scenario and became aware of an unintentional form of foreshadowing on her part due to wing imagery factoring into Ayu's story. Shortly after, Hisaya suggested to Hinoue, "Since they seem to have become a spoiler, let's lose the wings." The wings were thus removed, but before long they were attached again.〔 While Hinoue had originally chosen the colors for the hair and eyes of the characters herself, these were later discussed by the development team and altered accordingly, though Ayu, Mai, and Nayuki did not change much. It came to the point where Hinoue had to constantly go back and forth between her intentions and what was later decided by consensus.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ayu Tsukimiya」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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