
Akari Natsukawa was a Japanese dancer who lived in Osaka during the 2010s. In 2012, she moved to Osaka from Tokyo and befriended fellow transplant Haruka Sawamura, with whom she attended school and came to practice dancing with. While she later grew jealous of Haruka's dancing skills and the dance instructor Christina's decision to help the free-spirited Haruka rather than the "robotic" Akari, Akari later apologized to Haruka, and the two resumed their friendship as Akari worked towards becoming a choreographer.