Kozue Aikawa

Aikawa Kozue (愛川こずえ) is a popular Nico Nico Douga odorite with a delicate dance style.

Appearance & Personality
Kozue has brown hair with bangs. She is typically seen in cute, girly fashion such as ruffled skirts and frilly accents. In her early videos, she wore a mask to cover her face.

Dance Style
Kozue usually covers and choreographs cute, simple dances, especially with an idol style charm. She has a cute, bouncy dance style, but is capable of covering more mature style dances like "Romeo to Cinderella".

Orgin
Aikawa Kozue is one of the older and more iconic odorites, having begun uploading videos in 2008 at 16 years old. She started out on Nico Nico Douga by dancing to popular songs such as "Ojamajo Carnival". In most of her early videos, she wore a mask to cover her face.

Popularity
Her main burst of popularity came from her iconic original choreography and dance for "Luka Luka★Night Fever", which is her most viewed video at over 5 million views on NND and 15 million views on her YouTube channel. It is also one of the most viewed videos in the odottemita category on NND.

A month after uploading Luka Luka★Night Fever, she became a member of DANCEROID, along with Ikura and Minka Lee. Although being a member of DANCEROID helped to boost her popularity further, she had covers outside of this which were well received by the community, such as "Hello/How Are You" and "Sweet Magic", with both of these covers gaining over 400,000 views on NND.

After leaving DANCEROID in 2012 due to health issues, she continued to maintain her popularity on NND, with "Koi wa Kimagure Illusion!!", her first video after leaving the group receiving over 2 million views on NND.

She has continued as a solo dancer who occasionally collaborated with various other dancers. She has also joined a couple of idol groups. She was the leader of ILoVU, which disbanded in 2018, a member of ENGAG.ING, which disbanded in 2020, and is currently a member of Dempagumi.inc.

Dance Units

 * 1) Member of Dempagumi.inc
 * 2) Ex-member of ENGAG.ING
 * 3) Ex-member of DANCEROID
 * 4) EX-member of PRINCESS AT HOME (formerly ILoVU)

Collaborative Projects
Kozue was one of the original members of DANCEROID in 2009, but graduated from the group in 2012 due to poor physical condition. While as a member of the group, she also created original choreography for them, such as "FirstKiss!" and "Lily Lily★Burning Night". Her and Manako are the only DANCEROID members to create official choreography for the group. She has collaborated with other DANCEROID members outside of the group, and has also collaborated with Yakko, a member of the 4th generation DANCEROID which Kozue was not a part of.

Outside of DANCEROID, Kozue mainly collaborates with Marice, who she has danced with since her early days on NND. She also has danced with Pan2 and Miume on various occasions, performing with them at live shows in addition to NND uploads. She has also taken part in the group odottemita collaborations for "39", "Kamikyoku" , Calc. , and Butterfly Graffiti.

Kozue is became the leader of the idol group ILoVU in 2013. She danced to "Viva Happy" with the I LoVU member Lilia Aya a month before the formation of the group. ILoVU later changed their name to PRINCESS AT HOME, but ultimately disbanded on May 5th, 2018

In June of 2018 Kozue joined the idol group ENGAG.ING, where she stayed till it's disbandment in September, 2020.

On February 16th, 2021, Kozue was announced as one of the 5 new members of the idol group Dempagumi.inc, with her color being light green.

Trivia

 * She is 151cm (4'11) tall.
 * She is blood type A.
 * She is from Tokyo.
 * Her choreography and motion data was used for 'Luka Luka★Night Fever' in Project DIVA extend.
 * She appeared in the TV series 'Hikonin Sentai Akibarenja' as Kozukozu Mita in all 26 episodes.
 * She appeared in a promotional video for 'Saints Row IV'.
 * Her and Marice were classmates in middle school. They also took part in a dance club together during middle school.
 * She has worked with the utaite Kalon., with the two simultaneously uploading their covers for "Happy Trap".
 * She appeared as an extra in the song "Summer Wolf" by 'Zushi Three Brothers'.