Mio Akiyama

Mio Akiyama is a character in the series ''[http://kyotoanimation.wikia.com/wiki/K-ON! K-ON!], and its sequel, [http://kyotoanimation.wikia.com/wiki/K-ON!! K-ON!!]. ''Her surname is taken from former P-Model bassist and keyboardist, Katsuhiko Akiyama. She is a shy girl in the Light Music Club and the bass player. Mio originally intended to join the literary club, but is forced into the light music club by her childhood friend and the club's drummer, Ritsu Tainaka. She gets excellent grades in school, so she helped Yui Hirasawa with her studying so that she could stay in the band. However, Mio is bad with listening to stories involving scary subjects, and hides whenever something gross is brought up. Her club mate, Azusa Nakano, looks like Mio, and she admires her. Mio finds Tsumugi Kotobuki's interest in the bonding between two girls awkward.

While she can be mature and strict sometimes, Mio gets embarrassed easily, and is often subject to teasing from Ritsu and Sawako Yamanaka, their club adviser. She says that she chose bass since it is not the center of attention in the band, unlike the guitarist, though she ends up singing the main vocals for the band on more than one occasion. Mio is more technical when it comes to music, and Yui often comes to her when she is in need of more guitar tutorials. She writes the club's songs, although they feature some odd lyrics. As she is left-handed, she becomes entranced whenever she sees left-handed instruments.

Due to an unexpected accident in one of their live performances, she acquired a huge amount of popularity, even a fan club for her is formed (much to her dismay considering the circumstances surrounding it), whose founding member is the former student council president, who also stalks Mio. Because of this, most of her classmates voted her to play as Romeo in their class play. Mio is also seemingly a fan of Lomography, as she is often seen with a camera strongly resembling the Lomo LC-A during her summer training.