Makoto Nanaya

Do-Gooder
Full Name	Makoto Nanaya
Alias(es)	Nanaya Furry Girl Squirrel Person (By Taokaka) Puffy-Tailed Round Person
Origin	BlazBlue: Continuum Shift Extend
Occupation	NOL Lieutenant of the Intelligence Department (formerly) Field Operative of Sector Seven
Powers / Skills	Superhuman strength Superhuman speed Superhuman stamina Superhuman reflexes Superhuman agility Superhuman durability Stealth Hand-to-hand combatant Tonfa proficiency High intelligence Reconnaissance Magic powers Impact
Hobby	Lacrosse
Goals	Save and protect her friends.
Family	Mother Father Mukoto (brother) Mikoto (sister) Mekoto (brother) Mokoto (sister)
Friends / Allies	Noel Vermillion/Mu-12 Tsubaki Yayoi Rachel Alucard Jin Kisaragi Ragna the Bloodedge Jubei Carl Clover Mai Natsume Kokonoe Mercury Kagura Mutsuki Litchi Faye-Ling Iron Tager Taokaka
Enemies	Hazama Yuuki Terumi Hades Izanami Azrael Relius Clover
Type of Hero	Humanoid Fighter

“	My soul burns with the heat of a thousand suns! Behold the power of YOUTH!	„
	~ Makoto Nanaya

Makoto Nanaya is a supporting character in the BlazBlue franchise. She is a former classmate of Tsubaki, Carl, Noel, and Jin from the Military Academy.

She is voiced by Tomomi Isomura in the Japanese version, and by Cindy Robinson in the English version.

History

Makoto is a fellow classmate of Noel, Jin and Tsubaki from the Academy. She entered the Academy for the financial benefit NOL provided to her family. She's a Squirrel Beastkin, giving her incredible physical strength and reflexes. Unfortunately, because of her squirrel-ness she was the victim of extreme racism from many others, including her classmates. Noel and Tsubaki protected her from them, and became fast friends. Responds with great Squee to anything cute, including Taokaka and Noel in one of the "Teach Me, Miss Litchi!" skits, and Carl in a flashback in Noel's story mode. She ends up in the Intelligence Department of the NOL (the same division as Hazama). She wields a pair of tonfas and wears next-to-nothing.

Personality

Makoto is a silly, friendly, generally whimsical and energetic beastkin. She also appears to be somewhat scatter-brained, though this trait belies her true aptitude as an Intelligence operative and spy for Sector Seven. She is one of Noel's best friends, though unlike Tsubaki, she harbors no jealousy towards her. She cares deeply for her friends and can't stand when they fight each other. When she was in Military Academy, she used to be cruel, mean, selfish and hated humans, but then had a change of heart by Tsubaki's words when she confronted her fellow female classmates who were picking on her. When she, Tsubaki, and Noel were trapped in the lower levels of Kagutsuchi, it was revealed that she just wanted to be accepted for who she is. Makoto also has a serious side when it comes to her friends, and has even confronted Hazama when she discovers what he did to Noel.

In Chronophantasma, while she likes Kagura Mutsuki as a person, she dislikes his lecherous behavior, which includes multiple attempts to flirt with her and Noel, offering the latter drinks which are implied to be alcoholic, and attempts to grab Makoto's breasts. In her special intro with Kagura, he tries to grope her, but she parries and punches him back in response.

Appearance

Makoto is a squirrel-type beastkin young lady with short brown hair, a big curly brown tail, and hazel eyes. She wears an NOL uniform with a black balmoral cap to cover her squirrel ears, a jet black cloak, and black military boots. When she's in battle, she switches her outfit to an orange fighter top showing half of her bosom, two tonfas, blackstrap underwear with an orange skirt-like cloth, long black stocking, and orange boots.

Powers & Abilities

Because of her Beastkin heritage, Makoto has inhuman reflexes, as well as incredible strength, being able to make an impact crater in Carl's storyline, and her Astral Heat involves her punching an opponent skyward, leaving an imprint of her fist in the moon before it splits apart. The increased strength, however, may be the result of her tonfas, which allow her to charge the strength of her blows.

Her Drive, Impact, charges a meter that when released performs an attack of damage equivalent to the meter (think playing those old-school golf games which require proper timing for maximum efficiency). In Chronophantasma, her Overdrive is Galaxia Impact, which automatically makes all of her Drive attacks Level G, augmenting their damage and granting additional properties.

Gallery

Continuum Shift

Chronophantasma

Alter Memory

Magical Beat

Blazblue Cross Tag Battle

Merchandise

Trivia

• During Tager's gag reel, Makoto pronounces the phrase "Mekaleka High Meka Hiney Ho" before activating Tager's inflatability option. This is a reference to PeeWee's Playhouse, in which the character Jambi has the audience pronounce the magic words "Mekaleka High Meka Hiney Ho" before granting a wish. Also, when he first transforms into his "air" form, she remarks that "there's more to him than meets the eye," a reference to Transformers.
• During one of her attacks she screams "Spoon!", a battlecry the Tick often uses.
• Intriguingly enough, Makoto is the only character from the NOL that does not have what fans call a "Special Intro" with Ragna the Bloodedge.
• During one of her Big Bang Smash phrases she says "My soul burns with the heat of a thousand suns, behold the power of youth!", a reference to Might Guy from Naruto.
• Makoto has a hidden Distortion Drive that can only be performed in mid-air. It allows her to use her tail like a propeller (Similar to Miles 'Tails' Prower from the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise and parodied by fellow squirrel character Conker T. Squirrel from the same name series) and then dives downward striking the opponent three times before finishing with an uppercut.
• Makoto will occasionally say "Bang! Just kidding.", which could be a Deadpool reference.
• Being a member of the NOL, Makoto will recite the speech when pitted against other NOL members (Jin, Noel, Tsubaki, or Hazama), though there is a slight chance she will forget the speech, and give up midway. One can tell she'll forget the speech when she recites the speech out of sync with the other NOL member. There are also times she will recite the speech when facing a non-NOL character, but she will always give up midway.
• In the Remix Heart manga, Makoto is confirmed to be gay due to the multiple escapades she has with Mai Natsume. These include kissing her, fondling her, and watching her being forced to touch Cajun Faycott sexually; even when Tsubaki and Noel look away, Makoto watches avidly.
• In the Alter Memory anime, Makoto is missing several black stripes from her tail. This error is consistent with each of her appearances in the anime.
  • In Episode 7, the black stripes from her tail are visible only during one of her appearances.
• In BuruRaji W Riot, Makoto complained that she didn't have a new costume in Chronophantasma even though her two best friends (Tsubaki and Noel) did. This is slightly untrue, as Makoto has a new casual costume, which she takes off pre-battle.
• Makoto Nanaya's color is almost similar to that of Nowa.

Theme Music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fs1Vh0eZf4k