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Touko Nanami (七海 燈子 'Nanami Tōko'? ) is a second-year high school student, a member of the student council, of which she later becomes president and the best friend of Sayaka Saeki Touko's classmate and fellow student council member.
She hides her true personality and insecurities from everyone except Yuu Koito, the girl she loves.
She is voiced by Minako Kotobuki in the Japanese version, and by Luci Christian in the English version.
Appearance[]
Touko Nanami is a tall teenage girl, with long, flowing, back length, black hair, with a few thick bangs dangling beofre her forehead, light skin, and gray eyes. She's almost always seen wearing the standard uniform of her school, which conists of a shirt that's mostly pink, with a small, malformed triangle of white at the top, and a pink ribbon tied to the neck.
Personality[]
Externally, Touko is an extremely self-assured and dependable, outgoing, approachable, incredibly determined, and even stubborn girl when it comes to achieving her goals – once she sets her sights on something, nothing and nobody can dissuade her.
However, beneath appearances, Touko obsessively hides all of her weaknesses and insecurities from everyone, meaning that she has nobody to confide in and no real bonds with the people who surround her. She conceals any sign of uncertainty behind a self-confident veneer, and her immense feelings of loneliness and isolation beyond an extroverted facade. The perception that she can do anything she sets her mind to means that she feels immense pressure to never fail or falter.
In the course of her almost lifelong effort to replace her sister, Touko came to believe that nothing in her life, neither her relationships nor her achievements, truly belonged to her. As a result, she feels incapable of receiving the love or even kindness of others, keeping everyone at a great distance from her true self. She also conceives of love as being heavily conditional, in that if she changes or stops acting like her sister, people will stop loving her.
The only person she lets her guard down around is Yuu the ability to feel genuine love for Yuu is the only thing she believes is truly hers.
Touko eventually realizes that, by insisting that Yuu not fall in love with her, she forced Yuu to keep her burgeoning feelings for her secret. She realizes that her insistence on not being loved has forced Yuu to keep her feelings to herself, and she's ashamed of how much she's hurt Yuu.
After a heart to heart talk with Yuu confessions of their love for each other, Touko has outgrown her belief that loving someone requires that person to remain unchanging, and getting over the idea that she has to be perfect.
Trivia[]
- The name Touko means "light" (燈 tou) and "child" (子 ko; a common suffix for feminine names).
- Touko's surname Nanami means "seven" (七 nana) and "sea, ocean" (海 mi).
- According to Yuu, Touko prefers reference books and bestsellers when she comes to her family's bookstore.
- If Yuu had been born 1 week earlier, she would have been in the same school year as Touko .