Azusa Nakano

Azusa Nakano, also known as Azu-nyan, is one of the main characters from the K-On! series.
== Charactah Account ==
Azusa is a new student who joins the Light Music Club as a rhythm guitarist. She plays a Fender Mustang MG69/MH/CAR electric guitar which she eventually names Muttan, but is also in possession of a Gibson Les Paul Custom 50th Anniversary Gold Top. She is a self-proclaimed novice guitarist who has been playing the guitar since the fourth grade and whose parents play in a jazz band. She is in the same year and class as Yui's sister, Ui, and has quite a mysterious demeanor. She often finds herself bewildered by the tea parties and cosplaying aspects of the club when she would rather just practice, and is struck by how good the club's music sounds despite their problems and lack of practice. However, she has a certain weakness for cakes and can be calmed down rather easily, sometimes by just being petted. She is more serious than the other girls, and does not like to admit how she really feels; she could be described in part as a tsundere. She is constantly hugged by Yui and is nicknamed Azu-nyan after trying on a pair of cat ears and meowing.
In the band, she looks up to Mio the most due to her maturity and the fact that she is an experienced musician, even trying to give Mio chocolate on Valentine's Day. However, she sometimes unintentionally makes remarks concerning Mio's weaknesses, such as her weight. She also finds Mugi very beautiful, and envies her hair and large eyes, and later starts teaching her how to play guitar when the two are alone in the club room. Since joining, Yui comes to her for advice on playing guitar, as well as maintenance. She gets a tan extremely easily, once during their time at the beach and another during a music festival (even after applying sunscreen). As a result, she frequently gets sunburned as well. She gets lonely very easily, and often worries that everyone in the club will leave her, as they are one-year-older and eventually will graduate. Due to this, the rest of the girls buy her a turtle to look after, naming it Ton-chan.
She is interested in a wide range of genres without limiting herself to anything in particular. She started playing instruments in fourth grade of elementary school, which makes it about 5 years of experience. Her parents both play in a jazz band.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* K-On!
* K-On! Movie
* K-On! Specials
* K-On!: Live House!
* K-On!!
* K-On!! Specials
* K-On!!: Plan!
=== Manga ===
* K-On!
* K-On! Anthology Comic
* K-On! College
* K-On! Highschool
* K-On! Shuffle
=== Video Games ===
* K-On! After School Live!
* Kirara Fantasia
== Trivia ==
* Her guitar is a Fender Japan '69 Reissue Mustang in Candy Apple Red, specifically the version with matching headstock color; the matching headstock color is a trait exclusive to this particular model, only made by Fender Japan. After Yui named both her own and Mio's guitars, Azusa named her own Muttan, (taking the first syllable, like Ritsu/Ri-chan; "-tan" being an alternate of "-chan") as Muttan sounds like "Mustang".  She does not have the Tremolo Arm (commonly known as a Whammy Bar) installed, though it comes standard with the guitar. 
* Her surname is taken from former P-Model keyboardist/programmer Teruo Nakano
* The kanji of her given name,when read "azusa" as in her name, refers to either of two tree species: the Japanese cherry birch and the yellow catalpa.
* The other girls sometimes comment on how much Azusa and Mioresemble each other (especially during the few occasions when their hair is styled the same way) to the point where they could pass for sisters.
* Both Ui and Jun mistake Azusa for a stranger when they see her tanned for the first time. This happens twice with Ui, despite the fact that she was visiting Azusa at home and had seen the tan once before.
* Though she claims to dislike being treated like a cat or a child, Azusa's behavior is often considered cute by the other girls (and indeed by many fans of the series) and this causes the other girls to treat her that way. Examples of her "cute behavior" include pouting when no one is willing to practice, and meowing like a cat when startled or sad, and forgetting she had animal ears on overnight.
* Her parents used to be in a jazz band, and this musical influence encouraged her to become a musician herself.
* Jun and Ui have described her as an anime figurine on at least two occasions.
* She was the youngest member of Ho-kago Tea Time while the band represented the Sakuragaoka High School Light Music Club.
* Part of a line from the ending verse of her character image song Watashi wa Watashi no Michi wo Yuku is also the title of a track from the K-ON!! Original Soundtrack Vol.2. The line is "Nuki-ashi Sashi-ashi Shinobi-ashi".
* Along with Yui, Azusa makes a possible cameo in the third episode of Hanamaru Kindergarten.
* Azusa loves sweets, especially cake, but tries to hide the fact that it's one of her weaknesses.
* Azusa's nickname, "Azu-nyan", was given to her by Yui after trying on a pair of cat ears. The nickname eventually became so popular for Azusa that real-life fans refer to her with that nickname possibly as much as her real name.
* Azusa is considered by many fans to be the most child-like in appearance of the characters, but is the most mature and serious in personality alongside Mio.
* Much like how her seniors can be regarded as female counterparts to The Beatles, Azusa herself can be regarded as the K-On! universe's counterpart of Yoko Ono. Like Ono, Azusa's skill and artistic talent did much to influence the style and performance of her band during the duration of her membership, not to mention she has the open and almost constant affection of the K-ON! universe's John Lennon, Yui. However, in a heartwarming inversion of Yoko Ono, rather than breaking the fellowship of Ho-kago Tea Time into tatters of hatred the way Ono allegedly did with The Beatles, their collective love for her brought their sisterhood and friendship closer together by the time the fellowship disbanded with the founding four members' graduation.
* In the anime, Azusa has her very own, cat-themed tea-cup which she got from her seniors. In the manga, she is using a normal tea-cup from Mugi's tea set.
* In the anime, all members of Ho-kago Tea Time have matching key-chains on their bags. In the manga, she is using a plectrum that she got as a souvenir from Yui after the Kyoto field trip.
* Azusa proves a common misconception wrong twice in the second season. Most people assume that someone who's a good guitar player is also a good guitar teacher. While proficiency on the instrument is a huge asset for any teacher, proficiency alone is not enough. Azusa proves this by first trying to teach Ritsu to play "Fuwa Fuwa Time", by having the sheet music for the vocals (probably an error) in front of them, despite Ritsu not knowing how to sight read. The second time, she tries to teach Tsumugi to play guitar, starting with the F Major chord, saying it causes a lot of beginners frustration (which is correct). Normally, beginners don't learn barre chords such as B and F Major until they have all the 8 basic open chords down.
* In the first season's ending theme, "Don't say "lazy"", Azusa is the only one of the group to not be present after her debut episode. This is in contrast to the first season's opening theme, "Cagayake! GIRLS", which is updated to include her along the group as well as the instrumentals of her rhythm guitar straight after her debut episode.
** Oddly enough, "Don't say "lazy"" has an "enhanced" version which includes the instrumentals of her rhythm guitar but was never used in the anime.
* In the manga, Azusa was revealed to be terrible at singing, her inability to sing for the new Light Music Club left Azusa feeling sorry for herself by slumping on a table while lamenting that she can't sing as well as Yui does. Despite her sorry state, Sumire Saitō and Nao Okuda joins their group. Over time, she began to learn the vocals taught by Sawako, and after a while, Azusa was able to master singing the vocals thanks to Sawako's help.
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== External Links ==
* Azusa Nakano at K-ON! Wiki
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