Minami Nanami

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**Minami Nanami** (七海 みなみ, *Nanami Minami*), also known as **Mimimi**, is a supporting character and one of the heroines in the *Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun* series. She is an energetic, mischievous and popular classmate of Fumiya Tomozaki who is in the track and field club together with Aoi Hinami and she has a close friendship with Hanabi Natsubayashi.

## Appearance

Minami is a cute young pale-skinned girl who is considered to be a Japanese-type beauty with long blue hair (black hair in the manga) that is tied in a ponytail, sparkling blue eyes and she is said to have defined features but with a traditional aesthetic.

In her summer uniform, a sweater is wrapped and tied around her waist while in her winter uniform, she wears the sweater layered by a uniform blazer.

## Personality

Although Minami maintains a cheerful demeanor, she has insecurities about herself and her personality that gives in easily to not ruin the mood oftentimes twisting her arm for the environment is pleasant. She is known to be quite persistent in what she wants to achieve, such as pestering the lonely Hanabi into being her friend.

She also loves to get touchy-feely with her female friends, most frequently Tama-chan, hugging her tight and stroking her skin and she's no stranger to doing this with Aoi, too.

## Story Overview

### Lv.1

In their first conversation, Minami questions Fumiya's early arrival to Home Economics class. He quickly gets flustered and responds that there is no particular reason for his punctuality. A brief and awkward exchange follows, wherein Fumiya makes a comment about teenage girls nowadays being really empathetic. Minami finds this hilarious, claiming that Fumiya is talking like a "middle-aged geezer'. Hanabi, Shuuji, Takahiro and Takei soon arrive, demanding to know what's so funny. Upon hearing the recap, they take a vote on whether or not Minami is weird for finding it funny. Aoi joins in and teases Shuuji to deflect the conversation, which leads to Minami winning the vote. After Shuuji, Takahiro and Takei leave, a brief conversation ensues, and Minami playfully teases both Hanabi and Aoi, only for Aoi to tease her back and bring an end to the conversation.

The next day, Fumiya, Aoi and Minami walk home together with two other boys from class. Minami and Fumiya get off at the same train stop and walk together for a while. Minami tells Fumiya to loosen up, only for him to fire back at her for having too much energy, an accusation that she proudly owns up to. The conversation drifts and Minami teasingly asks Fumiya if there is anything romantic going on between him and Aoi. Fumiya denies, saying that she is way out of his league, and becomes disgruntled at Minami's quick agreement. The topic changes again and Minami discusses how Fumiya's blatant personality is similar to Hanabi's and how she sometimes worries about herself and how easily she goes along with the crowd. Minami then takes her leave and the two head towards their respective homes.

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### Lv.2

Minami asked Fumiya why he is seeing Aoi and they say that she wants to be student council president.

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## Trivia

* Minami is the one person who likes to give nicknames to people, most notably "Tama-chan" for Hanabi Natsubayashi, "Nakamu" for Nakamura and "Brain" for Fumiya Tomozaki.
* On October 1, 2018, "Minami Nanami" appeared as an image girl in the morning edition of the Yomiuri Shimbun brand of Pasco (Shikishima Bread)'s bread "super-ripe" brand, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary. Yaku Yuki won the Excellence Award at the 35th Yomiuri Advertising Awards.

## Name Origin

Her first and last names are almost identical, which leads to her nickname of "Mimimi".

* The name **Minami** is written in hiragana (みなみ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (美波, 南 or 美海), it could possibly mean:
	+ 美波 - "beautiful" (美) (**mi**) and "wave, breaker" (波) (**nami**).
	+ 南 - "south".
	+ 美海 - "beautiful" (美) (**mi**) and "sea, ocean" (海) (**nami**).
* Minami's surname **Nanami** means "seven" (七) (**nana**) and "sea, ocean" (海) (**mi**).

## References

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