Nakamura Okuto

### Debut:

Chapter 1: Introducing Nakamura-kun!! (Prequel)Chapter 1: Summer is a Spicy Season ☆ (Sequel)

### Voice Actor:

Kappei Yamaguchi (Drama CD)

*"Today's the day... I'm going to talk to him!"*
*- Nakamura Okuto*
**Nakamura Okuto** is the main character of the manga Go For It, Nakamura! and Go For It Again, Nakamura! He is a closeted gay high schooler who has a crush on Hirose Aiki.

## Appearance

Nakamura has short black hair with curled-up bangs that often hide his eyes. He has narrow, monolid eyes with tiny dotted pupils. His skin is white, and he has a slender, tall body.

Nakamura is typically drawn wearing a traditional gakuran or other various types of school uniform, usually all buttoned-up. In Syundei's older artwork, Nakamura also wears a black cap matching his gakuran, although this was abandoned in later artworks. Indoors, Nakamura wears the uwabaki while outdoors, he typical wears black loafers.

OPERA's pop-up cafe features Nakamura wearing a chef uniform holding a tong with a common red octopus hugging his head.

From his classmate's perspective, he is seen as creepy, gloomy, and often plain and forgettable. In Chapter 5, Kawamura's friends compare him to a face drawn on a shimeji mushroom.

## Personality

One of Nakamura's main characteristics is his extreme shyness. He struggles to interact with people, to the point where he fails to properly communicate his thoughts despite practicing in his head. He tries to avoid social situations and confrontations at all costs due to his timid personality, and he does not enjoy being in the spotlight due to the fear of embarrassing himself. Nakamura is also quite aloof, having a hard time opening up to others about his likings, believing that people will judge him negatively for it. Another big part of Nakamura is his clumsy personality, often getting himself in the comedically embarrassing situation the series is known for, such as when he stepped on Hirose's napkin in an attempt to pick it up for him first.

Nakamura also displays a sense of insecurity and low self-esteem, talking down to himself quite often for being a "total loser" and not believing that Hirose and him could become friends. This mindset breaks however when Hirose's friends are put in the picture, in which Nakamura sees them as rivals or in Oomori's case, an inferior. This behavior indirectly shows that he can be easily jealous or irritated around people who get in the way between him and Hirose.

However, Nakamura can be shown to be soft, caring, and friendly towards others, as seen when Nakamura is gently greeting Icchan. When it was revealed that Kawamura was too sick to play her role, Nakamura was willing to be a replacement last minute, using that action as a proper thank you for the manga she drew for him. Furthermore, Nakamura also gives Hirose a crab keychain as a gift, seeing how Hirose was admiring the crabs in the aquarium.

Nakamura is also shown very emotionally sensitive, such as shedding a tear when Kawamura gives him the manga he requested, getting excited when spots his beloved octopus in the Yokohama aquarium, or being unable to calm himself down when flustered. Additionally, Nakamura can act without thinking when in his emotional state, such as when he fell down a large construction hole in front of him in an attempt to save Hirose, or when he vandalizes on a wall out of despair despite a sign stating "Do not graffiti." hanging on top of him.

This emotional side carries onto his likings, showing Nakamura to be very passionate and dedicated to the things he loves or growing interested in. One unique trait he has is his overwhelming love for octopuses, having multiple figurines of octopuses in his room, and even owning one himself. When developing an interest in BL manga as a way to get love advice, he takes notes in a very serious manner, treating a work of fiction as a dating guidebook.

This dedicated side of him is especially seen in his love for Hirose, constantly trying to become friends with him, seeking love advice from an unlikely source to get closer to Hirose, and even mustering up the courage to risk his life to save him from sexual assault. This dedication, however, occasionally reaches a point of obsession when Nakamura would steal a cassette tape to hear Hirose's voice and sniffing what was thought to be Hirose's PE uniform.

Below this page contains spoilers for Go For It, Nakamura! or Go For It Again, Nakamura!. Please proceed with caution.

## Story

* Childhood
* Go For It, Nakamura!
* Go For It Again, Nakamura!

During Nakamura's time as a grade-schooler, he had already developed his love for octopuses and is seen admiring them for their unique traits. This was met by judgment from his peers and was most likely one of many reasons why he did not have any friends. He was also shy and clumsy when young, as seen in a flashback where a teacher picked up a lost underwear and asked whom it belonged to. Out of embarrassment, Nakamura couldn't say that the underwear was his.
During the high school entrance ceremony was the first time Nakamura lay his eyes on Hirose. Falling in love at first sight, Nakamura sits in the corner of class observing Hirose and learning about his hobbies by eavesdropping. After many months, Nakamura begins to take action in the hopes of becoming friends with Hirose. This would eventually lead to him encountering various people in his school indirectly helping in his goal and having Nakamura miraculously getting closer to Hirose in unexpected ways.

During the field trip to Yokohama, Nakamura starts doubting himself, reflecting on how everything happened out of pure luck and he will never become friends with Hirose. Hirose surprisingly follows him and the two eventually developing a mutual friendship by the end.
After their interaction in Yokohama, Nakamura is now pumped and remotivated to become closer with Hirose. Many past classmates reappeared to get again, indirectly assist Nakamura in his goal, although various rivals were introduced to prevent Nakamura's progress as well. Regardless, Nakamura does get closer to Hirose, such as getting his LINE number.
## Relationships

### Hirose Aiki

Nakamura bears a one-sided crush on Hirose and is always achieving to get closer to him. During the beginning of the story, Nakamura is very self-conscious around Hirose, fearing that Hirose will avoid him if he makes some sort of mistake. Due to this, he hides a lot about himself such as how he loves octopus and how he likes reading BL books. Nonetheless, he cares a lot about Hirose, worrying when he had a stomach and risking his life to protect Hirose from the delinquents.

Nakamura admires Hirose quite a lot, perhaps to the point of obsession. When drawing him, Nakamura carefully observes every part of Hirose, claiming how attractive he is. Nakamura is also seen observing Hirose often from a distance and is very jealous of his friends for being close to Hirose. Nakamura has also seemingly developed an interest in smelling Hirose in the sequel.

At the end of *Go For It, Nakamura!*, Nakamura and Hirose develop a mutual friendship, and are seen together more often in the sequel.

### Oomori

Nakamura is jealous of Oomori as he one of Hirose's closest friends. Whenever Oomori and Hirose are seen interacting, Nakamura gets envious and angry, thinking that Oomori is more of a loser than him. Aside from that, Nakamura and Oomori do not interact much, with Nakamura seemingly acting neutral when he is around.

### Otogiri Sou

Nakamura and Otogiri do not interact very often, with him mostly speaking to Otogiri if he is doing duties for him. When Hirose develops an admiration for Otogiri, Nakamura starts envying Otogiri but does not dislike him, seeing the reason why Hirose admires him and admitting himself that Otogiri is a cool person.

### Kawamura Hifumi

Nakamura admires Kawamura's drawing skills the moment he saw her drawing of Hirose, claiming himself to be a fan. When Nakamura saw her drawings of gay boys, Nakamura asks her to draw him and Hirose hanging out together, being very grateful for her service. Nakamura was also willing to help her being a replacement for the role Kawamura was supposed to play in "The Night of Falling Stars."

Nakamura also seems more comfortable talking to Kawamura than any other characters, baring a rarely seen content expression when interacting with her. They however, do not interact with each other on a daily basis, only doing so when Nakamura asks her for drawing requests or bumping into each other during class.

### Tamura Arandou

Nakamura is moreso tolerant around Tamura, often getting forced to be in his movie projects without his say in it. Unlike Aokiyama however, Nakamura has a more positive relationship with Tamura due to his play being the reason for Hirose and him getting closer.

### Aokiyama Reiko

Much like Tamura, Nakamura often gets forced to get involved in her club projects without his sayings. Nakamura tries to avoid her as much as possible due to her forceful personality, almost tricking him to join the Occult Research Club and him getting used as a sacrifice in one of her rituals.

### Icchan

Icchan is Nakamura's pet octopus, and he cares and loves it a lot. Icchan also appears in one of Nakamura's dreams, which can be interpreted that Nakamura thinks about Icchan often. Icchan also escapes his tank seemingly quite often and once even latching onto Nakamura's face while he is sleeping, in which Nakamura dismisses it and forgives Icchan for it.

### Nakamura Kana

Being his sister, Nakamura and her have a relatively realistic sibling relationship. Nakamura mostly acts neutral around her, once dismissing her tantrum about the cookie he accidentally ate and not treating her insults as a big deal. Nakamura views Kana as a pain, and it seems like Kana is the sibling that dominates between the two.

### Takeuchi

Nakamura does not have good relation with Takeuchi. He is very envious of him for being Hirose's friend and once flirting with Hirose for three days straight. This dislike is further heightened by Takeuchi's bratty and unlikeable personality, making Nakamura take pictures for him as soon as Nakamura looked like he recovered from his carsickness. Nakamura constantly messes with him as revenge, such as taking pictures for him but only focusing on Hirose, cleaning aggressively to get dust on him, etc.

### Matsumura Ko

Nakamura and Matsumura immediately shared a heated rivalry due to their obsession of Hirose, competing to see which of them is closer to Hirose. Nakamura views Matsumura as an obsessive creep and he needs to prevent him from get closer to Hirose.

### Mr. Niou

Nakamura overall seems to have a negative perception of Mr. Niou because of his distant and strict attitude. Mr. Niou, on the other hand, is not aware of Nakamura's opinion of him but regardless cares about his well-being. When Nakamura gets sick from drinking too much protein, he takes on the responsibility to help Nakamura get fit by giving him an exercising routine, much to the disappointment of Nakamura.

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## Gallery

To see pictures of this character, please go to Nakamura Okuto (Gallery).

## Trivia

* His favorite foods are vegetables, Japanese food, and octopus.
* His least favorite food is carbonated beverages.
* His special talent is hiding his presence.
* He has no preferred music type.
* He is a fan of Chaplin films.
* His best characteristic is that he has nice fingers.
* He is sensitive about his monolid eyes.
* His first name, Okuto, could be a pun on *Octo*pus, referencing his love for octopuses.
* Nakamura was a character Syundei originally drew online.
	+ In an old tumblr post, Syundei states that Nakamura is a 14 year old gay virgin.
* He has motion sickness.
* Nakamura is left handed.