Nina Branford

**Nina Branford** is the current Elemental Master of Air and one of the five main characters in the second generation of *Ninjago*, appearing as a deuteragonist of G2 film *LEGO Ninjago: Journey of Heroes*. She is a co-worker at Pankuno Bakery with her mother, the owner of the bakery. Nina inherits the element of Air after finding out that she can control clouds that was needed to water the plants. After the defeat of Prince Oberon, Nina becomes the member of the B.L.A.N.K Ninja Squad.

While preparing for the Christmas season, Nina bakes the special Dragon Logcake for its promotion, though she find out about Luca being nervous about celebrating his first Christmas in Ninjago City. Nina and her team managed to find the Holiday Scammer and end its greediness when Luca destroyed the Stone of Greed.

She is voiced by Cristina Vee in the film and The Gift of Love. In the TV series, she is voiced by Andrea Libman, who also voiced Nyad in the predecessor’s series and season two of *Blank of Ages*.

## Personality

Nina is sweet, charming and absent-minded. A free-living Ninja who loves baking and also social media professional. She started baking videos on NinTube, and gain lots of followers. Sometimes, she is quite clumsy such as forgetting to bring her homework to school and being chased by a dog. She has a sense of humor rivaling that of Kevin's.

She loves making Japanese desserts, cakes, pastries and other types that was sold at the bakery. She also loves experimenting, not only food, but exploring various studies of plants and other species.

As a Ninja, she can fly due to her Air abilities. She also able to control the storm and the clouds, as said that Nina wanted to grow wheat using clouds, so that she can make bread.

## Appearance

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## LEGO.com Description

### Meet Nina, a pastry baker

*Nina is a sweet and absent-minded who works at Pankuno Bakery, owned by her mother. She has two siblings to keep her company, and bakes fresh bread and even Japanese desserts. However, she is indeed clumsy when not paying attention to it. She has Air power inside her, which she can fly without its wings! Nina loves to communicate with her friends, but her jokes are still part of her memory.*

## Behind the Scenes

* Cristina Vee, Nina's voice actor, is best known voicing Louise in *The Familiar of Zero*, Nanoha Takamachi in the *Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha* series, Mio Akiyama in *K-On!*, Nagisa Saitō in *Squid Girl*, Homura Akemi in *Puella Magi Madoka Magica*, Rei Hino/Sailor Mars in the Viz Media dub of *Sailor Moon*, the Honoka sisters in *Knights of Sidonia*, Hawk from *The Seven Deadly Sins*, Thoma in *The Promised Neverland*, Meiko Mochizuki in *Digimon Adventure tri.*, Killua Zoldyck in *Hunter × Hunter*, Kotori Minami in *Love Live! School Idol Project* and Yuko Tani in *Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters*. She also played as Marinette Dupain-Cheng in *Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir*, the same characters that use as an inspiration to Nina.
* Her name means "grace" and "favor" in Hebrew. In Spanish, her name also means "little girl", stating that she is the youngest of the five Ninja, and a younger sister of Joanna.
* She was originally called Zephyr during pre-production, but changed its gender from male to female and renamed Nina when the movie revealed its details.

## Trivia

* Nina serves as a comic relief character for the second generation series, as she has a friendly tone and a sense of humor.
* She and Luca are the only two ninja of the B.L.A.N.K. Ninja Squad to not have the same element as the original Ninja.
* Her hobbies that she enjoy was baking, harvesting and growing crops and social media.
* Her favorite subjects are Nutrition and Food Science, Biology and English.
* Nina and Amy are the only two Ninja of the B.L.A.N.K. Ninja Squad to be female.
* When asked by Tommy Andreasen about Nina and Luca having their romantic relationship, he replied that just in case they "fell in love".