Senri Minamisawa

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## Senri Minamisawa

* Visual Novel
* Anime

* Senri
* Nono

* Senri
* Nono

## Characteristics

### Abilites shown:

* DI-Sword
* Shapeshifting

## Personal Status

### Occupations

* High School Student
* President of Student Council
* Guardian of both Uki and Yuto

### Relatives

* Deceased mother
* Takuru Miyashiro (foster younger brother)
* Yui Tachibana (foster younger sister)
* Yuto Tachibana (foster younger brother)
* Wataru Sakuma (foster father)

## First Appearance

### Visual Novel

* Common Route (as Nono)
* Silent Sky and  Heads Or Tails (as **Senri**, identity revealed)

### Anime

* Episode 1 -Digital Native- (as Nono)
* Episode 8 -Heads or Tails- (as **Senri**, identity revealed)

## Voice Actors

### English

* Alex Moore (as Nono Kurusu)
* Jad Saxton (as **herself**)

**Senri Minamisawa** (南沢 泉理, *Minamisawa Senri*) was temporarily suspected as a perpetrator of the Return of the New Generation Madness. Senri is also a childhood friend of Nono Kurusu.

## Appearance

Senri is a slim pale-skinned girl with pink hair that is tied in low twin pigtails by two black ribbons with bangs covering the left side of her face, dark reddish-pink eyes and her bust size is much smaller than Nono Kurusu's bust.

As Nono, she has long loose orange hair, purple eyes and the second biggest bust size in the Newspaper Club before Hana Kazuki.

## Personality

In her earlier youth, Senri could be described as a shy, introverted and silent young girl.

During the events of Chaos;Child and while under the guise of Nono, she can be described as a very short-tempered girl who works hard as the president of the student council, people would often come to her for help about club funds, school events and etc.

Regardless of her being as Senri or Nono, her true personality is a mature, responsible, caring and bossy teenage girl. After the Shibuya Earthquake, she treasures her new family at Aoba Dorm, and is in charge of almost all of the house work and finances in Aoba Dorm. Senri cherishes her loved ones and hopes that everyone will be safe, as well as Takuru returning back to live in Aoba Dorm.

Senri finds Takuru Miyashiro's relentless chase after the truth of the Return of The New Generation Madness irresponsible, believing it to be putting him and others in danger.

## Identity

Senri's name is first seen in the VN when Nono visits a monument dedicated to the Shibuya earthquake victims, where one of the names engraved on the monument is shown to be "Senri Minamisawa". After a certain psychokinetic attacks Takuru Miyashiro and Hinae Arimura, they are identified as Senri Minamisawa due to having carried an I.D with the same name. Eventually, after trying to attack Yui Tachibana in the Aoba Clinic, the psychokinetic is found dead in her apartment. It is then due to the investigation of the incident discovered that the psychokinetic was in fact a different person, Riko Haida and the fact she was carrying the I.D of Senri Minamisawa was a ruse.

## Background and Plot

Senri is born on June 7th, 1997 to two married parents. In her childhood, she finds it hard communicating with others. In her elementary school years, while everyone would go outside to play, she would stay by herself in the classroom to read a book. She often pretends she likes being alone to avoid dealing with other people, and prevent bringing on herself pain and sorrow. She continues doing the same leading to her social anxiety getting worse.

Senri decides to tell her mother about her problems, and that she wants to develop a personality that would help her overcome her anxiety and make friends. Senri's mother obliges by taking Senri to a facility in AH Tokyo General Hospital, which is affiliated with a pharmaceutical firm Senri's father works for, and has deep ties to the religious organization Senri's mother belongs to (persumably the Church of the Divine Light). While visiting the facility, Senri starts taking basic psychological tests, mainly the Rorshach test, to which she is rewarded with candy after completing different tests; a fact which initially makes her want to visit there even more often.

Gradually, the "tests" become more intrusive, and eventually inhumane, including receiving painful injections on a regular basis and brainwashing, in an attempt to awaken Gigalomaniac abilities in Senri. Senri's father eventually discovers what is happening, and opposes Senri's mother. Senri's mother refuses to stop the "treatment", leading to Senri's father coming home much less often.

    At around April 2009, Nono Kurusu (one of Senri's classmates) finds Senri sitting alone in the classroom after school and approaches her, something that had not been done by the rest of her classmates, asking if she is fine. Senri and Kurusu develop a unique friendly relationship. Around July 2009, their relationship further develops and Nono, Masashi Kawahara and Senri become a mutual trio (although it is much later revealed that Kawahara hated Senri out of enviness of her and Nono's close relationship).

In 6th grade, at November 6th, 2009, after the destructive rumbling of the Shibuya earthquake, while being escorted by scientists of the facility, she decides to escape. While walking through all the wreckage, she finds Nono, dying under heavy rubble, and tries to rescue her in a desperate attempt, to no avail. After Nono's last breaths, in her anguish, Senri wishes that she herself were Nono Kurusu, due to admiring and envying her kindness, social skills and looks. Almost immediately after making her seemingly worthless wish, she looks at her reflection on a piece of metal, and finds that she looks exactly like Nono. Surprised and confused, she decides to hide the real Nono's body, and by lying about "Senri" dying, and take over her life and identity.

At first, while recovering in hospital, she finds it hard at communicating with Nono's friends, with the enthusiasm and ease of the real Nono, a fact which her friends blame on the effects of post-trauma from the earthquake. Later, she is adopted as Kurusu Nono, (along with Miyashiro Takuru (who fell into a comatose following the earthquake), Yui Tachibana and Yuto Tachibana, who had all lost their parents) into the Aoba Dorm for orphans by Wataru Sakuma, due to Nono's parents' death by the Shibuya quake. At first, when Senri arrives at the dorm, she has difficulties opening up to Sakuma and the siblings, but soon she takes charge of the cooking, and together with Yui also take charge of the dorm's chores and budget, and help Sakuma at the clinic he is running the floor under the dorm.

During her stay at Aoba Dorm, she devotedly takes care of Takuru until he returns to consciousness. As the years pass Senri acquires the skills required of taking care of her step siblings and the dorm's chores, and the social skills needed to embrace the persona of Kurusu Nono, and ultimately becomes accustomed to living her fake identity, keeping the truth of her identity hidden.

As time passes Senri, Takuru, Yui, Yuto and Sakuma develop a strong bond that could be described as that of a loving family, and live together peacefully and with no serious conflicts with each other.

Senri and Takuru both go to the same highschool, Hekiho Academy (beforehand, Senri graduates from Hekiho Academy's middle school, in which Yui studies).

After living at the dorm for about 5 years, Takuru discovers he had been lied to by Senri and Sakuma regarding the true cause of the death of his parents, having been told by them that his parents had been killed by a result of the earthquake when in actuality they had been murdered. With his anger and grudge from feeling he'd been betrayed, he escapes the dorm to live by his own, and acquires the permission of a CERTAIN PARK to live there in a van. This event severely harms Senri and Miyashiro's relationship, causing Takuru to call her by her known family name "Kurusu" instead of "Nono".

Around half a year after Takuru's leave from the dorm, on the 7th and 19th of September, occur the first two murder cases of what would later be known as The Return of the New Generation Madness. Due to their weird nature and mysteriousness, Takuru's interest is piqued. As president of Hekiho's Newspaper Club (along with Senri, Shinji Itou, Serika Onoe, and Hana Kazuki), he sees the new cases as a "big scoop".

She wished for Takuru Miyashiro to behave more like a normal high-school student. As the vice-president of the Newspaper Club, Senri always have been taking care of the club. However Takuru's recent interest in the recent crimes in Shibuya have been making Nono worried. As his older sister, Senri have tried persuading Takuru to stop the club's dangerous investigations to the Love Hotel. Serika Onoe intervened Takuru's and Nono's arguement which made Takuru ignore Nono's warning and went on along with Serika into the Love Hotel instead. After the horrible incident in the Love Hotel. On October 7th, Senri was determined to quickly stop any the club's dangerous activities to go any further. She told herself that she had to protect her family in Aoba Dorm, hoping that Takuru will eventually join back in one day. She went to remove the spy camera that Takuru asked Shinji Itou to place on the next suspected place where the incident would happen. While attempting to remove the camera, Senri was stabbed on the stomach from behind by a man.

## Etymology

* The name **Senri** means "fountain, spring" (泉) (**sen**) and "reason, logic" (理) (**ri**).
* Senri's surname **Minamisawa** means "south" (南) (**minami**) and "marsh" (沢) (**sawa**).

## Trivia

* Attending doctor was Genichi Norose, one of the characters in Chaos;HEAd.
* Around July 2009, Senri learned how to ride a unicycle for a few months when playing with Nono Kurusu.
* Senri is referred to as "Mysterious Girl" under the characters in the Help section. A PlayStation Store avatar also referred to her in this way.
* Senri can be seen as an analogue to Rimi Sakihata from Chaos;Head. They both have pink hair and the sound "ri" in their names. In addition, they both serve as a source of comfort to the protagonist in their respective entries and have backstories involving being tortured as part of gigalomaniac experiments.

## Gallery

Nono's Crying Yui Death.Senri confronting Serika.The original Kurusu Nono amicably approaching Senri.Senri withstanding torturous attempts of awakening her Gigalomaniac power potential.