Keiji Naganohara

**Keiji Naganohara** is the main protagonist of the My Beautiful Bard series. He is a 2nd year student at Matsubara High School, though he is introverted. Throughout the series, he gets along with people very easily.

Keiji is known as the top student of Matsubara High school, being one of the students in his class that people ask for help a lot. He also reads a lot and doesn't get involved with other students, besides his close friends, Tadashi Satou and Hisashi Nakamoto.

As he met the new transfer student, a little talk caused Keiji to befriend her, which changed his life forever into making new friends.

As up to the events after the series, Keiji is a college student

## History

It was mentioned in the second season of series that Keiji's birthday is on August 1. He's the only child of 2 parents, who are currently overseas. When he was in elementary school, he made his first friend in 4th grade. The friendship keeps growing when another student befriended the two. Their friendship kept growing once Keiji joins high school and met new people.

Keiji wasn't really comfortable with meeting new people back when he was in junior high. He thought of them as strangers that would be mean to him throughout his entire time at school. As such, he would distance himself from the students and not get involved with their conversations. Tadashi would want to get Keiji to befriend people to make him talk to people more often besides him and Hisashi, Although he does talk to people, he wouldn't want to interrupt them further.

## Plot

### 2nd School year in Matsubara

Keiji starts to go back to school in his second year of high school, along with Tadashi and Hisashi. The three end up in the exact same class as each other, thinking that it would be the best idea to annoy Keiji throughout the school year. As such, Keiji turns the idea down with an intense glare at the two of them. Keiji and his friends go to the cafe and Hisashi starts to mention something about Kokomi Aoki, the most famous bard from Hyogo. It was by surprise that Keiji found out Kokomi is in the same year as him, yet, he didn't care. After school, he started to listen to Kokomi's music.

The next day, Hisashi tells Keiji that a cute new girl has transferred to Matsubara. Surprised by that, Keiji asks where she was and Hisashi dragged him. They end up at the second year floor, with a bunch of people crowding someone. When Tadashi tells Keiji to look through the crowd, he sees Kokomi Aoki, the most famous bard of Hyogo in the scene.

### season 2

Keiji walks to school at the beginning of season 2 with Kokomi, then meets up with the others while he gets to school. Kazuko whispers into Keiji's ear, saying something about Kyoko and Akira's date, which made Kyoko overhear. (to be added)

During recess, he gets bored when he is by himself, waiting for Kokomi to finish a performance. In the meantime, he meets a shy male first year sitting alone on a bench in the courtyard. He then encounters his overprotective friend who mistook the fact Keiji was bullying him. It turned out that the two were named Kousei Hayakawa and Hiiro Sakai.

## Personality

Keiji is mostly an introvert and can be shy around a lot of people. He gets very annoyed on his friends (mostly Tadashi) on how he always makes unfunny jokes and talks too much. Despite Keiji being annoyed by his friends, he still cares about them ever since. Keiji tends to be shy, rather quiet in most situations, and hates standing out.

## Appearance

Keiji has brown hair and green eyes. On school days, he wears the male Matsubara High School uniform which is an all black gakuran with black boots.

``his casual outfit is yet to be described

## Trivia

* Keiji knew nothing of spells when Kazuko mentions something of a spell that can remove bad spirits
* Keiji actually listens to Kokomi's music when he feels bored
* His least favorite food is anything sour