Nanami Yamazaki

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**Nanami Yamazaki** is an elementary school math teacher in the *Wonderland* series. She gets dragged into the Wasteland when she begins to remember being raped in a club called Red Rabbit.

## Appearance and Personality

### Personality

Nanami is described as cheerful and energetic by her students and colleagues. However as she starts to remember things that happened to her in Red Rabbit, she is starting to break down and panic. Once she learns the truth, Nanami is fighting to reclaim her life and her sanity.

## Back Story

Isamu asked her out on a date. Nanami politely turned him down and said that she wasn't looking for a date. Later, her friends set her up on blind date. Nanami ended up dating fellow teacher Jiro. They had been dating for close to a year. One day, Jiro and Nanami were staying after to finish up grading papers. Moments later, he called her up and said that he forgot something. He told her to look into his desk drawer. Nanami finds a black ring box. Jiro tells her to open it. She is surprised to find a diamond ring. The teacher turned her head to see him in the doorway.

## Storyline History

### Happy Wonderland

Nanami is first introduced in season four when she starts having strange memories about being raped in Red Rabbit. They come in pieces, but they are so vivid that she ends the class in self-study for the rest of the period. A coworker, Fujihara-san, doesn't seem to helping matters either. In fact, Nanami starts to see him in her memories.

With nowhere else to turn, Nanami calls Keiichi for help. Before that, Arisu revealed the truth and was planning to bring down Red Rabbit for its crimes. The teacher pleads with Keiichi to help get her life back after Arisu disappears.

### Deep Blue Wonderland

Nanami pleads with Keiichi for help after a suicide attempt. Despite him agreeing to help, she can tell that he doesn't really want to do it like Arisu so did. She also doubts that he will even find her body. Later, Nanami is having lunch with her fiancee, Jiro, as she tries to act normal. Everything is going fine she even jokes about making him go broke over lunch. But when she sees his wrist watch, Nanami starts to have flashbacks to another time at Red Rabbit and freaks out. She runs to the bathroom and breaks down crying. The teacher calls up Keiichi and tells her about her problems. He asks if Jiro loves her. She says yes. Keiichi assures her that if he loves her, he will stay by her side no matter what.

### Wonderland Chaos

Nanami lies up in the bathtub wondering if she is even worth saving. She asks her fiance, Jiro if he would still love her if she was "damaged goods". She can't bring herself to tell him the truth because she wonder how he would take it. Nanami makes Jiro promise to stay with her no matter how ugly things get. He agrees. Keiichi later calls to check on her well-being. Nanami says that he's not good at comforting women. He says that he has a lead to the case. She thinks that it's a trap and warns Keiichi to be careful. Later in "Thursday", Nanami tries to pretend that everything is fine at work.

### Edge of Wonderland

Things keep getting worse for Nanami. She's been taking time off from work. When she gets back to work, there is a photo of her naked and blindfolded in a sexy way. One of the teachers asked if it was her. Nanami panicked. Fujihara-san was the one to step up and protect her. He put his arm around her shoulder and she crept out by him. Still, Nanami forces herself smile and be grateful. She ends up taking time off again.

## Relationships

### Keiichi Minami

*Main Article: Keiichi Minami*

Keiichi takes over where Arisu left off with the Red Rabbit case. He tries to be there for Nanami, but she notices a huge difference between him and Arisu. Arisu showed that she actually cared. Keiichi seems to be making himself care to help him find out what happened to his senpai.

### Arisu Honda

*Main Article: Arisu Honda*

Arisu meets Nanami and tells her that she wasn't going crazy with the memories of Red Rabbit. She tells the teacher that she indeed was a victim at the club and was going to go to the police before she vanished.

### Isamu Fujihara

*Main Article: Isamu Fujihara*

Isamu is a coworker of Nanami's. She thinks he's a bit awkward and finds it strange that he keeps popping up to ask how he's doing. Isamu asked her out on a date once and she politely turned him down.

## Trivia

* Nanami is inspired by the character Nanami played by Japanese actress Reina Triendl in the movie, *Ju-On: The Beginning of the End*. She is also inspired by the actress herself.