Asahi Nakamura

* Asahi (Younger)
* Asahi (Grown Up)

**Adopted Family**

* Sawa Yukimura ( late adopted elder sister)
* Satsuki Hanakaze (adopted younger sister)

**Asahi Nakamura** (中村 浅陽, *Nakamura Asahi*) is a character in miniseries ***Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood.*** She is a lonely and innocent girl who ends up living with Sawa Yukimura, the one who killed her parents at an even younger age.

## Appearance

Asahi is a short and petite girl with medium-length brown hair that is pulled back in pigtails along with small square bangs hanging above her eyebrows, gentle light-brown eyes and rosy cheeks. She appears very innocent, as she is.

You always see her wearing her pink striped kimono with a yellow obi and burgundy pants along with a white undershirt.

### Timeskip

After the time-skip of Episode 12, Asahi has longer hair and and outgrown her bangs. She wears a kimono that Sawa wore before her passing. She also wears a white feather that's been covered in blue blood, attached to her left ear. Nearing the end, her eyes suddenly becomes bright blue when Nana lands on her shoulder, hinting to possess the powers, similar to Sawa and the Karasumori Clan.

## Personality

Asahi is a very kind and energetic girl who appears very caring, empathetic and innocent, corresponding with her character. As much as Sawa tends to "ignore" her, she tries her best to keep a cheerful attitude and never lets Sawa's grim demeanor get her down.

Despite desperately wanting revenge, she ended up not having the heart to killing her beloved "Onee-chan." Instead, she went out of her way to make it seem like Sawa was dead, just so that she and Sawa could live a peaceful life together.

After the Time Skip, it seems like Asahi is more calm then when she was younger, and more level headed. She seems to see the world in a different light, she still seems some what happy, but overall she's calmer, less energetic, and more serious then she was before.

## Synopsis

Asahi comes to live with Sawa after the latter killed her family, and handles everything from shop keeping to household chores at the Antiquarian Bookstore. Openly, she loves Sawa like an older sister, but in reality she (at one point) wanted to get revenge for her parents. She tried a couple of different ways to kill Sawa, Sawa humouring her by giving her assassination advice upon failing. In the end she didn't have the heart, and instead (with the help of Tsuki) made a plan to make it seem like Sawa was dead, just so she and Asahi could go and have a normal life. Soon after they left, Tsuki followed them there and said he wanted the "old" Sawa back, only way he could do that was to fuel her revenge.

Therefore, he ended up stabbing Asahi in the chest, and (most likely) leaving her dead, and Sawa devastated. She then got resurrected and ended up meeting up with Sawa again in a heart felt reunion. On the last episode, after Sawa comes back from planning to kill Yoshinobu, Asahi greets her again for the final time. And (I believe) Sawa ends up hugging her and dying in her arms. After that we see time skip Asahi steal her Journal from Satsuki (Elena and that guy's daughter) and say some stuff, then for the final moment of season 1 we see Nana (I think it's Nana) land on Asahi's arm, and her eyes go blue, similar to that of Sawa's. (That could be hinting at something, we'll just have to wait and see for the next season!)

## Supernatural Abilities

In the finale, Asahi has the same supernatural ability to transform and infuse her rare blood's properties with her winged familiar, just as Sawa.

## Etymology

* The name **Asahi** means "shallow" (浅) (**asa**) and "light, sun, male" (陽) (**hi**).
* Asahi's surname **Nakamura** means "middle" (中) (**naka**) and "town, village" (村) (**mura**).